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2·2 months agoMe too (whether Linux is an OS depends on how you define the term) and that’s why it’s such a silly post to make. If there weren’t anyone who thought KDE was better than GNOME, why would KDE still exist?
2·3 months agoThere are certainly some governments around the world that have considered requiring age verification for chatbots. Not sure any such laws are already in effect.
I don’t even want to express an opinion whether I find that worse or less bad than doing so for social media.
3·3 months agoIf I delete this post, will it be completely removed across all instances that synchronized it?
It will send out a message to relevant servers that it should be deleted. There is no guarantee that they will comply with that message. If your post has been copied to hundreds or thousands of other servers, there is no guarantee that they will all receive or understand that message. Some may even be actively malicious, for example because they are controlled by exactly the people you want to hide from!
I remember once deleting a comment (on this account) a few seconds after posting it. After that, I kept getting upvotes for it! I found out that that was happening because one very popular instance had for some reason not deleted the comment, so its users had no idea that it was supposed to be gone.
Is a deleted post traceable in any way?
Everything on the public Internet is. Anyone can set up a bot that just scrapes and archives everything on the Internet that it can find; and governments certainly have the resources to do so!
Is it kept in a log or a database on ferdiverse instances?
Potentially.
With governments across the globe increasingly surveiling us online and scrutinizing everything we say, I’m starting to think I should plainly delete any account that has personally identifiable information like my real name and photo. I initially thought it would be easier to connect with family and friends, but now I’m growing increasingly worried about how this can be used against me.
Posting things on the public Internet, especially under one’s real name, inherently comes with that risk. Always has.
3·3 months agoBecause there’s no good reason to do that that justifies the cost and effort.
Hard forks are generally fairly rare, e.g. you could ask the same about the Linux kernel…
which is however not a fork, either hard or soft, of anything
News outlets, for example, could spin up a server on their own official domain, and provide accounts to employees. So someone posting from a @news.bbc.com instance could, at a glance, be understood to be a genuine BBC reporter.
Some already do that. The ones I am familiar with are in German though: social.heise.de and mastodon.derstandard.at.
2·3 months agoDo you have an example of that?
OSM doesn’t do this, but there are freely licensed satellite images out there. Usually they are produced by or for national governments and often ended up freely licensed precisely because OSM people asked for that…
For my country this is basemap.at and it would actually be an interesting project to aggregate such things in one UI, but I am not aware anyone has done that yet.
IRC prank from the 2000s: if you type
/quit playing games with my heartyou’ll hear a cool pop song.2020s: if you type
quitinto Google it will understand this as an AI prompt.
It just has more of the web in its index than competitors do, so there are good practical reasons on occasion.
On the terminal yes.
On GUIs I generally use an IDE or VSCodium with vim keybindings.
4·4 months agodie Grammatik ist nicht wirklich besser
Yup. I remember in the 2000s and early 2010s it was very widely agreed that websites that allow user generated content are a good thing and politics should advance their existence, not try to pass laws making it harder.
Nothing about the facts has changed since then. Politicians’ attitudes meanwhile…
It’s a problem for any kind of social media, not just federated.
Is WLBR supposed to be an abbreviation for something? I realize it is a reference to the mascot Wilber, but apart from that?
Compiled code ought to be too then tbh.
OSM is just a geographical database. It by itself doesn’t have any user-facing features at all. If there are such features somewhere, they are features of a specific frontend to that database.
I don’t think there’s a way to do what you want directly on openstreetmap.org but you can achieve your goal with https://overpass-turbo.eu/ for example.
Why would you expect routing software to route somewhere that no path is mapped?
As for public transport routing, I explained this here https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/50719308/22594280 a while ago.
From some things maybe. Plenty of recent “online safety” style laws around the world have no exceptions based on platform size.
I honestly do not get why “touch grass” became a common phrase/meme around a decade after many people got mobile Internet access (through smartphones).
Before that, it would have made sense because you’d usually only be posting on the Internet when you’re somewhere inside where there’s a computer; but now that we can literally be posting online while lying on grass?! How did this happen?