The demand for greater security always poses a threat to personal freedom. It is therefore only natural that those who wish to curtail this freedom in order to gain control over society do so by stoking fear and uncertainty regarding terrorism, migration, Islam, and so on.

Off topic: After 9/11, investigators recovered 19 personal IDs from the ruins, all belonging to Arab individuals. All these IDs “somehow” survived the impact, the fires intense enough to weaken the steel beams, the collapse itself, and the chaos that followed at ground zero. The tragedy was then used to generate the level of public fear necessary to justify greatly expanding state control. It’s a fight against their own people.

Mhm, I think this is more complicated than it looks. The LF today isn’t a direct Linux kernel funding body and more an umbrella for open-source governance (infrastructure, events, certification, security work, to name a few). So the other 97% are not necessarily wasted. Also, many kernel developers are paid outside of the LF by companies like Red Hat, Google, AMD, SUSE, Microsoft. So in reality there is alot more cash flowing towards Linux kernel development. A better/sharper criticism would be that the LF has become an industry consortium for “enterprise open source” or so, rather than a Linux-centered foundation. The counterpoint on the other Hand is that this founded infrastructure is exactly what allows large-scale open-source projects to function in the first place.

I think there are many right answers, and in the end it’s dependent on your personal likings. I am self-hosting using Fedora, and I couldn’t be happier.

Can’t say anything about the browser, but honestly that name is ridiculous. You literally just need to drop a letter and you are left with Spermium.

At least these kids are safe now and noone will experience any trade off from this policy /s

As someone who is not at all into programming, this title made me genuinely think I had a stroke.

Yup, you’re right. Sorry to have bothered you.

Are you talking about me?

“Fighting all of NATO” - as a German, I did not know that I was at war with Russia right now. Am I?

I get your anger towards the US. And probably towards the EU. Towards NATO as a whole. Our history is stained with imperialism, and we should all be working against that. Dont falsely assume that I am on the side of the empire.

But this does not necessarily make Russia (or China) some sort of safe haven. Some days ago, I had to argue with US nazis that the US and Russia are the only working democracies left in this world, and Europe is a “autocratic dictatoraship” - which is obviously BS. Our system is FAR from perfect, and we experience propaganda - as does nearly every other state. But Russia, China, and the US are definitly broken systems, and ALL of them are imperialistic. So are you telling me that you are against evil NATO empire, therefore you are rooting for the evil Russian empire?

Yes, it is.

RU is burning its demographic future for marginal territorial gains. It is spending lives and capital faster than it can regenerate them.

Its economy becomes more and more war-dependent, which means peace itself becomes destabilizing.

The brain drain Putins war causes is not a temporary inconvenience, but a strategic wound. They really traded long-term modernization for short-term militarization.

It has pushed Europe into rearmament and made the continent stronger, not weaker. And it is losing access to Western technology faster than it can replace it.

It is becoming China’s junior partner, not an independent great power.

Every year of war raises the cost of any political exit.

They may very well survive the war, but the path they chose consumed the foundations of their own power.

So… they want to pick up a fight with every single nation, except for China?

Thanks, I was also looking for something like that 👍🏻

Of course. The US dont have the balls to terrorize someone who is as big as them. Like the ugly school bully who rips smalIer children off their lunch money. I see them as a rogue regime by now.

What was signed in 25. August 1933?

I start to like this guy. He is acting like a leader. Can I please have a copy of him for my German Government, please?

Has anyone fact-checked this? TheFreePress sounds like a serious institution, but it’s really just a fancy looking blog run by very few people with a strong political opinion. No editorial board, no standards, etc… Wikipedia doesn’t accept them as a reliable source and instead lists them as a self-publishing service.

Yes—and the fact that people now cite a punctuation mark as forensic evidence says a lot about the level of the discourse.

Fully agreed ✨

This is a very important and, frankly, very healthy development.

Why this matters:

• Boundaries are good ✅ Not every space, workflow, or community needs AI integration.

• Discernment is good 🧠 Saying “no” to a tool is not irrational. It is often a sign of standards, judgment, and maturity.

• Human value still matters 👥 Efficiency is not the same thing as meaning, quality, trust, or legitimacy.

In short:

I think this kind of pushback is not anti-technology. It is pro-boundary, pro-quality, and pro-human agency. Very good to see this being articulated so clearly. 👏🤖📌

If you want, I can generate a second version of this comment with even more obvious AI-style phrasing and formatting.

Amazing. Thank you very much!

I’m learning Dutch with Babel. I like the App a lot, and it genuinely does it’s best to keep the learning process exciting.

Only downside are the costs.

• Using Qwant instead of Google Search. It’s way more down-to-earth
• Completely stopped using PayPal
• Migrated from Gmail to Proton Mail
• On my way to setting up a home server with storage and Nextcloud
• Not really fully European, but switched from Reddit to Lemmy completely
• Convinced my GF to also have a look at every-day-products and choose European alternatives, if possible. And she’s into it 😎