Parties choose whom to nominate as ministers.

I’m not a voter in Denmark and not familiar with Danish politics; this kind of thing would certainly cause me to vote for a different party.

One could have guessed from the image in the OP. KDE 4.2 is not exactly a recent piece of software anymore.

apparently nominally a member of a social-democratic party

When I was younger, I believed that social-democratic parties were better than conservative ones on matters of civil liberties. I stand corrected on that.

I’m not sure I understand your substantive question very well.

There already is a bridge from RSS feeds to ActivityPub: https://rss-parrot.net/ (there are plenty of sources I follow through that).

The clue of what ActivityPub is for is in the name: it is for publishing one’s activities. For example “I’ve written a new blog post”, “I’ve commented on someone else’s activity”, “I’ve upvoted someone else’s comment”.

RSS is really just a structured format to describe the content of a website in simpler terms. It doesn’t ever send any information to anyone, it doesn’t have any mechanism for anyone else to interact.

I used to follow news sites directly through an RSS reader. But I would need to set that up separately on each device, including after reinstalling, which I just can’t be bothered to do. I know there are things like Feedly, but not everyone likes proprietary services and software that much. I like the fact that on Mastodon nowadays, I can follow both microbloggers and RSS feeds.

probably; maybe yet another reason not to use that term

I prefer to think in these terms: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship

Without exception? No, I don’t think that’s true, it’s just the loudest ones, unfortunately.

For genuine free speech supporters like me, this is a problem because it makes the phrase “free speech” look bad and thereby contributes to a decline in it.

I notice there is no mention of a license, so this is not actually open source.

I think there is a fundamental division between services for following people and services for participating in groups.

You are right that some of it is a UI consideration, but not all of it.

[email protected] meanwhile seems to mostly be getting posts from microbloggers/pixelfed people who use the hashtag “photography”, somehow the backend of that instance automatically posts them to that community, not 100% sure why that is happening

What’s the difference?

yes, but that requires opening them, then resizing them and moving them to be beside each other; it’s possible, but not convenient

By that logic we wouldn’t need tabbed browsing at all, I remember browsing without it on IE6. :P

I can see myself using it occasionally for the same reason I do in the IDE, i.e. to easily look at two pages at the same time.

“umount” is worse

Is there a translation of https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence into Nepali yet, I wonder.

Probably software with only one user who has access to the source code, i.e. trivially FOSS but not publicly available.

I agree. It should be that stores just provide enough dividers that the problem doesn’t arise.

Yes, many radio stations have online livestreams, so you can play radio from any device that can connect to the Internet and has an audio output. You can even play radio from your browser, there is a Firefox extension called Worldwide Radio.

Yeah but cashiers have eyes and can see that there is space behind the last item they are currently grabbing, I would think.

I use dividers when I can, but sometimes not enough of them are available.

In theory leaving a significant amount of space should give the cashier enough information, but then again, we don’t live in a world where everything is as it should be…