"Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will introduce a non-confidence motion Wednesday designed to topple the government and trigger a federal election — a parliamentary manoeuvre that's likely to fail."
As the comment there says, the surprise is that not every instance is blocked yet.
But I've seen hardly any Chinese on the fediverse, so they probably don't care that much. And it's not just that I've stuck to the English-speaking parts, there's been lots of Japanese and various European languages. I suppose even if it otherwise would have a chance to catch on there, Chinese users know that if it did it quickly would get blocked.
I'm sure lots of people do, it's a big country. But for the vast majority I imagine that the risk of getting in trouble for it, plus the risk of the one you paid for getting successfully blocked, plus the difficulty of finding out which ones are allowed to operate only because they share all your data with the authorities, plus the cost, plus the usual difficulties in finding a good vpn outweigh any desire to communicate freely with foreigners.
Yes, that's a perfectly good explanation for why they need to block wikipedia, deviantart, archiveofourown, github, bandcamp, lemmy.ml, and mastodon.social: they're all just fronts in the Capitalist Information War
He gets so much good press about it around the world, I wonder why he doesn't have himself elected more often. Once a year perhaps, on Vladimir Putin day.
It took me a moment to find out what I'd seen Steve Pemberton in that made him look familiar: Most recently, he played one of the nazi agents from hell in Good Omens.
But also: League of Gentlemen! I had recently been trying and failing to remember the name of that show. All I do remember is that it was pretty damn weird at times.
companies could show their annoying banners only to the EU residents.
It's starts out badly by assuming that web servers are able to tell which country their visitors reside in.
The "do not track" header is not turned on by default in most web browsers. If it not being present were legally safe to take as granting permission to track everything, many of the big web publishers would've gladly done so. Making it mandatory to respect the DNT header would have required a different law than the one we got. But it probably still wouldn't have been the best option.
The right answer to getting rid of tracking cookies is the 3rd-party data isolation pioneered by Firefox, combined with fingerprint-resistant browsers that clear all but whitelisted cookies on tab close or browser exit.
That conclusion depends on two things: That the "do not track" header would suffice instead, which I think it doesn't as things stand; or that all builders of web sites would do better not to make any attempt to (for example) keep track of which of their visitors have been there before, which is not going to happen for reasons that are obvious. If those obvious reasons are found to be inadequate, they should at least be addressed to make the point convincingly.
Otherwise one might as well go ahead and say that most of what exists on the web today is not needed at all, which is also technically true. It's strange to see it suggested that it's wrong to think law makers "should have known" that something like what happened would be the result. It was inevitable from the start, and as I recall much talked-about. The sites that have cookie banners are all trying to sell you something, and the sales department is not going to willingly give up the best tools it's had since the 1990s when the cost is just looking slightly more sleazy to first-time visitors.
The article seems to confirm what's been my understanding which is that that pretty much anything beyond "session cookies" or the like is covered, whether or not the data collected gets sold or transferred to anyone else.
But yes, there are reasons why data gets sold to advertisers as well. Commercial incentives which are strong and predictable. Regulations should not be designed as if they aren't there.
Nope, I'm not one of them. But I have worked for large companies in the past and therefore have met them.
The GDPR has done substantial good, not least in just getting people to talk about this sort of thing. But the cookie banners are and always have been ridiculous and a sign of one of its failures. An outright ban on surveillance capitalism business models would suit me better.
The vast majority of those (on the dbzer0 list) are obviously just copied from someone's medium-sized mastodon blocklist, which in this case mostly includes instances that definitely deserve it. I recognize only a few dubious choices in there, and none that are completely indefensible.
The current fediseer censured list seems much larger and correspondingly more problematic in places. You've started out with a good list, hope you exercise due caution in adding to it.
Yeah, sorry, I've never really looked at it before. But its web UI just shows them all as one big list. I wouldn't mind seeing a list of those censured by more than 10 instances, or all of a selected group of instances... is that in the API?
That website seems to have multiple fediverse accounts devoted to spamming links to it all over the place, without making it clear in their profiles that they're working on its behalf.
