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Verified just means we can believe that they are who they say they are. Doesn't mean that they're trustworthy or believable. Or to put it another way: The identity of their account is verified. The contents of their posts are not verified.

I don't agree with the point OP is trying to make in this instance regarding verification. (Letting that well documented lethally violent gang of thugs use their platform is Bluesky's actual transgression here)

The will to do so.

Finding an instance to register on that won't ban them for

No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies

(Rule 3 on mastodon.social)

Yes, though it works a bit differently.

In your mastodon bio you link to your other precenses on the web (webpage, twitter, GitHub, whatever)

On those profiles you add an (invisible) link to your mastodon profile. Mastodon can then verify that your mastodon profile and your other sites are controlled by the same entity, and get a blue tick.

Paywalled, so can't comment on the whole article.

But the excerpt does not support the headline: Share of EU GDP says nothing about internal or external trade growing or shrinking, only that the relative amount of external to internal trade move to slightly more external

Do you need the pdf to open in Firefox/browser?

If not, PDF-XChange Editor is a pretty good advanced standalone program. It comes in free and paid versions

Dune3D is a relatively new 3D CAD for Linux. https://docs.dune3d.org/en/latest/ I haven't tried it, but it looks very promising.

Personally, I use FreeCAD, which is leagues better than it used to be, and improving quickly

Tan Eggs advent calender is a little nugget of joy every day. Thank you for posting these

Not sure I buy the "not critical infrastructure" argument. Even if 95% of public (and private) correspondence is digital these days, paper-mail is still used as a fallback for some institutions and whenever a physical copy must be sent for whatever reason.

Wow this is awesome on so many levels!

Could you just buy wood sticks of that size in the hardware store, or did you have cut them to width yourself? And how is the wood glue sticking to the plastic flare? (Never tried using wood glue on plastic before)

Yikes, are those required? Looks very rug-shaped, perfect for pulling things. Or not. Who knows?

Yeah it's a normal model, but BitWarden is a bit special in that their original server-side implementation was enough of a pain to self-host on a small scale that an alternative implementation Vautlwarden was created. And Vaultwarden became very popular in self-hosted circles. And now many years later BitWarden offers a Lite server which scales down. I think it's a good thing, just a bit unusual. I'm struggling to think of similar examples.

I'm sure Vaultwarden still funnels plenty of enterprise use of BitWarden, since Vaultwarden users still use official BitWarden client.

Forward thinking venture capital funded companies are getting rarer, hence the question on motivation. Especially the last few years many VC Foss companies have squeezed harder the other way (gitea, Terraform, docker). So all kudos to BitWarden for launching Lite.

What you say a about brand dominance, or brand protection makes a lot of sense. It's not a good look for them that a large number of people choose to use an unofficial implementation instead of theirs. And should there ever be a catastrophic security issue with Vaultwarden, it would still reflect bad on BitWarden as that kind of nuance (like "unofficial server side implementation") tend to get lost in reporting. Having more IT workers self-host official version probably also helps pave the way for bringing enterprise-bitwarden to companies.

Valve are a bit of a unicorn though, because they are privately owned. There's no investors demanding ROI the next quarter, which gives them freedom to think long term.
When Microsoft launched windows8 and the Microsoft Store, Valve took that as an existential threat to their whole business model (the Steam store). Valve feared that Microsoft was trying to position itself like Apple on iOS and Google on Android, where there is only one platform store, and all apps are purchased through the platform store, and the platform store takes that sweet sweet 30% cut. So Valve pivoted to ensure the Steam store would not be obsolete, and give customers a reason to still use the Steam store. And what they achieved is awesome, for Linux, for Valve and for gamers. But it took nearly a decade, which is a level of patience few companies have.