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@Baku @beeng Or Boronia.

Because when you say the name, you think of... Boronia.

@Ilandar Most major platforms are based in the US.

A DMCA request basically means the flagged content is taken down globally, not just for the US.

If the person who uploaded that content is not a US citizen, it still gets pulled.

@LostXOR @yogthos @NoIWontPickAName @technology There's a few other steps they could potentially take.

The first would be to block any financial institution in the US, or that deals with the US, from sending any payments to or from ByteDance's accounts.

They could also freeze any assets currently held by US financial institutions.

Second, if they can get Apple, Microsoft, and Google on board to help do their bidding, they could pull the ByteDance app from the Apple and Google Play app stores.

That includes removing it from any apps where it's already installed. Globally.

They could also request that TikTok is removed from Google and Bing search results.

On top of this, they could do what you suggested, and ask ISPs and mobile carriers to block domains and IP addresses used by ByteDance.

And the US could apply diplomatic pressure on other countries to implement similar financial and ISP-level blocks and bans.

So, potentially, it's also blocked in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and elsewhere.

@shirro @MHLoppy @australia The irony here is that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a piece of US legislation that is regularly used to take down content globally. Even when it's posted by people who aren't Americans.

@crispyflagstones @yogthos Someone is named @dansup who also created @pixelfed, the app is called Loops, you can follow his progress here: @loops

@CEOofmyhouse56 How did it turn out?

And I've been thinking about possibly getting an air fryer — maybe just a cheap one from Kmart or something. Almost all the recipes that have been showing up in my Instagram feed lately use one.

@CEOofmyhouse56 That looks so delicious. I think I need an air fryer 😊

At our house, wifey's favourite is wings with barbecue sauce.

I usually season the drumsticks the night before with a mix of salt, pepper, paprika, chilli powder, basil, oregano, onion powder, and garlic powder.

Then I pour over a mix of Stubb's and Sweet Baby Ray's barbecue sauce, and let it marinade overnight.

@shirro @tardigrada
Not just would, but has.

Here's the "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk, in his own words, in 2023:

"The rules in India for what can appear on social media are quite strict, and we can’t go beyond the laws of a country … If we have a choice of either our people go to prison or we comply with the laws, we will comply with the laws."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/29/tech/elon-musk-twitter-government-takedown/index.html

@CEOofmyhouse56 Any sauces that you're cooking it in? Or any sides with it?

@skribe @danbeeston @Salvo The other option would be to set up an official gov.au Mastodon instance, and give each government department, agency, and Parliamentarian an official account.

People can then have their choice of instance, whether that's community run or private (e.g. Threads).

In the longer term, there might be scope for some other government institutions — particularly universities — to set up their own instances as well.

@Ilandar @quoll You mean like the US government's Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct

@quicken @tardigrada Really great point.

If Albo really wanted to send a message to Musk, here's how he could do it:

1. Ask all federal Labor MPs to stop posting on X, and start posting on Mastodon.
2. Order all federal government departments and agencies to stop posting on X, and start posting on Mastodon.
3. Bribe the states to do the same.

"Hi Queensland, guess what? We just found a billion dollars under the couch for a shiny new Olympic stadium. Hi Tasmania, likewise for your new AFL stadium. And look Victoria, here's a few billion for the airport rail link — we'll cover the cost difference to put the airport station underground.

"But only if you direct all your MPs, departments, and agencies to switch to Mastodon."

@Seagoon @CEOofmyhouse56 And more often than not, the answer is lame.

"You'll never believe what this '90s heartthrob looks like now!"

It looks like him, but 30 years older.

And I would believe it, because he was famous 30 years ago.

"You'll never believe what the kids of this celebrity are doing now!"

Going to uni.

Because they're in their early 20s.

@CEOofmyhouse56 Tonight, I will try to avoid eating my partner's hamburger again 😂

@airwhale @CEOofmyhouse56 Just as a precaution, at lunchtime I stopped by Maccas to get a replacement burger.

"I was only pretending to be mad at you," she now says 😊

@CEOofmyhouse56 It's okay, I have a hidden stash of chocolate for times like this...

@CEOofmyhouse56 Yes 🤭

@CEOofmyhouse56 So...

My partner and I were feeling lazy and we got Maccas.

And I kinda, accidentally, ate her burger.

I'm getting the silent treatment now 😞

@Naich @ardi60 Totally agree.

I mean, Windows is just such a weird proprietary distro.

It doesn't use the latest Linux kernel, or even a mainstream POSIX-compliant alternative like BSD. Instead, you have a strange CP/M-like monolithic kernel — I think they used to call it DOS — that's been extended to behave more like VAX and MP/M.

It also doesn't use either X11 or Wayland as a display manager. Instead, you have an incredibly unintuitive overblown WINE-like subsystem handling the display.

Because it doesn't use Linux, Wayland, or X11, you are limited in the desktop environment that you can use. There's really limited support for KDE, despite the best efforts of volunteers.

Instead, there's a buggy and error-prone proprietary window manager that ships with it by default. A bit like how Canonical tried to ship Unity as it's default desktop environment with Ubuntu.

And confusingly, they've named that window manager Windows as well!

That window manager lacks many of the features an everyday Gnome or KDE user would expect out of the box.

It also doesn't ship with a standard package manager, and most of the packages ship as x86 binaries, so installing software works differently to how an everyday Linux user would expect.

There's also only one company maintaining all of these projects. It insists on closed source, and it has a long history of abandoning its projects.

And sure, if you're a nerd who's into alternative operating systems, toying with Windows can be fun.

But if your grandpa is used to Linux, frankly he'll be utterly bamboozled by the Windows experience.

I'm sorry to be glib, because Windows does have some nice ideas.

But.

Windows on the desktop just isn't ready for your average, everyday Linux user.

Linux #Windows #PC

@zerakith To be clear here, I am talking primarily here about corporate or organisational level here.

By net versus gross, I mean the difference between continuing to pollute, but "offsetting" that pollution, versus getting their gross pollution as close to zero as possible.

There's many orgs and businesses out there claiming to have a plan to reach, or have reached, net zero (or net negative).

And in many cases, what they're talking about is basically their direct emissions (scope one) and offsite energy (scope two). Not their supply chain (scope three).

And what they really mean is that they'll continue to pollute, and just buy the cheapest carbon offsets available. In many cases, those cheapest available offsets are of dubious value.

That all sounds great in a press release.

But what's a lot better is to continually measure and reduce gross emissions across scope one, two, and three, getting them as low as possible.

At a global system-wide level, I would argue we would be in a far better position if we had more businesses, organisations, and governments looking to achieve gross zero than net zero.