In the 2000s I thought that due to more and more people being on the internet, stories like this would be very common in the future, not just for the government, but private entities too.

In reality: Most things that happen at most workplaces are not interesting enough to leak, and most people do not want to risk their careers for something like this. So it’s still relatively rare.

Austrian here, I work in software development, I have encountered people before who didn’t speak much German and whom I had to speak English with. I think you’d be fine around here, we’re a pretty generic Western culture I think.

You could try creating an account on kbin/mbin instead of lemmy, my understanding is that that gives you the “threadiverse” and the microblogging fediverse on one platform, though I have not tried it yet.

On Lemmy you can only follow communities, not individuals.

absolutely this, here in Austria most of our books are obviously written in German, so many of them have prices for Germany, Austria and sometimes Switzerland on them, but obviously not for other neighboring countries because the books for them are written in Italian, Slovak, etc.

I always find it funny when I read a lemmy thread that’s being posted in by microbloggers who just start all replies with @ followed by usernames of people they’re replying to.

They’re a lot younger than me too… but I was on the Internet, including in some mostly-adult communities, at 16 too (not so much at 13). Many of my formative experiences took place there and so I see absolutely nothing wrong with what they’re doing.

no, I’m very certain I’ve never seen one, this article certainly doesn’t have one

I don’t have a “main social media app”. I use Lemmy and Mastodon on mobile; Reddit and Facebook only on desktop.

You’re living under a rock, aren’t you? I keep reading about it nearly everywhere, way more than I would like to.

It’s a microblogging platform, i.e. replacement for Twitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky

you can sort !casualconversation@lemm.ee by “new comments”

Last decade it was “destroyed”

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/21/these-are-a-few-more-of-my-least-favorite-things/ point 2

WordPress has an ActivityPub plugin. I suspect you already know about it.

Some months ago I read about something called “Ghost” which either already has or is planning to add ActivityPub integration.

I’m here, I don’t answer to anywhere near all questions I see though.

No, you can’t go to real court. You’re actually kinda getting at something more serious: This is true for all crimes. Especially also drug crimes. That is why the prohibition of drugs causes violent crime: the only way to enforce contracts over illegal drugs is through violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Alabama

Both houses were all-Democratic from 1975 to 1978, then more and more Republicans were elected to them, only from 2011 do they have a majority.

Many state legislatures in the Southern US (e.g. Alabama) had Democratic majorities until 2010.

Do people really think audio CDs aren’t around anymore? I bought several audio CDs in the last few years, I prefer to have local copies of music I like rather than depending on a streaming service.

The terminology of this map confuses me quite a bit. Austria has mostly right-hand traffic nowadays, the Franz-Josefs-Bahn being the only exception I am aware of; it used to be a lot more mixed until the early-to-mid-2010s.

Paris has more than one terminus.

The article is from September, why is it it being posted now?