Tell them to turn on fediverse sharing in the Threads account they already have.

I can already hear “No! Not like that!”. Fair enough, but that’s the thing most of your non-technical friends will actually do if you ask them. Be sure you have an account somewhere that can interact with it. Perhaps some will get interested enough to make accounts somewhere better.

I think the goal is to grant exceptions in exchange for bribes or political favors, because the FCC has already behaved that way with a similar rule about routers.

Thanks for the clickbait-skip. There’s still an important point missing: this doesn’t apply to ownership, use, or sale of existing devices. It doesn’t even block importation of existing models. It blocks certification of new models

Using a big tech option for something like a password manager is a bad idea in general. Eggs, baskets, etc…

I was expected to post three tweets, two Instagram posts, and two TikToks per day. I was also expected to plan, film, edit, and post two Floatplane exclusives per week. This included wrangling people to be in them when they were also all struggling to get their work done.

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This sounds like a normal workload for a full-time social media manager. The article doesn’t provide any details about the sexual harassment allegation.

If someone break somebody’s leg, and a third party then makes a news coverage where they claim that someone has killed somebody. Would you still say that this is strongly worded?

The problem here is that the word kill has a precise, unambiguous definition. If I injured someone and they’re still alive, I definitely did not kill them. Raid does not have such a precise definition; most neutral journalists would only describe the execution of a search warrant that way if it was more forceful than average, but there isn’t a bright line.

The special rapporteurs is an independent human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council…

I think what you’re trying to say is that appointing a special rapporteur is one of the mildest actions that might reasonably be described as “the U.N. has launched an investigation”. True but mild is not “completely false”.

The “typically reserved for dictatorships and banana republics” is closer to false. Special rapporteurs assigned to specific countries are typically assigned to countries fitting that description, but Kahn’s mandate was for the theme of freedom of expression rather than a specific country. She was the first to visit Germany under that mandate.

I feel like this analysis is an opinion piece as much as it is a fact check. I would probably agree with most of it as an opinion piece; several of the claims checked use charged language and imply the incidents were more serious than they really were, but to present them as “false” or “debunked” is similarly hyperbolic.

I found news coverage from other sources [www.focus.de] that paints a similar picture, but was unable to independently verify R. Zitelmann’s claims.

The focus.de article is by Zitelmann himself, and includes the meme in question. It’s obviously a comparison of Putin to Hitler and I think any reasonable viewer would conclude that both are portrayed unfavorably. If that’s really what triggered a letter from the police, it’s cause for concern about freedom of expression in Germany.

They claim that the person who called Robert Habeck [de.wikipedia.org] “Schwachkopf” got his home “raided.” This is false; the supposed raid was actually a search warrant to seize evidence. The accused voluntarily handed over the tablet used in the crime to officers; consequently, further measures were waived, not least for reasons of proportionality. So no actual home search was conducted. [www.justiz.bayern.de]

The word “raid” might be a little strong here, but so is “false” when the police actually did show up and seize his tablet because he called a politician an idiot on social media. A source of tension here might be that insulting people is a crime in Germany while it’s unambiguously protected free expression in the USA. The average Lemmy user has probably called the president of the United States an idiot at least once this week.

The surge in cases is so vast that the U.N. has launched an investigation into free speech violations in Germany,

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This is completely false. […] What is true, but wasn’t mentioned in the episode, is that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, Ms. Irene Khan, undertook an official country visit to Germany

So it’s not completely false, just worded more strongly than you think is fair.

Yelling at people who finally did the thing you’ve thought they should do for a while is counterproductive.

The default user agent string for the browser that comes with the Steam Deck appears to identify it as Linux, so anybody counting that way without explicitly separating it would count it as Linux.

People have been claiming that the current year is the “year of the Linux desktop” because of some improvement to Linux usability or action Microsoft took to offend people for decades. The claim has not come true by any reasonable metric for just as long.

It would be less surprising to me from someone who doesn’t understand how computers work at all and only wants to use SMS. It’s weird from someone who already uses several messaging apps.

What (if anything) does that friend use for messaging?

And the video stability doesn’t match with someone holding up a phone like that.

Image stabilization can be pretty good lately, but I must admit that I don’t spend much time watching handheld phone selfie videos.

You probably also guessed that the stripper isn’t actually attracted to you.

I watched the three video clips and would not have initially guessed the leotard gymnast and the mechanic are generated. The sad gymnast looks a little plastic.

What actually looks fake in the mechanic video after a couple loops is the valve notches on the pistons, which are rotated from the correct orientation, and overlapping in a way that the laws of physics would not support.

I don’t see anything in the Bluesky posts I would expect to get moderated on a .world server. Odd.

Sure, you have the right to manage your servers however you like… and I have the right to unfairly use you as a proxy for my rage at everyone who has ever broken the Internet’s global nature to make their server log files a little less noisy.

You have experienced the problem and you do it anyway?

Services that do region blocking also tend to block public VPNs. Breaking the internet like this is bad, and you should feel bad for doing it.

That’s his version of events that he’s showing to his audience. People who get banned from things often share a harmless-looking excerpt when that’s not really what got them banned.

It would be good to have the whole context before reaching a conclusion.

The statute is constructed in an unusual way because it doesn’t require that the threat is transmitted to someone who believes it. It says:

(a) A person commits disorderly conduct when he or she knowingly:

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(3.5) Transmits or causes to be transmitted in any manner a threat of destruction of a school building or school property, or a threat of violence, death, or bodily harm directed against persons at a school, school function, or school event, whether or not school is in session;

Laws against transmitting threats are usually written in a manner that excludes jokes sent to friends who understand that they are jokes.

Also, use Signal. Signal will not call the cops when you send dumb jokes to your friends. There are no good reasons for most people to not use Signal.