If really bots are being used for this, will that also contribute to the traffic metric like a normal user would?

no: bots generally use the API and, even if they went through the web ui, bot traffic doesn’t generally trigger tracking (you could write a bot that does that, but it would be extra work)

Seems reasonable when you are on the offensive

$ n=0; while read -r l; do n="$((n+1))" printf '    %d %s\n' "$n" "$l"; done < /etc/os-release 
    0 NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
    0 # VERSION="20230619"
    0 ID="opensuse-tumbleweed"
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I love how much effort they put in this every time!

If you wanna listen to more of them, here’s the full playlist from SUSE’s channel on youtube.

OP was about data caps on landlines… yeah, at first glance I too thought it could only be mobile

With the people I’ve talked about privacy the issue seems to be that they perceive google/apple/whoever as somewhat abstract entities: when I try asking if they would allow their local supermarket/corner shop (let alone the government!) to know that much about them, they immediately reply “no way!”… but then (even after the conversation) they are still ok with google tracking their location 24x7.

Lack of healthy competition. It’s plain to see from the other side of the ocean where I live… Is it maybe one of those things you can only see from afar?

Well, FTP will only be faster if the CPU —rather than the network— is the bottleneck, which basically means it won’t be any faster.

Let me add to that:

There are utilities (eg. andrewbanchich/shreddit) and even third-party websites that allow you to delete all your posts and comments (it’s of course way too impractical to do so via the reddit website/app).

IIUC it is not possible to delete all one’s posts/comments via the API alone (you can only delete the last thousand or so - IDK if repeating the process helps), so with most (all?) of these utilities one can provide a GDPR export of all comments/posts and they will then be able to delete everything.

You can request a GDPR export at www.reddit.com/settings/data-request (IDK if this works regardless of where you live), but it will take several days/weeks (I requested mine last week and I’m still waiting).

https://www.alpinelinux.org/community/

On top of that there’s r/AlpineLinux on reddit, but it’s unofficial, quite small and sees very low traffic

Ok, but… you see… one of the two stories is more plausible than the other and one of the two storytellers has a reputation of being a decent source.

Everybody should spend at least a couple hours reading/watching stories and testimonies from DPRK defectors. It’s very instructive, but a part inside you will die.

There aren’t many because there is no request (“market”, if you will) for them.

OpenSUSE has Yast which might be what you are looking for (“might” because, despite using tumbleweed, I never used it and I even actually uninstalled it).

There must be a million utilities to do this (try searching “linux mass rename”), including ones that allow you to rename media files based on their metadata… each works in different ways, so you’ll have to look yourself for one that fits you (personally, I like the ones who open a text editor with the file names and you just edit them).

If you use KDE (DK about other environments) and only need a progressive counter, the simplest way is just select the files in dolphin, hit F2 and enter a pattern like “Tv Show Episode S01E##.mp4”.

(of course you can also write a script to rename the files, but I guess you wouldn’t have asked if you were prepared to do so)

Any sufficiently advanced reputation system is indistinguishable from magic

How does/did the digg reputation system work?

Is this really “World News”? C’mon.

CUPS is made by apple

IIRC CUPS started independently and then apple employed the main dev. After a few years he then left apple and forked his own project under the Linux Foundation, which is now the “proper” upstream