Show me what Stalinism looks like
This is what Stalinism looks like

If someone sells something to you and then takes it back later, that is theft.

One of these, “free credit report”, is additionally full of scams. Here’s the FTC on the issue.

They don’t index Wikipedia. Why not?

“Hey, George? Can you send me a hundred bucks?”
“Password ass-sword? Gay geek goat god goon gout, Galaga Gaelic Gorky?”
“Hemp hops hoop harangue horny hope hobags, hyper Hungarian hippies.”
“Infinite Ixian idiots incinerate imbeciles in interesting inquisitorial igloos.”
“Just joking! Jerboas jaunt jerkily, just juxtaposing jinn, janky jobs, and jalopies.”
“What’s the password?”
“Always Swordfish.”
“Okay fine, come on in.”

Put another way, spam sites have become more effective at defeating anti-webspam measures.

Two pieces of technology are behind the Internet as we know it today.

Neither one is patented.

They are TCP/IP and Linux.

All the network traffic runs over TCP/IP.

95%+ of the servers run Linux. So do the Android phones and Chromebooks.

Clearly, patent protection in software is not required for society to benefit greatly from technological innovation in software.

My Pop!_OS system has never shown me ads for Candy Crush.

A Google spokesperson told Motherboard in a statement at the time of the unionization that it had “no objection to these Cognizant workers electing to form a union,” but that it would not bargain with them. “We are not a joint employer as we simply do not control their employment terms or working conditions—this matter is between the workers and their employer, Cognizant,” the spokesperson said.

NLRB seems to disagree. This will be an interesting case, I suspect …

… and I just realized that people fluent in sign languages could talk while they snog.

Google for most things.

Bing in an incognito window for weird porn.

Headphone jacks are not little. They take up a huge amount of board space on a device that people want to be small and light. They’re also fragile and they open up a big hole for crud to get in.

Why don’t Elon and Donald pay their bills?

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vb515nd6874/20230724-fediverse-csam-report.pdf

I’d suggest that anyone who cares about the issue take the time to read the actual report, not just drama-oriented news articles about it.