I desperately wish Stirling wasn't a webapp. Having to setup and launch a web server and browser to edit a PDF on my computer seems insane. We skipped the "foss, local app" stage, where Adobe dominates, and jumped straight to the web service model.

I've seen this tarpit recommended for this purpose. it creates endless nests of directories and endless garbage content, as the site is being crawled. The bot can spend hours on it.

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

ActivityPub is exactly that. Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc.

What you're asking for exists.

It doesn't. I'm talking about true decentralization (peer to peer), not federation (the worst of both worlds). It should also be uncensorable and come with some implementation that does away entirely with the idea of "social media" or "microblogging". Just a better version of what the web 1.0 was.

true decentralization means it will be rife with bad actors taking over the network in decentralized methods. it won't work and will be ultimately result for illegal activities.

decentralization != morally beneficial for the masses.

So do the masses have the wisdom to rule themselves or do they need a paternalistic gatekeeper? Pick one.

Was your father a gatekeeper?

What about Nostr?

Eliminate the 'light truck' exception to CAFE. Same standards should apply to truck bodies, retroactively to when CAFE began.

It sounds like they're telling us their product has no value. If AI can reliably perform language translation, then why would anyone bother learning a language? Checkmate, Duolingo.

I'm a long-time Google Fi customer and moderate another community about Google Fi. Some of the criticism about Google not being as customer focused is valid, but the two biggest problems with Google Fi are:

* The dependence on rigid processes. Customer support reps are cogs in a machine with no ability to override automated actions or to circumvent when processes go awry.

* Google does absolutely zero of the inventory or shipping. It's contracted out to Ingram Micro. Anyone in the IT world who has dealt with them knows they screw up a lot. Not terribly, but unless you have a direct line to them, you're hosed.

Combine these two factors and then add some typical call center metrics focus and nobody is empowered or interested in going to bat for you when the process falls apart.

Not an excuse at all. It is Google that chooses their own logistics partners and support team. Why do they choose shitty ones?

I remember when Amazon fucked up and signed a contract with the worst local courier company in the UK; they were locked in and couldn't back out. So the advised people who'd previously had poor service from those couriers to put "please deliver with royal mail" in the delivery notes and would ship it out-of-contract & ate the fees.