@evan I find the question quite weird because we're all just citizens, and as such we can't โrecogniseโ a state โ we can only demand our governments to do so. If your question was whether we *think* that it is a state, my answer would be no, as it lacks a proper government and sovereignty.
Taiwan, on the other hand, de-facto is IMO a state, as it has a functioning government and considerable sovereignty. The fact that it isn't recognised by the int'l community doesn't influence my view.
#Iran has launched dozens of kamikaze drones at #Israel. Their flight time is estimated to be several hours, allowing air defence and the civilian population to thoroughly prepare for their arrival. Let us all hope that this will remain the only wave of attack and that there will be no casualties. A great war in the middle east is the last thing we, as humanity, currently need.
@aral Also, I still do not understand why people are so aggressive about a company hiring a former police officer. Neither is that practice uncommon nor do I see a particular reason why the state would be so much worse as an employer than truly evil companies are, such as GAFAM, the oil industry, Chinese tech giants, car manufacturers etc.
Every time I asked I just received the same hateful replies and was blocked.
@aral If you really think that people didn't care about that incident, then you must have been on a mission to Mars for a couple of months.
Raspberry Pi was hit by a massive wave of negative comments, including some criticism, but mostly hate speech and aggressive threats. Many Fediverse users and servers blocked Raspberry Pi, and they still sometimes receive cynical replies to random posts.
That's anything but โshut up and take my moneyโ.
@thilo@aral It's not too hard to determine whether a given string of non-Latin characters resembles a word in the post's language. You just need a morphological lexicon and basic understanding of NLP, which anyone who works on screen readers definitely has.
@odddev@thilo@aral When writing a mathematical expression, you make sure that it's as unambiguous as possible, for example by putting multiplication symbols between variables.
If there are any non-Latin characters present, tokenise. For each non-Latin token, use a pre-defined hash table to rewrite each symbol to its Latin equivalent (if there is one). If the result is a purely Latin token, lemmatise it to determine whether it's an existing word in the post's language. If so, read the natural word instead of the non-Latin token.
@aardrian@odddev@thilo@aral I'll file a feature request with a more detailed explanation of my suggested approach once I've passed my NLP exam next week ๐ฌ
Cooooool, the #Bundestag, Germany's parliament, has joined the German state's #Mastodon server, hosted by the Federal data protection officer! Welcome to the #Fediverse, dear @bundestag! ๐ ๐ฅณ
@tripleo@ramsey@glitzersachen@aral When arguing that any possible interaction is (and should be) a copyright violation, you should consider:
Websites could force browsers not to allow ad blockers, because reading text and altering images would be a copyright violation. Scientists would need to pay publishers for citations. Criticising politicians' speeches would be illegal without explicit permission.
You probably don't want to hear it, but copyright law should be limited, not extended.
Can anyone explain the reasoning behind #F-Droid's classification of apps into โcontains anti-featuresโ?
PixelDroid, a FOSS client for Pixelfed (FOSS), has no anti-features. Several Mastodon clients, however, โpromote closed-source cloud servicesโ, although Mastodon is FOSS too.
FOSS clients for Tutanota and ProtonMail (closed-source servers) do have anti-features, but regular IMAP clients don't (although the typical mail server is not FOSS).
To me, the classification seems random at best. ๐ง
@forteller My presumption is that the vast majority of Reddit accounts are dead or unused, so that a few high-karma posts or comments could be enough to place anyone in the top x% of karma earners.
@humanetech@jande@gme@cope Yes, Gargron somewhere replied to me saying he's waiting for more servers to adopt the edit feature.
However, the latest Mastodon versions already support editing posts (not just displaying someone else's edits) โ the feature just isn't included in the UI yet. https://fe.soapbox.pub is a front-end that does, in fact, already include an edit button.
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