transitioning to closed intranet

I think that’s the goal of governments around the world, especially that of the UK.

We, as humanity, had a chance to create a utopia of unrestricted worldwide communication. We are currently letting our governments destroy it.

The UK government decided in 2022 not to amend the Gambling Act 2005 to include loot boxes, saying no evidence showed a “causative link” to harms.

Since when has that been something that stopped the UK government from trying to regulate technology and curtail its citizens’ digital freedoms?

Absolutely incredible that Meta, a company whose founding was dependent on a free and open and unregulated Internet, is now funding lobbying against such an Internet, supposedly in order to make sure no one can compete with them who have the money and lawyers to comply with any regulations.

When https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence was written, Mark Zuckerberg was a preteen; I wonder if he ever read it and is now consciously working against the ideas that made him rich. (I have nothing in principle against people getting rich from founding Internet companies. I do have something against them then engaging in this kind of lobbying.)

Never tell anyone your real name or address

more importantly, if you do know the real identity of another participant, don’t reveal it

It’s not anymore tho, they switched to the euro a few months ago. 😜

Yugoslavia continued to exist after that with reduced territory (today’s Serbia and Montenegro). I have childhood memories of the existence of Yugoslavia, but not of Czechoslovakia.

The way I remember it, on old phones before smartphones, speakerphone was a very obscure feature that many users didn’t know how to turn on. I certainly didn’t (I was a child at the time) unless someone showed me.

On modern smartphones it’s very easy, maybe that should be changed again. 😁

I use speakerphone a lot in my own home too when no one is around. It’s just more comfortable to hold my phone in front of me instead of to my ear. Never in public unless specific other people need to hear it.

Seriously though; most citizenship tests I’ve seen in my life (on the Internet; I’ve never changed my citizenship, so have never actually taken one) ask about things like how various governmental institutions work, not the dimensions of randomly selected landmarks. Is this a well known piece of information in the UK?

There are many countries where that is the case for various political offices… the two houses of Congress in the US also have (somewhat lower) age requirements.

Was will man mehr? Ist ja nicht so, als würde es den meisten Leuten Spaß machen, einer Erwerbsarbeit nachzugehen, sondern das macht man, weil man es muss.

Nicht jeder hat jedes Jahr eine Erkältung, die schwer genug ist, um einen Krankenstand zu rechtfertigen. Ich etwa hatte 2024 keinen einzigen Krankenstandstag.

As much as I like open source software, I do not think that these kinds of bills are legitimate even for closed source software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_massacre happened less than two weeks after the start of Trump’s first (!!!) presidency, so this isn’t a far-fetched idea at all

maybe that too, but mainly it was the move from desktops to smartphones and tablets, which Flash was (at minimum) not very suited for if it was supported at all

This may be the only good thing caused by the existence of iOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

Everyone who liked free and open source software and open standards and such things, which Flash was very much the antithesis of.

They’re different but compatible pieces of software.

A major difference is that Lemmy doesn’t allow following individual (microblogging) accounts, only communities. The other three allow following both AFAIK.

Is the source code already available?

Meanwhile in the city I live in, it’s a violation of transport conditions to consume alcohol on most public transport, including the metro. 😁

I would have copy-pasted it verbatim no matter what the output would have been, didn’t know what it would be before. :D