It’s easier to start with the small things, like moving to another email provider (I used mailo for a while, which is free and independent, that I really like), changing your search engine (DuckDuckGo is free and a great “gateway” in my opinion), and/or using alternative front-ends for Youtube videos (like Invidious). Once you get used to those, it’s easier to see the value of de-googlifying other stuff! I still use Google Calendar and have an Android phone, but I don’t use many other Google products anymore :)

I am incredibly lucky to live in a country that strongly protects workers, to have no children and to be able to afford an apartment 10mins away from my partner’s place rather than living together and depending on each other’s calendar. I remember how lucky I am every day. I really hope the baby is doing well and that things will settle down in a year or two - obviously it’s still not going to be “unspoken for time”, but hopefully things will settle down a bit at least!

Congrats on the new job and on enjoying spin class!!

That sounds like an absolute nightmare, I’m really sorry. I hope everything will end up fine.

Oooo enjoy the weekend, whatever you end up doing!

Congrats on making it through the exams and good luck for finding the summer job!

I took next week off from work just because I can and I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’d like to make the most of it but I can’t decide between doing something really cool and doing nothing at all; both are tempting!

Otherwise, things are going pretty great. I might be able to go full remote at work (which would mean I don’t need to quit anymore), and I’ve prepared a wonderful peach, feta & cucumber salad for lunch.

Fun fact: this applies for pretty much every language, except for 50% of French punctuation.

Communities don’t need to have a single specific language and being able to share in our own language in a general community, especially outside of English, would be amazing. I know I’ve posted some content to book-related communities in French and was glad not to post to an empty French community, and I got some interaction on this.

Agree with Flaky that we really need a default language choice to not have to set it up every time, though.

I really don’t think this pact has any legal value to begin with.

Well the good news if that with the literal hundred plums you have, you can afford to “waste” plums until you figure out how to make proper jam! :)

That’s an excellent question and I’m glad you raised it. I need to care more about accessibility and learn more about security in general :)

Not a moderator here, but in general, what annoyed me the most was people breaching the very first rule in the pinned post / FAQ / welcome post / etc.

Honeypots - ask a very easy question, but make it hidden on the website so that human users won’t see it and bots will answer it.

They shouldn’t. They should have a blog and share the link here and on Mastodon. Social media is not the right place for long-form content.

I was thinking “lifetime opt-in but no retroactive effect”, but a “grace period” could be interesting for viral cases, yeah!

I’d go with the following:

• Everything is CC-BY by default, copyright is opt-in.
• If someone opts in to copyright, it ends whenever they die (I’m going to be nice and say “until the last person dies” for a group project).

I hate copyright, but understand that some people really want to keep their work for themselves. Maybe they can do that - in a world where copyrighting isn’t default, we’d have so much to choose from that we wouldn’t need the content made by the kind of people who decide to prevent sharing their work.

Wonderful, thank you!

As many potential rooms as possible in as many locations as possible, and no way to distinguish the right one. Of course, rotate it regularly.

Here are some feeds in English that I like:

My subscriptions elsewhere (consolidation)

• https://beehaw.org/feeds/local.xml?sort=Active - the RSS feed for my Lemmy subscriptions (replace the instance with yours if necessary)
• Loads of RSS feeds for Mastodon hashtags that I enjoy
• Archive of our own feeds for certain fandoms
• RSS feeds for each Nebula channel I follow
• Inoreader allows me to sync YouTube subscriptions, so I do that too
• A bunch of Medium blogs

Blogs I recommend

• Ask a Manager is a great column advice
• Autostraddle, amazing lesbian & trans magazine
• Ben Werdmuller, a tech guy who still makes sense to non-tech me
• Blogroll.org to find out about cool indie blogs
• Chris Coyier talks about libre software in a not-too-scary-and-techy way
• CrimethInc and their Peertube channel for regular anarchy talk
• Darnell talks about the Fediverse
• Peertube news for Peertube news
• The trans advice column, for trans people & allies
• Walled culture on open access to culture and anti-copyright
• When/If, one of the few leftist survivalist blogs out there