The implication here is, if they implement this, is that they volunteer to assume liability, should e.g., your bank account be drained despite undergoing their forced strict lockdown on paid and owned devices.

Fat chance, because laws are meaningless to crime syndicates

Ban all (social) media that offers paid political advertisement at decix / BGP level 4 months prior to elections. Likely unpopular due to the high number of media addicts in society, but I bet it would be vastly effective.

Probably would work to outlaw paid political advertisement on all channels with every violation doubling the fine, but this is not as reliable as the former, because of the “culture war” angle. Plus, it would get drawn out in court until after the election, so not a good solution.

“Played like a fiddle”

JFC… if a society was a gullible nerd

Exactly what one would expect from a weird creep. Seems likely.

When trying to search for that emoji, I typed usa and it showed only the world/earth emoji… weird.

Look at me ✌️👀 … 🌍 are the 🇺🇲 now.

Qubes OS ?

This shit needs to be outlawed and heavily fined/enforced with outright service blocking or service confiscation.

Foreign political ads/manipulation has no place in peoples feeds.

This person over here not based in reality at all

Well, it’s a bit better than that, simply because you can train AI with solar power. Probably nobody does that currently, as it’s easier, faster-to-market and probably (for whatever corrupt reason) cheaper for business to let it run on burning fossils/nuclear. Currently there’s an insane amount of waste, often 1000s of models are trained and only the best performing one is deployed - and then it’s just a fancy autocomplete. The better use is for prediction of material failure, new medicine and protein folding, generally improved processes.

With asbestos you get some convenience, but it’ll be for eternity a pain to find a waste management facility that will accept it.

The spice must flow

How are any of the produced “apps” actually useful and not just buggy copies of better things that exist?

Am I missing something or is this just for generic, low tech “I need a website” use cases?

So… then host your own instance and set up your own rules and mod /de-federate how you see fit?

It’s an offer you don’t have to take as-is, and this shows it’s the exact opposite of a failure: you can be the change you demand from others.

Thanks for clarifying, haven’t messed with iPhones since 2015

What’s this photos app (is it multiplatform?) and are there requirements for the computer in terms of software it needs to run?

Otherwise Localsend or KDEConnect are friends for transferring files.

It’s very subtle, and official travel recommendations have been updated to reflect the possibility of trouble when your passport details are not perceived as consistent. The public services move slowly, but anyone I know that this would apply to has long understood the language and has opted for avoiding travel to the states. It’s not like your life is ruined by not seeing Orlando ¯\(ツ)/¯

I feel this is a lack oft creativity. Protests need to be peaceful, but disruptive. In a car based society, protest by car? If 5,000,000 cars “meet up” in any given metropolitan area, that areas productivity goes to zero, those in power won’t even have any recourse, there aren’t enough police/towtrucks to counter this, and if so it would take days or weeks. Only coordinated driving and parking/traffic jam required.

Effective protest should instill fear in those in power - the message is, with the sheer number of people right outside your building, could easily crush you if they so choose. A few guards can not offer protection in this case. The idea is, with this realization, that violence is not a good escalation, as in the end the powerful few will never come out on top.

This only works if the powerful few actually believe the masses will go as far as needed to effect the demanded change.

From outside, it appears the US protests favor comfort over conflict, thus are viewed as lacking credibility and therefore, pose no danger to the power class. As long as the individual prioritizes their selves before acting as a collective, including taking the risk of collective punishment, the protest remains unbelievable, therefore ineffective and easily ignored.

Qwen go brrrr

PSA: election season has begun in Germany. The tone in the comments, and also fully fabricated “news stories” (not meaning this one), have increased dramatically.

The influence campaign has begun. Stay critical people.

He’s gonna supercharge inflation, isn’t he.

True, I just wished RISCV laptops were slightly more developed and available. As of now, the specs aren’t there yet in those devices that are available. (8core@2Ghz, but only 16GB Ram, too little for me)

Kind of a bummer, was coming up to a work laptop upgrade soon and was carefully watching the Linux support for Snapdragon X because I can’t bring myself to deal with Apple shenanigans, but like the idea of performance and efficiency. The caution with which I approached it stems from my “I don’t really believe a fucking thing Qualcomm Marketing says” mentality, and it seems holding off and watching was the right call. Oh well, x86 for another cycle, I guess.