For those who are too lazy to check what people here in the comments are saying, here’s what happpens when you open the page in reader mode:

Wir haben Zuhausis, Gurke und Mais, order so. Keine ahnung ich spreche kein Deutsch

Curious to see whether they combine HBO and Netflix. In the article netflix answers in an ambiguous way.

I bet they are trying to calculate whether this will bring in less money if they combine them, because they can’t just jack up the price of netflix subscription to double immediately after the merging of the two platforms. Many have both Netflix and HBO subscription so it might actually reduce the revenue.

Can’t believe they are playing that game. You’d think in the commission, where many are long-time politicians and most of them studied political science I assume, would know a bit of history and how playing these games never leads to anything but the opponent wanting more and more.

I sure hope they are not just thinking they can sit this one out and compromise until Trump retires/dies. Maybe the next one is even worse.

Spineless cowards. WTF is wrong with people in the commission?! WTF is wrong with their advisors?! Are they treating this job like a temporary internship where you just make connections and get a nice fucking line on your CV without causing too much noise? Just keep others happy and naively believe anything some conman in a fancy 2000e suit says on a fancy dinner they paid?

Meanwhile voyager users:

Winpunch already listed some, but my favourites are at Karlsplatz and Altes AKH inner yard and highly recommend those. There are quite a lot of christmas markets and I don’t know all of them.

A tip: bring cash and go during the day. The markets get quite packed in the evening.

There’s quite a few inside Vienna, most of them really nice and pretty.

One of the best things about fediverse are all the clever tld+domain+subdomain combos

That’s useful, thanks for the recommendation! I’ll have to check this out. Especially nice for those who can’t afford new PC’s atm.

Nice writeup of the process!

Don’t quote me on this, but IIRC the problem is not that it’s super complex to set up a petition, but having one small mistake or vague definition will cause the petition to fail in the case of “difficult” topics. It takes a lot of work and time to get the petition required amount of signatures and then it can be dismissed within 10 minutes during a debate or preprocess, without the possibility of filling in info or countering debate points.

Thanks for the links. I recall reading that installing windows 11 with bypasses might break after some future update? I just didn’t want to offer a solution that might cause issues as well.

For some linux was a good option, but for some I said you can either get a new computer or pay for the LTSC. Thankfully I was able to find some affordable win11 compatible laptops for their usecases.

I have been called by friends, family friends, and their friends to help with this and so many have hardware that is not supported, and some are not able to afford a new PC right now. That’s my limited and personal experience about this.

I have reservations about installing Linux Mint/other for these people because I don’t have time to help right now and you do need sometimes help if you are slightly tech aware but not enough to be able to troubleshoot yourself or search for right info. For folks who barely touch any settings and just use it for docs + web it’s easy, but for others not always.

Microsoft is such an ass for doing this.

From the article:

As Voge from the Internet Society explains, Germany is key because there’s a new government in charge. The previous government was indeed very pro-encryption – seeking to make encryption a legal right at home, while strongly opposing mandatory scanning in the block. Yet, the new administration “is giving very mixed messages and no one can definitively say what’s going to happen on Friday,” Voge added.

I really like the idea of encryption as a legal right.

On top of all of this, these fucks don’t seem to be worried about their own encryption outside of office / position.

Fucking idiots. Has anyone told them that them using any of their free-time devices would be suspectible to any exploit that this introduces too (and it will)? Oh, got a new iPad for home? Guess what, you are important enough that a zero-day exploit was worth it to be used on you. Would they get off their career-high for one moment and think…

Here’s a bit of context about these turkish ice cream sellers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx_NjpeBqQw

MMA (at aleast) has attracted far right people for a long time. I quit my local MMA club over a decade ago when I noticed that there are people there who train just so they can use those skills on a night out.

Edit: and in retrospect those folks were clearly neo-nazis. I was naive.

Views that seriously harm or endanger other people are dangerous.

If the founder would have opposing views in e.g. should we narrow down the car roads in cities and widen the pedestrian walks - ok. I think there’s a lot to this question, I think pedestrian walks should be wider, cars are dangerous, etc. But this is not as dangerous as:

“Do you deny scientific evidence that COVID is real and a real danger to a lot of humans”

SimpleX Chat – Many suggested this and I will explicitly recommend against it due to the founder’s positions on various topics. This includes being anti-vaxx, believing COVID-19 was a hoax, trans- and homophobia, climate denial; In the SimpleX Groupchat he’s also been seen basically bootlicking trump a couple times, but I’ve lost receipts to that.

I did not know this. I’ve seen people recommend SimpleX on lemmy too, but probably they didn’t know.

Without delving into this, Lemmy’s modlogs are public, you can see mod actions that are done to your posts/comments here:

https://lemm.ee/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=20146219

Edit: edited words. Also, just incase you missed it: your instance (lemm.ee) is shutting down soon. You might want to export your settings and migrate to another instance soon (exporting an account means saved posts, settings and preferences). More info about lemm.ee shutting down here.