I had some problems accessing my instance for a few minutes earlier today, but right now everything is working smoothly.

Es hat mit Netzpolitik zu tun, ist hier also ontopic.

Ich teile hier Artikel, auf die ich aufmerksam werde, die damit zu tun haben, dass Regierungen der Welt das Internet unnötigerweise und übertrieben regulieren, und wie verschiedene Betroffene darauf reagieren. Zugegeben, ich hab auch schon viele interessantere Artikel geteilt und habe tatsächlich etwas gezögert, ob das interessant genug ist. Aber wenn es jemand anderer als Musk gewesen wäre, hätte ich den Artikel ebenfalls geteilt.

The article is from 2019. I was wondering because my impression was that was pretty old news and common knowledge by now.

In my city they built an even stupider version of this a few years ago, not in a parking lot but in the middle of a busy road crossing.

https://kurier.at/chronik/wien/der-guertel-pool-ist-eroeffnet-fuenf-minuten-badespass/400995296 or search for Gürtel pool for more info.

it’s in the OP under “Comments” (like everywhere in this community); direct link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765939

Ich würde sogar so weit gehen, zu sagen, dass alle Staaten der Welt, in der EU oder außerhalb, manchmal (argumentierbar) Menschenrechtsverletzungen begehen.

In Wien (VIE) muss man seit einigen Monaten auch nichts mehr auspacken, aber ich weiß nicht, ob das damit was zu tun hat, ich denke nicht, dass die Menge an maximaler Flüssigkeit erhöht wurde (kann mich aber auch irren)?

annnnnd it’s bipartisan

The worst bills in the US Congress are always supported by both parties, I suspect so there is no way to vote against them.

The problem with pro-censorship activism is that pro-censorship activists will find out where something they want to censor is now hosted and then go after that with the same methods they used for the place it was previously hosted on.

This wasn’t about gaming, but explains the methods: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/

hint: if everything is high-visibility, nothing is, because then nothing will stand out from all the yellow and orange

In my country I’ve already seen groups of toddlers apparently doing a field trip from daycare wearing high-visibility jackets. In the middle of a suburb hours after sunrise, boarding a tram. Completely unnecessary IMHO, I don’t think I ever did that when I was that age.

I have brought this up before with my instance admins, that there were communities in the search results whose hosting instances were no longer up. They told me that there was no good way to do anything about this, the only thing they could do is defederate from those instances but that would delete old threads.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/35829576

The greentext reminds me of this FAQ entry: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#faq-vendor

A.9.17 As one of our existing software vendors, can you just fill in this questionnaire for us?

We periodically receive requests like this, from organisations which have apparently sent out a form letter to everyone listed in their big spreadsheet of ‘software vendors’ requiring them all to answer some long list of questions […]

We don’t make a habit of responding in full to these questionnaires, because we are not a software vendor.

A software vendor is a company to which you are paying lots of money in return for some software. They know who you are, and they know you’re paying them money; so they have an incentive to fill in your forms and questionnaires […] because they want to keep being paid.

[…]

If you work for an organisation which you think might be at risk of making this mistake, we urge you to reorganise your list of software suppliers so that it clearly distinguishes paid vendors who know about you from free software developers who don’t have any idea who you are. Then, only send out these mass mailings to the former.

seems to not be FOSS from a quick web search?

Quick reminder that draw.io is no longer free and open source software.

https://github.com/jgraph/drawio

but the sources to build those files are not in this repo. This is not an open source project.

Yes, e.g. Krita has long been available for Android tablets.

darktable on Android would be awesome, I don’t think there’s currently any good FOSS raw development software for Android.

you’re wrong, but so was the article, so I guess that cancels out :D it’s late 1901

Last one must have been GTA 4 (I’ve meanwhile bought this on Steam so I can play it without) or Crazy Taxi (came with a cereal box in my childhood).

If an instance (= a topic group, e. g. “memes”,“World news” or “MapPorn” in the example picture) is moving from one server to another (= the name and/or ending changes), how to properly follow the move?

You find out about it the way you did, then follow the new one. I don’t think there’s a mechanism to do that automatically.

And what happens to the “old” instances, that are discontinued? Should I keep the following?

In this particular case, you can see in the sidebar that the community is locked, i.e. there will not be any new posts, i.e. there is no point in keeping the subscription. It also doesn’t hurt anything though.

This has been a thing since at least 2010 when it happened to WikiLeaks.

see also: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech

gemeinsam gegen den Regeln von die deutsche Grammatik