In Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, the NPC who asks “where are you from” and we get the options “yes” and “no”.

(He has not heard of yes town, nor does he believe we don’t come from anywhere at all.)

Well, for most real-world programming languages, you do have to teach syntax. You do not have to use the word “syntax”, you can call it something else.

Obviously there are things like Scratch that are intended for your exact use case.

I don’t think you need to use the word “syntax” at all when teaching anyone basic coding. There are many ways to paraphrase the concept. It is kind of an odd question, why that specific word?

The idea is that privacy laws in the EU arguably normally make it illegal for messaging providers to even voluntarily scan messages for illegal activity (including child pornography). What’s being proposed is an exemption to that so that they can scan voluntarily.

That is no longer in the realm of governments trying to oppress us, we are now talking about business regulation. It would not prohibit anyone from running their own messaging server or running any software on their own device.

In any case, the IPA above doesn’t seem “unpronounceable” at all to me as a native speaker of German and fluent speaker of English. The pronunciation isn’t intuitive from the spelling, that is quite a different thing from being unpronounceable.

I don’t use one except for work (to connect to corporate networks).

A VPN mostly changes which entity you have to trust (from your ISP to your VPN provider). I don’t have a reason to distrust my ISP any more than any VPN provider. I don’t have any need to regularly get around any geoblocking.

When I do privacy-sensitive things, I use Tor, which is actually effective at hiding who I am and what I am doing.

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

Some people may not have known this. I didn’t know until now that there were other producers of that CPU architecture.

Do you have a link to a source for this?

to be clear, I obviously think the campaign against chat control is a very good and very necessary thing; I shared the article because I found the campaign methods interesting and also wanted to draw more attention to what’s going on, not because I agree with all of its framing (although I understood the “spam” in the headline to be tongue-in-cheek, maybe not everyone did though?).

which is not end-to-end encrypted either

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

I remember reading a post somewhere on the threadiverse that contained a list of all websites one AI crawler was using for training, there were several Lemmy instances on it. It would even be possible to set up an instance only to crawl it.

You might want to post something publicly, but conceal who you are. Tor can help with that.

Much of AI training happens on the entire public web, including here.

normally yes, you should use a better app if it doesn’t (or maybe your instance disabled downvotes)

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.

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.

Switzerland has a comparable number of guns as we do, and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago

so does he believe that Swiss people do not play video games, or what

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