There’s an even better alternative on the CCC’s website, the original source of the video ;)

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9064-the_ultimate_apollo_guidance_computer_talk

This has likely happened because the german government created the social.bund.de instance earlier this year

The instance is almost 3.5 years old btw, which you can easily see from the instance admin account @itteam@social.bund.de. It just wasn’t used by many government departments at the time, mostly the data protection agency and the BSI. The @ltrlp@social.bund.de account itself is pretty old too. It dates back to before the whole Twitter debacle. I guess that’s also part of the reason why they decided to go full Mastodon, since they already have a lot of experiences with it.

I knew it! Hans did 9/11

No, it’s probably refering to what happened after his death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini#Piazzale_Loreto

Thank you, Mrs. Halo!

Well yeah, but that was because of an influx of spam and not because beehaw admins have anything against lemmyworld. Afaik they are currently working out with lemmyworld’s admin how to solve this situation and refederate.

TLDR: A bunch of trolls from that instance spammed dick pics and started concern trolling with “rational debates” about trans people. Beehaw mods and admins couldn’t keep up with modding the stuff and decided to temporarily defederate (that’s basically a one-sided block) from lemmyworld and and also shitjutworks because most of the spam came from there. Currently, the adminds of all three instances are working together to find a solution and get everyone refederated.

Initial announcement: https://beehaw.org/post/567170 Foolow up: https://beehaw.org/post/594843

I played Into the Breach to death on release. I even got all the mechs and achievements. Just looked at it again and it got a free Advanced Edition update?! Holy shit, brb playing the game a 3rd time!

Oh man this is just what I needed to chill before going to bed :)

These men are pawns!

This article (in german) shows where it is in the account settings menu.

No, because the full community name always includes the instance name too. For example, there are already both !gaming@lemmy.ml and !gaming@beehaw.org which are independent from each other.

That’s great to hear. Maybe I will finally ditch Element for a true native app :)

Man these showcases are great. They give you a quick overwiew of the available software and are managing to keep it focussed on particular use cases. Probably the best introduction to Linux software I’ve seen so far.

Cool stuff. I didn’t even know about NeoChat.

CrossCode is an absolute banger if you like a good story and are interested in combat RPGs. It also has a demo that works in the browser if you want to check it out before buying.

The reason sites all have the cookie permission dialog now is because of the GDPR, which has the right idea on data privacy, but the implementation wound up being so terrible that it winds up doing this.

GDPR is not at fault here though, since it does not require asking for consent if the processed data is necessary for the purpose of the provided service. For example, a web shop usually wouldn’t have to ask for permission to store items in the shopping part because that is a necessary part of the online shopping process. In that sense, requiring the consent dialog for all unnecessary purposes is better as you can at least see who’s trying to screw you over. Don’t kill the messenger here.

I think it’s also important to remember that websites can only get away with these annoyances because it a) is easily automatable and b) has been the default mode of operation for decades. If restaurant waiters today started asking guests if they could sell info on what and when you ate, who you were with, and what you looked like, everyone would be creeped out. Before GDPR, it was pretty much normalized to do the same thing on the internet without even asking for consent.

the nerds on here will probably get it quickly ;)