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Last time I went to CCC I was greeted with a giant Antifaschistische Aktion banner at the entrance. That made me feel pretty safe about the event (unironically).

Please read the beginning halves of sentences, not just the latter halves. As a European, this whole thread reeks _painfully_ American. I honestly had no idea what the original com…

Noto Emoji and Noto Color Emoji are two different fonts. Do you somehow already have Noto Emoji (the new one) installed on your system?

TLS or SSL never meant that kind of safety in the first place. Even before LE, there was no guarantee that HTTPS means it's not a scam, and the PKI system has never been meant to g…

They didn't need to do that. They simply got their cert into browsers and OSes, and there you go.

That's a lot of text without giving any motivation for your main point. What makes an app package created by the app developer more "commercial" and anti-FOSS than an app package c…

I don't know what kind of hoops Snap require to access files. Flatpak, however, has a pretty simple system for a fully sandboxed app to open a file or a directory: it just opens a …

The 1541 was slow because the VIC-20 shipped with faulty hardware that couldn't move data on the serial port at full speed, so they patched their software to get it working at a mu…

Putin said in his recent speech that he thinks Lenin made a mistake in breaking up the Russian Empire into independent nations (that then joined the USSR). I think Putin is more af…

GPT-3 and these kind of natural language generators in general can already present opinions if prompted to do so. Depending on what you mean by "opinion", you might also require so…

As unintuitive as it may seem, 3D printers are actually way simpler to DIY than 2D paper printers. An almost modern 3D printer could have been put together by a hacker in their bas…

Clippy is a linter. You don't use linters by mechanically following its warnings as gospel, you use it by double-checking the code wherever it warns and removing the warning from t…

This process requires no requests, no processing, nothing at all. It's literally asking the user "do you want us to make extra requests and data processing, or not do anything at a…

Disney+ most likely.

"freely giving away their data" is a misrepresentation. People are either putting up with their data being collected, or unaware that it is happening, because that is the only way …

Nothing can prove the negative. But if any shred of evidence comes out that they didn't comply, there will be severe consequences for them, which makes it at least reasonably safe …

The issue is that GDPR isn't fundamentally about online data collection or tracking , it's about all data collection in general. You can't ban everyone from collecting data about a…

Mass produced bread can be produced like that. There's nothing about the concept of mass production that forbids products from taking a long time to produce. Maybe in the US, nobod…

You'll appreciate a good font after having to read text printed in a bad one.

I live in Finland, and simply by Googling in Finnish I can find several companies reselling used company laptops, and there's at least one local one that I can physically go to (I'…

The differences between the two are extremely minimal, basically only relating to patent rights relating to the software. Go read https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html - t…

Did I miss something, or does the page not say what WX86 actually is?

Arduino is one of those projects that I think makes for an excellent place to start, but then you should move on from there once you understand how Arduino works. Arduino introduce…

Tabbed browsing just has full-window tabs though. Was the ability to resize, move, and stack these windows within windows ever wanted by any significant amount of people, or is tab…

"Guide" and "stop" are not only English words, but present in lots of European languages. "Shop" is a common loanword from English in lots of these European languages.