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Democrats seek to reassure Europe about post-Trump America

Not going to read the article, but the only way to reassure Europe is with results. Get Trump out of office. Clean up the mess. That means prosecuting EVERYONE involved. Prosecute the people in the Epstein files. Prosecute every ICE member. Prosecute the Republicans that enabled this shit. Reverse what can still be reversed, or at least make plans to. And change your fucking constitution to actually have teeth and effective division of power.

Don’t just take back control and then act like it’s back to business as usual with all the changes kept in effect, no one punished, and MAGA allowed to organize once more.

I started out with forums primarily. And Youtube.

I then tried out Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, but didn’t like any of them. My school for a time also mandated Netlog iirc.

Eventually I moved to Reddit and joined Discord.

When the blackout protests came around, I went looking for alternatives to Reddit I could try out while the subreddits I cared about were dark, which is when I saw people suggesting /kbin. Which I liked a lot more than Lemmy based on first impressions, so I joined it.

When /kbin died, I switched to Mbin. I’m still active on Reddit itself because I originally really only joined as a temporary measure. I liked it enough to stick around, but Reddit has not become that unusable yet that I would leave it for good.

Never used Instagram, Tiktok, 4chan, etc.

I’m Swiss, German-speaking, born 1996.

There have been some users reporting they get ads despite being Premium users, especially in regards to Youtube’s efforts to bypass adblockers (even if they weren’t using one). I always assumed that’s because their measures were misidentifying the lack of ads as using an ad blocker, even if that lack was due to using premium.

Just wanted to give an actual explanation. I’m not qualified to actually confirm or deny whether those user reports were factual or made up. But people usually consider them factual because of herd mentality.

Not just the premium part, but also it affecting descriptions makes me think this is some kind of bug. At least partially. There’s not really any point to disabling descriptions specifically, most people don’t read them anyway.

“there’s currently no way around it” “The issue goes away with a refresh”

The way I understand it, the issue only resolves if you refresh while on the video you want to watch. Navigating to another video would unfix it again. So it’s not really a real fix the way most people expect a fix to look like. They want something they can apply and then they don’t have to deal with the problem anymore. Which, based on this article, only disabling your adblocker achieves.

For people who only go off headlines and comments and don’t read the article, here’s the important bits:

• This only affects some users, not everyone
• The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty
• The issue goes away with a refresh, you don’t need to turn off the adblocker, though you’ll have to refresh every video
• It affects all videos
• The link to adblockers is due to everyone who is reporting the issue being a user of an adblocker, and turning it off fixing the issue permanently until it’s turned on again
• There’s no specific browser or adblocker mentioned in the article
• It affects Premium users too

edit: added “the article” after “don’t read” to clarify

Why would that be weird? I assume that’s about banning federated posts from them, which makes perfect sense imo.

Don’t think so. I mean there is the web client which does give a default instance, but it requires an invite code.

There’s Shoot.

So I’m currently at work, where we use Fortinet, which is blocking your website for “Phishing”.

Before that, your website made my browser ring the alarm with the error “net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID”.

You might want to look into those two.

Is there a reason the room icons have to be humongous, at least in the web version on PC?

Other than that, looks great.

The remote code execution isn’t “via a text file”. It’s via a link in a text file, which Notepad now lets you actually click.

Just don’t click on links you don’t know the destination of (Notepad shows the destination for https links at least, on hover) and you don’t have any remote code executing.

There’s Shoot as a fediverse alternative to Discord.

Otherwise, as others have said, IRC, Matrix, or Teamspeak are worth looking into. Especially the latter got a major refresh at one point, so it’s not the dinosaur you might expect from its age.

Perhaps it could potentially be forked from the already existing Lemmy?

I really don’t see the point of turning a discussion forum into an instant messaging platform. Like, the requirements are completely different. You might as well start from square one than trying to transform one into the other.

The gameplay being too similar is a bogus argument Microsoft’s AI probably snuck in there. I mentioned it to support my point that the DMCA complaint isn’t about the birch trees specifically, but that’s definitely not an argument that would have worked out legally for Microsoft.

Patents could work out, like for Nintendo in the Palworld case. But DMCA is a copyright dispute, patent law doesn’t apply here. And who knows if they even have any relevant patents to accuse this game of violating.

Of course. I was just bringing it up as a supporting argument to why the DMCA isn’t specifically about that image or the trees on it.

But yeah, gameplay isn’t protected by copyright, so that argument from microsoft is just bogus.

Doesn’t matter. Copyright protects identity, not likeness. Valve even says in the email to the dev that Microsoft said they outright stole Minecraft’s exact assets. Because just looking the same isn’t copyright infringement.

Microsoft also complained about the gameplay being stolen too, which doesn’t fall under copyright at all.

So the DMCA definitely wasn’t justified, no.

all because of a screenshot of birch trees

Worth noting, that image was given as an example of how the game looks similar to Minecraft. It was not the basis of the complaint. Microsoft also claimed the gameplay is stolen as well, according to Valve. So it’s definitely not about the trees themselves.

This Reddit post has the actual email from Valve to the dev.

I think this is definitely not a fight Microsoft can win (without a war of attrition I mean), and they seem to agree because they revoked the complaint by now. But there’s other blocks not featured on this image that would make a much stronger case imo. Stone bricks and planks look identical imo and definitely can be made unique looking if the dev wanted to.

Pick one that works already and roll it out on the whole continent, it’s not that hard.

Twint is working on that, just in a more federation-style way than “pick one”.

The European Mobile Payment Systems Association (EMPSA) aims for interoperability between its various members across Europe. So you can use your country’s app with the systems in other countries.

Looking at the members list, there’s Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Romania, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Albania currently on the list.

It seems the German/Austrian, Swiss, and Italian solutions have already been made interoperable based on their milestone showcase.

But there’s zero information gained from a self upvote. If I didn’t like my comment, I’d either delete it or edit it until I do.

Of course I like my comment if I keep it up, so a self upvote adds nothing. The only advantage I see is to make this place look more like Reddit, which isn’t really something I care about.

Might have to clarify that my instance (or rather Mbin in general) doesn’t do auto upvotes.

Though it doesn’t really change my stance. You can swap it around to removing the auto upvote, I don’t really see the point behind that being possible either.

If you like your content, keep it up. If you don’t like it, either edit it until you do or delete it. Upvotes and downvotes are for judging the content of others, not your own. So be it adding one when there’s zero, or removing the upvote automatically added by your instance, I don’t see the point in either being possible.

In my opinion I shouldn’t even have the ability to upvote my own comments. I don’t really see the point behind doing so.