True, but if server owner pulls the plug, all the content you have there is gone. They can also unilaterally delete your posts.

I guess my point is ownership isn’t as important as control.

SoundCloud vapes content and entire accounts all the time.

Mine is fully backed up.

Lol no. That said, I’m on Threads too so whatevs.

Each instance has complete control over what is posted on it. The only way to truly own your posts is to set up your own instance and interact only with communities on it.

I doubt the president who lives on the internet & relies on it to connect with his superfans would disable it.

I can’t imagine any law that would preclude the status quo, as Microsoft doesn’t own a controlling stake in OpenAI anyway. It sounds like the FTC is picking its targets based on market cap only.

The FTC tried & failed. They’ll most likely fail here too. It’s tough for courts to rule against what the FTC sees as unfair competition when even the judges are likely Amazon Prime & Big 3 ecosystem subscribers.

That’s classic British humor.

I used to subscribe to this blog. The takes were so bad I’d deliberately share the links the author was railing against.

To no one’s surprise.

Great news for folks in Jamaica where I’m from. Pretty common there.

Still waiting on the Moline to Chicago rail line 😔

Yeah I wasn’t referring to those.

to stop using it you have to de-register your phone number from iCloud.

Ah, TIL. I was wondering that. I’ll avoid it then.

Yeah I was wondering how they were pulling that off without registering the phone number or iCloud account with Apple. Thanks @[email protected] for the explanation.

In any case, this also shows that iMessage can be spoofed.

Hence why I’m leaving the Debian / Ubuntu based distros

Ubuntu non-LTS packages are pretty up to date.

Can anyone find any instance of interrogation in the body of the article?

I guess this explains Guyana’s Metal Shark orders.

Yep, Firefox Nightly is my daily driver. I use Edge Canary for sites that don’t work on Firefox, such as the Snapchat web client.

In many architectures in which certificates are used, a client with a valid certificate is a trusted client, so a certificate falling into the wrong hands is problematic.