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  • Martians Stay Mad 💪

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  • not wrong though, we are lucky that the apparent sizes of the moon and sun are as close as they are on Earth :D

  • Is government surveillance scarier then tech company surveillance?

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  • In principle yes, because the government has the authority to legally punish people (with fines, imprisonment, even death), private companies do not...

    But your specific example with Palantir is a bit weird because Palantir, as I understand it, is mainly in the business of data analysis for governments, so that is an example of government spying, not corporate spying...

  • Why does every VPN need to rewrite their own client?

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  • Followup question: Is there an overview of which VPNs can be used with third party (FOSS) clients and which not? I don't currently use a VPN except a corporate VPN, but may change that in the future.

  • Austria @europe.pub
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    Wer Pornos schauen will, muss sich bald mit der ID Austria anmelden

    www.derstandard.at /story/3000000333391/wer-pornos-schauen-will-muss-sich-bald-mit-der-id-austria-anmelden
  • Decline into censorship @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The FTC Would Like To Decide Which AI Answers Are Too Woke, And Is Calling That Consumer Protection

    www.techdirt.com /2026/07/28/the-ftc-would-like-to-decide-which-ai-answers-are-too-woke-and-is-calling-that-consumer-protection/
  • Decline into censorship @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web (WoW) and Women Help Women (WHW)

    ooni.org /post/2026-italy-blocks-wow-and-whw/

  • Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism link

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  • Decline into censorship @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Attorney General James and Governor Hochul Release Final SAFE for Kids Act Rules to Protect Children Online

    ag.ny.gov /press-release/2026/attorney-general-james-and-governor-hochul-release-final-safe-kids-act-rules
  • Australia @quokk.au
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    Age-check firms want eSafety to dig into how social media giants enforce under-16s ban

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-07-29/age-checking-companies-want-esafety-to-test-social-media-giants/106968702
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Age-check firms want eSafety to dig into how social media giants enforce under-16s ban

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-07-29/age-checking-companies-want-esafety-to-test-social-media-giants/106968702

  • [meta] Suggestion: can we make it mandatory that every normal post here has to have the "ELI5" words in the title like in the original sub?

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  • not to my knowledge; if there is, please show me a documentation because I (who may have to do it) am not aware of it

    It would probably be possible to enforce this with a bot (with moderator rights) that deletes all posts that don't match the rule, but I don't have the resources to operate something like that.

  • [meta] Suggestion: can we make it mandatory that every normal post here has to have the "ELI5" words in the title like in the original sub?

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  • I think it would be a good idea, but would appreciate any input.

  • What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling?

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  • Two monitors, so I can have Lemmy on one and keep the IDE in my peripheral vision on the other.

  • What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling?

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  • you got a five thirteen!!!

  • What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling?

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  • I'm scrolling while waiting for code I wrote to finish running, so I'm not supposed to be doing anything else really.

  • Debian maintainers are considering banning AI contributions altogether

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  • By that logic they would have to ban all public domain code.

    It's also not always true. Unmodified AI output can't be copyrighted, but if AI was only used as a tool and there is still significant human input, e.g. because the AI output needed some manual editing afterwards, it is copyrighted.

  • It must be damn near impossible to come up with interesting bedtime stories for your kids if you live in a fictional fantasy world in which magic, elves and imps are real

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  • I mean this is an actual plot point in Harry Potter, with the tales of Beedle the Bard…

  • USA representation disparity by state population in congress

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  • We do a similar thing in the European Parliament, where it is called degressive proportionality. Your country, Germany, has more representation overall than mine, Austria — but less representation per capita, so my vote has more impact on the Parliament's composition than yours.

    Also, German states are represented in a similar way in the Federal Council (Bundesrat).

  • Featured

    [META] New mods wanted

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  • I would be willing to help out. I am on Lemmy pretty much every day.

  • Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?

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  • A US Representative from New York: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez

    I agree that this should have been spelled out because the abbreviation AOC can stand for other things too and web search engines don't necessarily think of this representative as the primary meaning.

  • The government gave me a huge point settlement [Simpson, Eh?]

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  • Lester and Eliza.

  • Linux source code leaked

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  • That's the one, thanks. I thought this happened much earlier than 2013 for some reason.

  • Linux source code leaked

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  • Wasn't there a long time ago a genuine bug report in Mozilla's bug tracker reporting that the source code was publicly available and this was insecure? I can't quickly find it because I can't think of good search terms…

  • Linux source code leaked

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  • I think that has happened before, though?

  • Someone said I post an average of 6 posts a day. Where did they get that type of information? Not upset curious cause it's another way I can compliment others with facts about them.

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  • No, you just need to look at the total number of posts, account creation date, calculate the difference between today and the account creation date, then divide the number of posts through the result. Easy math I would expect any average teenager to be able to do.