You can say what you want about “Páshka” or “Passover”, but there’s no way in Hell “Easter” isn’t related to “Ēostre” (and “estrus,” and “east” – think ‘rising sun’ – and spring/rebirth/fertility concepts in general). Just because a holiday may not have been appropriated from an earlier one for the Greeks or Romans, doesn’t mean it wasn’t appropriated from an earlier one for the Germanic peoples.

Ah, thanks. I figured that, like the US, it was some kind of other policy that had a side effect of artificially skewing the numbers.

But why do you love helping Google control web standards, when you could just be using a Mozilla-based browser instead?

They know they have the system rigged and they’re flaunting their power.

Conservatism absolutely is, though.

But maybe you’re imagining a world where that question is moot—in a world where there’s no separation of users and [providers].

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m imagining. (Any tips on how I could’ve made that clearer from my first comment?)

Why is France also an outlier?

That’s how federation works with[out] requiring a direct connection from every instance to every other instance. My instance can connect to yours to get your content, but also the content from all other instances that you federate with. And vice-versa.

So what? That’s like saying ISPs should require Section 230 to avoid liability because they route packets. We’re talking about legality: it’s stuff like intent and responsibility that matters, not the technical details. Each instance owner still gets to decide which other instances they want to federate with; some ‘middle hop’ in that connection is irrelevant.

The fundamental issue that Section 230 is designed to address is the separation between the users posting the content and the platform owners who control who sees it, and the moral hazard that creates. If you eliminate the separation, there’s nowhere left for the moral hazard to exist.

I’m usually a big fan of the EFF, but it’s wrong on this one. If you decentralize to the limit – i.e., such that each user is running their own instance for themselves – it becomes okay for the service to become liable for the user’s speech because the user and the service owner are one in the same. In reality, (extremely) federated social media is the only kind that can survive without Section 230 and thus repealing it entirely would be a win for the Fediverse.

(You could argue “but users won’t go to the trouble of running their own instance,” but to that I’d say “they will if the law doesn’t give them any other choice, short of not participating at all.”)

Remember: Cubans in the US are the ones who fled communism. In other words, the privileged conservatives. Of course they’re going to support the fascist, and of course they’re not going to expect any negative consequences from that to affect them!

The term you’re looking for is “cowboy coding.”

Copyright is ass except to the extent that it can be used to enforce copyleft.

The correct solution here is for courts to throw out the policies on grounds of vagueness etc. and hold the companies for the digital stalking they do. If not in the regulatory-captured US, at least somwhere else where they still give a shit about consumer rights.

They might have “upgraded” it to use an LLM instead of an older (and more deterministic) technique.

How many Ubuntu users (who are usually novice in Linux)

Don’t be so sure of that. I used to use Gentoo 20 years ago. I use Kubuntu today. Why? Because I don’t care anymore and just want something that works with minimal effort.

The last time I reinstalled my OS, about a year ago, it was because I replaced the SSD. The time before that was seven(?) years earlier, when I built the system in the first place.

Snaps mildly annoy me though, so I might change. Eventually, after probably several more years.

I bet there are more people like me (long-time users picking boring, “basic” distros) than you think. We just aren’t usually very conspicuous compared to the “I use Arch BTW” crowd who are new enough that they still feel the need to make distro choice part of their identity.

How quickly we accepted that it’s normal to pay someone to go get our groceries for us. To drive us around when public transportation is available. To run errands for us. To bring us fast food.

Speak for yourself!

I have delivered more food myself than I’ve paid to have delivered to me, and that was a job I had in college (working for a restaurant directly, as it was long before the rise of third-party delivery) that I quit after one shift because it sucked.

And even in the few times when somebody else (e.g. an employer) insisted on getting a grubhub or uber for me at their expense, I wasn’t happy about it! It always just feels incredibly wasteful – and slower/worse – than just doing it myself.

How’s the math work on a shady place? I’ve got a big-ass tree above most of my roof.

“Band HMO?” Man, that’s gotta be the most depressing music ever.

Yes, that would be a case of the other person following my rule.

That’s for the fork with a UI implemented in Qt.