Well, about parts of the world which worry me the most (Armenia and Artsakh) the EC is the source of calling ethnic cleansing “voluntarily leaving” and the perpetrator “a reliable partner” sanctioning which “would be counterproductive yet”. So maybe addressing that is more important.

And if it’s not for somebody, then I’m sure that person understands the subjective weight of their opinion for me (about half a turd).

See those downvotes? Yes, that’s because those times were conditioned by the Internet being a niche thing. You can’t expect such adequacy today even here.

That aside, legally fighting “misinformation” is outright obvious censorship, not even trying to pretend to be something else.

AfD in Saxony-Anhalt

Yes, I’ve heard of that. I’ve also heard that they vary much in, eh, ideological climate in different states. So - it may be just a result of them being a populist party.

I would provide a source, but it’s in German

That’d be fine, I can’t write and speak in German, but a wee bit better at understanding texts.

They speak like Nazis,

Not really, I’ve actually took a lot of interest in how Nazis really spoke when I was 15 years old. It was a weird time in my life, so wanted to know more closely things surely known to be evil and good to recognize evil and good in my surroundings.

(Thinking of Klemperer’s book.)

“Antisemitic and xenophobic” statements are not limited to Nazis, while some specifically Nazi traits of speech I can see being more popular, but really not limited to AfD and the likes. Even here one can encounter such.

they act like Nazis.

I don’t think they’ve started killing their opponents on the streets yet, or forming paramilitary groups.

doesn’t mean they are harmless or that calling them out for what they are would “water down the term ‘Nazi’”

You may be right, but parties and entities more similar to Nazis in other parts of the world usually were pretty open about their intentions from the very beginning, while AfD doesn’t send the same signals.

Congrats, you are smarter than most people talking about regulations.

Nazis will also never come back. What, they soon are the biggest party in Germany, in other countries too?

Calling AfD Nazis is an exaggeration watering down the term.

I’m not saying actual honest-to-God Nazis are not coming back. In fact, I’m sure they are, no evil is ever defeated forever. Time to cast away stones and time to collect stones.

People obviously learn by doing real things, so competitive skilled labor won’t be more available than it is now. EDIT: … if they wait for it to be

They just have to get projects through one by one, then with time there’ll be more competent people.

But yes, some effort in schooling won’t hurt.

I’m too young, but I think I’ve read that we’ve already been there, when expert systems written in Lisp were all the rage, and you would write them questions. Of course, the percentage of humanity to ever see such a system was slim.

It could. In fact it will make that part of the Web yet another step closer to a bot-populated SEO-infested graveyard where a living human will find nothing useful.

If only my friends would stop using VK to communicate, and my family FB for the same.

In my humble opinion until the producers of such appliances learn honesty through pain, it’s much better to have a pirate streambox (with something like torrentflix or Popcorn Time or whatever, I just download torrents and watch on my laptop, so don’t use these things).

If it were for me to decide, they would be down in hiding. Cause being up in arms would mean legs broken, and also fingers or their hands to prevent further use of computer keyboards and mice.

Also an abbreviation which is expanded into “search engine optimization” by the very fscking name means that they are ruining the Internet, or the Web as its part, more precisely.

And if it’s based on algorithms more fit for dating, kids with most problems would be the least likely to find adopting parents.

That’s because platforms as a paradigm have failed. Their Achilles’ heel has been found, end of story.

Not only in the Web, IRL too. The world is going to be P2P (which is the same as imperial, because an empire is a P2P network united by philosophy, I think I’ve even seen some passage by Marcus Aurelius with this general idea). Call me mad or just scroll further if this looks nuts.

Yeah, I get it, why stream the video if you can generate summary, why find creators if you can generate content, why attract people if you can generate comments, generate, generate, generate …

I think I have a question concerning where do humans fit in all that, except for clicking ads.

At this point where they say this that openly I think I’ll stop all the efforts at arguing online unless the opponent is quite clearly not a bot.

Lem’s “Bomba megabitowa” comes true in everything.

I like Lem and one may find some solutions in his approaches. But I also liked the Web like 20-15 years ago, it was nice.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is rather easy.

But anyway, no mainstream user-friendly Linux distribution is that hard to use if you can read and think.

So when people say that they can’t manage one on their desktop - they also usually can’t manage Windows on their desktop, they just think they can.

In 2013 they to some extent still targeted geeks, developers, Linux users.

Also it's the elitist part of their image, it was somewhat culture-oriented, and that culture involved sci-fi, cyberpunk etc.

And the "anti-utopian" part is classic for Apple advertising.

We so quickly forget that at some point both Apple and Google weren't perceived as hostile to computer geeks or various high causes and actually as geeky themselves. People would simp for them, not very stupid or ignorant people.

It's amazing how things come clear with time.

… and dependent on Google ; they may either push that API into FF or push something different so bad that FF would lose even more users.

I mean, they could. They have been cutting costs in the wrong areas, though - those harder to replace if exgoogled. There's plenty of unnecessary fat in Mozilla as an organization. They have been doing lots of expensive (in terms of developer and testing resources) unneeded crap (apparently to support the appearance of relevancy, which is different from relevancy itself), they also don't need that many management people.

Let's please remember how Mozilla started. Yes, a browser back then and a browser now are two completely different things, but the imbalance in resources has always been there. It's just that now they are spreading resources where they shouldn't, to imitate Chrome in things secondary to a browser itself. They don't have the resources for that even with Google, and of course they won't otherwise.

Also supporting something like XULRunner or in general olden times Gecko would help, so that people could use FF's engine like they still do with Chromium and Webkit. That would increase the amount of people contributing in various ways.

That's how I see it, my humble opinion and all that.

Making no backups as a public organization comes pretty close.

The very fact of doing things like this was in the 00s something which would make your life dangerous. People really good at generating spam would sometimes get their legs broken, or walk out of their window by mysterious causes.

But then non-flat search engines and social media came into existence, empowering these fucks so radically that killing them IRL stopped being a solution, 10 heads would pop up for each one you hew down.