Also, at least in the EU, the laws have not just banned public straws but also a bunch of other single-use, non-degradable items. Plastic cutlery, qtips, and takeout food containers were banned too or severely limited. And there’ve been a lot of improvements that incentivise reusable containers over throwaway ones too.

Nope, steht tatsächlich genau so in der DSGVO (Art. 6 Abs. 1f)

die Verarbeitung ist zur Wahrung der berechtigten Interessen des Verantwortlichen oder eines Dritten erforderlich, sofern nicht die Interessen oder Grundrechte und Grundfreiheiten der betroffenen Person, die den Schutz personenbezogener Daten erfordern, überwiegen, insbesondere dann, wenn es sich bei der betroffenen Person um ein Kind handelt.

Ausdenken darf man sich als Firma diese Interessen auch nicht einfach so. Es gibt dazu einen Abschnitt im Anhang der DSGVO, der das genauer erläutert. Man muss auf jeden Fall genau begründen können, warum ein berechtigtes Interesse vorliegt. Im Grunde sollen unter diesen Begriff alle Datenverarbeitungen, die nicht für den bestimmten Zweck (für den du als User den Service benutzt) gebraucht werden, aber trotzdem für die Aufrechterhaltung des Services notwendig sind. Trotzdem gibt es keine Themenbegrenzung, weshalb das, was Firmen als berechtigtes Interesse bezeichhnen, oft sehr willkürlich erschient. Ich kenne von meiner Arbeit z.B. folgende Dinge, die darunter fallen können:

• IT-Sicherheit (z.B. das Lokalisieren von IP-Adressen gegen Spam/DDoS )
• Vermeidung von Betrug (z.B. durch Weitergabe von Kundendaten an die Schufa)
• “Direktmarketing” (d.h. Adresssammlung fürs Zuschicken von postalischer nicht-personalisierter Werbung)

… der übrigens ein feststehender Rechtsbegriff aus der DSGVO ist. Nur fallen da alle mögliche Sachen drunter, weshalb die Verwendung super verwirrend ist.

Link?

Mit Easterhegg und Gulaschorogrammiernacht gibt es sowas ja schon. Das Problem ist eher, das alles organisiert zu bekommen.

Tor is an application and technically doesn’t even has much to do with Linux itself, except that it also runs on it. Where you using a guide for installing and if so which one?

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

Very insightful look into the mechanisms of minimalist design and their shortcomings.

Minimalism as a design trend dates back to the beginning of the last century, but you might have noticed that companies have extensively used minimalist principles in their product design in the past few years. Apple is especially known for this, but you see it everywhere nowadays. Cars, fridges, TVs… they are all stripped of any extravagant design features: fewer buttons, no ornaments, single colors, and so on. Even if you are not designer, you have probably noticed that in some way.

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.

It is federated though? It’s literally the first sentence in their specification: https://spec.matrix.org/latest/

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

Matrix is also decentralized/federated, has encryption integrated into the protocol and enjoys a broad adoption and public support. It also has pretty good integration of bots and even other message protocol services like IRC via “bridges”. The chat clients are pretty good too; Element is pretty much available for every platform but there’s other one’s which are more focussed on Desktop or mobile usage, depending on how you primarily use it.

Both have their own instances: https://social.bund.de and https://social.network.europa.eu

https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-support-general:discuss.online

Just type /c/android@lemmy.world and it will automatically create a link in your post.

I’m pretty sure there is no particular reason why it’s done this way. It’s just the easiest method to coomunicate upvotes across different servers. There are already a lot of ideas for doing it differently or more efficient (e.g. vote aggregation) but that requires a more sophisticated architecture:

• Vote aggregation also makes faking votes much more efficient and requires different detection methods. Of course, a spam server can also invent users or votes but it’s a bit more complicated.
• Aggregation in any form can be hard to implement because it should be flexible enough to reduce load but not increase delay or make tracking a consistent state even harder. Finding the right configuration will be difficult and go through a lot of trial and error. Should be easier though now that more people are working on the code.
• Keep in mind that Lemmy should also be able to communicate with other services across the Fediverse like Mastodon via ActivityPub. I’m not sure if there is something in the standard for message aggregation yet. It’s definitely being discussed because Mastodon, Pixelfed and Peertube all have or went thorugh the same growth problems as Lemmy in terms of scaling, spam and security concerns. If there’s a good solution it will likely come through the AP standard.

In the browser when you hover over the display name, you should see the full username. I don’t know how it’s shown in the various apps but it should appear if you view the user’s profile.

Thank you, Mrs. Halo!

Wait until you learn that PDFs support embedded Javascript.