I got that one several times too, and saw screenshots of it elsewhere too. Not in a while by now though.

A few weeks ago there was a screenshot going around “I met my wife in a github issue thread”.

people put things like THAT behind paywalls?

KDE Plasma and it’s configured to have everything in the same places as Windows as much as possible. I have to use Windows for work and gaming and like it when I don’t have to think much about which computer I’m using right now.

No idea about “most people”, but I absolutely still use a laptop. In fact using my laptop is more or less my default activity when I’m at home.

What is the stereotype about dbzero? Out of the loop on that.

The fediverse is inherently a place where it’s a lot harder to delete anything than on non-federated platforms. It always will be because everything you post here is instantly copied to hundreds (if not thousands) of other servers. Some of them may be actively hostile and intentionally not respect deletions. Some of them may just be misconfigured or for another non-malicious reason fail to delete things.

So don’t post things on the fediverse that you think you might one day regret.

I hardly ever check how old anyone’s account is. I try to be nice to everyone regardless of who they are, and discuss issues rather than posters.

Yes, but then you can have malicious servers sending fake numbers without other server operators being able to check whether this is at all plausible.

(It’s still possible for malicious servers to send fake votes, but server operators can see which users they are stated to originate from, then block that server if that looks like it’s doing that. At least that is my understanding.)

Yes, after all other servers need this information in order to prevent double voting, you can’t just have servers sending each other information “somebody upvoted this” and also tell when servers are allowing users to vote more than once.

So upvotes and downvotes aren’t actually private, never have been, some servers may display them publicly even if most don’t.

and is saying that it somehow means Facebook owns it

owns what?

It does mean that Facebook owns the copyright to a software component that TikTok (apparently) also uses. They licensed it under a free and open source software license, so anybody (including TikTok, including you, including me) can download it and use it as part of their own software. It does not mean Facebook owns TikTok, nor that Facebook owns any other piece of software this is used in.

If you want to see more examples of similar notices: if you are using Firefox, enter about:license into your URL bar. If you are using Chrome, enter chrome://credits/ there. You’ll find that these browsers, like many pieces of software nowadays, rely heavily on open source components developed by third parties.

Why would you not want to post there?

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