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Begun, the AdBlocker Wars have.

From the infamous AMA: We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive. Unlike some of the 3P apps, we are not profitable.

To me it sounds that he is envious that 3rd party apps were profitable and Reddit isn’t.

The word you’re looking for is sustainable, not profitable

Antichess, the truly anarchic variant, where en passant is really forced

What a sad day. Reddit is doing PiPi in their pampers.

“Explain how Google would impact XMPP servers if they defederate from Google Talk”

Spoiler: They can

[Google got] into open source software and it seems those survived the experience

Not really. Google is responsible for the open source browser Chromium, which is the base for Google Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. They dominate the browser market, and they use their position to implement features outside the web standard. Their competitors (mainly Firefox) are not able to implement the non-standard features, driving them out of the market. Classic Embrace-Extend-Extinguish.

Google got into the Linux space

Technically, both Android and Chromebok are Linux-based. But Google has done everything possible so that they aren’t part of the “Linux space”, to the point that Android uses a fork of version 3.x of the Linux kernel (regular Linux is now at version 6.x).

But they won’t be capturing new users from the Fediverse, they will capture them from Facebook and Instagram, and since this is mainly a Twitter competitor, also from Twitter.

Off-topic, but I love ntfy! It’s super easy to use to send notifications from a script or program anywhere

I’m not really familiar with the problem of voter ID laws in the UK. Here (Spain) showing your ID is mandatory to vote, and nobody think that’s a problem (but we need ID for basically any paperwork, so it isn’t an additional burden). Afaik, the problem in the USA is that it is quite difficult to get an ID card, and intentionally so for certain demographics. Is it the same in the UK?

“free speech absolutist”

I analyzed the image and this is what I see. Open an appropriate link below and explore the position yourself or with the engine:

White to play: chess.com | lichess.org

My solution:

Hints: piece >!Rook!<, move: >!Rxb8+!<
Evaluation: >!White has mate in 19!<
Best continuation: >!1. Rxb8+ Kd7 2. Rxa8 Kc6 3. Rxa7 Kb6 4. Bd4+ c5 5. Bxc5+ Kxc5 6. Rxe7 g6 7. Re6 Kc4 8. Rxg6 Kc5 9. Rg5+ Kb6 10. a4 Kb7 11. Rb5+ Kc6 12. c4 Kd7 13. a5 Ke6 14. a6 Ke7 15. a7 Kd7 16. a8=Q Ke6 17. Qa6+ Kd7 18. Rb7+ Kc8 19. Qa8#!<

^(I’m a human. I hope some day we’ll have a chessvision-ai-bot here)