It’s really interesting watching discussions about the trolley problem in abstract vs the problem in praxis. Because the thought experiment is about inaction (letting the runaway train crash into the group of people) on one hand and harm reduction (switching tracks) on the other.

The thing that I find fascinating is that with the thought experiment (basically) everyone says the answer is clear: switch tracks. But in the applied scenario of voting picking the lesser evil somehow stains your hands more than not voting.

I’m fairly sure it can, but that’s default behaviour over there, similar to how Mastodon and X/Twitter work.

She’s posting from Friendica. Ignore the @mention, that’s just how that platform works

Link works for me.

This client won’t work on your Pixel because Sailfish hasn’t been ported to that device.

That being said Voyager is usable as a web app and !thunder_app@lemmy.world is written in flutter so you should be able to built it for arm-Linux and use it on Postmarket OS.

If you are talking about North America, then that might be true. But a lot of other countries have extensive train systems where even ruraler places are well connected. Add hotels close to bike trails and you’ve got two two examples of people not necessarily arriving by car.

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.

You might want to keep an eye on Plasma Bigscreen, KDEs UI for TVs. Combine it with Waydoid and you get a system that allows you to sideload anything you want.

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/de/

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Plasma_Bigscreen

Nice to see (some of) my taxes going to improving the Fediverse.

The Sovereign Tech Agency (previously Sovereign Tech Fund) is an organisation set up by the German government to fund critical open source projects. Mastodon receiving funds therefore means that the German government considers the Fediverse critical infrastructure.

Unless we’re talking about German ICE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity_Express

And we are not saying that he isn’t whitewashing Bush. We’re just saying, that this specific tweet isn’t an example of that

Except the provision in question was copy pasted from an old law where it existed for decades without any change.

I find the tendency on Lemmy to see a conspiracy in every law concerning.

Criticise the law for what it does (there is enough here for it) and be wary of potential abuse. But sometimes warm water is just warm water.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-men-need-military-permit-for-extended-stays-abroad/a-76662677

1. The government is obliged to grant your request to leave the country unless there actually is a war.
2. There is no penalty if you leave the country without government approval.

While the law requires men to request the permit, the [army] spokesperson clarified, it also obliges the military career center to issue it, if "no specific military service is expected during the period in question.”

"Since military service under current law is based exclusively on voluntary participation, such permissions must generally be granted,” the official added. (…)

When asked, the ministry spokesperson pointed out that "the regulation was already in place during the Cold War and had no practical relevance; in particular, there are no penalties for violating it.”

For new users the local feed is the recommendation algorithm. If you are on a instance that caters to your interests you will discover stuff that interests you there automatically. If you’re not, then you might conclude, that Lemmy has nothing for you and bounce off the platform entirely. This is especially true if you are looking for non-English content.

The paradoxical situation with federation and instances is that those least likely to understand it are among the more likely to profit from it if they did.

The left won. They just performed worse than expected, forcing them to work with centrists to form a government

It does, but not all clients do.

Two clients that support the call module are Element and Commet

If you are willing to selfhost, you should look into audiobookshelf. Abs is a streaming server for audiobooks. It for example allows multiple people to use the same library and have their individual listening progress saved. And you can actually stream your books and don’t have to download them if you don’t want to.

In short: it’s a much nicer listening experience than audible ever was, especially if you shared your account with someone else.

https://www.audiobookshelf.org/

And you can use https://audible-tools.kamsker.at/ to free your existing audible library from the clutches of Amazon

I’ve been running Sailfish for two months now on a secondary device.

There are native clients for both Signal and HomeAssistant. I don’t use HA myself, so I can’t comment on how well Quartermaster works, but I haven’t run into any (major) issues with Whisperfish.

As for general impressions: SailfishOS feels like the best mobile OS … of the year 2013. There are a lot of aspects where it was ahead of the other systems back then. For example with the gesture based navigation. But the other systems have caught up in that regard. And then there are the aspects where Sailfish was perfectly average back then. For example how you grant rights to apps (all requested at once, on first launch) or how the emoji keyboard works (like a different language). Design decisions like that aren’t deal breakers by any means, you can learn to live with them and work around them if necessary, but they give the OS a slightly dated feel.

No it’s not. Matrix isn’t part of the Fediverse. It doesn’t use ActivityPub and there is no interop with any other Fediverse service.

That doesn’t make Matrix bad, it just makes it it’s own thing.