@Linux @Eninic The thing is that updating from Xenial to Focal has been a huge effort for a small team, especially since a lot of dependencies were patched rather than upstreamed for Xenial. Focal will be more upstream, so the next update should hopefully be less demanding.
Everybody would love to be on 22.04 already, but doing a huge amount of work in a small team takes time. For now 20.04 will be huge.
For 22.04 sooner, contributions or donations help. :)
@ernmander@floss.social @downey If you still have the ubports installer, it should be able to update the phone without deleting any of your data. :)
@old_baby @rvawonk Sometimes it's important to document things even when they're not surprising, even though it might not seem all too intuitive.
Take the current world championship in Quatar. Not a single person on planet earth with any knowledge of the situation is remotely surprised that FIFA is deeply corrupt and that infrastructure was built using modern day slavery. Still, we need to cover these things and to turn assumptions into knowledge. :)
Orwell: A Homage To Catalonia.
I read Down and Out in Paris and London some years ago, and figured I'd follow up with more autobiographical Orwell. This one is more journalistic than his other books, but it's a fantastic account for whoever is interested in that part of European history. I'm a political scientist , and learning A LOT about the politics of the war.
For Whom the Bell Tolls is probably a lighter read about the war though, and Down and Out is a more accessbile Orwell autobiography.
@matv1 @survey I get where you're coming from. The thing is, I _need_ a communication device. I _want_ a FOSS communication device.
If I stopped using these services it would be a pain in the ass for everyone in my personal life wanting to keep in contact, and a significant challenge for my professional life.
Of course it's not ideal. But writing people off simply because they need their phones to to be able to communicate with people isn't ideal either.
@Brantgaard@mastodontech.de @mjgardner Worth noting that since the German authorities run their own instance, the webmaster who would have the insight to this information is a state employee. Which is probably preferable to any other platform where it would be played directly into the hands of foreign intelligence.
But I sincerely hope they have better safety protocols than communicating with DMs on social media...
@kathygriffin @rvawonk Then again, why would anyone spread lies about the weather.
@pkrugman Interesting! I guess rural areas, aka generally republican strongholds, also have greater distances/faster traffic, and possibly lower incomes/less safe cars.
Of course, greater distances should ideally have been a huge advantage during COVID, but we all know the GOP eliminated that advantage.
It wouldn't surprise me if republicans were less likely to wear seatbelts than their neighbour democrats, but I think we'd need better data to conclude on anything like that.
@brewsterkahle Lovely!
The theme of the Florentiner march is a conversation - the ligthter tones representing a Florentine lady talking non-stop, with her German companion just barely managing to sneak in a "ja-wohl" now and then (in darker tones).
In Italy, people from Florence (and women in particular) are known not to be particularly talkative - but next to the average German, even a reserved Italian would sound like the lady in this march!
@jobi Check out #Funkwhale! It connects to the fediverse just like mastodon, so people will be able to follow you from here, but it's made for sharing music. :)
https://funkwhale.audio/
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Maybe if we start calling our body parts gun-sounding names like “revulva” or “shooterus” the GOP will stop trying to regulate them.
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@molly0xfff Aaah, something as rare as a bi-partisan group in American politics. It's wonderful to see that through all the hate, they can still be united in sheer incompetence ❤️
@ravenonthill I understand where you come from! It's tempting to blame only Russia, Trump, and the GOP for the lack of trust in the media in the US, but I think it's fair to say the media industry is not innocent either.
And people should get angry - but the anger needs to be used for good. Bad actors are generally motivated by recieving anger in social media; online hate is the only human interaction some of these people get.
@ravenonthill @adamdavidson @froomkin Of course, I don't think anyone meant to imply this should be the only guiding principle.
Of course, here it gets more complicated to draw the line. Misinformation is a huge problem, and this is part of the reason why a closed instance for journalists is a good idea to begin with.
As for articles from the New York Times, I think there should be room to discuss them - especially if one thinks the content is subpar.
@ravenonthill @adamdavidson @froomkin Adam is referring to a nontolerance for personal insults here. That doesn't mean you have to respect everyone's opinions as equally worthy - it just means you have to treat them as if they were made in good faith.
Disagreements are welcome, but it should never be about the person.
I struggle to understand how you could be this opposed to a "no personal insults" policy, so I'll let you elaborate - what's the problem?
@adamdavidson @froomkin The point I wanted to make was, however, that these things are challenging, and I thing you and the team are doing a great job on it. Nothing about this even comes close to content moderation issues I've read about in other platforms.
@adamdavidson @froomkin By content I meant to refer to the content of the toots - not the shared media. So the insults would be part of the content. Sorry for not making that clear!
I think it's fair for journa.host to mandate higher standards of civility than other instances - nobody wants to see a bunch of journalists engulfed in flame wars.
What fascinates me the most is just the reach of this whole saga - how this ended up in the NYT makes me question a thing or two.
@adamdavidson @froomkin As far as I can see, the entire article boils down to "sometimes, content moderation is difficult".
And at the core of the whole debate is a couple of posts that would be considered mild by Twitter standards. I guess people are just starving for drama.
In the end, the challenge of an instance like this might be to establish a culture rather than to moderate content. Hopefully that will get easier once people get used to the fact that they're not on Twitter any more.
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