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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.

Vivaldi is not free and open source software, so for that reason alone it's a good idea to stay away from it. There are so many FOSS browsers available nowadays.

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.

Kontext: https://wien.orf.at/stories/3315211/ https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000281074/ice-stehen-geblieben-400-passagiere-aus-zug-in-tunnel-vor-wien-evakuiert

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?

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

"Ubuntu GNOME" was a real thing for some time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_GNOME

If that was a serious question: no, there isn't, there aren't that many desktop environments and many flavors of Ubuntu aren't named like this at all: https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics

so which is it, are you asking for a friend or for help improving this? :D

because the WWW is now so unimaginably big that something needs to show up on the first page, and except for very obscure search terms, that "something" will probably be more well-known pages that have invested more in SEO

Things you send to friends and family will not be indexed by Google, so that is somewhat useless for this purpose.