You can donate to the general fund of Software in the Public Interest and let them figure out which of their projects (Debian is the most prominent one) needs the money most.
https://www.spi-inc.org/donations/
One advantage over Software Freedom Conservancy is that, if my memory serves, SFC criticized Richard Stallman and his appointment to the FSF board over the manufactured controversies of the last few years, SPI didn’t.
I don’t feel I’m missing out on anything important. I don’t want my instance to engage in any form of ideological censorship (in any direction at all unless required by law) and don’t feel they are doing that. But I’m glad this thread exists because it tells me about other instances I could try if I ever became dissatisfied with mine.
OP already solved their problem but for others finding this thread: If you already know the country or city (or other general area), you can try asking in a community for that country or city. Few people can pinpoint locations around the world generally, but people subscribing to such communities may be able to help within that area.
How long is a piece of string? Depends entirely on the specific case. For example, if you’re murdered in front of witnesses, the answer will be very different than if you simply disappear mysteriously without anyone finding your body.
I’ve always read it as “shit just works”. Why would the “sh” be there if we weren’t supposed to read it?
Works for me, no idea what you’re seeing or talking about
What kind of information do you want to know about him? What do you find biased about whatever you’ve been reading? It’s not very clear how to answer this question.
me too, I loved Verdana before I discovered FOSS and DejaVu Sans is basically FOSS Verdana
Not very, it is mostly downvoted so won’t appear very high in most people’s feeds
For Python definitely PyCharm.
Pokémon taught children everywhere that if they enter strangers’ houses without warning, the strangers might randomly give them useful objects that help them in life.
in some Austrian/Bavarian dialects people say things like “i hob koa Gööd ned” which translated word-for-word to Standard German is “ich habe kein Geld nicht”.
There are languages (e.g. Spanish) where a double negative is still understood as a negative.
Standard varieties of English aren’t among them, but some dialects are.
The same is also true in German.
Die Schweiz ist klein genug, dass nirgends wirklich ernsthaft weit weg von der Grenze ist. Ist bei uns in Österreich nicht anders.
the rules are also changing as more and more people are complaining about reading things they don’t agree with
which is why people need to start understanding that moderation is different from censorship
I intentionally didn’t register on big instances like lemmy.world or mastodon.social in order to avoid being part of obvious places to censor.
In my language the expression is “jemandem einen blasen” (to blow one to someone) and I remember reading a long time ago about a story where a teenage girl (?) actually injured her boyfriend when she blew into the penis. Seems not to be a very good idea.
Honestly I have to remind myself of this myself. Yes, these are images of events in (say) 1938. No, things weren’t actually black and white in 1938, people saw colors the same way, with the same sharpness, they do in 2024, it’s just photographic technology that has improved since then.
Ideally, the fediverse will help people in censorious countries access information their governments don’t want them to see, but I am not too optimistic, I used to think that about the entire Internet and look where we are now, governments around the world are very much managing to control the spread of information on it.
When have random people on the Internet ever cared about correct spelling and grammar? In any language? I’ve been an Internet regular for over 20 years and if anything, autocorrecting smartphones have improved the average quality of spelling.