I certainly agree that the Internet should be by and for individuals; whether we can in the long term do completely without corporations, I am not sure, but the current "algorithmic curation" is definitely a problem.

I mean I agree with that in principle, but: before the Internet, of course big corporations influenced kids and adults! Before the internet only big corporations had the resources and practical ability to distribute any information to a lot of people.

The promise of the internet was that we would have a society where we could all have a say and the flow of information would be democratized. You are right that, because of "algorithms", that promise hasn't really been fulfilled.

I live in a country where the voting age is 16. It used to be 18 and I don't think this change has caused many concrete policy changes: young people aren't big or unified enough a voting bloc to meaningfully affect the results.

I tend to be in favor of letting young people have more rights at a younger age in general (in part because I remember being young and not seeing any good reason why I shouldn't), so I'm definitely not in favor of raising it to 18 again or further.

which isn't a bad thing either if you want to encourage people to have more kids (which of course is debatable whether that should be a goal, but many people think it should)

ich sehe nicht einmal den großen Widerspruch: im anderen Nachrichtenartikel stand, es gebe keine genauen öffentlichen Daten, das widerspricht doch nicht einem Nachrichtenartikel, dass beobachtet wurde, dass die Pegelstände in einem bestimmten Zeitraum gesunken seien

that's right: into their UI; with free software, you could use a different UI with no ads

when he said that software should be free as in freedom, because that would solve this problem

Stallman was right.

You don't, if you have absolutely no way of accessing the internet or a phone network other than the phone you want to find, you're out of luck and have to find it manually.

ich poste das, was ich auf wien.orf.at sehe und interessant genug finde, hier zu posten (damit hier ein wenig Aktivität reinkommt); wenn du da Widersprüche erkennst, beschwer dich beim ORF, nicht mir. 😛

maybe someone once performed a command like "for all files in this folder without an extension, append .exe to them" and didn't exclude subdirectories from that

no nothing similar has ever happened to me, nuh-uh, why would you ever suspect that

I think that mainly mocks the idea that if only people talked to each other more, communicated with each other more, tried to see things from the others' perspective, then everything would be great and everyone would arrive at a common conclusion.

There is no inherent security problem with changing the content of the clipboard. That doesn't do anything until the user pastes it somewhere; of course if that "somewhere" is a command prompt, then that is a security problem, but users really ought to check what they're pasting there before they execute it (yeah, I know, "ought to").

It would be possible to do it the way you say, but that would mean that the user would need to allow that for many websites; I don't think copying from apps like Google Docs would work anymore, and "here's your access token, click here to copy it to the clipboard" features certainly wouldn't.

The screenshot in the OP would then probably be changed to include a step "click: allow clipboard access"; I think most people who fall for the screenshot in the OP would also fall for that.

One side's "wisdom of the crowd", "truth" and "knowledge and democracy" is the other's "conspiracy theories", "disinformation". 🙁

I am not seeing any movements by governments that would "restore some freedom for individuals", anywhere in the world. All I am seeing is censorship.

Remember when the Internet was nearly unified in believing that governments shouldn't regulate it, or at least not much?

What happened that I am now reading here a stream of comments that say that Musk is wrong and defend the Australian government? 🙁🤮😡

This is something that, as long as you ended up getting a job, you should really just not give a fuck about.

They probably had 1 position to fill, but got many times more applications than that, maybe 10, maybe 20, maybe 50, maybe 100. That means that they had to reject 9 or 19 or 49 or 99 people and they have better things to do with their time than to explain this to all these people, however many they may be.

Das ist das einzige konkrete Thema, das du im OP erwähnt hast. Wenn es andere Themen gegeben hätte, wegen denen du diese Einstellung zur Politik hast, hättest du sie wohl erwähnt, hast du aber nicht.

Ist das für dich echt das wichtigste Thema auf der Welt, dass es möglichst vielen ausländischen Menschen möglich sein sollte, nach Deutschland einzuwandern bzw. in Deutschland zu bleiben? Du scheinst das ja geradezu für ein universelles Menschenrecht zu halten.

Wir haben wohl alle unsere Prioritäten.

https://theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-consti-1819571149/

Ubuntu supports a wider range of devices than Debian? Since when? I was under the impression that Debian supported all or nearly all architectures the Linux kernel supports, Ubuntu only a few popular ones?

No, it's possible that there needs to be some kind of reform, but the solution is certainly not to make the judiciary entirely subservient to the executive.

Relevant links:

• https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzVc7s-_e8

If it's in the public domain, it's almost certainly legal. I don't have the general answer to your question.

Really this question shows how outdated copyright law is; in many countries it prohibits "copying", but in the age of computers nearly all accessing of information involves "copying" it in some way.

You're literally opposing the existence of an independent judiciary, which is a fairly important thing for a liberal democracy.

Fortunately no one is forced to use it in a world where OpenStreetMap and apps that use it exist (OSM is exactly as good as volunteers made it).

I think it mainly means that Google invests a lot more money in the quality of its navigation for cars than bicycles, meaning that they think it's pretty likely that the cycling directions might lead you into a place where it might not be a good idea to cycle.

The Internet used to be a common resource and information system.

Now it is a propaganda warzone.

OT but: How does this Mastodon/Lemmy integration even work? OP seems to be posting on Mastodon but we are commenting on Lemmy which makes everything look confusing.

It still is a website too, that was never abolished.

I think the problem is most people can tolerate anything except the outgroup.

Google Maps seems to have been launched in 2005, so it did exist, though maybe not as a smartphone app.

Honestly I still think that to some extent; at least I think it would be like that if we didn't have corporate social media showing us things only very selectively, but had something structured like old web forums where there was not even a way to sort by popularity.

later than 2005 for most people, the first iPhone was released in 2007, first Android phone in 2008, those things made a lot more people practically able to access the Internet from outside, and even then it took until 2009 to 2011 for many people to get one

What is the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to all your devices and accesses your data, the other is a hardware standard.

Nick Fuentes was born in 1998, so it's been a few years since he was 18.

Also relevant: teenage me thought the future would be awesome because people like me would be in power. Nick Fuentes is several years younger than me, I would classify him as having more power than me nowadays (after all, journalists report on his opinions about things; journalists do not report on mine), so we can tell that my prediction was very wrong.

Of course you can use XML that way, but it is unnecessarily verbose and complex because you have to make decisions, like, whether to store things as attributes or as nested elements.

I stand by my statement that if you're saving things to a file you should probably use XML, if you're transferring data over a network you should probably use JSON.

Yes and it is a good thing we don't anymore.

IMHO: XML is a file format, JSON is a data transfer format. Reinventing things like RSS or SVG to use JSON wouldn't be helpful, but using XML to communicate between your app's frontend and backend wouldn't be either.

do they do that in xml? never seen that