so get an anonymous pre-paid number

That’s not something that exists in many countries. SIM-cards have to be attached to a real world identity by law.

Why is that a problem?

Why are you posting as artyom@piefed.social and not <real name>@<home address>?

Multiple-accounts and pseudonyms. It’s like the 101 of interacting on the Internet. With a phone number requirement that’s automatically made impossible.

Also SIM-cards/phone numbers are required by law to be attached to your real world identity in many countries.

The two main advantages of Guix are the language

I wouldn’t call that an advantage for the average person. Nix is far nicer to work with. Some Lispers might disagree, but I, for one, can’t exactly see the beauty in trying to turn Scheme into a configuration language with macros and hacks. Also Guix puts Scheme everywhere, things you can do with plain old Bash in Nix, you’ll have to all do in Scheme in Guix, so there is a much steeper learning curve.

The biggest problem with Scheme as config language is that it is sloooooowwwww. Nix is already quite sluggish when it comes to configuration changes, in Guix it’s a lot worse, and it’s unlikely to change anytime soon, given that Scheme allows macros and other hacks that might make it difficult to properly cache or index the package database.

We went from boring beige PC cases, that looked rather boring and were in dire need of some stylish upgrades, in the complete other direction and overshot the target by a mile. I find most modern PC stuff incredible ugly and impractical. Even just finding a tower that still has a 5.25" slot took effort, since most don’t even have them anymore. The whole idea of transparent windows on your case or putting your PC on the desk instead of below it, is complete nonsense, especially when you don’t even have room for swappable disk drives. The good old desktop PC at least went under your monitor, but modern PC cases don’t even do that.

I am kind of surprised, despite all those decades of PC gaming, we still don’t have gaming PCs as compact as a Playstation/Xbox. They do exist, e.g. the old Alienware Steam Machine was tiny, but they are far from common place and often either underpowered or overpriced.

On top of that, the content of .git/objects/ is write protected, so even if you go rm -r, you’ll get an additional warning.

Periscope solved that quite well by showing a world map with everybody currently livestreaming. So you could just hop between countries and continents and see what others were doing. Wasn’t profitable enough or something, so Twitter killed it.

I use bat sometimes, but how do you stop it from wrapping lines?

$ cat ~/.config/bat/config
--wrap=never

Removed by mod

Technically they are correct. None of the Open Source licenses really regulate what happens on the server. When it’s not you running the binary, all the licenses are basically useless. AGPL is one of the few that address this a little bit, but even there you only get the source code itself, when the value in most online services is in the databases and backend stuff that you still don’t get to access with AGPL.

The Free Software world hasn’t figured out what to do with services running on computers you don’t own. GDPR is so far the only thing does something about the server side, but that’s EU law, not a license you can slap onto your software.