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You could use mine, I guess? https://thebutton.social/?ref=9HCTGA

If you’re using lemmy-ui (the default), it should be an option in the context menu after posting a comment. I don’t think it’s possible to do while you’re still writing it.

It means the comment is “distinguished” (or marked as “speak as moderator”). It basically means that the user is posting officially, in their role as community moderator. On old reddit, this was marked by a green username background.

In my opinion, lemmy should also only show the [M] moderator icon when the comment is distinguished, but unfortunately that’s not the case.

why is Apple not guilty of the same thing?

They are, I believe the commission has also been investigating apple for this. But it might also be considered a different situation since, as far as I understood, google was fined for pressuring other manufacturers into pre-installing google search and chrome on their devices.

Apple is ten times worse in this regard because you actually can’t use any browser but Safari on iOS

Well, WebKit, not safari (you could say safari is apple’s WebKit skin, I guess), but you’re right. The DMA was supposed to fix this and force them to allow other browser engines, but I don’t think much has changed in this regard. I’m not aware of any browsers not using WebKit on iOS so far, at least.

mlmym

I’m not familiar with what this is

mlmym is the old-reddit-like frontend discussed in this thread.

If you open https://old.lemmy.zip/, there is a “show images” button next to the nav links for the different sort orders. Unfortunately, it doesn’t actually work there because lemmy.zip has the image proxy enabled, which the old version of mlmym they’re running does not support.

In listings? mlmym already has that. I see the button also exists on comment pages on reddit, but that’d be less useful on lemmy where inline images are already expanded by default.

Keep in mind that rystaf/mlmym has been last updated years ago. old.lemmy.world uses the FHF’s fork, which has had a few fixes made to it.

PACTs will let websites “with strong knowledge of ‘personhood’” issue anonymous tokens that browser users and designated bots can present at other websites, […]

This sounds like another attempt at what google already tried with “web environment integrity”.

This is so ironic, considering that linking to other websites used to be reddit’s entire point.

In the settings, you can set your “discussion languages”. Any posts and comments in languages you didn’t select here won’t be shown to you.

GDPR wasn’t what introduced cookie banners, that was the ePrivacy directive which came before the GDPR. Either way, I’d argue cookie banners are an act of malicious compliance with both of these, as I’m pretty sure they were intended to reduce usage of tracking / analytics / other non-required cookies altogether. The annoying banners are, in my opinion, an effort to make people angry at the EU instead of the ad companies.

As far as I know (and I’m not 100 % sure), no. You don’t even need to inform users that you use functional cookies. Most likely because these work for the person using your website, not against them (persisting the session, settings, and so on).

I was just being pedantic and corrected what is meant by the term “free software”, not actually arguing for or against what you were saying :)

Yes, of course, a project being paid will mean that a lot fewer people will actually use it. I wouldn’t say nobody, though. As an example, there’s the DeArrow browser addon which is free, but costs $1 once (with easy ways to circumvent that payment). Yet many people have paid for it anyway.

As for curl, the article says that the 23 sponsors you mentioned are only corporate sponsors. There are hundreds of people donating to the curl project, which is probably still unreasonably low, but not as dire as “only 23” would suggest. Obviously each of these donates a much lower amount, so it may still not amount to much (but I don’t know enough to say that).

But in the end, as I said, you’re probably mostly right, there would be very few users of free software if it was paid. Although there are also lots of users of proprietary paid software, so who knows.

The “free” in FOSS does not mean price.

The GPL licenses were all written by the free software foundation for the GNU project. But that doesn’t make it less worthwhile to contribute to this cause, too :)

1. Probably wouldn’t hurt to set them up, especially if you don’t have a static prefix. The good thing is that interfaces can have multiple IPv6 addresses, so they can use both the public address and the ULA.
2. SLAAC should always be enough. Make sure you don’t block the ICMP6 messages it needs though (I’ve been bitten by that once, firewalld behaves weirdly around this).

Could use subdomains to specify it further, like v4.bysa.cc for all CC BY-SA 4.0 works

What makes you say that? As far as I can tell, the only actual downside of it is having to type longer addresses sometimes, but one should really just use the DNS for that. And a bigger address space was needed. Everything else seems better or at least simpler. Autoconfiguration (SLAAC), only one loopback address (which is shorter than any of IPv4’s loopback addresses), subnetting, no need for NAT, proper support for multiple addresses per interface…

In practice, most problems with IPv6 probably just come from bad support for it in software. That means they should be improved, not that IPv6 was a failure. Also check that you’re not blocking ICMP6 traffic in a firewall or similar (or at least allow the things SLAAC and neighbor discovery need).

Oh, they switched to Source 2? I thought P2:CE was based on the CS:GO branch of the engine, which would still be Source 1. But I haven’t kept up to date with what they were doing, so maybe I’m wrong here.

from xkcd