Thank you for the article. It brought up something quite interesting that i wasn’t aware off before:

But why does Spain rely so heavily on Russia despite the almost global disapproval? The answer lies in this country’s extensive regasification capacity, which stands at 67.1 bcm - the largest in all of Europe. This enables Spain to receive LNG shipments on behalf of other countries that lack the necessary infrastructure, making it a critical hub for European energy trade.

looking a bit into it i found this article:

https://rbac.com/spains-role-as-a-natural-gas-importer-and-re-exporter/

So it seems that Spain is also taking the flak here for other EU countries that want to profit from Russian gas but not be directly associated with it.

Is it more? I know Spain is still buying some LNG from Russia, but i would have thought the amount went down, not up.

The German state of Bavaria once did something in the direction of moving away from MS. When Microsoft put their German headquarters into Munich the idea was scraped.

Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?

Yes. Set automatic package updates, Install firefox with ublock and put it on the taskbar, and bookmark Facebook and Youtube for her. It is the same thing as under Windows.

I would argue that for the most “tech illiterate” users the Linux experience can be made even easier than the windows experience, because you have to set up everything for them anyways.

You don’t need to know anything about Alberta or the region. This is just how politicians talk.

If this was about honest concerns he would have addressed why the city plans to build bike lanes. Instead he just talks about “tax dollars” and increasing capacity for “all citizens”. Which shows that he has a complete disregard for the existence of citizens who do not take a car for every small move.

“alleged”

Palantir is also deep diving into Israeli war crimes, helping to operate the apartheid surveillance and designating women and children as targets for assassinations.

In a better world the driver wouldn’t be exploited in a gig economy and have little incentive to risk criminal charges for a fucking laptop.

You are completely running past socioeconomic factors to be the main driver of small scale crime.

The thing is that it becomes different when the order becomes “go to your home town, shoot anyone who disobeys, including your friends and family.”

It might take a decade of brutal civil war, but look what happened in Syria. In the end the people in the army were also tired of murdering their own people.

It would be great to standardize an HTTP header that says the user is underage, which could be sent by any OS/browser combination that has suitable parental controls.

I think this underestimates the tech savvyness of teenagers when it comes to circumvent such measures. Or maybe i am mistaken because when i was in that age range it was common to know more about computers than the parents.

Yeah, if they cant bother to check for an opt-in, how should we trust them to respect an opt-put?

Yeah about that: These laws get passed. They are enacted. People challenge them in court. The court strikes it down after a long time. Another slightly differently worded law with the same content gets passed and enacted. People challenge it in court…

Or well, the Authoritarian scum just ignore the courts.

What is needed is a strong resistance on every level. This needs to be brought to media attention, needs to be protested, the people behind it need to be public ousted, shamed and stripped from all power, the companies behind it need to be boycotted and sabotaged so they go out of business…

Waiting for courts to deal with things does not cut it with authoritarians. They only understand collective power against them.

AFAIK they would remain tied to your old account. The instances copy everything off each other. So if reddthat.com would go down, your comment would still show as EndlessNightmare@reddthath.com If you were to make a new account on a different instance it would not have your posts and comments “attached” to it.

This could be an issue if you rely on reputation for something that is tied to your account. In that sense having some mechanism to proof the old account to be owned by you would be good.

You can transfer all your subscriptions and blocks. What you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points that aren’t summed up by default in lemmy anyways.

Well, we see plenty of examples of “self defense” being proclaimed rather broadly. For instance Germany justified its participation in the NATO occupation of Afghanistan as “defending our freedom at the Hindu Kush”, because there is a self defense provision in the constitution. Otherwise creating some false-flag to justify “self defense” is also a standard tactic employed since centuries if not millennia.

Almost anytime i want to do something a bit more interesting in Excel i have to look for a solution on the web too. And i am considered one of the better Excel users in my working environment.

Let me explain you how the Red-Workers-Movement of 1922 in the Oblast-Utbackya had this structural issue in their organization by the theory of famous late 19th century analyst.

The fediverse is much more than just lemmy. That being said i also disagree for lemmy. Drama between mods and communities was a regular thing on reddit. Still reddit managed to grow quite big before the bots took over. And companies are in no way more accountable to the users. Look at what happened with twitter under Musk. The only realistic choice you have as a normal user is to leave. And in the fediverse leaving a shitty instance still allows you to connect with all the other content from a different instance.

There is also people who just hang on their phone all day or gossip in the kitchen. I have seen that in the best and in the worst working conditions.

There is good reason, why the principle “same pay for same work” usually does not include surveillance of productivity. But it does feel infuriating to not make 3x as much despite having 3x the productivity of some people that have a similar or even higher salary thanks to seniority, when i am basically financing their lack of productivity.

I agree that the term “laziness” is often used by management to shift blame onto the workers and i don’t know how a solution could look like that would address real laziness without infringing on workers rights.

If the service is advertised as no data limit, aka “take as man woodchips as you like” they shouldn’t track back on it.

Randos destroy evidence, botch data gathering, beat up civilians and witnesses and perpetrators alike, and generally complicate things.

This assumes the necessity to abide by some sort of more or less legal process by the cops. Once this requirement goes out the window entirely the only question is whether the randos might shoot the wrong people. Otherwise they will be welcomed. Also consider that riot police, patrol runners and other enforcers are a different bunch from investigators, with the investigators being the more educated minority among cops to begin with.