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Wikipedia doing well is great, but that doesn’t mean people should stop donating to them.

It’s a resource of free and open information, which I believe to be increadibly important. Especially right now given everything that is going on. Democracy requires an informed populace, and having a platform like Wikipedia is an immensely important public good.

And frankly I’m not unconvinced that this “don’t donate to Wikipedia” line might have originated as a propaganda campaign meant to limit access to free and open information.

I donate sporadically to traditional charities (feed the poor, cancer research, etc) when I’m asked for a donation either at the door or in the street. Similar to how I give money to a homeless person if they ask and I have some on me.

I’ve also donated to a couple of causes that I particularly care about, such as Wikipedia. And I’m paying some money each month to the local gay rights lobby and cycling advocacy lobby.

I don’t have recurring payments to any traditional charities set up, however.

Edit: I should donate to my Lemmy instance.

Correct. There is freedom of movement between the EU and Switzerland.
Switzerland is also part of Schengen, so there is not even a need to show a passport at the border.

The article does say that it was the local council that wanted to prevent them from moving there.

I’m not saying there definitely is a discriminatory motive… I do not know how the people of Switzerland look at the Romani people.
But given the way Roma are treated in much of Europe, and Switzerland’s reputation for being somewhat conservative, I am not discounting the possibility that they are being discriminated against here.

The equivalent in the US would be if a couple of families of black people wanted to move to a predominantly white town in the south, and the county would step in claiming there are no more homes available.

“Travelers” does generally refer to the Romani and Sinti people who live a nomadic lifestyle.

The French version of the article uses the phrase “les gens du voyage”, which according to the French Wikipedia page is often used to refer to the “Roma of France (including the Sinti and the Gitanos)”.

So I think it’s fairly safe to assume that that is what they mean with “travelers” in this article.

Homegrown criminals. He wants to deport US citizens (explicitely rather than “accidentally”)

Edit: And don’t fool yourself, this will happen without due process.
“Criminal” just means the Trump administration accuses you of being a criminal, rather than it actually needing to be proven in court that you broke the law.

I think that finally got fixed several years ago. I do remember this exact problem though…

By default both the Dutch and US International layouts would be enabled if you set up the computer to the Dutch region. And you could switch between them (accidentally) by pressing some key combination. It was highly annoying…

AZERTY is not really about being similar to QWERTY. It’s the French standard keyboard layout.
Similarly QWERTZ is the German standard keyboard layout.

Most (European?) countries use some variation of QWERTY with the symbols and special characters moved around to fit their respective languages better. Over here in the Netherlands we are a bit of an outlier in the sense that we use the US layout of QWERTY, but with additional modifier keys to make special characters available (It’s called US International)

There is also niche layouts like DVORAK (optimized layout for English) and BÉPO (optimized layout for French).

What is the reason you switched to AZERTY, if I may ask? I’m quite curious.

Imo it’s already difficult enough to convince friends and family to use Signal. Delta Chat would be even more difficult to pull off.

I like to think that these videos are the only thing keeping Patrick Boyle sane from his career in finance.

His channel is great. I love his dry sense of humour.

That’s a valid concern, but it also assumes that the requirements for apps will go up in a similar trend as they did in the previous 8-10 years.
I’m not entirely convinced that they will. Smartphones 10 years ago were still very much a developing product category, whereas I think today they are generally matured.

Just look at laptops as a comparison. When they were still rapidly developing, an eight year old laptop would have pretty much been obsolete. But today an eight year old laptop will still serve most people perfectly fine.

It won’t be top of the line, but I don’t really see why it wouldn’t still be usable at least.
And even if the person buying the phone today won’t consider it usable for their needs in eight years time, they can still sell it to someone who doesn’t have a need for a high spec’ed phone.

I think you can look at it similarly to how one would look at an 8 year old laptop today.
A decently spec’ed laptop from 2015 is still very usable today, as long as you keep your expectations reasonable.

I think the biggest advantage of Android over iOS is the availability of consumer choice. There are so many different Android phones on the market, each with their respective pros and cons, that there is bound to be a device that aligns with your needs.

Now that can also be an advantage of iOS over Android in a sense. With Android you have to make a choice and it can be the wrong one. With the iPhone there is one option, and it is what it is.

The US women’s team did play extremely well in the 2019 world cup. You guys handed us our asses in the finals.

It’s quite a drop from winners of the world cup to dropping out in the first round

Pretty sure the “right to be forgotten” already exists legally in a couple of places.
Google doesn’t provide an easy dashboard to request link deletion, but they do have to comply in places like the EU and UK (if I recall correctly)

Firstly, I’m happy to see Sync return.
I made sure to subscribe to help make developing the app financially viable.

Secondly… With the Sync beta just going live, I’m already running into my very first bugs.
What would be the appropriate place to report these bugs?

Edit: My question has already been answered by OP:

Oh and please note that bugs should be reported in #sync-support-and-bugs in the discord: https://discord.gg/qYWxqva

I’d prefer it if my nuclear waste doesn’t drip into the ocean, please /s

They don’t care whether you call it Facebook or Meta.
All they care about is that enough people were talking about the name change, so that they were distracted from the real controversy (which is the “Facebook Papers” revalations)

Yeah I’m not saying it’s ideal, but it could be a solution to the specific problem that OP was running into

You can plug a USB hub into your phone. That’d give you more ports.
I’m fairly certain there are hubs out there with a pass-through for charging as well