Fuck off, clanker.

That’s pretty dope but also the writing makes my clanker senses tingle.

This account reeks of clanker. Are people just okay with that or am I missing something?

On Android, the DuckDuckGo browser and AdGuard both have ad-blocking video players.

Paying them not to stuff annoying bullshit into your content still doesn’t stop them from slorping up every possible facet of your personal data. So long as they’re double dipping, I’m not giving them a dime.

AdGuard maintains a list of DNS providers; there are several with ad blocking.

I have some bad news for you about cars…

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FUTO is kinda shady

Free speech as a right is an ideal. In practice, any given government of a country that purports to grant its citizens freedom of speech will have types of speech that it wants to censor (despite its legality) and will use whatever means available to subvert that right. As such, speech is only free insofar as it can be protected. Online anonymity is one such protection.

It’s even better when they copy-paste slop answers that are flat out wrong without bothering to check.

Fair enough. So what are your favorites?

You might be interested in Lean.

As neither a chatbot nor a doctor, I have to assume that subarachnoid hemorrhage has something to do with bleeding a lot of spiders.

I think I can live with that

I prefer the term “commensalist”

Here is their FY 24–25 Audit Report. To wit, their net assets were $296.6 million, while their total internet hosting expenses were $3.5 million. So the claim that hosting expenses make up a trivial fraction of their total assets would appear to hold true even moreso today than a decade ago.

Granted, the FAQs for the report state that “The vast majority of […] revenue came from donations […], as well as investment income, Wikimedia Enterprise revenue, and other revenue primarily related to a cost sharing agreement with the Wikimedia Endowment”.

I remain suspicious of the large increases in “Salaries and wages” year-over-year compared to other expense categories.

Operating expenses don’t necessarily equate to total expenditure. The article also mentions that fifteen executives took home a six-figure salary in 2015; that doesn’t strike me as particularly efficient.

Notwithstanding, what I originally said was not prescriptive. People are free to spend their money as they see fit. Even I have donated to the Wikimedia Foundation in the past and still believe that they provide invaluable resources for the common good.

Where I take issue is the fact that the messaging in their campaigns often gives the impression that the organization is scraping by on user donations, whereas in reality they’re sitting on a pile of assets that would ostensibly be in the 99.9ᵗʰ percentile of household net worth in the US.

I should have specified: I don’t agree with every part of the article, but I shared it for this excerpt:

The Wikimedia Foundation solicits donations from Wikipedia users every year, even though its expenses ($2 million to run hosting and servers) are vanishingly small compared to its profits. Wikimedia has increased its spending over 1000% since 2008 and sits on $97.6 million in assets as of 2016.

They probably don’t need donations.