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That was kinda my point. Mastadon has sadly other issues which let me stick with Twitter.

The attacker gained access to the admin interface, I'm pretty sure this is also possible with Mastodon. Just you have to gain access to the right server. If someone attacks server A and the actual target is on server B, they are out of luck.

valuations of private companies are even more volatile than for "public" companies. in the case of WeWork it seems to me it was more like a scam of investors who fell for it. I stopped wondering when I read that some of the buildings were owned by the WeWork founders and leased by WeWork.

I think the issue is, that many don't even have a working business model and are despesrate to find one after they went public. Even though sometimes, there is simply no business model, no way to earn money with a service, no way to make a profit. And in such a situation a company should pay their employees in equity or take money from investors who essentially speculate for a good IPO to get their investment back.

I would prefer if companies would stay private much, much longer. The stock market is extremely irrational and believes almost every hype. Which makes a lot of IPOs overpriced in the first place.

Domains are the virtual realestate on the web and we are all just tennants and not owners. So there need to regulation for this "market" against domain hoarding and price hikes. Sadly the US government doesn't care.

It is not really about an about page, even though I think it is important to have one. It is about when I use a service or even more so if I pay for one, I at least want a name and a country where my data is being processed. It might sound old fashioned but I just like to know who I'm trusting.

Why is so hard to introduce the people who made this tool on the website? If I spent money on something I want to know to whom I sent this money. It feels really weird to use an anonymous tool for something which might be important.

the European Union (EU) enacted a copyright directive this year, this directive has to be implemented in national law by the EU member states. Part of this copyright directive is that platforms are liable for copyright infringement of their users unless they take measures to prevent those. they are also provisions in the directive which were supposed to keep user's right in check.

Now the French government put forward a bill in the French Parliament to implement this directive. It seems to be a bill which favors the rightsholders above else, which was to be expected because France was one of the biggest proponents of this part of the directive.

the problem is, I might have no reason to trust Google but I trust software like Cliqz even less, even though they tell me, that I should trust them (maybe because of this).

Also Cliqz belongs to Hubert Burda Media, a company which I trust even less.

I own an Samsung smart TV and will so in the future but I wonder if this is only true if you activate the "smart hub" or if this is this true if you just connect the device to your network.

I personally use a Chromecast for my smart TV needs, which of course Google knows everything about. But the chromecast can't see anything else I do, no broadcast TV or if I use the DLNA function.

I wonder when right holders demand those information to sue people who watch "illegal" content on their TVs.

I guess, for non-tech people this is better, for tech people the markdown input was better. That is why I don't understand why Slack doesn't give you the option to switch between the two …

German is the modern Latin? I wonder what you mean by that? It is a complex language and these three genders which are baked into everything makes it a hard to adjust into a modern world in which gender is understood as a spectrum (or multiple spectra).

I would rather have a button to remove it. but you can't have everything.

I guess this bug is the real reason why I turned off auto-fill in the browser a while ago, because it acted weird a lot of times.

I wonder how far apart Inuktitut and Greenlandic are, could Greenlandic use the syllabic script w/o changing much?

thank you. :-)

I would love to see more guides on how to do plain text email newsletters and emails in general. But I guess that ship has sailed a long time ago and HTML will stay in emails.

Ideologies are not dangerous, they are just the eyes through which we see things. Sometimes you have to be able to see more because your ideology doesn't help you. But you will never really escape that bias.

The difference is actually very simple. Persons and corporations are not closed systems. If you safe money, the impact is very small. Even when a big corporation safes money it doesn't really matter. But the state is huge and spends a lot of money. And many companies depend on state contracts.

I give you a simple example. The German state is subsidising public transport, if the state cuts theses costs, the company providing this service has only a few choices, such as cutting service or increasing prices. These will leads the consumer to have higher costs. If the company cuts lay off people to compensate, those will lose their income and the state must even pay them unemployment benefits.

So the state budget is not really a question if something is be paid but rather by whom and at what point. It is essentially a closed system.

P.S. Very export depended countries can essentially export this partially to other countries. There is this argument that Germany did that with Greece. While Germany consolidated its budget, the debt of Greece increased.

I wish it were top-class, but it isn't. many bridges have structural issues and in need to be replaced or repaired and due to the fact that the DB Netz who runs the railway network has to pay for small repairs but the state pays for big ones, you can see how it is not well maintained.

Here are some more information in German though: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/autobahnbruecken-in-deutschla... https://www.dw.com/de/bahnfahren-auf-verschleiß/a-46623921

The problem is, state debt is not like personal or corparate debt. If you cut your spending to pay of a loan, it is usually not a problem. If the state cut its spending to pay back a loan, it means people have to spent more money on another spot to make up for the budget cuts.

We see this currently in Germany, the German government is proud of their budget but at the same time the infrastructure is crumbling, trains are delayed, bridges are in need for repair or even replacement, broadband doesn't reach all places and I don't want to talk about climate change and the structural issue to which it will lead.

There is also one more thing about state debt, many people invest in state debt because it is a secure investment for the retirement and when a country no longer takes debt, this possibility is gone.

The ideology to have little or no state debt is hurting the economy and will do so in the future. And I'm not even talking about a recession or a depression which will come sooner or later.

No. Well, the article makes an important point about saving the world elsewhere and destroying more than you are saving. Another example is Live Aid, which might have prolonged the civil war in Ethiopia.

But the headline is wrong. Of course you have to continue to save the world. We have to save it at home.

What is this backgroundchecks.org? Last time I saw this site, this wasn't a part of it. The site itself doesn't give any information about who is behind it.

I remember that I had to set up sendmail via m4 scripts to use mutt on a local machine. Those were fun days.

This is what I always fear when I hear deregulation. It is not that regulation is gone, it is just that it is shifted to the regulated and this is one possible outcome, people die.

the topic follows me for the last 20+ years, I'm political active and argued in favour of reduction of co2 emission and transition to renewable energy. since I'm able to choose my own electricity supplier I chose one which only buys renewable energy. I do most of my daily things by walking and by public transit. I'm also active in a club for transportation transition and argue publicly that my town should be focus on bicycles and walking than cars. Sadly I don't see much success, because I'm confronted with a view that w/o cars it wouldn't work, that I have to be aware all the jobs my ideas would kill, and all other things. That is why I'm not very hopeful for the future.

P.S. the thing about what a single person can do is just so much, for a real impact it really needs governments to set policies which causes fundamental change. Does the government continue to build motorways, does the government sets up an environment which is benefitial for investments in renewable energy or in coal. all this has a much bigger influence then my personal decisions.

It would be a lie if I said I was surprised, currently I hear news from everywhere that climate change is moving faster forward than expected. The time window we have left to rescue what is left is shrinking. This worries me a lot.

I would be happy if there was a subset of HTML for email. Look at the HTML Gmail produces, which is essentially just <div> or <p> in the default mode and uses <span> for changes of formating and <blockquote> for replies. This would work for propably 90 to 99% of all hand written emails in Outlook or any other email client.

I'm always annoyed by Outlook's HTML, I remember when it set Calibri as font and the fall back was "sans-serif" which would not really work.

It really made me wish that HTML in emails would vanish, just vanish and never come back again. Sadly this won't happening.

If that would be the headline, there would be no reason at all to click on the story.