According to Wikipedia, Burger King and Tim Hortons merged to make Restaurant Brands International, which is headquartered in Toronto, alongside Tim Hortons. Burger King kept their own HQ in the US.

If anything, that makes Burger King Canadian.

Dan seems to have trouble sticking with a single project. Sometimes it feels like he announces some new thing every week that never gets finished.

So you would say they’re comparable then? Maybe even analogous?

Depending on your email provider, you should be able to set up a filter that automatically marks matching emails as read or archives/deletes them.

The bird.makeup instance is a one-way Twitter mirror, but it’s not always very reliable since Twitter keeps making it harder to use Twitter

I think you’re overthinking this, and extrapolating limited data way too far.

For one, of course historically rich countries are going to be hosting more technology. Tech is expensive, and less developed countries are called that because they’re less developed, which includes electricity grids, internet, economic power, and so on.

Another issue is that just because a Mastodon server is hosted in a particular country, doesn’t mean only people in or from that country can make an account there. Sure, there are some servers that want to keep their communities specific to their local area, but the vast majority have no restrictions. Anyone from anywhere can sign up.

If you’re trying to figure out how to make it so historically poor countries have the most servers instead, you’re going to have to figure out how to fund and manage infrastructure expansion.

It feels like you’re coming at this with the assumption of “every country has the resources to spin up hundreds of social media servers, but they’re just not interested”, which is kind of a weird conclusion to come to after recognizing the historical impact of colonialism and the privilege differences it’s led to.

Voyager doesn’t have a way to send it links.

I need to release an update to refresh the supported domains soon, but I made an app that does the work of maintaining the giant list of possible domains and helps you set it as the default for all of them.

Not every client is supported, but there are a few options.

https://github.com/zacharee/MastodonRedirect/

The cool thing about software is that it can be updated, so if someone finds a vulnerability and follows the proper CVE disclosure process, instance admins can just update immediately when it’s disclosed.

I guess it’s a little trickier because open source software can’t really say “fix a vulnerability that hasn’t been disclosed yet” in a commit message without disclosing the bug, and instances can’t just be silently updated before disclosure, but I’m sure there are other ways to handle CVEs that don’t rely on information obfuscation.

Technically you sort of can do that with email. Most providers let you verify you own the other email and then use the other provider’s SMTP to send from a different address.

This is true for S3 sleep, but that’s not the issue here. S0 sleep or Modern Standby just doesn’t put the computer to sleep. Windows manages device power states instead of the BIOS, and it usually doesn’t work out so well.

Overheating and battery drain caused by Modern Standby happen on laptops that are closed with nothing plugged in.

Ethernet is a protocol, not a medium. Cat5/5e/6/6a/7/etc are most commonly used as the physical link layer for Ethernet, but they’re just twisted pair copper.

Ethernet can also be run over coaxial, fiber, or the air.

I’m not really counting the 6502, since I don’t think Apple ever bothered with emulation or backwards compatibility for it once they moved to 68000.

And Apple will get to do a fourth architecture migration