Yeah it's otherwise a fine article, I just think its version of the tl;dr was lacking what people who already know what a scheduler is and so forth would want to know.
Assuming that the bug is as described it'll be interesting to see what results when people start doing some testing of what effect it's had.
The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It's absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn't be allowed to continue.
Tankies say all kinds of stupid things, but even if we grant the thus-far unproven assumption that the person being addressed there is among them, when they're telling nazis to fuck off that is not an appropriate moment to try and start a pointless fight by asserting that they're wrong about every single thing.
Right, but did you check the non-plugin load order? How to do it depends which mod manager you're using I guess, or if like me you're not using one then which order you install them in. (I couldn't get mo2 running on linux back when I started.)
SMIM should go early. You can see that it's not on the list you posted here.
So, recently I was talking to a friend and somehow we got to talking about religion and stuff. When I complained that religion is often put on a huge pedestal and that it's really just a glorified opinion and should be subject to the same criticism as any other opinion, they told me that that was a really hot take....
The average religion is a huge tangled mess of opinions, beliefs, customs, traditions, and practices. If you think it is adequately summed up as being "an opinion" then you know less than nothing about religion. Which, since you are an atheist, is fine. Nobody says you need to understand religion. Just be careful not to underestimate by too much how much you don't know about it.
The idea that opinion and the most solid faith of religious certainty are the same kind of thing is not necessarily unreasonable, although it's unusually blunt as systems for classifying different kinds of belief go.
But not all religion is about faith, or about believing the right things. The one I'm guessing you're probably most familiar with puts an unusual degree of emphasis on it, but even so there is a lot more to it.
Come to think of it, treating all beliefs within a religion — all the most obscure statements of its holy books and the most maniacal speeches of its ordained preachers — as if they're equivalent to the central principles of the faith, is also the sort of thing the craziest of the religious zealots do. There are always plenty of opinions in a religion for which it can be useful for adherents and atheists alike to recognize a difference in their character compared to that of the core tenets.
A Colorado man who was placed on life support after he was bitten by his pet Gila monster died of complications from the desert lizard’s venom, an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press on Friday confirmed....
It prominently features a quote from Gavin Schmidt. Readers who prefer to get a more scientific view of the story can see his thoughts on the topic directly at realclimate.org.
France’s parliament on Thursday backed a string of measures making low-cost fast fashion, especially from Chinese mass producers, less attractive to buyers.
I don't really have a preference myself, but Richard Stallman's continued insistence that "per" is the right answer is the example that comes to mind.
As he puts it, "most languages have genderless singular third-person pronouns which are distinct from the plural pronouns. English deserves to have them too."
Perhaps in a hundred years, once the old way of making the distinction is long forgotten, a new one will arise.
Not all of the complaints are motivated just by deliberate obstinance. I'm old enough that it was genuinely confusing for me at first in some situations, but young enough that I got used to it after some years. There are still plenty of people out there who haven't done enough conversing with those who habitually default to "they" to get used to it. Not all of them are as old and cranky as Mr. Stallman.
Of course it is not that it's somehow a "stand in for he or she" inherently in current usage. It's just that it has recently replaced those other pronouns in places where for some time they had held near-universal prevalence among most users of this language.
Just as some people who've never known the old ways think those people who still aren't accustomed to it are putting on an act when they say it's weird and confusing, I suppose it would be easy for those who've lived through the change to mistakenly assume that young people are being disingenuous when they act as if there's been no change for hundreds of years and there's nothing to remark on here. If you're old enough to have seen it happen, the change in usage seems very obvious. If not, perhaps it isn't.
Using "he" as the default singular 3rd-person pronoun goes back centuries, not decades. It was sexist to varying degrees, but never all that close to truly gender-neutral since modern English itself goes back only so far as times that have been pretty close to maximally sexist. But you can see it plainly in the King James Version of the Bible for example. You won't find any singular "they" there in the sort of places where its use today is novel. There are of course plenty of places where its use is not novel at all.
