Maybe it was silently assumed but nobody so far mentioned the endless stream of scrapers that go through my probably juicy but private instance. I‘m banning a new bot every week and by now they have switched to distributed actions. I get over 400 requests per hour by a couple ips for the same stuff with changing useragents because I wrote automated detection mechanisms. I might just make my instance login only.

No problem: the digital services act and the digital markets act. The best write up I could find ad hoc is this

Among other potential abuses, yes.

People and companies have abused the judicial system as long as it has been in place. We havent (and shouldnt) dismantle it just because it can be abused.

That is correct. It neither needs to be nor is a society that allows abuse of power „civil“.

This new development showed that the ever going „we win, you lose, and you‘ll be happy about it“ does in fact have an antidote, although a horrific and regrettable one.

We have gone far into the fight on principles here.

Yes, free speech

No spreading lies, period.

They‘re devolving into the gestapo of megacorps.

Defamation is very far away from our current situation. Europe is on the correct path imo in holding those who profit from disinformation accountable.

There should be no right to abuse others verbally or spread disinformation. Of course you can always use this in bad faith as a government but that is what we have assasins for.

Yes indeed.

Free speech or freeze peach as I call the populist american approach is no right. It is just a way for people to manipulate the lesser privileged.

The european way of free speech is you are allowed to say whatever you want as long as you harm noone with it. Knowingly spreading lies is the latter. If thats anti free speech to you, then tough luck.

Of course not. My point stands though.

The eu is doing a somewhat decent job pushing for platform liability although I would say we need more and harder measures in that case.

Of course all your points apply too so the skill of fact checking needs to be honed. But keeping potential drivers of misinformation accountable is paramount.

I agree. Especially 404 media is known to me. But you‘re taking my idea literally. Of course there are situations where this isnt feasible but in the vast majority, the need for backing up a claim outweighs the need for confidentiality.

For example „migrants have again attacked innocent native“ is a popular leading headline which has no real news value but drives opinions and disinformation.

A newspaper could be required to back up such a claim with sources proving that on average, migrants will unprovokedly attack native born people who are on average innocent (which all is bullshit, therefore this headline would become illegal).

Or maybe we require large newspapers and other single owner/large audience influencers to cite sources if they make claims and make them liable if it turns out to be false… because we‘re unable to read our medications instructions or the terms of the products we use.

I‘m not against education. But i would like to hold people who make claims accountable additionally to enabling the public to do research.

The reason I believe sequels are doing good is:

1. movie theaters have been perverted into massive and expensive hype fests
2. in strong opposition, past movie theaters were not expensive to go to and got you entertained in a social setting
3. due to the rise of large chains, small and cheaper theaters have died out.
4. assumption: the price to rent a movie for your theater will probably be horrendous by now
5. sequels have kind of a known quality which lowers the hurdle
6. that means new movies could be watched in smaller theaters and would have to be sustainable for those

Check the site https://verfassungsschutz.de/

There you have sections leftist and fascist extremism and numbers to go along. Leftist crimes are around 4k, fascist around 23k iirc in the recent past (2023)

Germany in the meantime: „leftist extremism is threatening the democratic system“ [quote from the constitution protection agency] while fascist crimes outnumber them 5 to 1. All that while the EU keeps trying to sneak chatcontrol by us through the backdoor, again and again.

I dont have that much hope for our world tbh.

Quick update on this: Deepcomputing provided a video mere 19 hrs ago at this point, showing how to download and reflash an ubuntu image.

The scarcity of information around the product is kind of sad from their side but I appreciate the effort.

Some more information: The cpu registers as spacemit X60 on /proc/cpuinfo but as spacemit k1-x kx107 board in neofetch’s host info.

From a lot of reading, I gathered that the cores seem to be X60, the soc being the K1 but dont quote me on that.