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.

No reason given?

Mine is fully backed up.

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

A Texas independence would not only violate the Constitution, it would sink the GOP in the remaining states due to the loss of Texas’ electoral votes, thus ensuring a Republican president would never be elected again. This is the biggest reason Texas will never secede, regardless of the state’s conservative nativism.

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 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.

what’s my best bet for a set & forget situation?

Deploy WingetUI and set it to automatically update everything as administrator. The nice thing about this solution is it scales to whatever 3rd party apps the user installs in the future.

It’s about as close as you’ll get to Debian’s venerable automatic-upgrades on Windows.

Research: it still exists.

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

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

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 @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 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.

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.

Edge & Firefox exist.

On sites like Twitter or Mastodon, you mainly just have one feed based on the people or tags you follow

X has had lists, which allow multiple feeds for the same account, for a very long time now.

This doesn’t offer anything in terms of individual user personalization.

Reddit has the multireddit feature.

All of the above have to be set up manually, but Threads changes your feed in real time within the same session based on your interactions.