If it can be set to private then it can be set to public again. I don't use any of those platforms but I would always assume that all my usage might end up being published one day.

This sounds like I need to host my PDS. Easy for me with no public profile but if I was someone famous wouldn't that mean I needed enterprise class hosting?

You don't need to host your own PDS for any of this to work. It works the same way regardless of who hosts your PDS.

I think what may be confusing you is that Bluesky (the company) acts in two different roles. There's hosting (PDS) and there's an app (bsky.app). You can think of these conceptually as two different services or companies.

Yes, when you sign up on Bluesky, you do get "Bluesky hosting" (PDS). But hosting doesn't know anything about apps. It's more like a Git repo under the hood.

Different apps (Bluesky app is one of them) can then aggregate data from your hosting (wherever it is) and show different projections of it.

Finally, no, if you're famous, you don't need enterprise hosting. Hosting a PDS can be extremely cheap (like $1/mo maybe)? PDS doesn't get traffic spikes on viral content because it's amortized by the app (which serves from its DB).

The west was enjoying the peace dividend while Russians were dealing with the collapse of the USSR so the answer to your question depends on who you ask.

I can see the irb giving retroactive approval solely because of political pressure. Which is why legitimate studies seek approval in advance.

Well those materials are verifiable at least.

My favorite are "titanium" products which are just electroplated with a layer of titanium a few atoms thick.

Refund-without-return is what might fade out. I've had that with low value things like a lightbulb that had the wrong fitting.

This is a somewhat useful filter for actual consumers but here we are also looking at large scale fraud. The article mentions opponents using rotating IP addresses and high volumes of refund requests to try to overwhelm counter-fraud measures.

How would you describe the arrival of people from Europe and elsewhere into what is now California?

I meant extraction of resources by Europeans for 200 years. C

This suprises me because at the time user interfaces were optimised for keyboard - the only input device most people had. Also screen resolutions were lower so there were fewer things you could click on anyway.

Regarding Zoom, music lessons 1:1 online are still pretty common. I would guess this won't hold up with multiple musicians.

Music lessons online are common (I've been in them) because they're largely single duplex. Student plays, teacher listens. Then teacher comments and demonstrates, student listens.

There are projects that aim to provide synced multi player jamming, but last I checked they are all based around looping. Human ear SHOCKINGLY does not lend itself to being fooled and will noticed surprisingly small sync issues.

I always compare it with photo editing where you can cheat and smudge some background details with no one the wiser, whereas any regular non-audiophile will notice similar smudging or sync in audio.

Sonobus is a software project that tries to accomplish live, audio-only multi-player jamming over the public network.

It's still limited to whatever latency the network has, but it can be useful for some things. If that means it's mostly useful for loops, then that's up to the musicians. :)

(I myself have used it for remote livestream participants, but only for voice. I was able to get distinct inputs into my console just like folks in the studio had, and I gave them a mix-minus bus that included everyone's voice but their own, for their headphones.

It worked slick. Interaction was quick and quality was excellent. And unlike what popularly passes for teleconferencing these days: It all flowed smoothly and sounded like they were in the room with us, even though they were a thousand miles away.)