I mean, it sounds like you have bad neighbours. I live in a townhouse, and my neighbours (co-owners, really) are great. We help each other out. I can ride my bike for a few minutes in any direction and be out on a beautiful trail or out by the lake. Don't get me wrong, I've very deliberately selected a city to live in where access to nature is trivial. That was a priority. But I'd be happy enough to live in an apartment here if I needed to, the only thing that stopped me in the first place is the rules/laws surrounding pet ownership (I had 3 cats at the time, 4 now).

I'm much more in favour of being communally rich. Whole forests and lakes are available to me, not just a yard and a backyard pool or whatever. There are lots of ways to have peace and quiet and beauty, and only a few of them are living out in a field, isolated from everyone else. I'm a pretty introverted person, but when the park is big enough, you don't have to talk to anyone to enjoy it.

I think to be fair, it has both a problem with not enough taxes and bad priorities. Unless one of the priorities you're talking about is corporate welfare and low taxes on the rich. Certainly it is the case that they (and Canada) could raise enough money if they would actually just enforce their tax laws and implement wealth taxes on the ultra-rich.

Systemd, XFCE, I'm even still using focus-follows mouse! Still waiting for the sky to fall... or for the grass to get greener on the other side.

I'm skeptical of this because I've been using X on RH/Fedora for 25 years now and it still works fine.

So you think that strangers are going to be willing to tolerate your presence and include you in a group when you're intentionally behaving in a way that would "melt" them? That they want to have to tough it out to be with you? LOL So stupid.

And such a predictably weak tough-guy cry-baby act.

One thing I noticed is that it is overrun with people posting other people's photographs without attribution, and AI images pretending to be photographs.

Reporting them does nothing, and their algorithm is incapable of realizing that a user doesn't want to spend their time looking at that stuff.

My main hobby interest is photography, there are lots of photographers using the site, and yet, it is unpleasant to try to use for that. And it's a hobby that fits the general format really well.

Complete trash.

The other thing is all the bots (and even probably-people) who are there just to troll and have obvious troll usernames. That's the "other side" that is supposedly not there, except they are there, "owning the libs" in every post. If they can't, or won't, kick out people for being jerks, then it's just the same toxic morass as other social sites.

So of course it would decline; a significant proportion of the users are people whose social media use is significantly reduced due to toxicity and garbage. And being better than another site doesn't mean it does a good enough job to make these people want to include it in their lives on a daily basis.

If you don't know all that... you're probably either an internet troll, or somebody whose side job is running AI spambots.

Viruses aren't really even alive, though. They're genetic coding errors that get copied when introduced to a biological system.

It would be a good point if they were alive. But they're not.

There are no known species that primarily feed on mosquitos, and swallows don't go after anything that small.

Spend some time observing swallows feeding if you're interested in it and your eyes are good enough.

If your microphone is active, it should at least show an indicator light and a top-row icon, I'm pretty sure.

I don't know about your food banks, but here in Canada, they're not run by the government. They're charities. I'm ALREADY paying taxes to try to make sure our government takes care of less fortunate people, and they've failed by foisting that off onto food banks, which are run on shoestring budgets, charity, and luck. What happens when people can't afford to give to the food bank, like when there's a recession?

If it were a government agency that was guaranteed to have affordable/free food so that anyone could at least cover their basic dietary requirements, I'd definitely be agreeing with you here. But it's not. We need to understand that the government is failing us at the most basic level.

They wouldn't be the first tech executives who don't use computers and have everything printed out for them. I always suspected that being able to slam things down on the table was their secret reason for adopting this system, rather than any actual fear of the technology.

Over the years that you've been blathering nonsense on this site you've been an expert on everything. I assume what you mean is that one of the offices you clean does PCI compliance.

Are you really suggesting that you comingle customer credit card numbers in logs containing the users other interactions with the service? And at the same time, that you're responsible for PCI compliance? Are you a fucking idiot? (Don't answer that)

No, it just means you can't blah-blah your way out of obeying court orders, and if you bend over backwards to attempt to avoid compliance, you're just demanding the court go further and make you bend even more.

See also: Legal canaries, and why they don't work and if you set up one strong enough you'd have put yourself in the position of having to lie in order to comply with the order. And there's no defense, because the existence of the canary shows that you anticipated the situation.

You should be used to that by now if you're putting your data into these kinds of systems.

Retaining data to comply with a court order is not "sharing" of data.

And if there are concerns about PII in the data, that merely creates a duty to protect the data from unauthorized disclosure. Disclosure to comply with a court order is not ever unauthorized.

Don't be a moron. Make more intelligent arguments.