Ideally, the fediverse will help people in censorious countries access information their governments don’t want them to see, but I am not too optimistic, I used to think that about the entire Internet and look where we are now, governments around the world are very much managing to control the spread of information on it.
I remember that RMS’s position is that if someone (!) can change it (eg there is an “update firmware” button), it is a computer and should run free software. If no one can ever change it, it is a circuit. I think that makes some sense.
Austrian here and I too would never make tea in the microwave. (I too drink tea mostly when I am sick.)
any distro except the ones listed here https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html technically already “took” that “route”
I know all of that. The “not have owners” wording was mainly a reference to https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.en.html
Free software doesn’t have owners, that is kinda the point of free licensing.
Someone else would do whatever Linus does now. I am not sure what exactly that is nowadays. In fact it is already now the case that if he (or any maintainer of any FOSS) did a bad job maintaining it, someone else could step in, do a better job and many people would switch to that fork.
yup, now that I think of it again, I think smooth scrolling is something different, autoscrolling is what I meant
In Firefox (and many forks of it) this is a setting in the app preferences, I think it is called “smooth scrolling autoscrolling” or similar.
In most other apps I do not think this is possible.
edited, thanks for correction below
No idea what problem you’re talking about, doesn’t occur the way I view it. You are in any case free to do that when you are the first person to post a new xkcd here; I will continue to link to the comic page because people might want to browse other things on the xkcd website from it.
did someone call me
It is probably connected to an snsv monitor with an IWCH cable, and he uses a dy keyboard to type on it.
An even higher percentage — 82% — were “absolutely certain” or “somewhat certain” that social media use is in some way bad for children and teenagers.
What’s the percentage of those who are “absolutely certain” or “somewhat certain” that authoritarian adults wanting to control teenagers’ lives out of a belief that the former know what’s actually best for the latter is “in some way bad” for children and teenagers?
Whatever it is, it certainly includes me.
There already is an xkcd bot on Mastodon https://mastodon.xyz/@xkcd and that is actually where I sometimes get the info that there’s a new xkcd so I can post it here. But we don’t need a bot, just a crowd of more than one person wanting to post them here.
Yes, but it’s nothing new.
Many more recently named KDE apps don’t have a K in them, like Dolphin or Elisa or NeoChat. Naming everything with a K in it was mainly something early KDE did.
Jes tio estis ankaŭ mia unua intuicio sed mi ne certas ĉu ĝi fakte estu Esperanto aŭ la -ejo estas nura koincido?
Redakto: laŭ https://forgejo.org/faq/ jes sed la intencita elparolo estas tamen “forĝejo”
Obligatory relevant link: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship
reddit was once smaller than it is now too
I’m from a country that borders Germany and I don’t think I had any good idea who Donald Trump was before 2015. I may have heard the name at some point, but no more than that.
I intentionally didn’t register on big instances like lemmy.world or mastodon.social in order to avoid being part of obvious places to censor.