“why didn’t you say so sooner, we would have made it bigger!”

not that microsoft actually follows those standards 100%.

very much so.

those “morons” represent the vast majority of internet users.

bad actors use shorteners to mask the actual url of their pages so their potential victims don’t know where they’re going until it is, perhaps, ‘too late’

i don’t even have to work that hard to avoid it. there’s no soccer here. there aren’t many that follow it. the local school doesn’t field a team, there isn’t a youth soccer program either. it’s either hockey season or conditioning-and-training for next hockey season.

Opening the shortened URL in your browser will instantly redirect you to the correct long URL. (So no stupid redirection pages.)

an interstitial or redirect page would be a security feature, especially for a shortener open to the public.

there’s a backdoor built right into bitlocker in the form of ‘recovery keys’–and for most users, microsoft knows what they are.

the closed-source version of the internet.

even the crappy old bobcat-based (slow af amd apu) laptops i have here run with lid closed (they run piholes and what-not).

one of their earliest acquisitions, way tf back in '98

i had one back in the earliest of days and used to add missing data to credits. i still occasionally catch myself trying to use ‘us.imdb.com’ as its address.

They’re doing it so other people can stream their media

and they went to a subscription model, in part, so they could get their ‘cut’ from plex shares.

in the uk, the ingredients list for mcd french fries is literally potatoes, oils (rapeseed, sunflower), dextrose (when needed–i.e. early crops that are low in naturally-occurring sugars). salt added after cooking. source

very much different than what they use in the u.s., which introduces multiple allergens. source

keep the server–so much possibility there. swap the fans out for quiet ones.

i don’t do anything on my phone. it’s a flip phone with data and wifi disabled on the device, and sms disabled at the carrier. it’s quite literally just a ‘telephone’.

if i go somewhere where i might expect a long wait alone (like to a doctor’s appointment), i’ll take a paperback with me.

and they’ve used magicband wristband trackers and rfid ticket cards for over a decade.

adguard home is foss (gpl3)

well, they are putting more water in mass market cold cuts these days…

it took over an hour and three tries to download updates to firefox and thunderbird on a system configured to use mozilla’s ppa (thunderbird is not included in mozilla’s new deb and rpm repos)