Nach meiner Einschätzung ist der Plan, Kunden durch ein gutes und breites Angebot zu Netflix zu bringen und dann langsam daran zu gewöhnen, nur noch das zu gucken, was dort angeboten wird (Burggraben ausheben). Dann immer mehr externe Inhalte rausschmeißen und interne Inhalte immer billiger produzieren und hoffen, dass genug Kunden bleiben / vergessen das Abo zu kündigen / sich mit der niedrigen Qualität abfinden, um richtig Reibach einzufahren.

John: We’re not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean. Terminator: It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves. John: Yeah. Major drag, huh?

Terminator: Judgement Day

There’s also a table in that Wikipedia article that breaks it down for a few real world train services with percent capacity ranging from 27 to 65% (in different networks / on different trains, though). But yeah, humans like their personal space, even in trains, those wasteful brats.

Higher stakes

LOL 🤭 quiet, mafia, IT is talking!

They’re basically playing Russian Roulette with their servers. They condition a remove all command on a random numbers generator and pray. If it does not wipe the server, it spits out “Lucky Boy”

I agree. To my surprise, human on a bike still seems to win out, though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AEffizienzLeistungFahrzeuge.png

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport

I recently saw a scatter plot somewhere, I believe it was speed vs energy efficiency or something body weight vs cost of transport. And all animals, as well as most modes of transport follow a roughly anti-proportional relationship on a log-scale. If you’re fast heavy, you use a lot of energy. If I remember it right, the fastest most efficient animal was the salmon (?). There was one single outlier from that trend, an animal that is much too fast and much too efficient for its weight at the same time: Human on a bike.

Edit: Found it: https://slowrevealgraphs.com/2025/12/31/a-human-on-a-bicycle-is-among-the-most-efficient-forms-of-travel/

“How many rabbits can you see? The answer might shock you!”

Thank you for this detailed context. On the one hand, that makes perfect sense: Closing a loop hole. On the other hand, it’s chilling how this could be extended to cover other media or, ultimately, other community-driven projects, like open source, which rely on donations to survive.

Yes, but at least here I can choose an instance in a privacy friendly jurisdiction or one that is small enough, including a self-hosted one. It’s not a perfect shield, but federation helps a lot with digital independence (which is why it’s prominent in pre-internet theories of how to make anarchy work without collapsing into warlordism).

Spoiler alert, both British officials and EU officials are openly considering to slap an age restriction on VPN software, too. Would turn into a weird Catch-22, where you need a non-restricted VPN to download a non-restricted VPN, like in China right now.

Oh, I absolutely am blaming the politicians behind this (and the lobby groups behind them). The only strictly wrong thing Reddit does is how it implements that law, i.e., using third-party age verification that happens to also use your data to profile you and that has been shown to be insecure (Further Reading links in my post).

Agreed. Lemmy, while being very new, mimics features of ye olden times. Newsgroup era and all… But Reddit kinda started that way and then, as all good things, slowly enshittified. It seemed to resist enshittification longer than most sites. At least that was my impression. But good things can’t last. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, after all, I guess.

Here I am, not enough hands for all the cookies and kitties. Haven’t used Reddit in months and perfectly happy without it. Still sharing my sadness about seeing “the old internet” slip further and further down that slope.

There is LibreLynx Lite on F-Droid, but it is very bare bones. Do not recommend, especially while IronFox exists.

Rarely. I would say that about 19/20 pages work as expected. I do keep a manually hardened Firefox install on my device for the rare site that I do want to visit but that doesn’t load in IronFox for some reason. In my experience, VPN breaks the internet more than IronFox does. And I still want to use VPN.

The EU will need to form a proper federal state or be torn apart in the persistent attacks of the other major world powers that actively try to prevent just that unification.

We’re moving to a world where the law requires you to be profiled in order to participate.

Chilling!

Another sad demonstration that Signal, while much preferable over non-encrypted messages, still hard-links your social graph to your phone number, which is often tied to your identity.

Grundsätzlich wichtiges Thema. Bedrückend, wie das immer wieder gepusht wird!

Ich bekomme ein leichtes Störgefühl beim Wording von Punkt 2 des 5 Punkte Plans. Wie soll die Umsetzung aussehen?

1. Der Vorschlag, in Messengerapps grundsätzlich keine Kontaktaufnahme von Fremden zu erlauben? Jeder neue Kontakt auf einem Messenger ist ja erstmal fremd. Heißt das: Kontakt nur zulassen, wenn beide die Kontaktdaten des jeweils Anderen bereits gespeichert haben? Das verhindert jede Auffindbarkeit (“Guck mal, mein Freund Leo hat ja auch Signal, den schreibe ich mal an”). Kann man natürlich machen, aber ist schon unpraktisch. Und wenn jemand schon die Nummer oder Email hat, dann klappt die Kontaktaufnahme ohnehin one way. Alternativ ließe sich das ggf. mit einem small world network umsetzen, allow contact initialization only by friends or friends of friends by default. Aber wie groß da dann noch der Sicherheitsgewinn ist?
2. Nacktfotos grundsätzlich verpixeln? Geht nur indem alle Fotos gescannt werden. Ich weiß ja nicht ob die Information mal zuverlässig auf dem Gerät bleibt…

Ansonsten top: Mehr Personal, crawler und proaktiv Material löschen lassen, mehr Aufklärung, Nicht-öffentliche Profile by default.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/chatkontrolle-aus-als-chance-5-punkte-aktionsplan-fuer-echten-kinderschutz-vorgelegt/