Would it make a difference if they did? Here in the UK every supermarket has a loyalty card scheme. I held out for a long time but eventually I simply couldn’t afford to pay the effective 20% premium for not using it

There’s a large variety on Windows too, e.g. Temurin and Corretto are both available there

I’m missing the part where consumers are required to use their ISP DNS. I never do, in favour of CloudFlare DNS, Google DNS, etc

I wanted to leave Twitter too. I’m a professional engineer in tech and I found setting up in Mastodon to be… …not straightforward, as did a whole load of other people. I eventually got set up. I couldn’t find anyone or anything, the whole model being based around local instances rather than users or topics but… I tried to make the best of it and I followed the other people who had left Twitter that I had followed there when they said where to find them on Mastodon. Then I found I had run into a ‘silencing’ drama where some other instance admins had taken issue with an admin for the instance I was signed up to and as a result everyone on my instance was essentially shadowbanned in a whole load of other places. It had been happening maybe a month before I even found out about this. I’m a grown up, I don’t have time for school time drama. I found that I was using Mastodon less and less and so were the people I had been following. Then my BlueSky invite came through. I can find topics and I can find users. People post and people respond. I don’t have to worry which of 100 identical usernames across different instances is the ‘real’ one or my instance being defederated or silenced.

The problem with Mastodon is it’s basically a social network for people who are into Mastodon, and enjoy centering around their specific instance. It might work for Warcraft guilds but it doesn’t work for me, or any of the people or topics I want to follow, ostly current affairs and tech. As opposed to BlueSky which is a social network for people who:

• Want to move on from twitter
• Are interested in finding and following people and or topics

No doubt at this point you will want to tell me how I’m all wrong, clearly tech illiterate and how Mastodon has at least as many users as BlueSky. Sure, whatevs. It’s like Linux on the Desktop, not a viable mass-market proposition at this point (saying this with 25 years Linux desktop experience).

Mastodon as a mass market solution has failed. It’s essentially irrelevant outside of a tiny niche

Sorry, only just seen this. I don’t work in this sector I am afraid. Some things that might help you:

• There is no legal definition of a ‘valid’ address in the UK- If you post it then the Post Office will try to deliver it. If they can work it out from what is written, and they will try very hard, then that’s ‘an address’. This has been established in law.
• There is advice on how you should write an address . This is how e.g. a bank or utility will address mail, but see above. TBH at this point you could probably put a What3Words on the envelope and it could work.
• For most addresses in the UK you will want to correlate the postcode with the street address, as shown here. A street address is a number (or house name, or both) and a street name on one line, e.g. ‘29 Acacia Road’. Street address + Postcode is how people target e.g. a satnav to an address. A postcode generally relates to a group of addresses, but larger organisations, e.g. a hospital or council office will have a postcode just for them, e.g. ‘Buckingham Palace’. Beware that whilst postcodes don’t change, new ones are being added all the time and they aren’t sequential.

Cuts both ways however:

It’s common to encounter, especially HR Portals, trying to enforce a ‘valid’ address. Trouble is it’s often an American developer and they have no idea about other countries. Here in the UK they like to insist on a 'county ’ field for postal address, despite it being over thirty years since postal addresses here even had counties (which didn’t match the actual counties but anyway). The drop down list they like to give isn’t a list of counties either, it’s an out of date list of local authorities, which were never part of anyone’s address.

I worked at a place once where we had to use an internally developed form to order supplies. Form checked user name against company active directory (fine) but also checked that surname+first initial was at least 6 characters. No idea why and very resistant to changing it but my surname is 4 characters and a lot of Chinese ones are only 2…

So what’s his laying off 5% of staff?

I fail to understand what disabilities this could help with

Fundamentally the only unique attribute for these goggles is 3D and that comes at a significant expense in terms of user experience. It’s the same story as it has been over the last two centuries.

Stereographic photos in the 19th century worked perfectly well but required a special headset and only one person could look at them at a time. Didn’t take off. People prefer to be able to look at two-dimensional photos perhaps casually and to be able to point the things to other people looking at the same photo or to compare it with other things at the same time.

3d movies in the 1950s required special red, blue or red green glasses. Didn’t take off beyond a gimmick. 3d movies could not be watched without the goggles.

3d movies in the theatre in the early 2000s. Didn’t really get beyond the gimmick level. Lots of people complain about headaches.

3d TVs in the early 2000s required special glasses and the 3D could not be used if other people were trying to watch without the glasses.

The conclusion I draw from this is that people don’t like having to wear special glasses or a device strapped to their face, even if it is relatively cheap to produce. Although 3D is nice, it simply doesn’t seem to be sufficient incentive to put up with the isolation from other people and the surrounding environment that the viewing equipment invariably requires.

Just get an old optiplex in Amazon renewed

I wonder if those maintainers will end up having any liability for the hack.

They’re a crypto company. I’ll give you three guesses

I know right? I’m constantly confused by this when I’m dealing with kubernetes networking

You haven’t addressed the case of migraine to a non geographic tld

I trust none of the I can. People are running anything on kubernetes 😆

Oh wow! And that reservation makes so much sense under these circumstances. Obviously, we could never consider the possibility of a three-letter TLD for a country or migrating a two-letter TLD to a non country specific name because reasons.

iPlayer isn’t an ‘open’ service- you have to use a supported client, even if that client is a web browser. Your options are limited to platforms that can support those clients. Personally I’ve found Roku preferable to Chromecast, firestick, full PC. I may at some point have tried to get iPlayer running with Kodi back in the day, when it was XBMC, but XBMC was pretty clunky anyway, let alone on raspberry pi.

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I feel this and some of the other comments in this thread are missing the point. It’s not about me and my followers. It’s about the news sources and topics that I search for or follow. They simply haven’t moved to Mastodon and where notable individuals that I follow have tried, it simply hasn’t worked out due to lack of interest. I’m not interested in the fediverse as a topic in itself, I’m interested in the topics and events I want to follow. Something happens and I can find and read and watch clips about it on Twitter. Not so Mastodon.

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