I'm not sure which organizations the law is really aimed at, but it seems like it would mean that anyone in Georgia who wants to get involved with some international NGO — Amnesty International, Extinction Rebellion, Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, FSF Europe, or whatever — would be required to register as an agent of foreign influence.
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I've explored a few platforms within the Fediverse, but most of them seem to be inspired by and mimic existing mainstream social media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. While this familiarity can be comforting, I can't help but wonder if there are any truly innovative and original platforms out there that offer a...
If you're thinking of it in market terms, then it being a "solved problem" should mean that it's effectively a commodity and nothing radical or game-changing is needed at all to eventually break the monopolies and win all the market share. All that's needed is to offer the same old thing at a slightly lower price, and wait for people to catch on.
But I disagree; there are plenty of unsolved problems.
Temporarily banning shared IPs from creating new accounts when there are problems would sort of make sense, in a wrong but convenient sort of way. Permanently shadowbanning them only for chat and including existing accounts which have never misbehaved, which is what they've done, can not be so easily excused. It's been like this for years. At some level they must know by now that it was a mistake, but I imagine there's some kind of stupid office politics type of situation preventing them fixing it.
Weirdly, when I was on an affected VPN and had a Twitch account, I could still stream. Just couldn't use the chat on my own stream. It makes no sense whatsoever, and the main effect it has is just to make users angry with them when they discover they've been shadowbanned for no rational reason.
EDIT 3 - The r/FirefoxCSS sub 'resurfaced' mid-afternoon today, Saturday 27Apr24... over 4 days after it had closed again due to the 2nd 'gone private' blackout incident triggered for unknown reasons by a person or persons unknown on Tuesday afternoon. Previous and only current Mod 'yawn_zz' reappeared alive and well and...
The Joint Declaration was agreed upon at an informal meeting of the European Chiefs of Police in London hosted by the National Crime Agency on 18 April....
Our societies have previously tolerated a whole lot of spaces where conversations could be had without fear of law enforcement listening in, but many of those have disappeared as communications moved online. Encryption is the only thing that can restore the balance.
Another #Linux rant because nothing ever works and the community keeps disappointing me.
Why in the world does everyone say #KDENeon works so good it's "the most reliable KDE distro ever, been using it for 48723698 years!" when in the FIRST day everything keeps breaking? I've been losing the whole day trying to fix KDE Neon, NOTHING works! I just want to play my games... :(
Genuinely thinking to go back to Windows after 7ish years of daily driving Linux... I've been getting disappointed more and more. I hoped for Linux to improve with reliability, but it never did. It just keeps breaking.
All this "high customisability" comes at a cost, clearly.
All of them? An impressive feat. I tried to watch them all one time, having seen most of the good ones. Gave up after Yellowbeard. I don't think there exists a worse movie with as many great people in it.
It's difficult to say, because all the atoms suddenly doing that would mean that some basic laws of physics had changed, and since it isn't specified exactly how they've changed to produce this strange result it's hard to predict what might happen next.
But it seems a reasonably safe assumption that there would be a large explosion and then no more Earth.
nexusmods.com is blaming their current outage on Fallout:
We are experiencing much more traffic than usual due to the popularity of the Fallout TV series [...] this extra traffic could cause a degraded experience across the website and our applications.
It sort of looks nice but it doesn't seem to work very much. Any links I click on a twitter page do nothing but bring up a login form. Sometimes it comes up first, obscuring the content, even if I don't click any links. I'm considering putting in a redirect rule to send every twitter link here instead.
Yeah, I guess so. So it's not a replacement for Nitter. I'm sure two or three people will have a use for it, difficult though it is to imagine anyone signing up for a Twitter account in 2024.
It's not as if google's map is without problems. Even when it comes to finding shopping opportunities, depending on what you're looking for (computer shops, locksmiths) it can have a lot of locations on the map that don't exist in reality. And then for something like fast food you can assume it's more prominently showing whichever chain has paid the most.
Maybe it's worth it if you need to be sure of finding the nearest McDonalds, but it isn't the map I'd go for first for most things.
What the Firefox User Research team is doing: Translating team-focused product development insights into human-centered global public expert strategic knowledge to reduce risk.
What I would rather see it do: Whatever is necessary to get the url bar selection behaviour on linux fixed.
I haven't seen a lot of posts regarding the newly "discovered" Russian backdoor #Kapeka from any of the usual suspects. Only articles in general newspapers.
Is it normal now to refer to every rootkit as "a backdoor" because that is one of its functions? After all the recent talk about the other kind of backdoors I would hesitate to do so.
