RickRussell_CA

joined 1 year ago
[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What amazes me are the number of companies selling "lifetime" VPN service or "lifetime" cloud storage service with a straight face.

Like... that is TRANSPARENTLY a scam. You're literally gonna sell lifetime licenses to people with more money than common sense, until the entire system is overloaded, then just go out of business.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, here's the problem. Alito is correct, that Congress can't impose "ethics rules" on the court.

The sole remedy given to the people is impeachment, and Bribery is explicitly listed as a valid basis for impeachment under Article 1.

We would never get an impeachment through the Senate, of course.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You would do well to either sign up for an instance relating to your interests

Is that essential, though? As long as everybody is federated, it shouldn't matter, except maybe it will take longer to see some posts.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most orgs have an internal SMTP server that will accept and send mail to other internal addresses without any special authentication or validation. It's almost essential for automatic monitoring software and that sort of thing.

Where the barriers go up is at the border to the Internet. And thank goodness, just a couple decades ago it was sheer chaos.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mastodon:

Pick a Mastodon instance.

Open it in your web browser, follow the prompts to sign up.

Search for people you want to follow, and add them. Maybe search for subject matter that interests you, and follow people who post about that.

PixelFed:

Pick a PixelFed instance.

Open it in your web browser, follow the prompts to sign up.

Search for people you want to follow, and add them. Maybe search for subject matter that interests you, and follow people who post about that.