In jüngeren Jahren dachte ich, konservative Parteien seien im Allgemeinen autoritärer als sozialdemokratische.

2026: hahahahahahaha nein, siehe OP

They can’t. Judicial appointments are for life. Laws require another majority in Congress to repeal again.

The place they’d have the most power over is the executive branch. They could rescind executive orders, replace staff, etc.; but “all of Trump’s bullshit” isn’t possible, never has been for any previous president.

I honestly do not understand why anyone would ever for any reason submit AI-generated code to any FOSS project.

What’s the motivation behind that kind of behavior? What do people get out of it?

I’ve seen it. :D

Yes, if they pass laws creating liability for their operators, or regulating that they have to verify ages or identities, etc.

Dann könntest du ja dieses Kind gewesen sein 🤣

War das nicht schon in den 2000ern ein Zitat auf german-bash.org oder irgendwo, dass ein Kind in einem Zoo auf Pinguine gezeigt haben soll und gerufen haben soll “schau, Papa, da sind Linuxe”?

I post articles from many sources I come across that are somehow interesting or make good points in relevant communities, including ones for countries if the articles are about those countries. I have no intention to stop doing that.

Back in the old days we used to run forums and mailing lists for people of various interests. People used to make their own little idiosyncratic places full of creativity. I miss it so much.

Me too, friend. Me too.

The central reason why we can’t have it anymore is that governments around the world have regulated it away. One example being what the article in the OP is about. 🙁

Hi, I am from an instance no one ever seems to talk about and when reading these kinds of threads I am glad I made that choice. 😁

Everyone on today’s internet is directly exposed to regulations like GDPR, the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and lately numerous age verification (or assurance) laws and related social media bans for minors.

How, how, how did we manage to stray this far from John Perry Barlow’s dreams? Is there any good left in the world? ;_;

Right now both links are working for me…

The one I had posted originally was this: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/ and that currently looks like this for me:

The one from above currenty looks like this for me:

So, not sure what was going on here.

I found this via https://rss-parrot.net/web/feeds/planet.kde.org and at the time it linked to a beautiful HTML page.

I think this here https://planet.kde.org/kde-community-2026-02-17-plasma-6-6/ is mostly what it contained at the time, so I am editing the OP to link to that instead.

Yeah something went wrong there let me check, thanks

phpBB-like bulletin boards (first one I became active on was based on something called UBB which I’ve never seen elsewhere) -> wikis -> IRC -> instant messengers (although I’d sporadically used those before IRC already technically) -> reddit -> lemmy

der deutschsprachige Raum ist groß, hier in Wien auch nichts davon zu sehen

Pokémon trainer, doesn’t sound too bad, I remember fantasizing about that in my childhood mainly because I knew more about that than adults 😁

At some point in the 2000s I chatted with the SmarterChild chatbot on MSN Messenger for a while. I was around 11 or 12 years old at the time.

I remember it once answering “sorry, web search is only available to adult users”, to which I responded “how do you know I’m just a child?”. I don’t remember what came before or after that… it might have asked me my DOB at some point before that, but am until today not sure how it knew that. Point is, none of this is new… 😁

You would be surprised what health problems people under 18 can have.

In Osteuropa ist der Kommunismus endlich abgeschafft worden, nachdem es den Menschen dort materiell wirklich nicht mehr gut ging, richtig? Ist nur zu hoffen, dass das in den nächsten paar Jahren auch in Kuba passiert und das kubanische Volk Freiheit und Demokratie bekommt.