multiple operating systems, I’m not so sure but I can’t imagine that it’s impossible

The keyword is virtualization.

??? Highly unclear what exactly you are imagining.

And yet, the Internet also created the free culture movement. There has long been a vocal movement on the Internet for making copyright less restrictive. I have long been sympathetic to such; copying is not theft…

So I don’t find that outrageous in isolation, though I do find it hypocritical because Microsoft is otherwise very much not a company in favor of less restrictive copyright, certainly not as far as its own source code is concerned.

So, how would your ideal social media platform decide what to show to the user in what priority?

I use Mastodon with a chronological feed and it works very well for me. I check it every few hours or even minutes during waking hours (depending on how bored I am) and get a huge share of my news that way. Most of my activity here on Lemmy is posting articles I discover through that exact feed.

But of course, the context here is a certain bill introduced in Australia, to which the correct response would be more similar to this article: https://www.freezenet.ca/what-the-media-didnt-tell-you-about-the-australian-off-switch-bill/

Revenue so far: $0

and let us hope it stays that way

because these politicians know extremely little about the Internet

I started participating in online communities in the 2000s. The “social media” we had back then was web forums, organized by topics and sorted chronologically. I was young enough at the time that it is now permanently stored in my brain that that is the normal way the Internet should be like, and everything popularized since then (recommendation algorithms, the idea that we should follow people instead of topics, even the idea that websites shouldn’t be specific to certain topics) is a deviation from normalcy.

I know, rationally, that those deviations from normalcy are now the new normal (even the fediverse is “only” an attempt to improve further on that, not a move toward the Internet of the 2000s), but there is still a part of my brain that doesn’t accept this.

But I very strongly suspect that those politicians, in Australia and elsewhere, who are now trying to regulate the Internet, never posted anything to a traditional web forum, or edited a wiki, or anything like that. To them, “social media” became a thing (at all!) in around 2008 to 2010 when they created Twitter and Facebook accounts in order to communicate with their voters. (Reality check: social media has been a thing since, at the latest, the 1980s, when Usenet was invented.)

If they don’t know that the Internet is not Facebook, then it’s unsurprising when they regulate the internet as if it’s all just Facebook, so that all that will be left is Facebook. Sad times we are living in.

apparently you cared enough to write a comment about it

No, the translation I was referring to didn’t say “Kursive”, it said “kursiv”, I definitely remember that. That was the episode with Cypress Creek and Hank Scorpio where Bart is asked whether he never learned cursive…

“Kursiv” really just translates back to “italic” despite being a cognate of “cursive”. Outside one bad translation of a Simpsons episode, I have never heard connected handwriting referred to as “kursiv” in German.

All games have a PC version. Not all games have a released PC version.

Development is done on PCs, so all games are first tested there…

I would not do that without first looking into applicable laws regarding legal liability for content and requirements to remove things. Depending on where in the world you are, this can be a minefield.

That’s the one, thanks. I thought this happened much earlier than 2013 for some reason.

Wasn’t there a long time ago a genuine bug report in Mozilla’s bug tracker reporting that the source code was publicly available and this was insecure? I can’t quickly find it because I can’t think of good search terms…

I think that has happened before, though?

On Microsoft’s own new hardware? Almost “not the onion” material…

It’s one of the best FOSS games I know. That is not a very high bar, admittedly; I suggest trying I out.

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neither of these people seems to be using Linux, so why is this a Linux meme?