All of which makes me ask again, with growing despair, why journalists continue -- by actively participating on Musk's site -- to actively support this evil man's business.
TEHRAN- Throughout history, humans have harbored a fascination with envisioning the world of tomorrow and its potential appearance, a concept that has been imaginatively translated into literature through the genre of science fiction.
Sometimes science fiction tells you something about the people who produced it. Other times, readings of of science fiction tell you something about the people who read it. This essay is ambitious but doesn't ever pause to justify its stark claims about particular works and doesn't quite hold together to the end.
Context: my gf mentioned getting a vpn for privacy, and I tried to explain that it "does" help, but it's more like type of windows on a house. It certainly can be part of the package, but it's no where near the foundation....
Nobody mentioned JShelter yet. It may not make browser fingerprinting impossible, but it's the easiest way to make it harder. It's easy to use, just turn it down for any sites that it breaks which you'd prefer to be not broken.
Also, use firefox and clear out all your cookies and site data regularly. Make exceptions for sites you actually want to identify yourself to. Noscript is another thing to consider, though I haven't used it recently myself. Use Tor Browser if there's something you want a little more privacy than usual for.
I was all ready to roll my eyes at yet another attempt to blame all the Firefox problems on one thing or another based on superficial and emotional considerations without any data or serious analysis, but it turns out it's just the same video from a few months ago being posted yet again.
I criticized the video last time it turned up in my feed. I don't feel it's worth doing again. The former over-paid CEO has since departed from that post, FYI.
I dunno, it might've been on mastodon. It's not as if I said anything that's likely to change your mind if you think this video is interesting and insightful. I'm not going to watch it again, but I remember it well enough to say that the only real questions it raises are that of how it got so many views and why it is still doing the rounds so many months later. It misses the mark. Stop to consider it carefully and I've no doubt you'll find for yourself much better things to say about the real problems at Mozilla.
Indeed my comment seems unworthy of as much attention as you've given it. But you obviously care a great deal about the subject, so I suppose you must've noticed that in general much of the rhetorical abuse directed at Mozilla is even more unfair. I suppose it's because people like to look for easy targets.
My own explanation for why Firefox market share is down would primarily consist of two things: 1. Abuse by Google and Microsoft of their monopoly power in other markets to push their browsers, and 2. A long list of individually small product design decisions that slowly eroded its reputation over the years.
Projections based on education and income as drivers of fertility decline ignore the reverse causation, that lowering fertility through family planning interventions enabled economic advancement and improved women’s education access
Interesting. I'd noticed that the best-known projections were unreasonably optimistic in some ways when you look at them in detail, but this angle is novel to me.
He's probably right about Israel and Palestine and all that, but I think he underestimates the willingness of a rational player of Sid Meier's Civilization® in analogous circumstances to spend a turn taking out the obsolete unit that can't do any damage to their modern infantry. Those musketeers can still pillage your mines, slow down and spy on your troop movements, blow up your roads and railways, and of course kidnap your workers. In this instance the game reflects the cruel reality of war slightly better than it's given credit for. Its more salient departure from reality is in mostly failing to depict the suffering of all the non-combatant civilians who we must imagine living in the lands where the wars take place, a failing it shares with for example the game of chess.
Do you recommend using passkey if you are already using a yubikey or some other similar tool? I asked Google Gemini AI and here was what it said:
Yes, I generally recommend using Passkeys in addition to your YubiKey, even if you're already an active YubiKey user. Here's why:
1. Enhanced Security: Passkeys add a significant layer of security on top of your YubiKey. They are tied directly to your device and website/app and resist phishing attacks far better than passwords. This extra layer makes compromising your accounts significantly harder.
2. Improved Convenience: Passkeys can streamline logins. Instead of manually entering a password or even plugging in your YubiKey, Passkeys can often provide a near-seamless login with biometric recognition (face or fingerprint).
3. Future-proofing: Passkeys represent the direction passwordless authentication is heading. As adoption increases, you'll benefit from smoother login experiences on more and more platforms.
4. YubiKey as a Backup: Your YubiKey still plays a vital role as a secure backup if:
Your primary device with Passkeys is unavailable or malfunctioning.
A website or app doesn't yet support Passkeys.
Considerations:
Compatibility: Passkeys are still in their growth phase. Check that your devices and the websites/apps you use frequently support them.
Education: Take some time to understand how Passkeys work, their differences from passwords, and how to set them up and manage them.
Overall: Passkeys and hardware security keys like YubiKeys work best in tandem, offering a strong balance of security and convenience.
Let me know if you'd like more details on setting up Passkeys or would like resources for learning more!
