I would say they’re a bot,

not a bad guess probably. just a week or two ago was when I noticed them posting frequently very suddenly, and before that I haven’t seen their name anywhere.

this user has been posting lots of questionable things. lately I see them often

“in a big way”, “it will be your win”

It’s ridiculous

once I noticed failures on my ventoy pendrive because a specific bootable system had unexpected bugs each time I booted it. after I have rewritten it from backup, it was working fine again.

but bitrot works this way not just on pendrives, but SSDs and HDDs too. the system won’t know unless it tries to read the file. SMART selftests may help. but even then, what good it is if it does not let you know actively?

you don’t need the whole usb drive to fail. It’s enough if a sector or two went corrupt, and you won’t be able to open (or even see) a directory, or copying a file will stop in the middle. maybe files disappear too, and then at best they get recovered to FOUND.001 or such directory without path and name, maybe also just partially, or interleaved with other lost or deleted files’ fragments

but surely microsoft keeps multiple copies! they are infallible!!

It’s more about the name for me

truth be told, the former branding was much better. It’s unfortunate that they needed to resort to have a fork

or automated trains, which would probably be more efficient

and diesel fuel

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oh no, why do we too need to conflate search with AI??

and registration to an event on zoom?? zoom.us especially? wtf

or possibly something else, but definetly not atproto as it stands

first I read “AI Qaida”, but maybe there’s something to that too

others have mentioned microG, but if that does not answer your question it may help to concretize what services you need from the google services stack. this page has a table on what services did the microG project implement so far, it may help in deciding on what exact services do you need

for push notifications I recommend ntfy or another UnifiedPush-based solution, but be aware that ntfy’s official instance but probably the mozilla instance too is being hosted in the USA. if that’s a problem, the ntfy app let’s you set a custom ntfy server (find a public one or host it yourself), and all apps should handle it without difficulties which register at the Ntfy app after you made this change.
with UnifiedPush, there’s no central point of failure like with google firebase, all services get told where to send the notifications, and that is determined by the “UnifiedPush Distributor” app on your phone (of which the Ntfy app is an implementation, along with SunUp and NextPush, they are also distributors)

I feel anger in that post title

haven’t seen a single source so far for any claims, other then a justin timberlake clip disguised as a source

This is what needs discussion. It is this tool which will lead to harassment due to the way someone votes.

wrong. voting users are already visible through other services, like mbin. and the information is already there, those who are really interested are already scraping it, this just makes it more accessible and also serves as an eye opener

I find this whole thing weird because some federating platforms (like mbin I think) already show voting users publicly

well that I can agree on. still, personally I would choose neither, and I hope the EU won’t take them as examples