Here's a link to the full "SAFEGUARD Digital Identity Protection Toolkit" created and distributed by Army Special Operations Command. It covers a LOT more than just Signal and is full of good advice.
I think what you are seeing is a sudden burst of poorly combusted and/or unburned fuel as the engines are cut off. The engine telemetry indicators in the bottom right of the screen show engines off shortly after the plume.
From a user on a small mastodon instance, no thank you. Admins of the smaller, more colorful, and technical instances are already getting ready to actively block and defederate as necessary. We don't want or need Meta bringing their digital typhoid to the fediverse.
One reason I haven't started Mastodon is that I don't want my experience to be ruled by self-righteous egotistical reddit mods. It's better for users when the admins are professional and checked out.
If only you were so lucky, Mastodon admins are way worse.
Not only might they mod at will in the way reddit mods do, Mastodon admins take it several steps further by bothering other instance mods about their moderation. And then yet another step: whom they federate with. They'll form little secret discord channels where they gather and form cancellation pacts on entire instances, based on a whim.
Is this not one of the primary advantages of federation and decentralized networks though? I think that there's a strong argument to be made that Everything networks have a deleterious effect on the collective human psyche because we're simply not designed to contemplate or accommodate so many radically different worldviews at once. Instead of creating societies with a strong emphasis on individual rights we exist in a pressure cooker of mental illness and anger amplified by algorithms that is pushing is closer and closer toward regulating one another out of existence.
Freedom of association is one of the most fundamental freedoms we have and democratic, free market societies can only flourish as long as we all agree to leave one another alone. You or I may not fully agree on the utility of say gay marriage or vaccines or religion or any number of cultural differences, but neither of us should be compelled to seriously entertain or fundamentally alter our way of being and thinking to please the other. This is how the old internet worked, the only reason we feel that it's impossible now is because we've been made to believe in totalizing systems of power that flatten and threaten to erase (by legal mandate or otherwise) different subcultures.
I think the point of the original article is that tip prompts are expanding well beyond foodservice to stores and retailers where tipping was never previously part of the compensation structure. These companies did, and still do, pay well above "a living wage" but the additional money is still highly tempting.
Or both? We are in a system that requires tips for people to survive. You can begrudgingly pay tips while being against them in principle and trying to change the system.
Full-service waiters get paid below minimum wage and that justified tipping (to an extent). The rest of the "system" does not "require tips to survive." Certainly not bridal shops, online travel companies, and locksmiths, some of the examples in the article.
Good grief! xwinman.org is still up? I remember referencing the materials there when I was first starting out with Linux in 1995. So many great memories tweaking my .fvwmrc...
Seconded. I’ve used Mint on and off for over a decade now. It’s stable and changes release to release are subtle. It’s boring and that’s why I keep coming back to it.
The early to mid 90's through the very early 2000's were a /real/ creative explosion, before the vultures descended on the Internet and took it in a revenue-seeking direction. Most netizens had personal webpages, chock full of their passions and sharing information. Now it's a vast wasteland of constantly regenerated rage-inducing content and vapid self-promotion and attention seeking. Our search engines have become ad businesses. Our "social media" only exists to siphon off our information and build dossiers on us to more precisely target ads to us and get us to buy worthless crap. There's been an explosion all right, but one more akin to a burst sewer pipe.
I am an Old. Pre-ads, before the <img> tag made someone out there think banners (and then animated banners, and then Flash, and then flash ads at the side of dancing silhouettes that sent your CPU fans whirring), this was still Someone Else's Hardware. Typically a university.
Most of those old IRC networks ended in .edu, as a good example. We never really paid for what we got on the internet, it just switched from an "under the table" scam off of universities to ad-supported.
The internet then was an elite group of people that had 1. Disposable income for computers (or access at University) 2. Disposable income for Internet (or access at University) 3. The ability to put together the skills to create the things you listed. The more I reflect on the changes the more classist I realize this statement/argument is (not making a moral judgement just highlighting the reality).
As a fairly lower class rural kid I had internet in the late 90s. I was just lucky my dad decided to start up a local dialup ISP and sell internet to farmers.
So many great memories. My first sysadmin job was a dev shop ruled by Sun Sparcstation 5, 10, and 20 pizza boxes. My mentor gifted me a Sun 3 workstation and I spent many hours installing and reinstalling SunOS 4 and later Solaris 2.x. Ahhh. I guess I have a project for next weekend!
Agreed. Tesla and SpaceX are succeeding despite his "leadership". He's bought his way into anything and actually innovated or created very little. He's a trust-fund shitposter with little to actually add to the world. Yes it takes all types but people who are a net negative to humanity should be shunned and not blindly admired. Nobody is going to be better off by worshiping the likes of Elon Musk.
This take really makes no sense at all. Even if you argue that all Elon did is start SpaceX and provide the initial funding (which is undeniable) than you would still have to agree he has been wildly successful as a business person. People are admired for many different reasons, many with signficant character flaws. It sounds like you are trying to project your personal feelings on everyone else.
https://www.soc.mil/IdM/publications/docs/general/Id_Privacy...