FOSS die-hards may not agree, but this kind of threading-the-needle can be done well, and honestly, IMHO. A good example is the content-management framework Directus, which essentially makes it free to use in most cases, unless you make more than $5 million in finances per year, at which point you need to start paying for it. Not purely open source, but it throws FOSS folks a bone by making it so that versions of the software that are more than three years old revert to the General Public License.

This has nothing to do with being a FOSS die-hard. Three year old versions are basically completely useless if you plan to run anything resembling a secure website.

Meanwhile a license that is attached to the amount of income of the legal entity (company, organization,…) instead of the project is never going to be popular because those values can easily change by reorganizations that have very little to do with the actual project.

Because for 90% of the time since then the same corrupt party has been in power.

Considering a lot of polls are conducted in ways that are self-limiting (e.g. voluntary over landline phones) it is not that absurd that they might all (or a significant enough percentage to screw with results) would read e.g. the same major newspaper (e.g. BILD in Germany has a lot of misinformation).

not sure who told you that nuclear reactors cost half a trillion dollars to build, or are you thinking they would be building 30+ reactors?

Are you under the impression that a single nuclear reactor would make a dent in Germany’s energy requirements?

That must be why you people are suggesting to turn the extremely old German reactors back on that have had limited maintenance under the assumption that they would be turned off for decades now.

The sabotage of solar and wind energy by Altmaier during the CDU government has had a bigger impact than the removal of the few percent of power we got from nuclear. Not to mention that nuclear fuel has the exact same problems as fossil fuels in that major sources of nuclear fuel are in Russia.

As opposed to thinking we could replace fossil fuels with nuclear power faster than we can replace them with renewables which is obviously a totally sane belief given how large construction projects are going… /s

Wouldn’t it depend a lot on how many of those people consume the exact same information sources on topics like this where the average person has no real clue at all to make their own judgement?

Said like someone who has never encountered the concept of opportunity costs.

That is because people are bad about making April Fools stories. They are supposed to be about outrageous things that are technically possible but not likely.

Granted, it used to be easier before ridiculous stories like “major new legislation likely written by AI chat bots” were common enough to plausibly happen.

Mostly RSS feeds of either the upstream projects directly (e.g. Rust Blog about Rust news, OpenSSL releases about OpenSSL,…), blogs by people I have noticed write interesting things (e.g. Cory Doctorow) or collections of news like This Week in Rust.

It was massively unpopular among the relevant demographic, the Tiktok user. Those are the ones you would want to reach obviously.

But that would be a very unpopular move that might even be counter-productive while selling them Tiktok would just be handing them everything they want on a silver platter.

And you think nobody outside of the US is interested in preventing the US from having a total propaganda stranglehold on their own population?

If anything large US companies signaling a desire to buy would make it less likely that a sale actually happens. The awareness that social media has the ability to influence users politically is very much there now and nobody wants that all in the hands of one country, especially one as adversarial as the US.

If most are reuploads anyway that kills the whole argument that deleting things works though.

Way ahead of them. I just buy stuff from other websites now without Amazon or AI involvement.

Who said anything about punishing the people hosting the sites. I was talking about punishing the people uploading and producing the content. The ones doing the part that is orders of magnitude worse than anything else about this.

I am not talking about CSA, I am talking about video material of CSA. Most countries with marriage ages that low have much more wide-spread bans on videos including sex of any kind.

As for prosecution, yes, it is still illegal if it is not prosecuted. There are many reasons not to prosecute something ranging all the way from resource and other means related concerns to intentionally turning a blind eye and only a small minority of them would lead that country to actively sabotage a major international investigation, especially after the trade-offs are considered (such as loss of international reputation by refusing to cooperate).

Whatever you think it does it certainly doesn’t get rid of SMTP, IMAP, RFC822, Quoted Printable and half a dozen other encodings only used in email, MIME/Multipart, email addresses that require 8000 character regular expressions to get anywhere close to validating the full spec, the ability to send mails to anyone by anyone or anything else I was talking about.