Ich hab jedenfalls die NEOS gewählt, spezifisch damit sie sich gegen Überwachung und Zensur stellen. Ich hoffe, deren Regierungsbeteiligung bewirkt das wirklich; wenn nicht, weiß ich nicht, wen ich bei der nächsten Wahl wählen soll.

yup, I think until the US gets things sorted out, it’s not a good idea for anyone to travel there:

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/germany-investigates-after-national-with-green-card-arrested-at-us-border
• https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/german-tourists-detained-otay-mesa-detention-center/3770608/

You can click the edit or view source link and try to figure out what it’s supposed to say from there. This is certainly an error on the Wikimedia Foundation servers’ side. There used to be IRC channels where you could make the sysadmins aware of problems like this, not sure those still exist.

The Wikimedia Foundation server’s “localhost”, i.e. the computer the wiki software is running from. That does make sense.

There’s a language selection option in your preferences. Some people may have that set up to not show “undetermined” although at least on my instance the interface warns that people won’t see most content if they deselect that.

I never select a language when commenting, though have done so a few times before (not recently) when starting new threads. It seems that sometimes this is automatically determined, although I can’t tell what this depends on.

When I was new to Mastodon, I followed everyone who might maybe have something interesting to say (e.g. open source projects that I’ve never used but found somewhat interesting).

Right now I have 43 tabs open on my phone most of which are links from Mastodon I haven’t yet gotten around to reading… I think you can see why nowadays I tend to unfollow more things than I newly follow.

she (the minister for children) was 22, the other person was 15, i.e. a teenager

naja, wenn ich mich an meine eigene Zeit im Kindergarten erinnere, bin ich da besonders gegen Ende oft in der Ecke gelegen und hab diverse Sachbücher gelesen, insbesondere über Geografie, was mich damals sehr interessiert hat; warum sollte es schlechter für Kinder sein, wenn sie dasselbe tun wie ich damals, nur auf einem digitalen Gerät?

(Seit kurzem kenne ich den Spruch, dass Bildung schließlich von Bildschirm kommt, nicht von Buch, sonst hieße es ja Buchung. :P)

Natürlich weiß ich nicht, ob das wirklich das ist, was damit gemeint ist.

Very widespread in Austria, second chain that comes to my mind after Billa.

You want to join an mbin or piefed instance, they allow both microblogging and posting to lemmy communities.

you probably google for yahoo on bing amirite

many other kids in my school when I was ~9 playing it (the original Hoenn games) and enjoying watching them over the shoulder, then deciding I wanted to play this too

Different pieces of legislation. This was about the French legislature voting against a national anti-encryption bill. Chat control is an EU-level bill and the French legislature isn’t really involved in that, only the French government and France’s EU representatives.

“minus nine” definitely has 9 letters, not -9.

Andere haben korrekt angemerkt, dass das keine Linux-Distribution ist. Es ist zu Windows das, was GNU zu Unix ist.

In der Prä-Smartphone-Ära, als Computer nahezu synonym mit Windows waren, hat es Sinn ergeben, zu versuchen, so etwas zu entwickeln, um Menschen und Organisationen zu ermöglichen, auf freie Software umzusteigen, ohne Kompatibilität mit bestehender Software (insbesondere auch organisationsinterner Software) einzubüßen.

Jetzt, wo die Welt der Computer dank Android, iOS und auch macOS erfolgreich diversifiziert wurde (und wir erkannt haben, dass so etwas grundsätzlich möglich ist), ist es wahrscheinlich weniger wichtig und es ist sinnvoller, seine Hoffnung auf GNU/Linux oder BSD zu setzen.

I know you didn’t mean this seriously, but it’s easy to see:

• zero has 4 letters
• one has 3 letters
• two has 3 letters
• three has 5 letters
• four has 4 letters
• five has 4 letters
• six has 3 letters
• seven has 5 letters
• eight has 5 letters
• nine has 4 letters
• ten has 3 letters
• eleven has 6 letters
• twelve has 6 letters
• after this, there are no possible candidates anymore: the next numbers are all just 3-9 (with slight spelling variations) followed by 4-letter “teen”, giving us at most 9 letters, too few to have equal value to the numbers they name
• after that there is no possible way to get to the high values of the numbers they name by combining words like “twenty” or “thirty” or “hundred” or “thousand” or “million” with the previous ones

I once heard the word “purrito” (purr + burrito) in a video, meaning a cat wrapped in a towel like a burrito. My username is the German translation of that: “schnurren” means “to purr” in German. I’m no longer sure why I chose this as a username specifically here… that just crossed my mind when registering here.

in fact it is the only number in English that has as many letters as its value

That was the fault of the people who were in power after Gorbachev…

Their authoritarian form of government which is definitely making me not want to ever visit China.

I am sure China is otherwise a wonderful country, I don’t have a negative opinion of Taiwan at all, but the PRC needs their Gorbachev to come to power and liberate them.