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Stop saying SJWs only appeared in the last decade.
They have been around since at least the 60s, the only thing that has changed is that they are succeeding.

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"We moved to GitHub because everyone's already there"

"We shut down the mailing lists because most of our users prefer to use GitLab in their web browser"

"We're rewriting in Rust because we don't really have any non-x86_64 users"

"We're leaving IRC because Discord is more user-friendly"

What all of these arguments have in common is that they exclude people, centralize infrastructure, and eschew free software for proprietary solutions, all in the name of some ill-defined measure of "progress".

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nazi in the 40's: member of a party advocating for and actually enacting a policy of violent expansion and genocide
nazi in the 50's and 60's: your uncle hiding in argentina hoping mossad won't get him
nazi in the 70's - 90's: dumb violent thugs beating minorities in the streets and pubs
nazi today: someone you don't like on the twitter dot com
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also please keep in mind that even without youtube-dl it's absurdly easy to download any video you like from YouTube
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Those aims mean that the DSA touches on several of the most contentious issues in the online world, such as the introduction of mandatory pan-European rules for tackling online hate speech and disinformation, and efforts to control platforms that are "gatekeepers" -- basically US companies like Google and Facebook. In other words, the DSA is going to be important, and not just for the EU. One of the key players in the drafting of the DSA is the European Parliament. The good news is that in a series of votes MEPs have made clear that they want protection for key human rights to be an integral part of the new law. The votes concerned reports from three of the Parliament's specialist committees: those for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, Legal Affairs, and Civil Liberties (pdf). The three reports are couched in a rather impenetrable EU-speak; fortunately, the European Parliament has put out a press release on the votes that provides a more comprehensible summary of the three reports. The European Parliament is quite open about what the EU hopes to achieve with the DSA: "With the upcoming package, the European Union aims to shape the digital economy at EU level as well as setting the standards for the rest of the world, as it did with data protection." One of the priorities of the DSA is tackling illegal content online. On this, MEPs say:


Oh boy! The EU is going to shrek the internet.

As EU Starts To Draft Its Most Important New Online Law, The Digital Services Act, MEPs Want Basic Rights High On The Agenda
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we support lgbt rights. we want to fuck everyone over, regardless of who they love or their gender identity. please clap

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xNUYS-tJZQ

Now that's a really cool announcement. Not the series biggest fan (Three Houses is awesome tho'), but to finally translate one of the old games? I wish stuff like this would happen more often

They added new features too
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Make sure the #SnapStore doesn’t recreate the same problems as the Play Store.

Being forced to download snaps should be seen as a red flag. Freedom is being able to choose how you install your software.

Based on some posts I’ve seen, you should not be running any Masto or Fedi instance on Ubuntu. I have a feeling it could end badly and affect our resilience.

The worry revolves around IPFS, which has been touted as a solution to the constant takedowns of entire sites and their content. It becomes meaningless if it’s undermined at the OS level.

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