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Thank you for the great job! 🙏 🚀

Let me ask two explicit questions:

• Considering costs and total number of users, how much should be a user's monthly donation to keep things even or a little on the safe side?

• Considering costs and total number of donators, how much should be a donator's monthly donation to keep things even or a little on the safe side? This is a more realistic estimate, as there are users (say, students) who can't pay (and of course users who simply don't want to pay).

Many Fediverse initiatives seem too shy to give this kind of information, but I think there's nothing wrong about it. Please tell us in time if the economy were to be going bad, nobody wants another lemm.ee event :) As Impossible Mission for the Commodore 64 used to say:

Stay awhile, stay forever!

And since EU is effectively not based on democracy, European citizens won't be able to stop this.

I’m sick of windows, but maybe I should just not risk messing with operating systems I don’t understand? (Also I really hope those screenshots don’t doxx me or something)

It's a little learning curve, but don't give up - I'm happy to see that you aren't! Your understanding is already increasing step by step, and you'll feel a lot of satisfaction because of this too 💪🚀

as evidenced by the rise of the Julius Caesar of our time—Donald Trump

Is it the author of the article who writes such idiocies? or the author of the book?

Thank you for respecting the votes from the move poll in the previous instance (note: I voted for sopuli). In some other moving communities the moderators just take the votes as suggestions, but then decide themselves.

In order of "usability", how would you rank the distros you tried there, from best to worse?

One reported feedback there is brilliant:

At first glance, the proposed regulation might appear to be just another flawed attempt to balance security and privacy. But a closer look, especially at the High-Level Group (HLG) advice the EU cites as a foundational source, reveals something far more dangerous. Start with this: when German MEP Patrick Breyer requested the names of the individuals behind the so-called High-Level Group that drafted this sweeping proposal, the EU responded with a list where every single name was blacked out. A law that would introduce unprecedented surveillance powers across Europe is being built on recommendations from an anonymous and unaccountable group. In any democracy, this would be a scandal. In the European Union, it is an outright betrayal of public trust. According to digital rights organization EDRİ, "The HLG has kept its work sessions closed, by strictly controlling which stakeholders got invited and effectively shutting down civil society participation." In short, the process was deliberately closed off to public scrutiny, democratic debate, and expert dissent. Civil society was excluded while powerful lobbyists shaped one of the most consequential digital laws of our time behind closed doors. A blunt overreach of state power: Universal identification and data retention, every click, message, and connection must be logged under your legal name, turning the entire population into perpetual Suspects. Encryption smashed: providers must supply data "in an intelligible way" (Rec 27.ii), forcing them to weaken or bypass end-to-end encryption whenever asked. Backdoors by design: hardware and software makers are ordered to bake permanent law-enforcement access points into phones, laptops, cars, and loT devices (Rec 22, 25, 26). Privacy shields outlawed: VPNS and other anonymity tools must start logging users or shut down. Criminalized resistance: services or developers who refuse to spy on their users face fines, market bans, or prison (Rec 34). No one exempt: the rules cover every "electronic communication service", from open-source chat servers to encrypted messengers to vehicle comms systems (Rec 17, 18, 27.ii). A mass surveillance law, drafted in secrecy by unknown actors, with provisions that go beyond what we see in many authoritarian regimes. And yet, the European Commission is advancing it as if it's routine policy work. The European Commission must halt this process immediately. No law that enables this scale of surveillance, especially one built in the shadows, should ever be allowed to pass. Europe must not become a place where privacy dies quietly behind closed doors. This threatens the fundamental rights of every citizen in the Union.

That's a useful analogy, cheers!

Thank you for the heads-up, it is quite cheap indeed. I noticed that some of the newsgroups unfortunately have much spam, so I'll see if I'm really interested in subscribing. But some are moderated, luckily.

Fantastic explanation, thank you! Now I understand the difference between "server" and "group". I finally managed to subscribe now.

For anyone in my same position:

• Create an account on news.eternal-september.org
• Add that newsgroup on Thunderbird (Accounts panel, add new account, and so on)
• It's important to tick "Always request authentication" on the Server Settings for that newsgroup account
• Then you can right-click on that account in the folder list and choose "Subscribe". You'll be asked for your eternal-september username and password.
• The subscription window has a search function to search for the newsgroup you want to subscribe to.

Done!

Thanks @tal again very much!

https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning/

[If inappropriate I apologize and please delete]

Thanks for sharing these sad news. Understandable that they need a break.

Incidentally, anyone wants to recommend to Murata & ONE to open a Fediverse account?