to some extent I think https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ may be a factor

I’m from a country that borders Germany and I don’t think I had any good idea who Donald Trump was before 2015. I may have heard the name at some point, but no more than that.

Fair point, but it still wouldn’t stop standalone compact or interchangeable lens cameras or camcorders, those don’t even have a cell modem built in. Most people don’t carry one of these around, so it would reduce the number of cameras, but not to zero. People carrying cameras around wherever they go is a recent phenomenon anyway, it would take us back to around 2000.

I mean you’re kinda getting into “Stallman was right” territory here. Obviously computers (including smartphones) should not be disabling any functionality without the owner’s consent, but we do not live in a free software utopia.

How would that backdoor be activated? If over the Internet, it can be trivially avoided by not connecting the phone to the Internet.

And in the end someone is going to bring a standalone camera that can’t even be connected to the Internet.

No, I was somewhat expanding on my previous thoughts on how to discover things on the fediverse and make it more active. Maybe that was a bit off-topic, sorry if it was.

I have already found my instance’s “all communities” link fairly useful for finding communities.

The problem is I am subscribed to many communities that hardly anyone ever posts anything to, and the answer is not always “be the change you want to see in the world”. For example, I’m a native speaker of German and enjoy helping learners of German with grammatical questions, so I am subscribed to !german@lemmy.world – yet, almost no one ever posts any questions there for me to answer. (This is in stark contrast to reddit, where there is a very active /r/german.) People who see that community on lemmy probably think no one will ever read their question if they post it there. Chicken and egg problem.

Looking back at my own life, I found the first few online communities I ever seriously joined (when I was a preteen, for context) through a web search, then discovered most others (recursively) from there, until I ended up (among other places) here on lemmy (which I can trace back to reddit, which I can trace back to a forum I started to pay attention to because of one of these original online communities preteen me found through a web search; not providing more info for privacy reasons). :P

So #1 and #3 are how it should work, IMHO, although #3 mostly for people who aren’t yet engaging with anything at all, most things will be discovered through #1.

I think most people use the Internet not for posting anything (or at least not much) themselves, but for looking up things they want to know (through a web search). In the pre-smartphone era, web searches would often direct to specific websites which might have forums attached to them, that was how I first started to seriously engage in my first online community actually. This isn’t the case much nowadays: many search results are either wikis (which are communities themselves, but don’t really invite discussion that isn’t about working on the wiki) or blogs/WordPress websites which may or may not have a comment section, but it’s relatively rare for them to have forums or even to link to reddit/fediverse communities to discuss their subject matter.

So I think it would be desirable if we managed to change that last part: top search results for many terms on search engines should be, or link to, fediverse communities, which should make it clear that users are invited to join. That would help us get more users engaged with fediverse communities in the first place, they would naturally discover more communities once they’re here.

This https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/mostly-skeptical-thoughts-on-the seems to have been broadly right.

You are giving examples in history and changing the dates to the first Trump presidency, which is somewhat confusing.

I was attempting to tell you when those things would have happened if Trump were doing the same things as Hitler. (It’s convenient they both became heads of government in January.)

Those things certainly didn’t happen because the GOP did not have a majority in the legislature.

what? It did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/115th_United_States_Congress#Party_summary

40k what? Euros, US dollars, pesos, Czech koruna, Ukrainian hryvnia, rubles, Australian dollars, pound sterling?

In my country (in the eurozone), at most ATMs I see, the limit of what I can withdraw at once is € 400 (and I usually do withdraw that much so I do not have to withdraw very often). So € 40000 is enough for 100 people to withdraw their maximum between refillings. 100 people isn’t a lot, certainly not in busy locations.

Someone else posted a picture of USD 100000 in cash which gives you an idea of the volume.

Euros are approximately equal in value to US dollars for those who do not know this and have an idea what US dollars are worth.

I have used both in the past, but now use neither of them, have been exclusively a KDE Plasma user for several years by now and no longer feel like trying much different.

GNOME 2 was the first DE I ever used on GNU/Linux, so MATE has a nostalgic feel to me. I do not think Xfce is very radically different from it in its functionality, although the default configuration is somewhat different. This is really mostly a matter of personal taste.

Someone who has been president before, for four years, was elected president again.

I cannot think of anything less similar to a “point of no return”.

You may think of him or his policies what you want (I personally have a mostly negative opinion of him too!), but we have all had four years of opportunity to observe what he does when he is president.

If you are thinking that Trump is like Hitler, then please point me to anything similar to:

• a Capitol Fire Decree of 2017 that says several parts of the Bill of Rights are suspended until further notice
• an Enabling Act of 2017 that gives the president full power to make law including law that violates the constitution
• laws on the Coordination of the States with the Federation of 2017 or a Law on the Reconstruction of the Federation of 2018 giving the federal government full legislative and executive power over the states
• a Law Against the Formation of Parties of 2017 declaring that the Republican Party was the only political party in the US and anyone attempting to form another party would be imprisoned
• a Law on the Abolition of the Senate of 2018 doing exactly what the title implies
• a Law on Measures of State Self-Defense of 2018 retroactively legalizing dozens of extrajudicial killings of Trump’s political rivals

Oh, none of those things happened in the late 2010s? Then why exactly are you expecting them to happen in 2025 or 2026? What is different now?

they are the same thing, this is just a matter of when they are able to stand up to measure them while standing vs while lying, I think

but it was trash at loading html websites

as opposed to websites written in excel 2003 format or what

Look at only communities you’re subscribed to, and unsubscribe from all where talking about the topics you don’t like is allowed.

In other news, water is wet

Because the world is full of contradictions

Bill Gates has a list of favorite books. Ronald Reagan watched Back to the Future.

ideally donations like lots of other FOSS projects

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem