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This is how often people search for "twitter" on Google, not how many people are happily using the platform. Of course there's substantial search volume for a company that is in the headlines every other day for some controversy or another.

There was a Mastodon thread by someone who had decompiled the leaked Android APK for Threads the other day. There were a few strings in there talking about the fediverse and federation with other servers, so it seems like they at least planned to add it at some point.

That doesn't seem to be true. There are a lot of instances that have signed the 'pact' to defederate Threads right away, but those tend to be mostly small instances.

Looking at the largest 30 or so instances by users most of them seem to have a 'wait and see' approach, which seems much more reasonable to me.

Anecdotal, but that seems about right looking at my circle of friends and acquaintances in Germany. I know lots of people with iPhones, but very few of them have an Apple Watch. The only ones that have one tend to be hardcore Apple fans that own pretty much every Apple device.

I don’t think it’s really an affordability issue but more so that most people (myself included) don’t really see the point of the device. Heck, I actually own one as a hand-me-down from a friend and I still can’t be bothered to charge and wear the thing.

Im addition I think Apple watches sort of have a stigma as an unfashionable 'nerdy' device here.

I keep seeing Americans claim that, but I really think your perception of this as more "more human-friendly" is really just a result of growing up with it.

FYI, the German word "beamer" is a 'false' anglicism. The English translation is (video) projector.

Okay, but Linux is an operating system (kernel), Firefox is a web browser. That's two completely different things with different expectations and threat models.

The filesystem code itself might be done, but the internal Linux APIs that code interacts with are not and change over time. And every time those APIs are changed, the SysV fs code might also have to be updated and tested, except apparently you can't even properly test it anymore.

That's a lot of work for something pretty much nobody uses. And in the end the SysV FS support might not even work anymore because of oversights during the API updates.

Okay, but then Sweden is another exception to the norm, not the other way around.

SMS is very rarely used anymore outside of the US and a few select other countries, and for most people Signal and similar messengers serve as a replacement for text messages, not a supplement. It's probably just not a worthwhile market/feature to keep anymore.

Come to think of it, I'm having a very hard time coming up with any sensible use case for using Signal over text message. Presumably both sides still need Signal for the encryption to work, so what's the point? Might as well use the internet to send the message. The only scenario I can see it being useful is when you have GSM, but no internet connectivity, and that's rare these days.

More details on the German one: https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Themen/Unternehmen-und-Organisati...

The intention is good, but in practice I think it's mostly useless because:

* The reports go to the AS operator, who in most cases are not the actual admins of the vulnerable software. Some hosting providers such as Hetzner and Manitu have scripts in place to forward reports to the respective customers, but most don't since it involves a lot of parsing of the email (which is not in an easily machine readable format).

* The emails often warn about security issues that may not actually be problematic (i.e. merely warning about some open port that may be intentionally open, and especially if you operate, say, a honeypot), with no way to opt out for specific hosts/ports. So you can only really filter them entirely in your mail client which I think most people do.

„recently“ being the key word here. For the first few weeks/months, my Matrix server worked great too, but it’s becoming increasingly brittle as time goes on.

… because they banned AirTags? That seems a bit of an overreaction.

You don't actually need the license for computing resources in China, it's "only" necessary when you're hosting public-facing web pages specifically

I know here in Germany some fire departments have recently bought "dunk tanks" for EV car fires. Essentially large swimming pools that they just throw the whole car in once it's on fire

Personally I really like the GNOME UX. I was very skeptical when I tried it for the first time a year or so ago, but after a while of using it, it just started to make sense and really feels like a coherent system rather than the cobbled-together messes that most other Linux desktops (and Windows) are.

How is this an argument against Signal and/or centralization? Pretty much the exact same thing could have happened with matrix 3pid servers.

I really like Matrix (and Signal), I use it and even run a public Matrix home server, but jesus I can't stand obnoxious Matrix fanboys who feel the need to shoehorn some Matrix plug into literally every conversation involving Signal.

Yes. I don't think I know a single person in Germany that seriously uses iMessage or text message. WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, ... is the name of the game here.

I think a major factor is that Apple/iOS has a much lower market share vs. Android here, so iMessage was never a viable option unless you wanted to reach only 20% of your contacts.

But you don't have assigned seats on German high-speed trains. It certainly happens (although rarely) that trains are so full that some people need to stand

At least where I live almost all bakeries have added card payment as an option during the pandemic. So clearly it's financially feasible to at least some extent.

The German government has an instance too: https://social.bund.de/about

(And the state of Baden-Württemberg has its own instance for some reason: https://xn--baw-joa.social/about)

I'm having a hard time parsing this unhinged rant, but if I'm interpreting this correctly, your problem seems to be that Mozilla... stopped accepting some types of cryptocurrency donations?

Even if you don't agree with that decision, that hardly seems like the big deal you make it out to be and certainly no "betrayal".

It's not about "some organizations being unable to comply", it's that it is poorly written and thus incompatible with the legal systems of countries. But screw everyone outside of the US I guess

What I find even more worrying than the wrong info box itself is that Google still gives the wrong answer to the "Central park value" search query from the start of that twitter thread, more than a year later and after countless people have probably reported the info box as problematic. You would think they would at least have a manual human review system.

As far as the average person is concerned, EEA members like Norway are practically in the EU. You've got free movement, open borders due to the Schengen area, and so on. Meanwhile all the exemptions from EU law mostly concern comparatively niche areas like fishing.

I've dabbled with FastAPI a few times when starting new projects, but the lack of a high-quality ORM always had me switch right back to Django after a few hours. Sure, you can use SQLAlchemy, but it's a miserable experience compared to the Django ORM + admin interface.

Sure, Django is mostly designed around server-side rendering of full pages, but with DRF you can build REST APIs perfectly fine, and there's also http://django-ninja.rest-framework.com/ which I think is more or less similar to FastAPI in the way you write code with it.

I'm not OP, but feel similarly about Keybase.

When it originally launched, it marketed itself as directory where you could link your social accounts using cryptographic proofs, so that anyone who was wondering if "@lutoma" on twitter and "lutoma" on Hacker News are the same person could easily check. I.e. pretty much what Keyoxide now seems to aim to do. Simple enough and reasonably useful.

But then at some point they tacked on some sort of Dropbox-y encrypted file system that also kind of but not really includes web hosting if you set your files to public.

And if you visit their website now all their landing page talks about is their Slack clone with end to end encryption without mentioning any of the other stuff.

And I just checked out their docs and there's a section on wallets for the Stellar crypto currency so apparently they also baked that in recently.

idk it just seems like a company with absolutely zero direction that just builds whatever the product managers find interesting at any given time and I gave up trying to understand what it is they do.

But since they sold to Zoom, it seems to have been financially successful so fair play to them.

It's particularly bad in the German Wikipedia. Compared to the situation there the English language version is downright welcoming.

Looks like the same group of newspapers that also worked together on a number of previous high-profile leaks in coordination with ICIJ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Consortium_of_In...

Right, but the vast majority of self-employed people are going to be "Einzelunternehmer" or maybe in a GbR