If you aren’t buying premium, maybe you are instead saving money to buy some of the things that are advertised to you. I have plenty of disposable income and could probably buy some of the things I see in ads; I don’t like wasting money on things I don’t need, so I buy neither YT Premium nor most things that I see in ads.

Also, if some of the things that are advertised to you are things you do occasionally need (like food), then your argument likewise doesn’t work.

Not a lot, even the argument in https://xkcd.com/504/ doesn’t really work for this. First Amendment meanwhile…

transitioning to closed intranet

I think that’s the goal of governments around the world, especially that of the UK.

We, as humanity, had a chance to create a utopia of unrestricted worldwide communication. We are currently letting our governments destroy it.

The UK government decided in 2022 not to amend the Gambling Act 2005 to include loot boxes, saying no evidence showed a “causative link” to harms.

Since when has that been something that stopped the UK government from trying to regulate technology and curtail its citizens’ digital freedoms?

Never tell anyone your real name or address

more importantly, if you do know the real identity of another participant, don’t reveal it

It’s not anymore tho, they switched to the euro a few months ago. 😜

Yugoslavia continued to exist after that with reduced territory (today’s Serbia and Montenegro). I have childhood memories of the existence of Yugoslavia, but not of Czechoslovakia.

The way I remember it, on old phones before smartphones, speakerphone was a very obscure feature that many users didn’t know how to turn on. I certainly didn’t (I was a child at the time) unless someone showed me.

On modern smartphones it’s very easy, maybe that should be changed again. 😁

I use speakerphone a lot in my own home too when no one is around. It’s just more comfortable to hold my phone in front of me instead of to my ear. Never in public unless specific other people need to hear it.

Seriously though; most citizenship tests I’ve seen in my life (on the Internet; I’ve never changed my citizenship, so have never actually taken one) ask about things like how various governmental institutions work, not the dimensions of randomly selected landmarks. Is this a well known piece of information in the UK?

There are many countries where that is the case for various political offices… the two houses of Congress in the US also have (somewhat lower) age requirements.

Was will man mehr? Ist ja nicht so, als würde es den meisten Leuten Spaß machen, einer Erwerbsarbeit nachzugehen, sondern das macht man, weil man es muss.

Nicht jeder hat jedes Jahr eine Erkältung, die schwer genug ist, um einen Krankenstand zu rechtfertigen. Ich etwa hatte 2024 keinen einzigen Krankenstandstag.

As much as I like open source software, I do not think that these kinds of bills are legitimate even for closed source software.

maybe that too, but mainly it was the move from desktops to smartphones and tablets, which Flash was (at minimum) not very suited for if it was supported at all

This may be the only good thing caused by the existence of iOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

Everyone who liked free and open source software and open standards and such things, which Flash was very much the antithesis of.

They’re different but compatible pieces of software.

A major difference is that Lemmy doesn’t allow following individual (microblogging) accounts, only communities. The other three allow following both AFAIK.

Is the source code already available?

I would have copy-pasted it verbatim no matter what the output would have been, didn’t know what it would be before. :D

I didn’t even tell ChatGPT what the contents should be, I just told it to write a public speech about your initial showerthought, didn’t give it any instructions what it should or shouldn’t say.

In fact I agree with you that it ended up as an ironic illustration of what AI writing is like at its worst.