The late 20th-century innovation was to write out "he or she" in the many places where it seemed necessary, because we didn't have any single word that would fit. Using "they" to refer to "someone", "anyone", or other referents like that was perfectly normal as it has always been. The examples you provide are most naturally thought of in that way and would not spook the old people today. Using "they" to refer to "a student" or some other specified but unnamed individual would on the other hand often seem wrong to people just 30 years ago, but one might sometimes get away with it depending on the audience and the grammatical circumstances. Using "they" to refer to "Jason" or other such specifically known and named people in general was not done, never had been done except perhaps by the occasional poet from centuries past, and everyone would just wonder who you were talking about even if they'd been named earlier in the same sentence. Calling Jason a "she" would also seem odd, but not nearly as odd as calling them a "they"; and if what I've read is at all representative then roughly similar logic would've usually applied in centuries going back to fairly near the start of modern English.
As may still come in handy on occasion, that short-lived move towards using the hideously awkward phrase "he or she" gave many of us plenty of practice in simply avoiding all phrases that call for a gender-neutral 3rd-person pronoun. Whatever else might be said about it, being able to use "they" is certainly an improvement over that situation.
Ah well, sorry about that; I felt I didn't express myself well in that last one but I stand by the part where I don't think we disagree on anything too substantial basically. Thanks for the reply, see you around.
Hi all. I was recently made aware that people have been getting error 429's and other error 500's when visiting fedia.io. My hope/expectation is that those will no longer happen now that I've moved back to a bare metal install, but if you do experience that, please comment below, or if that doesn't work, send me an emai to...
Poilievre wants to topple the Liberal government with a non-confidence motion on the carbon tax ( www.cbc.ca )
"Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will introduce a non-confidence motion Wednesday designed to topple the government and trigger a federal election — a parliamentary manoeuvre that's likely to fail."
Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China ( emacs.ch )
Funny if true.
West decries reelection of Putin, China, India vows closer ties. ( www.reuters.com )
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/west-decries-putins-landslide-election-win-china-congratulates-him-2024-03-18/
Taskmaster Series 17 starts on the 28th (or 29th online) ( programming.dev )
Brand new #Taskmaster starts 28th March on Channel 4 and 29th March outside the UK on YouTube....
There is no EU cookie banner law ( www.bitecode.dev )
Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...
This community got removed from lemmy.world (again)
This is another post that alerted me of this....
OC Uncovering Linux's Hidden Secrets: Revealing What Many Users Don't Know ( www.infoterkiniviral.com )
Linux is widely known as a robust and versatile operating system favored by tech enthusiasts, developers, and organizations worldwide. However, there
Caption this. ( mander.xyz )
Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear
The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It's absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn't be allowed to continue.
This torch had purple texture when enable Smim and go away if I disable it ( lemmy.ca )
I also check Smim patch on ELFX fomod
‘Picard’ Season 2 Was Rewritten After Paramount Deemed It “Too Star Trek,” Says EP ( trekmovie.com )
"Shame must change sides": a Belgian model warns about deepnudes ( www.euronews.com )
Julia, 21, has received fake nude photos of herself generated by artificial intelligence. The phenomenon is exploding....
Isn't religion really just an opinion?
So, recently I was talking to a friend and somehow we got to talking about religion and stuff. When I complained that religion is often put on a huge pedestal and that it's really just a glorified opinion and should be subject to the same criticism as any other opinion, they told me that that was a really hot take....
Did TOS set the precedent for the medical doctor to play such a big role?
I can imagine a show without a doctor. But in all the shows the doctor plays a big role....
Colorado man died from pet Gila monster's venomous bite, autopsy shows ( apnews.com )
A Colorado man who was placed on life support after he was bitten by his pet Gila monster died of complications from the desert lizard’s venom, an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press on Friday confirmed....
Why Is the Sea So Hot? A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing. ( www.newyorker.com )
French lawmakers vote to slow down fast fashion with penalties ( www.france24.com )
France’s parliament on Thursday backed a string of measures making low-cost fast fashion, especially from Chinese mass producers, less attractive to buyers.
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