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.

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.

That auto-drive-ready car will be ready for auto-drive any time now, we swear!

They are referencing an old Australian sketch comedy piece about an oil tanker.

"That's when I realized the threads were stripped."

While I'm not naive enough to think there will be any meaningful reduction in personal car usage in my remaining lifetime (~20-30 years), I'd like us to START making infrastructure investments that will at least point us in the right direction. But no, it's endless stroads and sprawl and retail development and single family housing as far as the eye can see.

kbin is a different code base than Lemmy and doesn't support the same API. At least not yet. But they use the same ActivityPub protocols and so can communicate with each other, and with other Fediverse applications.

The good news is that you can subscribe to communities on kbin servers via Lemmy. And once they're in a Lemmy instance you can use Lemmy apps.

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.

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.

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.