SaltySalamander

Blocked.

because I have to use a Microsoft account

You don’t.

It would seem to me that npm simply cannot be trusted anymore.

You’re using public trackers, so you’re probably not in the habit of being a seeder. With private trackers, you HAVE to seed. Deleting a torrent from your client once it’s finished is most certainly a habit you will have to break once you finally do get into some private trackers.

Why lie?

Translation: you feel that authors should go back to working a regular job.

Such as?

Don’t do it, mate. Ya’ll split for a reason. It never ends better the 2nd time than the 1st.

I can’t even figure out how to get someone I’ve not talked with in four years out of the primary position in Frequently Used on my contacts list.

Oh good, this isn’t a me problem.

Willful ignorance is still ignorance.

Oh you sweeeeeet summer child you.

$2m in a stock that pays a 6% dividend is 120 grand a year. Pretty easy to live comfortably off of that I would imagine.

What are these sites doing that gamifies watching content?

adding points and badges and achievements and all kinds of things designed to reward engagement with dopamine

Bluesky is also social media

So is Lemmy…

I’ll never unsee that

Now it just sounds like an early internet dating site.

Also a failed cryptocurrency.

they are in fact explicitly eager to serve the US Department of War

I suppose you are a party to their closed-door meetings then.

If I were talking to someone, and said those three sentences, and they chose to ignore the contextual sentence, I would think their social skills were basically nonexistent.

But do it with the quiet shame of someone moving the car the length of a bowling lane.

A bowling lane is a bit over 18 meters. =)

You already have a self-signed cert. That’s why you get the warning.