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“More personalised responses” means more finely tuned to influence your behaviour, not “smarter answers”

The means of information are the new means of production

Post and comments are not Reddit’s IP anyway :3

Is it though? That is (or was, and should be again) publicly accessible information that was created over the years by random internet users. I refuse the notion that an American company can “own it” just because they ran the servers. Sure they can hold copyright for their frontend and backend code, name and whatever. But posts and comments, no way.

Of course it would be dumb for someone under US jurisdiction but we’ll see how much an international DMCA claim is worth considering the current relations anyway.

Cory Doctorow is right.

The dream of big tech is social media without socialising, search engines without searching, online shopping without browsing.

Trying to be more POSIX-compatible by further breaking POSIX spec is an ok choice to make in this case imo, but I think that’s a somewhat important detail to know :)

Good, Chrome has allowed them to be in a position to dictate the future of internet standards for too long. Fuck em

No, they are executed according to the shebang on the first line, which is usually bash. If it is missing, it will default to the current shell.

If you didn’t already hear it, Cory Doctorow recently gave a talk about this at 39C3, the Chaos Computer Club conference. Search “A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet” in your frontend of choice