Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

If your organisation is big enough to have a press office of more than 4 or 5 people, you will usually have an on-call rota.

I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

You need a certain kind of landscape for that. I think the UK only has a couple of pumped storage power stations due to lack of suitable sites

No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage

Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.

Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.

You should definitely spend time trawling through Oxfam shops for books, if this annoys you.

Thanks for the smile this morning 🙂

Running your own VPN in that situation is a good use-case agreed - assuming you trust yourself :)

You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest

You should have quoted fir the job

You misspelled ‘I cannot answer your question’

The technology is magnifying the flaws in capitalism

I suspect down - initially

That sounds as if the register for .ar should be out of a job

News seems to work just the same in the UK - mix of free and premium news stories

Yes, that is mildly infuriating. Someone deliberately going to additional trouble to increase the a kind of microplastics in the environment and make it harder for the poor folks in the recycling plants.

Get over yourself