I have one minor complaint based on that screenshot: "Installed size 44,6 MB" does not have the same meaning as "After this operation, 44,6 MB of additional disk space will be used."
It's okay to have it use fewer words, but it should not be at the expense of accuracy.
Some of the cool people moved to Lemmy, but it still seems like a fairly small fraction. I think a larger number have just completely given up on social media and are no longer participating.
From your server and mastodon-like places in general I guess you'd follow @baduk or address things to that user if you want to post so that lemmy users can see it.
But it seems to be quite inactive, the intersection of fediverse users and baduk players must be quite small.
I've only just started my career as a bard, but playing the flute badly any time I want to is the most fun I've had in Skyrim for years. I don't know how much more there is to this mod, but I'm already sure it's among the best.
Why YOU should write a Wayland compositor – Victoria Brekenfeld – HiP22 Berlin ( www.youtube.com )
Victoria Brekenfeld:...
Georgians protest against what they call 'the Russian law’ ( www.euronews.com )
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It's time for a hard fork of Mastodon (DRAFT, REVISION IN PROGRESS) ( privacy.thenexus.today )
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It ( www.theatlantic.com )
Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse?
I've explored a few platforms within the Fediverse, but most of them seem to be inspired by and mimic existing mainstream social media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. While this familiarity can be comforting, I can't help but wonder if there are any truly innovative and original platforms out there that offer a...
You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet ( lemmy.world )
PSA: Twitch Shadowbans Users on VPN + Linux
If you notice your chat messages show up in the chat feed but don't appear on the streamers in-screen chat, you have been shadowbanned....
Audacity 3.5 brings cloud-saving, tempo detection, non-destructive pitch change, and more ( alternativeto.net )
Audacity, the well-known audio recording and editing software, has unveiled its 3.5 version, incorporating several new features and improvements.
Anyone know what happened to the r/FirefoxCSS sub?
EDIT 3 - The r/FirefoxCSS sub 'resurfaced' mid-afternoon today, Saturday 27Apr24... over 4 days after it had closed again due to the 2nd 'gone private' blackout incident triggered for unknown reasons by a person or persons unknown on Tuesday afternoon. Previous and only current Mod 'yawn_zz' reappeared alive and well and...
European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out ( www.europol.europa.eu )
The Joint Declaration was agreed upon at an informal meeting of the European Chiefs of Police in London hosted by the National Crime Agency on 18 April....
If Lwaxana Troi is the prototypical Betazoid, who or what is the prototypical Alphazoid? Serious answers need not apply. ( lemmy.world )
Why do I have to agree with USA law when installing Fedora or openSUSE ?
Debian or Arch or Ubuntu never ask for my confirmation ?...
In an alternate timeline ( lemmy.world )
What would happen if every atom on earth was to simultaneously double in size?
As an extra one, what would happen if one in every 10 atoms was to vanish from existence.
Nitter is dead but maybe this is useful ? ( userstyles.world )
Are there no fully working map apps besides gmaps?
Old post is here: https://lemmy.world/post/14437575...
Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?
Whether you're really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!
Firefox UX: On Purpose: Collectively Defining Our Team’s Mission Statement ( blog.mozilla.org )
NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden ( cointelegraph.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14393091...
Why did they put eyeliner on evil Kirk 😳 ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
So I'm watching TOS for the first time......
Science Fiction: a fanciful way to tell stories of colonialism : Part 2 ( www.tehrantimes.com )
TEHRAN- Throughout history, humans have harbored a fascination with envisioning the world of tomorrow and its potential appearance, a concept that has been imaginatively translated into literature through the genre of science fiction.
What steps do you feel like are before a VPN?
Context: my gf mentioned getting a vpn for privacy, and I tried to explain that it "does" help, but it's more like type of windows on a house. It certainly can be part of the package, but it's no where near the foundation....
Zooniverse ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
[YT] How Mozilla Ruined Firefox ( www.youtube.com )
Actually pretty good video....
Demographic Delusions: World Population Growth Is Exceeding Most Projections and Jeopardising Scenarios for Sustainable Futures ( www.mdpi.com )
let's talk about foreign policy games and classic games ( www.youtube.com )
Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie Are Getting a Refined APT Command-Line Interface - 9to5Linux ( 9to5linux.com )
Reddit seem to have switched to the newer, even shittier UI by default.
Skyrim's Got Talent - Improve As a Bard ( www.nexusmods.com ) French
I've only just started my career as a bard, but playing the flute badly any time I want to is the most fun I've had in Skyrim for years. I don't know how much more there is to this mod, but I'm already sure it's among the best.