Another way to help: If you have an idea that someone could possibly patent, no matter how stupid you think it is, you can publish a defensive technical disclosure on tdcommons for free https://www.tdcommons.org/

Literally just focus on making firefox better. Which isn’t even an option on the survey.

Not the best example, the health risks from radium dials were mostly to the people that painted them, because they licked their brushes to point them.

Not temu, but I buy loads of stuff from aliexpress, from dice to entire 3d printers.

If your kid tries to eat their camera you have bigger issues to worry about.

Viral is no longer a strong enough adjective for headline editors, we now have MEGAVIRAL.

There’s no need for mastodon to be in the mix here, whatever software they are using can federate directly. I know wordpress already has a plugin to do exactly that. (I have no idea what CMS major news outlets use, hopefully not wordpress)

People have to choose a server with mastodon, and you can’t just pick any server because of the mess of defederations.

The Skripal thing? No amount of tanks or missiles can stop espionage.

I’ve volunteered for a few charity shops (UK version of a thrift store) in the past, the weirdest thing was the trash people would “donate”, like used diapers.

Self hosted instances are artificially limited to 10 accounts, however https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation

And that’s only the frontend “server” that can be self hosted, the “relay”, that’s more equivalent to a mastodon instance, doesn’t seem to be self hostable.

From an entirely selfish perspective, the UK has very few threats militarily, unless the French decide to invade again.

“don’t worry about it being perfect” and “stop being so self critical”

Need more capacity for all the liberal tears?

Octopodes no longer die when they give birth, meaning they can teach their young and form societies.

I stole it from Babylon 5, but “assassin of joy” is one I’ve used a few times

Windows hasn’t added any features of value since Windows 7 XP

Technically taking human remains isn’t grave robbing, it’s body snatching. Grave robbing is taking artifacts like jewellery.