TomAwezome

Thanks for the "incoherent rant", I'm setting some stuff up with Anubis and Caddy so hearing your story was very welcome :)

You should probably read what's on the Initiative

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

You can find representatives and members there, nothing is an "invisible army" as you depict. There has historically not been a specific need for donations because the thing you donate is your time and your vote on the initiative (if you live in the EU), it doesn't require payment.

See the website (https://www.stopkillinggames.com/) or join the Discord for a "private forum or group" as you describe. To see the past actions, or as you say "who is doing what with whom and when", see the previous actions taken: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/pastactions

For information to "refute existing and possible claims made by lobbying groups and naysayers", you should re-read the FAQ, which does specifically and exactly that: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq Make sure to scroll the whole page and read every response.

The second-hand videogame market will always exist, even if the license when you bought the game doesn't give you explicit permission to sell your copy. This probably isn't going to change any time soon either

Button batteries suck and are absolutely e-waste, I have a small recycled sealable container just to collect dead CR2032's. Every time I go through another one, I add another mental tally to eventually just mod any device I have that takes CR2032's to instead take rechargeable AA's. I've always suspected that the batteries are just too small to store enough energy to make the size worth it, and that devices that take them drain them on idle when the batteries are left in. I've had many CR2032 powered devices where they worked fine, I put them in a drawer, pull them out some weeks or months later, and it's already dead. Battery drains without using whatever it's in. Bad design from all directions

Give CRUMB a try, I've used it for learning basic circuit designs, and it does a pretty good job! I think a great start is trying to get a basic 555 timer going in it, based on publicly available electrical diagrams and descriptions. The analog oscilloscope feature is super fun to play with.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198800/CRUMB_Circuit_Simulator/

Yes, assuming video content is stored across decentralized PDS instances

I tested it with "cat" and it blocks me from seeing things I've reposted with the word "cat" in it, so yeah it might! :)

A quick scroll of his account on Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/urlyman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy ) makes it pretty clear why his Discover sucks. The algorithm on Bluesky sorta works like a mirror, you get out what you put in. My feed is all art posts and wholesome memes because I follow artists, creators, and comic pages, so it sounds like he's trained his algorithm to be full of political complaining and toxic people like him. He should probably look into the Mute Words feature and start blocking stuff he thinks is toxic!

Bluesky is the first app built on the ATProtocol, its protocol for federation, sort of like how Mastodon was among the first to use ActivityPub after the overcomplexity of OStatus. The ATProtocol is a few years younger than ActivityPub, so its landscape isn't fleshed out yet. Currently Bluesky caters more towards creators, artists, and social togetherness, whereas ActivityPub tends to lean harder into attracting techies. Both protocols can be run as independent instances, but most people are still using bsky.social for now until more instances pop up and federate together. The process for hosting a Bluesky instance is still undergoing development, but all features of it have been opened up. There exist multiple bridge systems that can interweave ActivityPub with ATProto.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/entries/Notes%20on%20Running%20a%20Full-Network%20atproto%20Relay%20(July%202024)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Protocol#Adoption

You can run your own relays, the obstacle is that each relay takes up many terabytes. But it's fully open.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/entries/Notes%20on%20Running%20a%20Full-Network%20atproto%20Relay%20(July%202024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42094369

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/firehose

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture#relay