I do wonder if this is specifically what got them, would probably take a lemmy lawyer to unpack it, but I would have to imagine if they didn’t have a patreon and basically a company, it would have been much harder for Nintendo to do anything about them. And I would also imagine in retrospect whatever money they got was not worth it when it ends like this.

I always assume when people operate services like this, that they host it in a country like Russia that’s less likely to care about takedowns by western corpos and done anonymously as possible. Even though it’s just an emulator, you would think they wouldn’t be so brazen as to have a patreon which I’m sure requires someone’s identity/billing info. They probably still could have been tracked down if they took crypto donations or something like that, but you would think that would be the first choice over putting a giant target on their backs. Patreon is obviously just gonna hand over whatever info they are asked to give when served a warrent, and so is Discord for that matter if they had any personal info on there too.

47* states*, most of Arizona has no DST although some of the reservations observe it

Even if it wasn’t

BDS: https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

they have not blocked it and they probably won’t block it bc it involves signing in with your twitter and since it’s just an android app it’s not gonna get as big as nitter, I don’t think it’s really helpful to tell people to “just accept it” as an individual you’re not gonna be able to successfully lobby everything you follow to change to bluesky (which I think you can get rss feeds from) or masto (which you can get rss feeds from), like for example your city’s local government/services only posts on facebook and twitter, no rss, this is still useful for things like that

Yeah, scrolling through the RSS feed to find horrible things I didn’t know even happened.

The obvious difference being my/others mastodon posts aren’t showing up on wordpress and being monetized. One way federation to masto doesn’t matter bc it isn’t data farming / putting ads on masto content.

Doesn’t help that being a cop unironically requires less training then the vast majority of other jobs. You would think giving someone a gun to point at people, who they’re largely supposed to “protect” would require at least a few years of training.

Yeah I’ve seen almost no movement against Tumblr while everyone got very riled up about Meta federation ie fedipact, probably a blindspot bc users have positive associations with tumblr, but it’s still an ad/data company all the same.

I get you like this article but posting it 5x is a bit much, you can just post it to lemmy.ml if you want everyone to see it almost everyone is federated with them.

I’ve never been without ad block, but I’m not surprised they put a lot of ads bc I doubt they would be making any money enough to hire someone without having like 15 banner ads. Satire is not exactly a monied industry.

Out of those two I would probably go with Mint, but they are comparably simple, so neither would be a bad choice. Make sure to backup your data, but otherwise you probably shouldn’t have any issues with the install, check out ExplainingComputers on YouTube if you need a tutorial, he does a lot of stuff with Mint and put out a new Zorin video last month.

It has AMD integrated graphics which should be supported natively by virtually every new computer/laptop if I’m not mistaken, what distribution did you try?

I’m mostly hoping that the few accounts I follow that are basically only on twitter and facebook eventually open an account on bluesky or even better mastodon so I can follow them with RSS, but that will probably take a while so I see your point.

Aren’t they all gonna be defunct by the end of the month with Elon’s changes to guest accounts or did I not understand the earlier posts about that correctly.

That’s pretty unlikely unless he’s doing a big pivot in his branding, he quite literally has said the US should team up with Russia to fight/oppose China.

Carlson’s dissenting line on Ukraine policy has to be understood in light of his obsession with fighting China. As he outlined back in 2019, his dim view of Washington’s Russia strategy came from the fact that he viewed China, not Russia, as “our main enemy,” and that “the United States ought to be in a relationship with Russia aligned against China to the extent that we can.”

He reiterated this point three years later: because “China is the preeminent threat to the United States,” and because it’s impossible “to engage meaningfully simultaneously in Europe and in Asia,” the US focus on Ukraine only “detracts from our attention to China,” while at the same time pushing Moscow “into an alliance of convenience of necessity with the Chinese government.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tucker-carlson-isn-t-an-anti-imperialist-he-s-a-rabid-china-hawk/ar-AA1atnj3

No offense, but this is a horrible map and it is just as bad as the first time it was posted today: US + Canada (why are they grouped in with these cherry picked European countries?) and a dozen European countries on top of giving no context of the person’s proficiency in the language, the whole thing just doesn’t really make a lot of sense, if you wanted to do a map of the US Canada and Europe do something remotely coherent like a map of leaders of NATO countries, feels like this is just made by a North American who just picked random European countries they thought would be interesting.

Most interesting one I see quickly is Kim in the central asian countries I assume from the mass relocations/deportations of ethnically Korean soviet citizens to central asia during WW2 and a more diverse set of names in central asia.

I really only use matrix/element I just was just shocked they’re paying 6 mil a year for phone verification and they aren’t completely underwater

Or was it that poor Cuba never had a chance to stand on their own because of the evil Americans blockading the island and forcing them to stand on their own?

You’re so close here, but yet so far lmao

I mean I think it’s likely nothing tangible will come from these protests either, but still worth doing and covering, I hope somehow these can far surpass the Iraq War protests or lead to anything meaningful although it’s more of a hope than an expectation