oh wow checking this out on the standard Mastodon client, I see that it literally does not format stuff haha. It just throws Markdown formatting on things.

Yeah, defintely not switching then lmfao.

**Update:** I've discovered that the *Elk* client allows you to do basic formatting. *Italics*, **Bold**, and `Code Blocks` are supported, but URLs are either unsupported or are a hidden feature.

The app is still in Alpha though, and there's a few things about it that still bug me, so I […]

@Gargron any idea if there's a way to export you're Mozilla browsing history (and possibly full profile including extensions)? I somewhat rely on the smart suggestions from my history when I start searching up an old article. I also really can't live without the cross device syncing.

Not sure […]

@Moosader Actually not a bad idea tbh. I've always kinda hated that side of the internet, but if it gets more people to realize that they do actually have alternatives, that's a good for everyone who doesn't wanna be there.

@stuartl @glyph Ah yeah, in most utilities it's Wh. I'm coming from a Physics background, so metric is more common (if I recall, 1J is the energy required to lift a 1kg object 1m upwards in standard gravity).

@stuartl @glyph Power is measured as watts, or joules ÷ time.

Energy is measured as Joules, or slightly obscurely, as Power × time, as in Watt-hours.

So a megawatt-hour is a measurement of energy. It's the amount of every required to run a Megawatt of power for 1 hour (or 1 watt for 1 million […]

@tante the long held belief that the Internet, or that computers, or software are somehow sovereign from the whims of politics and capital has unfortunately been an utter failure.

You cannot make good software without capital funding (usually donations if it's FOSS), and good politics (the […]

Is the solution to raise minimum wage? Maybe, yeah. But there's probably a number of other things that really need to happen too:

- Enforce anti-competition law, so that it's harder for corporations to engage in coordinated attacks on the price of labor.

- Ban non-competes, at least for fields […]

The reason that higher jobs pay better is because the workers are more scarce. Supply and demand dictates that the wage will be higher. If we were to see some kind of mass exodus from low paying jobs up to the higher ones, suddenly, the dynamic changes. The pay goes down for everyone. If the […]