What’s wrong with lemmy.ml? It’s a pretty generalist instance if you ask me. The only issue I have with it is that it doesn’t block obvious troll instances like lemmygrad or the one that’s even worse by default but you can do that yourself these days.

If anyone reading has proof of M$ spying on the German government they could whistle about, right about now would be a great time to do it ;)

Also, their client is still open

*is open again. The clients they distributed were not open source until they open sourced sdk-internal. The fact that you couldn’t even build it with only open code even if you wanted to was a bug but that’s a rather minor issue in comparison.

I also fully believe that they would not have GPL’d sdk-intenral without public pressure. Even when they were originally called out they were pretty clear that the integration of proprietary code was intentional and done with the knowledge that it would typically violate the GPL.

If you don’t see what’s ethically wrong with even attempting to subvert the GPL, I don’t think you’ve understood open source.

One does not “accidentally” build a proprietary SDK for months and make the clients depend on it, intentionally violating the GPL.

They even publicly admitted to doing precisely that, defending their GPL violation with dubious claims how the GPL supposedly works.

For ~$30 a month, that’s a complete and utter rip-off.

Even here in Neuland Germany you get at least decent internet with no caps for that price.

as an independent voter that feels continually ignored by the by the right and left

A party in the U.S. of any relevance that could be described as “left-wing” would be news to me.

You’ve got a corrupt conservative party and an extremely corrupt "pro"gressive(regressive?) anti-democratic party.

third parties can be an attractive choice for some

Third parties are never an attractive choice for anyone in a first-past-the-post voting systems with two extremely dominant parties, regardless of what any of those parties stand for. The only sensible choice is the (in your opinion) least bad option that still has a realistic chance of winning.

The usual; check the server and client logs.

I’d look further into that bug because it’s not happening on my end.

Drive is under a different org:

https://github.com/ProtonDriveApps/android-drive

Oh I’m sure your health insurance would love to know the condition of your teeth to increase your rates.

parents are a motor to innovation

Absolutely. No parents -> No children -> No innovation.

Old reddit absolutely had its issues. The new and newnew design is just decisively worse however.

If you need languages other than “western European languages”, you’re SOL with this offline translator; whether you use it within Firefox or the extension.

Certainly better than the U.S. in that regard but I wouldn’t consider Germany “resilient” either.

That’s the hard part: Who has claims to how much of the license fees. That’s an extremely tough question to answer because it necessitates quantification of code contributions which is far from a solved problem.

No, they’ve got the same information as us. That’s why they explicitly say:

when Covid pandemic lockdowns and social distancing appeared to have halted circulation

It is still speculation, not data.

I’d tend to agree with the speculation but it’s still speculation.

I consider those measures to be included in “lockdown” but it’s besides the point: The paper contains no evidence that those measures made it disappear, just that it disappeared.

It wont take years. You’ll be able to hack basic stuff together in a week max.

What takes years of experience is time efficient programming aswell as producing maintainable code.

That article is interesting and important but it does not show any causal links between lockdowns and the disappearance.

It is, for example, also possible that it was merely displaced by SARS-CoV2.

It’s basically a “free for personal use” license.

Not sure I 100% agree on that.

If there was a license that i.e. required a certain percentage of all revenue that can be attributed to the usage of the software, a for-profit company could utilise it without paying a cent if they used it without generating revenue with it.