BlackXanthus

There we are. Now all is right with the world.

What would an editor discuss be without those that support Emacs?

I noticed we even got some doom evil advocates! Lemmy truly has come off age!

(Note: as tone is hard on text: I'm genuinely pleased, and agree that the joy of Linux/Unix is it's variety. Thank you everyone)

The comments on this post went exactly like they have over the past 20 years, with one exception.

Emacs is all but forgoten.

Vim wins.

Vi

And, the last gasp of democracy happens with the stroke of a pen.

Even if Trump is somehow removed from office, it will take a strong person to give up the power gained. The USA can no longer pretend it's a democracy.

Take my updoot you maniac

I'm terribly sorry U.S. this very much reads like a horror story, but it's also depressingly utterly believable.

All your government belongs to Musk now.

'Bug fixes only. We are in code freeze' - the thrill of a decent patch announcement!

You can also turn on your limited free trial which gives you unlimited hearts. I'm fairness to duo, it's really got at reminding you when the free trial ends and allowing you to go back to standard.

I've used the free offer once or twice to cover missing hearts/gems

Choose an unclear gender (other, agender, etc) and your data becomes less useful. Marketing campaigns are based on broad categories, like male or female, so choosing neither lowers your data's value.

Similarly, lie about your education and your employment. Pick a made up job, be a wizard, or a spaceman. Jobs, again, are wide categories, so nonsense jobs, the more niche the better, the less they have to market things to you.

In theory you can do the same with hobbies, but three points of data, even made up data, is sellable somewhere.

Lie, of course, if you can. I'm sure there are more denizens of Hell on Facebook than the real place.

Where possible, choose other.

Oh lookit! Trying to fleece people using your product in good faith backfires.

Who'd have think?/s

Damn, screwed twice by the same Ape...

In the modern world, I'm not sure a blog without advertising is going to work - especially hosted on your own domain.

You will have better luck with substack or koffi, who's search algorithms will at least suggest related sites - and increase your visibility.

For decent views you are going to need a way of generating audience - that used to be Facebook and Twitter, but Twitter is dead, and Facebook is showing reduced returns of a saturated market. However, reduced is but 0, so it's still worth throwing up a page.

After that, a public Mastodon profile will help in audience creation, but that's very much a slow burn, and you'll have to make sure you #tag properly.