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  • Laws that you cannot enforce without looking at people’s private communications are, in my mind, very likely to be laws that should probably not exist anyway in a free society. Crimes that actually harmed another person have, you know, a victim who can testify to the police or in court that the crime happened, and if you have that, what do you need to look at encrypted communications for?

    The National Assembly killed it, with the Macronist deputies, the left, and even the Rassemblement National voting it down.

    huh, at least one good thing happening somewhere in the world





  • Stellt sie dann automatisch den neue BundeskanzlerIn?

    Nein, wie der Bundeskanzler gewählt wird, steht in Artikel 63 Grundgesetz: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_63.html

    Sie brauchen am Anfang eine Koalition hinter sich, die eine absolute Mehrheit hat. Nach vierzehn Tagen brauchen sie diese nicht mehr, aber jede andere Kombination von Parteien, die zusammen mehr Abgeordnete hat als die AfD und sich gemeinsam auf einen Bundeskanzler einigen könnte, könnte einen AfD-Bundeskanzler trotzdem verhindern, denn deren Kandidat bekäme dann ja mehr Stimmen.

    So weit die Theorie; was in der Praxis passieren wird, kann ich nicht sagen. Was ich sagen kann, ist, dass wir in Österreich bereits die Situation haben, dass unser Äquivalent zur AfD (die FPÖ) die stimmenstärkste Partei bei der letzten Wahl war, trotzdem führt sie aktuell nur die Opposition an, weil drei andere Parteien (ÖVP, SPÖ und NEOS, das sind ungefähr die Äquivalente zu CDU/CSU, SPD und FDP), die gemeinsam eine absolute Mandatsmehrheit haben, eine Koalition gebildet haben.


  • To any local business owner reading this: entering your business on OpenStreetMap is completely free of charge and will cause it to be found on many apps on many platforms. (I use it myself when looking for shops or restaurants in unfamiliar areas.) You’ll also do some good for the world by supporting infrastructure that serves humanity as a whole instead of one company.









  • The Internet really does threaten the people who are in power. They are currently realizing it and doing what they can to stop it. I just hope the Internet ends up winning. I used to be fairly optimistic about this in the mid-2010s when I hadn’t been hearing very much from the copyright industry anymore… then, in the late 2010s, attacks on the free and open Internet really started to get serious. I wonder how much they will escalate.

    Shouldn’t there be some constitutional requirement, maybe under “due process” theory or otherwise, that US state laws cannot apply to anyone who has no way of knowing that they are even doing something (in this case: serving customers) in that state? Has anything similar been litigated before?










  • Mid 2000s. Web forums based on UBB, WBB, vBulletin, phpBB, etc.

    Went on to discover wikis at age 11, IRC at age 12, most of my social contacts in my teen years were with people I met online because they were generally a lot nicer than people I met IRL.

    I would see nothing wrong with people born after me doing the same, although admittedly those years would have been a lot better if my school hadn’t been full of people I had nothing in common with and I hadn’t needed to use the Internet to socialize.