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- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 1 day ago:
I already sometimes access YT through Firefox for Android, mainly for playing music in the background. Maybe I’ll change that at some point, but currently I still normally use the official YouTube app for watching videos.
- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 1 day ago:
Android consists of way more free and open source software than iOS. There’s a fork of Android, Replicant, which is endorsed by the FSF. Free and open source software does not have owners. It’s true that most people who use it (including me) still use versions of it that are mostly nonfree software. But Android is a step in the right direction, while iOS is one in the wrong direction.
It’s possible to use an Android phone and rarely or never see ads at all. Pretty much the only place I regularly see ads on my (stock) Android phone is in the YouTube app, and I could probably live without that too if I wanted.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 3 days ago:
The German cognates of these mean the same as in Spanish, and I think that’s also true for most other languages, so English is the weird language here.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 3 days ago:
Doesn’t “Handy” come from Swabian dialect “hen di koi Schnur” or something? /s
- Comment on Will I get notifications if lemmy users comment on my post? 5 days ago:
It reproduces how reddit works. Or used to work because over there nowadays I sometimes randomly (unpredictably) get notifications for lower-level comments too, which isn’t an entirely useless feature, but very much looks like “trying to increase engagement”.
- New report reveals widespread data sharing and retention of Prevent referrals, including children’s datawww.openrightsgroup.org ↗Submitted 6 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
At the Vienna main railway station (Wien Hbf) there is or was an ATM, operated by Erste Bank, where you can choose to get 200 euro notes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sounds similar to the 200 euro note. Though I did once manage to withdraw one from an ATM, and it was accepted at a grocery store without problems.
- Comment on What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism? 1 week ago:
Both of these terms have more than one meaning, some of which overlap with each other, so the question is impossible to answer objectively. Both terms can refer to a belief system that people would usually describe as “left-wing” (~ “anarchism”, “libertarian socialism”, “left-libertarianism”, “anarcho-communism”), or one that people would usually describe as “right-wing” (~ “anarcho-capitalism”, “(right-)libertarianism”, “minarchism”).
Myself, I use “libertarian” as the antonym of “authoritarian”, so “libertarian” is a positive term for me; after all (like most people) I think authoritarianism is a bad thing. But libertarianism doesn’t need to be, nor is it usually, completely 100% against all hierarchy and all authority. It can still hold that some hierarchy and authority is necessary for getting things to function, but that it should be limited or accountable.
I don’t consider myself any sort of “anarchist”, I think it’s impossible to completely do away with authority, hierarchy, or government, no matter how much I think those things should have limits to their powers.
Of course I also very strongly believe that what leftists call “capitalism” (i.e. the economic system the world currently mostly runs on) is not, like they say, just another class society where the function of the state is to keep the ruling class in power. There are no formally defined classes in a liberal democracy like there were under feudalism. The mere existence of private property rights and wage labor doesn’t create a class society; those things have existed for millennia of human history and are here to stay. So for that reason I disagree with anarcho-communists when they say that in an “anarchy”, there would no longer be private property.
- Comment on Do YOU consider Kanji difficult? 1 week ago:
If I had grown up with them since childhood, I don’t think they’d be difficult. I didn’t though, and have no need to learn them. They all look like randomly aligned boxes to me and learning them doesn’t sound like a fun activity at all.
- Comment on Is 71° F (21° C) the ideal weather to wear shorts? 1 week ago:
I don’t wear shorts if the daily maximum is going to be below 30°C. Way too cold with shorts.
- Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on. 1 week ago:
Because the US does not have referendum.
I think it would probably be possible for Congress to pass a law with a clause “this law is subject to a referendum and shall go into effect only if approved by a majority of voters” or similar. That’s pretty much something any legislature can do if it wants to, even if the constitution doesn’t specifically authorize it. But I don’t think this has ever happened in the US.
In my country the constitution specifically authorizes this and it has happened once, which resulted in a law passed by the legislature not taking effect: en.wikipedia.org/…/1978_Austrian_nuclear_power_re…
- Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on. 1 week ago:
What exactly did Clinton do “a couple times” in regards to referendums?!
- Comment on Does Anyone Else get the thing where an otherwise nice-tasting cheese randomly tastes of vomit, or have I just been really unlucky and eaten a lot of mouldy/rotten cheese in my time? 1 week ago:
No, but I remember once reading an online post where someone didn’t know they were allergic to (certain?) cheese and thought everyone reacted to it the way they did.
