I’m still disappointed that 27 never managed to get on this list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-7CqYFi64

What would you replace the taskbar with?

“Are you a pole vaulter?” “No, I am a German, but how did you know my name was Walter?”

not very accurate, you can still install Windows graphically, and you could install Linux either on a console or with a GUI both in 2005 and now

Compared to how Microsoft names things, FOSS naming is harmless on average.

Think of them naming the gaming app on Windows PCs “Xbox”, or the distinction between “VS Code” and “Visual Studio Code”, or “edit” (msedit), etc etc

Unironic answer, the “g” is pronounced, but obviously like the g in give or great, not like j.

Obviously the way the previous commenter worded it would infringe on the platforms’ free speech, it’s only workable if we replace “harmful” with “illegal” (e.g. libelous).

I post a lot and don’t usually get hateful insults, in fact most of what I post gets no comments at all.

The way I find most things I post is literally just that I repost them from my Mastodon feed.

This is a complex issue and both of the comments above are way oversimplifying it…

Lots of governments around the world are nowadays claiming that their laws apply to all or many websites that can be accessed in their borders. Whether they can enforce this if the website has no physical assets in the country is a very different question. They could arrest their operators when they enter their countries (as happened to Pavel Durov), or they could geoblock websites, or… here are some starting points for further research:

• https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/88635/can-the-uk-government-do-anything-about-a-foreign-media-platform-rooting-for-civ
• https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/20490/what-politically-can-be-done-to-compel-global-compliance-by-google
• https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/05/when-trolls-take-on-tyrants-4chan-and-kiwi-farms-sue-the-uk-over-extraterritorial-censorship/

That makes sense, thanks.

Why would a lawyer not be allowed to do that? Genuinely curious because I would expect information on who won court cases to be public anyway?

I remember reading that Loops (? - may be wrong about which one) does the same thing, only displaying statuses with videos in them. I have not, so far, seen anyone claim that that is a bad thing, and frankly don’t agree that it is. If we can’t do that, then we can never have specialized platforms built on ActivityPub, e.g. platforms only for videos or for photos, etc., and that would severely limit what we can do with it.

In GTA 5, get on a train, get a wanted level, try to keep the wanted level for an entire round-trip around the map, then try to escape the wanted level, all while staying on the train and surviving.

(it’s been a few years since I tried this and don’t remember if those were the exact rules, but they were something like this)

The law will be the same in all EU countries, including whichever parts you think will be “not mandatory” (I did read those news articles and am fully aware that mandatory scanning is no longer on the table).

misleading headline, this isn’t a list of countries in which the law will (if it passes) be different (it won’t be, it’s an EU law, so will be the same in all EU countries), it’s a list of countries that currently support/oppose the law

somewhat oddly, in the real world, a clause like this would make the program no longer free and open source software

Tell me you didn’t watch the video without telling me you didn’t watch the video. 😁

…or for that matter read the article https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/ it is a summary of, one of my favorite what ifs for a long time. 😉

The PlayStation one is the symbol, not the letter, so that one is a bit different.

No I don’t. I don’t have a PS controller and have never had a PlayStation, so this knowledge is much less universal than you seem to think.

I don’t see where I said anything that contradicts anything in your comment.