I'm so tired of the notion that anyone not being in line with certain narratives is automatically considered a drone.
Who stopped doing so? It's basically one of the terms used most often when referring to Russian aggression since the war started?
I am shocked! The CIA and the FBI? The bastions of liberty and justice?
The government has way too much influence over children already. Governments could do so much for children that would actually benefit them (better education, free lunch at school, better public libraries, ensure no kids are starving because of poor parents, no wars in foreign countries, whatever) but instead they use children to increase their control over people.
Uhm, aren't all questions raised in that text completely on point?
I'm as far left as it gets but none of these expenses make any sense to me. The CEO pay is bonkers. Wtf are they doing? Why does the CEO deserve to basically collect the entirety of donations for... basically just extending a cash cow deal with Google?
I don't give a damn if the author is on the right but so far this looks sus as fuck.
Firefox being as good and fast as it is probably more an accomplishment of individual teams inspite of company leadership and that should be called out.
Can't sell yourself as the underdog if you're got almost half a billion in assets.
Has my research on this been just been somehow skewed over the past months or does it really seem like Western media is suddenly turning on Ukraine?
Until like 1-2 weeks ago it was really difficult to find anything overly critical about Ukraine and now it seems as of there's a sudden change in coverage.
Is it just me? I think I've been rather thorough.
Pocket knife/multitool.
I remember when Oslo's mayor (iirc?) said something along the lines of "this is something a free society has to live with if it doesn't want to surrender their freedoms" after Breivik's attack.
We need more politicians like that. People who are capable of telling how it is: There is no sane way to prevent anyone from burning books. We can only invest in education and hope that people get the message that burning books doesn't do anything of value.
Why would anyone trust anything this guy says or claims?
I always have Tor installed and I often use it instead of incognito browser sessions when researching stuff. It's sometimes slow and Cloudflare made it a lot more annoying to use than ~5-10 years ago, but I'm glad it exists.
I'm sure it's still more useful to US interests though, or it wouldn't be funded anymore.
All this defederation drama reminds me of the old 90s/2000s forum days where communities where split into ever smaller groups over rather banal disagreements until you had like dozens of forums with ever smaller userbases and various grades of moderation policies and technical capabilities, often leading to complete data lass after some admins noticed that there's actual work behind running internet services for lots of users. I worry the Fediverse is headed in a similar direction, though I hope I'm wrong.
Pulling out the banhammer and limiting almost 10k users for a disagreement between admins feels childish, imho. They could've just as well blocked just the admin of firefish.social from interacting with mastodon.art users. If I were on mastodon.art, I'd be migrating to space with saner administration.
Edit: Clarity.
Around 2010 there was this "pledge" where a website people basically collected a list of things they'd require in order to stop pirating tv shows and movies and I think it came down to:
Provide easy access to large library Provide multi language support, must offer original language Allow downloads/offline viewing Be reasonably priced
Plus some additional stuff I can't remember.
When Netflix got big, they basically covered it all. Then everyone wanted a piece of the pie.
Back to piracy then. 15$ for put.io ✨🙏