- Comment on Why do people call Fiji and Voss Water “Rich People” Water? 1 week ago:
There are many places other than “disaster response areas” in the world where tap water isn’t safe to drink.
I agree with you when it comes to bottled non-sparkling water at home. But sparkling water doesn’t come from public fountains nor do those exist everywhere you might travel to.
- Comment on UK Politicians Continue to Miss the Point in Latest Social Media Ban Proposal 1 week ago:
A platform I’ve had an account on since 2003.
lol you’ve literally had an account there for more than the age of majority and they cannot guess you might be older than that
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- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 2 weeks ago:
So you’re agreeing with me that this was supported by both parties…?
(I’m actually Austrian, not German; I have however read enough about US politics that I’m fairly confident in my statement above.)
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 2 weeks ago:
Garuda Linux will not implement any age verification measures, since Garuda Linux’s legal jurisdictions have no laws mandating age verification.
Yes. That’s how it should be, that on the Internet you only have to comply with laws where you or the servers you are hosting things on are based, and all other places can piss off when it comes to enforcing their laws.
And it’s how it mostly used to work, but we now live in this world: en.wikipedia.org/…/Arrest_and_indictment_of_Pavel…
One of my childhood dreams was to run my own successful web forum. Now that we live in this world where that means countries might prosecute me because my users have been doing things that are illegal somewhere in the world, that dream is officially dead. >:(
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 2 weeks ago:
The big deal is that it’s on the heels of age verification bullshit that fascists are pushing through with the help of tech bros, so that they can eventually push all of us into a scenario where we have zero privacy.
That’s a bit difficult to argue in a world where the most prominent of such laws was passed in California, where Democrats control the entire legislative process.
I have not looked up the voting record for it, but would suspect that, like most of the worst laws in the US, it was enthusiastically supported by both parties? Am I wrong about that?
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 weeks ago:
you mean like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutraloaf or what
- Comment on Anyone know a good and active IWTL community? 2 weeks ago:
I hoped that the answer to this would be in the post body, but no, no opportunity for me to learn about something new. 😕
- Comment on Have a good day <3 2 weeks ago:
So when the entire style of government and bureaucracy is dissolved you think the country continues?
Yes, normally as long as there is legal continuity, countries retain their identity through changes of systems of government.
For example today’s Germany is generally considered to be the same country as the North German confederation founded in the 19th century.
Likewise the end of communism in Eastern Europe didn’t cause Bulgaria, Poland, or Hungary to cease existing, just change their form of government.
- Comment on Annon was too spicy 2 weeks ago:
4chan has rules against troll posts? What now? I thought 4chan was approximately 100% about troll posts.
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 2 weeks ago:
Pikachu is meant to be a mouse though, kinda not very fitting.
- Comment on what do you think is the future of the internet and tech in general? 2 weeks ago:
Either we quickly find a way to undo the damage government regulation has done to it in the last ~10 years, or we lose all the good it could do for society forever because the coming generations won’t know what they’re missing. :(
- Comment on Is trying weed edibles worth it? 2 weeks ago:
I tried them when I was in the Netherlands (at more than ten years older than you are) and they made me feel bad and vomit most times I tried. I have no intention of trying them again, but YMMV.
Smoking weed meanwhile didn’t cause any such symptoms. Would recommend doing that instead.
- Comment on Break privacy to make privacy? Age verification isn’t the answer 2 weeks ago:
I also read that Facebook has been lobbying for (OS-level) age verification, but not for this reason…
If that were the reason, why don’t they just force their users to verify their identities? They could always do that as far as I’m concerned, that doesn’t need to affect any other platforms.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
whoever employs LLM
incumbent upon the handler to assume liabillity
I agree. If you make any kind of real-world decision based on the output of AI, you should be liable for it as if you’d made that decision yourself.
But I remember reading some news stories about cases where people (often minors) chatted with chatbots and managed to get those chatbots into states where the chatbots encouraged that the users harm themselves (in some cases even commit suicide?). As tragic as that is, I don’t see how it’s morally right to hold the AI companies responsible for that unless it can be shown they did this on purpose. All the AI did in such cases was what it was advertised and understood to do: generate plausible-sounding text based on user input. Those are the cases I’m talking about.