> No organization wants to do this, unfortunately. Twitter and Instagram are “free”. Running servers costs money […]
2000 active users for $89 per month[1]. That's probably less than you would spend on toilet paper for 2000 employees. I don't think money would be the biggest reason why an organization or company wouldn't commit to the Fediverse.
Mastodon is also a DigitalOcean 1-click app[2] if you're willing to spend more time.
If the version info on that DO link is correct, it's 2 and a bit years out of date. I'm sure it has support for updating everything internally, but I have to wonder if that's the best way to do this.
You don’t have to pay a fee. Any account can sign and side load an app for free, and every 7 days you have to let it check in with apples servers. If you pay $100/year for a developer account, the apps can sit much longer without needing to check in.
There are even more "ready to fly" kits but in this hobby, you typically want to buy a good transmitter separately. That way you can reuse it across all your models, especially when you crash and get a new one etc..
A good radio is maybe Radiomaster tx12 mk2 Elrs version and Matek makes decent elrs pwm receivers.
I mostly fly fpv quadcopters and don't need too many sliders and knobs on my radios. Hence the TX12. Someone else may have a stronger opinion about Radiomaster Tx12 vs. Radiomaster Tx16s for fixed wings.
Reminds me of Marx and his theories on the productivity of crime.
The criminal moreover produces the whole of the police and of criminal justice, constables, judges, hangmen, juries, etc.; and all these different lines of business, which form equally many categories of the social division of labour, develop different capacities of the human spirit, create new needs and new ways of satisfying them. Torture alone has given rise to the most ingenious mechanical inventions, and employed many honourable craftsmen in the production of its instruments.[1]
That is the broken window fallacy (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window) which was written in 1850, and Marx wrote the document you linked to in 1862 & 1863. Although I find Marx so impenetrable to read that I can’t even tell what his opinion or theory actually is. I would guess Marx read it, but he doesn’t respond to it, perhaps because in that linked document Marx says “For which reason all vulgar economists—like Bastiat…”. I also wonder what defines an economist as vulgar?
Fraud is waste. Businesses optimise for profit, and that optimisation often leads to some level of waste. No process is perfect.
Are they still collecting BAT tokens on the internets behalf, without permission, in their opt-out scheme (without even telling them they received anything until they hit a certain threshold and subsequently "recycling" it back into their own funds if it's unclaimed) ?
When they rolled out their donation feature, they were using a UI dark pattern which lead users to believe site owners were registered on the platform, not unlike Facebook shadow accounts, and were accepting donations for users on their behalf. AND they had a policy that only notified said non-users after their accumulated donations they didn't know they had broke a certain threshold. $200 iirc. Here's a thread[1] detailing the issue and you'll see Brave team members trying to explain those shadow accounts away as a "UI bug".
> So, we can teach or children to wear masks (and send them too school)
I'm sorry, but those masks won't help at all :'(