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.

The openstreetmap.org website has a search feature but I think its abilities to search for kinds of POIs are limited. I never use it for that, only to search for names.

You discovered what I meant in CoMaps. Maybe your experience could be turned into a feature request for it.

“within OSM” – not clear what you are asking for, OSM is just a database of geographical data

“from any OSM-based apps” – most of them should have their own user-friendly search features, I know OsmAnd does, so you can use that.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_turbo

That’s the Guy Incognito scene: Homer had been banned from Moe’s bar, we see someone resembling Homer walking into Moe’s bar, introducing himself as Guy Incognito, Moe believes that this is Homer in disguise and violently removes him from the bar again. A few seconds later, Homer walks by and notices that Guy Incognito resembles him very much, only to be immediately distracted by the dog with the puffy tail in the OP’s image.

I’m less sure about the broader episode, but I think it may be that later Homer pretends to be a pilot in order to drink in a pilots’ bar, is put in a cockpit and makes a mistake there, and as an apology, the Simpsons get free plane tickets and that way it’s discovered that Marge has a fear of flying and this (incl. her going to a psychologist) is what the remaining episode is about. If I’m correct about this, I think the episode is called “Fear of Flying” or very similar.

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

ja, ich behaupte aber einmal, dass die Chatkontrolle etwas deutlich Schlimmeres ist als die Vorratsdatenspeicherung

Switzerland has a comparable number of guns as we do, and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago

so does he believe that Swiss people do not play video games, or what

oh for fuck’s sake

It’s a legally still unsettled question in most jurisdictions whether AI crawling and training requires permission from the copyright holders of the source works at all. If the answer to that question is “no”, then the entire idea of wanting to use copyright law (and copyright licenses) to block AI crawling and training doesn’t work at all.

I do not think we should want the answer to that question to be “yes”. Why would anyone want copyright law to impose more restrictions than it does anyway? The trend should be toward fewer copyright restrictions.

I am not at all a fan of the current AI hype, but I am even less of a fan of wanting copyright law to be more restrictive or to be construed that way.

das ist was völlig Anderes, da geht es um Vorratsdatenspeicherung, nicht Chatkontrolle

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.

Wir in Österreich haben schon sehr viel länger unser Äquivalent zur AfD, es heißt FPÖ und war immer schon blau. Für uns ist daher blau die vollkommen logische Farbe für die AfD. Ich weiß allerdings nicht, inwieweit das tatsächlich für die AfD eine Inspiration war, diese Farbe zu wählen.

I had a phase in my teenage years when I tried to do as much as I could with the keyboard. Nowadays I use too many different pieces of software for me to be able to remember all key combinations everywhere, so I’ve grown out of that.

not to the same degree everywhere, most European cities do have plenty of infrastructure for cars, but also plenty for public transport; I live in a city where it’s possible to get everywhere without a car, which is why I don’t own one

If any water counts, then almost everywhere that people live at all has “water access”. Lakes, however big, aren’t the ocean.