people can only see or click on that if they look at the source code because you posted it with an empty link text

Parties choose whom to nominate as ministers.

I’m not a voter in Denmark and not familiar with Danish politics; this kind of thing would certainly cause me to vote for a different party.

One could have guessed from the image in the OP. KDE 4.2 is not exactly a recent piece of software anymore.

apparently nominally a member of a social-democratic party

When I was younger, I believed that social-democratic parties were better than conservative ones on matters of civil liberties. I stand corrected on that.

I’m not sure I understand your substantive question very well.

There already is a bridge from RSS feeds to ActivityPub: https://rss-parrot.net/ (there are plenty of sources I follow through that).

The clue of what ActivityPub is for is in the name: it is for publishing one’s activities. For example “I’ve written a new blog post”, “I’ve commented on someone else’s activity”, “I’ve upvoted someone else’s comment”.

RSS is really just a structured format to describe the content of a website in simpler terms. It doesn’t ever send any information to anyone, it doesn’t have any mechanism for anyone else to interact.

I used to follow news sites directly through an RSS reader. But I would need to set that up separately on each device, including after reinstalling, which I just can’t be bothered to do. I know there are things like Feedly, but not everyone likes proprietary services and software that much. I like the fact that on Mastodon nowadays, I can follow both microbloggers and RSS feeds.

Switzerland has a comparable number of guns as we do, and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago

so does he believe that Swiss people do not play video games, or what

You can just ssh to the machine you want to run things on I think?

“umount” is worse

Is there a translation of https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence into Nepali yet, I wonder.

Probably software with only one user who has access to the source code, i.e. trivially FOSS but not publicly available.

I agree. It should be that stores just provide enough dividers that the problem doesn’t arise.

Yes, many radio stations have online livestreams, so you can play radio from any device that can connect to the Internet and has an audio output. You can even play radio from your browser, there is a Firefox extension called Worldwide Radio.

Yeah but cashiers have eyes and can see that there is space behind the last item they are currently grabbing, I would think.

I use dividers when I can, but sometimes not enough of them are available.

In theory leaving a significant amount of space should give the cashier enough information, but then again, we don’t live in a world where everything is as it should be…

Yeah I mean why would you let young people have fun or anything like that? If they are constantly bored, they will certainly be happier. Or something…

I think it is supposed to be a mouse (Meowth of Team Rocket being a cat chasing a mouse btw), but I’m pretty sure its name is still a reference to pikas.

yo mama so FAT, she can’t store files larger than 4GB

yup, that is why (if memory serves) the chat control proposal has rules in it that look like they were specifically written for messengers, the authors seem to have no clue that encryption can, you know, just be run on any device using publicly available algorithms…

The Internet has become popular enough that governments care about what happens on it. And it’s not just European countries, US states too (at least for age verification).

More specifically for your two points:

Encryption

It used to be that very little Internet traffic was encrypted, much less end-to-end encrypted. After 2013 (Snowden revelations), this changed, e.g. messengers started to E2EE, many more websites than previously started to use HTTPS. So all we are seeing now is the reaction to those positive changes…

Age verification

This has to do with mobile devices more than anything else. I think a lot of parents now just hand their children smartphones or tablets and may then be surprised that their children can then access things they don’t want their children to access. This was less of a thing in the desktop era because it was easier to see what children were doing online if it was happening on a huge computer in the living room…

Now personally I don’t think anyone (including young people) should ever be prohibited from watching or reading anything they actively want to see. For preventing young people from accidentally accessing porn, an “are you over 18” banner ought to be enough… I don’t think people who want to prevent that kind of access want anything legitimate. But you asked about why it’s happening now and not at another time and I think this is the answer.

Sidenote: I remember reading that when television was newly introduced in East Germany, it was still able to be somewhat critical of the regime; after some years, this stopped because a lot more citizens were able to watch it. The equivalent of that is currently happening to the Internet.

Money isn’t green everywhere in the world. Where I live, 100 euro bills are green, but all other bills are completely different colors.