If you give users the choice to opt out, all the privacy-focussing communities won’t be searchable.
What if someone who opts out posts a comment and someone who opts in answers?
The Fediverse is public, a search engine doesn’t show anything that isn’t already open for anyone to see.

Everything you post on the Fediverse is public.
If you don’t want to show up in an internet search, post your stuff on your private server and only give access to the people you want to invite.

In the 20s or the 60s you wouldn’t have been able to afford a flight at all.
And if you’re rich enough that you could, then you can book an “adventurous” flight today, too.

But it’s a good yardstick to measure the news you’re reading. Always ask yourself:
“Are they reporting on something that happened? If yes, do they say who’s seen it happen?”

Way too many “news stories” nowadays boil down to “some no-one posted something on X about something they haven’t themselves witnessed”.

They can only keep spending 1000x as much as their opponent for so long.

We’re talking about Houthi rebels vs. the USA, so that statement might be wrong.

Since whisky is always made of grain, it would be any whisky made in Scotland.

You’re completely wrong, but at least you’re confident.

There’s quite a few regulations to be met if you want to legally sell your whisky as Scotch, including the type and shape of your still, which grains you can use, the wood for your casks, the aging process, and who owns the business.

The news media needs to report what is true and verifiable, without adding their own interpretation (except for labelled opinion pieces).
In this case, the true and verifiable fact to report is what Xi told Biden. And without checking primary sources, I’m sure he used a word meaning “reunify”.

Against any other foe, destroying a $2M piece of military equipment with a $2k drone would be a success.

Why not USB?

In a Russian prison, he acts as a symbol for the opposition. And if Putin should fall, the opposition can free him and have a credible leader who’s shown that he puts his ideals over his own safety.
In the west, he’d be completely without influence on anything or anyone inside Russia, now and in the future.

Basically he gambled that Putin will die before him.

Neither this article nor the comment are about the US.

For special use cases like that, dd isn’t the right tool.

I hate when my buns get moist.

And that’s probably for the better.

A Clone of an OS install is not needed anymore, for a jillion reasons.

If my SSD decides to suddenly quit, I can get back all my personal files and configs, plus all the software I had installed with all configurations, configured repositories, user rights and group memberships, GUI customizations, system-wide fonts, .desktop-files, root .bashrc, self-compiled software, etc. etc. by popping in a new SSD and dding my full disk image backup to it with one terminal command.

I fail to see how that is not a nice thing to have even today, or how I would get back to the previous state just as fast without it.

Most “highly advanced” usage of Excel would be better done with a proper database software.

Neither an immutable distro nor a NAS is a replacement for backups.
Some people are lucky enough to never learn that backups are vital. Good luck to you in the future!

Imagine an image like Tank Man, or the running Vietnamese girl with napalm burns on her skin, but AI generated at the right moment.
It could change the course of nations.

You need to donate money if you expect it to do something?

It’s almost as good as The Walking Dead now.