We native speakers of German intuitively pronounce an audible “g” followed by an audible “n” when reading “GNOME” and find it weird that the ordinary word “gnome” is pronounced with a silent “g” in English. The cognate in our first language is “Gnom”, pronounced with two consonants in the beginning, like the desktop environment.

What’s the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to all devices and accesses the data. The other is a hardware standard.

no, exit codes work the other way round: 0 = success, !0 = error

Is it part of the joke (“oversized”) that the comic is way too big for the page, I wonder…

Or you might, we just would have no way of knowing.

I no longer use IRC; when I did, I used KVIrc near the end, which seems to still be getting releases.

This is even funnier when read aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ksx6D3dlE

I can think of plenty that is arguably wrong with at least the GDPR: the definition of “processing of personal data” is so broad that it can arguably cover way more than intended, and the extraterritorial effect sets a precedent that governments can regulate the Internet beyond their borders. But that is off-topic here and I’m not exactly in a mood to write essays about it…

The DMA is one of the very rare examples where it’s a good thing that governments are regulating technology. Most of the time it is a bad thing, but requiring interoperability and sideloading – it’s kind of sad that it’s necessary to solve that by regulation and market forces alone don’t work, yet here we are.

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Parties choose whom to nominate as ministers.

I’m not a voter in Denmark and not familiar with Danish politics; this kind of thing would certainly cause me to vote for a different party.

One could have guessed from the image in the OP. KDE 4.2 is not exactly a recent piece of software anymore.

apparently nominally a member of a social-democratic party

When I was younger, I believed that social-democratic parties were better than conservative ones on matters of civil liberties. I stand corrected on that.

I prefer to think in these terms: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship

Without exception? No, I don’t think that’s true, it’s just the loudest ones, unfortunately.

For genuine free speech supporters like me, this is a problem because it makes the phrase “free speech” look bad and thereby contributes to a decline in it.

You can just ssh to the machine you want to run things on I think?

“umount” is worse

Probably software with only one user who has access to the source code, i.e. trivially FOSS but not publicly available.

Yes, many radio stations have online livestreams, so you can play radio from any device that can connect to the Internet and has an audio output. You can even play radio from your browser, there is a Firefox extension called Worldwide Radio.

Yeah I mean why would you let young people have fun or anything like that? If they are constantly bored, they will certainly be happier. Or something…