I think that depends how you write your web scraper. Of course the web scraper is going to load the page, just like your web browser does, which by all accounts is not an issue. What happens after the page is loaded depends on how the software is written.

He spoke carelessly, but he didn’t exactly say what the author said he said. You can in fact do many things with it. Copyright doesn’t care what you do if you aren’t copying. That’s the definition of the word.

Flatpak is one extra step. If apt or rpm already has what you want, which is true for many new users, why would we push them towards scary click thru action?

Isn’t this why we’d expect new users to use a built-in package manager? Because it avoids this exact problem?

Pushing someone new to Linux to use Flatpak? Shame on you.

Right, that is your experience. And I’m telling you that there are cast iron fry pans that can defeat wire brushes, both manual and ones you attach to your power drill. (Of course it’s up to you if you want to believe me. There’s no particular reason to believe some random stranger online, but then again, there’s no obvious benefit for me to lie about it.)

Don’t worry. They feel the same way about you. :-)

That really depends on the condition of the pan. I’ve had some where power tools were insufficient.

Nothing wrong with learning new tricks, but it’s worth mentioning on the side that sometimes a cron job is the right tool.

It’s worth noting that the Lord of the Rings in book form is very long because it goes into so much depth about each character’s history. One of the things that the author intentionally did was world building. If you wanted to get the whole plot line in, you could do so in a third the length.

So then when it was adapted to movie format, you had three things going for it. First, a lot of people read the books and loved them, second, the cast and crew had a lot to work with, and third, there was ample budget.

Prosody claims to support Message Archive Management and HTTP file sharing, sounds like the feature you want, or at least it is close.

What do you even mean? By that standard everyone is obnoxious.

Or perhaps you think the lightweight religious folk are magically less obnoxious? I dunno.

apt is easy to use and read. I haven’t dreamed of searching for a shiny replacement because there’s no problem to solve.

Same here. We gotta aim for the younger generations.

I don’t think you need to be patriotic to want to defend your country from fascist invaders. That’s a purely practical consideration if nothing else.

That depends what you think the greatest threats to quality of life for the average in American are. I believe the greatest threat is the corrupt system, which gives more power and money to the rich and screws over almost everyone else, and both of those candidates are firmly entrenched in it.

They both know and embrace their role in that system, although they would phrase it in different terms.

Finally, you asked about objective terribleness. But there is no such thing. This is all subjective, because of course it is, the country has hundreds of millions of residents who all have different priorities.

Patriotism is such a terrible thing in general.

Ah, the classic “U” argument, that the fringes of the right and left are the same. It’s a cute but damaging myth.

You can. It’s just not new, not news.

Many middlemen are getting played, too.