Agree with you about the propaganda thing, but imo some of the biggest “deliberate efforts to minimize their reach” (which I’m not denying exist) are from them.

I’m banned from there for “being a liberal” or some shit even though I never posted there (IIRC, going off from dates it was from a comment in support of Ukraine), when everyone I know IRL thinks I’m one of the most radicalized leftists they know, and still roll my eyes to this day when someone goes “but the scary Marxists!” when I suggest ditching Reddit for Lemmy.

To the person who banned me : I’m sorry, I don’t know if you really deserve such a heinous term, but that shit is literal Reddit mod behavior.

Not anymore. All knives are now banned in public because apparently we are toddlers. Or they think that terrorists won’t find any way to hurt people now. Because surely legality is where any knife murderer draws the line…

Edit : I think laguioles and swiss army knives are still ok since they have no blade lock. But apparently there is now zero legal difference between my extrema ratio knife (which is admittedly really blurring the line between EDC and “tactical” knife) and an Opinel.

On the flip side this will make western lawmakers look bad when they ultimately try the same shit…

CMS is arguably worse than AZERTY. Or maybe l’m just too used to AZERTY…

French here, after having to buy a Canadian laptop I can confirm I didn’t go back to the french layout. Also the “english (Canada)” locale usually has sane regionalization options (like DD/MM date and distance in meters or kilometers, celsius temperature…) compared to the other English ones

I think I literally just had it happen again, not even because of windows update but by having windows “delete” a partition that I wanted to reclaim on my Linux install (in the process of moving Linux and windows to completely separate drives)

I thought government grants would make up a big portion of their income, but according to Wikipedia, 98% of the money they received in 2019 was from donations.

So, yeah, it sounds like they really know how to get people to donate

Uh ? What’s wrong about that ? These are basically generalized romeo&Juliet laws.

The highlighted age is that from which a young person can lawfully engage in a non-commercial sexual act with an older person, regardless of their age difference. If a participant in a sexual act is under 18 but above the age of consent then sexual acts with another person who is at or over the age of consent may still be illegal if the older participant is in a position of authority over the younger person.

Despite what the text says, here in France, being over 18 while the other person is not can often be enough to be considered in a position of authority btw

Does that sticker say “no God, no State, no cable salad” in German ? Because that is peak Lemmy.

I’m so sorry Jesus, I just wanted to play some tarkov

Also I have met people who have published some pretty important papers, most of them use scihub on a weekly basis, and none of them care that their papers get “stolen”. And they all have some strong opinions about Elsevier.

Fair

She is absolutely great, but she doesn’t talk about Linux, does she ?

Sync for Lemmy allows you to save several accounts and easily switch

It had some limited effect when I used it for a while. For me it wasn’t good enough so I switched to a more environmentally friendly toothpaste

Yeah I kinda adhere to the simulation thing too. As a videogames programmer, every time I try to learn about quantum mechanics I learn about some new quirk that really makes it sound like some game engine limitation

Ha ! That happened to me last year actually. Showered in the morning everything was fine. Came back from work to the thing in pieces on my floor. It can happen with tempered glass due to manufacturing defects. I think what actually triggers it to break apart isn’t even well understood. And good luck explaining that shit to your landlord because it’s pretty rare.

Mostly because Microsoft tries to maintain backwards compatibility to ridiculous extents, and their customers grew accustomed to it so they kinda rely on it, no ?

I mean, he was partnered with Disney before “the bridge incident” too…

I love Valve for a lot of things but I’ll never forget that they spearheaded some of the most predatory microtransactions in the industry (loot boxes and battle passes) and were happy to help Bethesda try to sell mods until players raised a huge stink.