Texas moved closer to becoming the next state with a right to repair law on the books, as the state Senate unanimously voted 31 - 0 to finalize HB 2963 this weekend. It would require manufacturers to make spare parts, manuals, and necessary tools available for equipment sold or used in the country’s second most populated state.

I support content creators being able to make a living in the fediverse (without enshittifying it).

So… good luck. I hope you find a healthy way to go about it.

Shouldn’t you have talked to them before starting the non-profit?

I do not claim to have any expertise (and defo not an accountant), but that sounds backwards to me.

revenue share or something for content creators

Where’s the revenue coming from? The content creators paying to store their own videos?

I remember someone tried to monetize Mastodon feeds like Substacks or something.

It didn’t last long.

I can’t imagine any way to monetize content other than individual Patreons or collective subscriptions (like Nebula, Curiosity Stream and whatever Linus Tech Tips thing is called Floatplane).

Yes, but that would only work if her group chat friends also use Signal.

Which likely isn’t going to happen unless all of their friends also use Signal.

You’re correct.

As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.

However, this does not necessarily mean federation is off the table, possible avenues are:

• Implement our own federation protocol
• Implement a promising up and coming federation protocol, polyproto
• Implement the Matrix protocol (unlikely, obtuse and unstable)
• Implement the XMPP protocol (battle-tested and stable)

For quality assurance reasons, we’ve defined ‘within the app’ as ‘everything on the phone while our app is running in the background’.

I personally agree, but I’m pretty sure WordPress is the architecture behind a bajillion sites. Technical term.

FTFY: Pretends to walk back his statements. Fools no one.

In 2017, I helped develop key recommendations for planning your digital legacy. These include:

• creating an inventory of accounts and assets, recording usernames and login information, and if possible, downloading personal content for local storage
• specifying preferences in writing, noting wishes about what content should be preserved, deleted, or shared – and with whom
• using password managers to securely store and share access to information and legacy preferences
• designating a digital executor who has legal authority to carry out your digital legacy wishes and preferences, ideally with legal advice
• using legacy features on available platforms, such as Facebook’s Legacy Contact, Google’s Inactive Account Manager, or Apple’s Digital Legacy.

Hopefully not a dumb question: If Vulkan runs on anything, assuming their game isn’t a Windows (Xbox?) exclusive, why don’t more people program their games to use Vulkan instead?

Except there are a lot of people who believe that the homelessness and suffering is natural, correct, and deserved.

What does proton do?

I only vaguely understand it as “thing that makes game playable on other thing.”

(And also I have six versions installed on my steam deck whydoIneedsixofthese?)

Well there’s your other problem.

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Next, you’re going tell me a billionaire’s involved somehow!

Well there’s your problem.

“This call may be used for quality assurance and training purposes.”

Every interaction costs them money, right?

Sounds like we need to put all the AI call centers on a conference call with each other.

This guy xkcds: