So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix

yes, nearly all possible things in the world have been argued by someone somewhere already

Depends heavily on which border, I think. I live in eastern Austria and don’t know any Czech, Slovak or Hungarian despite those countries being within an hour’s drive of where I live. For the most part I expect people in Austria to speak German, I don’t expect people even in border villages of Czechia, Slovakia or Hungary to speak German; if they do, that is a nice surprise.

Some years ago, in a border village in one of these countries, a child spoke to me in the local language; I tried speaking in German and English, but the child didn’t understand either, I could barely say “I don’t speak (your language)” in that language. Eventually I figured out he was trying to ask me how old I was, and I could show that on my fingers…

They have a Mastodon account, which is why I know about them, you might want to follow that.

https://themarkup.org/ maybe? At least that is what they claim to be doing.

mission accomplished? That has the same effect as making it private, doesn’t it?

and require two-thirds of the Supreme Court and federal circuit courts of appeals to overturn any law passed by Congress

Netanyahu would be proud.

Was Ron Wyden not usually one of the few forces for good in relation to internet bills, like SOPA and such? Now he’s proposing something like this.

The other things mentioned in the article are unobjectionable, some of them even good, but this?!

Hm. I rarely buy ice cream in stores so I am not sure whether there is apple ice cream in stores here, but at ice cream parlors it is definitely reasonably common here.

Where do you live? Where I live (Austria), apple ice cream is maybe not 100% universally available at all ice cream vendors, but common enough that I have no problems getting it if I want to.

Cute cat too, but I suspect the cat she transformed into has probably already died

That was Elizabeth II you are thinking of

The report cites Meta, the largest social media company in the world, for its vast role in permitting and enabling far-right propaganda and movements to use its platforms to grow members and garner support in the US and abroad.

yeah allowing free flow of information is bad for democracy…

in what kind of bizarro world do we live nowadays anyway

I don’t have a very good answer to that either tbh; do we really need to do that so often?

video → video producer

audio → musician, podcaster, … depending on the type of audio

text media → author

Do we need a general term? Someone who uploads their videos to a video platform is probably a “video producer”.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Creator

Nothing of course. I post stories about KOSA in order to make people aware what’s happening about it.

All VPNs do is change who has your browsing data: your ISP or the VPN operator. You may or may not trust either of them not to keep records, in either case you have no way of verifying this.

and here I thought complaints about the ribbon were late 2000s, early 2010s stuff, incredible we still get these kinds of things in 2024

No but there might still be something in my comment history that someone could use against me.

and this is why nowadays I use different usernames on EVERY website I register on unless I use my real name anyway and want the things I do there to be associated with me

ISPs are rich too?