I don’t like how people are trying to stir up dissent and drama around this. The message posted is short and on point, it includes all the important bits. There really isn’t much more to add.

Of course they do. AI is aggressively marketed as such. Most people simply don’t know that an LLM doesn’t have a concept of "truth“, and the misleading marketing is to blame for that.

As a (Plasma based) Kubuntu user I was wondering as well. Looks like they tried to emulate the gnome look and feel in the picture. In Kubuntu the default taskbar is at the bottom and the floating application bar doesn’t exist

The hurdle is that Europe tends to adopt things that are successful in the US, because it is convenient. Even most services and startups based in Europe are more or less copies of US products, with some notable exceptions of highly specialised applications. This unfortunate trend started in the 1970s, when the largest industrial players in Europe thought semiconductors were just a fad and consequently lost their competitive edge. It was seen as less risky to invest in commercially proven concepts than to actually innovate. This continues to bite us in the ass to this day.

Oh no. Won’t someone think of the shareholders.

Well, at least they were pioneers in the art of enshittification.

Yeah, that was my thought too. What a dumb way to censor by search input instead of censoring the output.

It probably went like this at Meta:

Product Manager: Hey we just got this word filter list from HQ to be implemented ASAP.

Devs: Sure thing boss.

German news magazine Der Spiegel wrote they had talked to a Meta representative and they said “This is definitely an error and we will fix it fast”

My personal take: An incident like this illustrates how vulnerable we are to being censored and silenced when using social media and communication channels owned by billionaires. It’s time not only to leave those platforms but to educate your friends and family why this is absolutely necessary. No more excuses.

Original: Update, 13.30 Uhr: Auf SPIEGEL-Anfrage hat sich Meta inzwischen kurz und knapp zu dem Phänomen geäußert. »Dies ist eindeutig ein Fehler, den wir schnell beheben werden«, so eine Sprecherin des Konzerns.

Just tested in in the EU with a friend’s Instagram account. It’s real.

I completely forgot about this one. These clowns also think they are very clever in using thinly veiled Nazi symbolism in their publications. Like using the number 18 in their recent “Abschiebeticket” campaign (1 = A, 8 = H in the alphabet and is common code among themselves for Adolf Hitler) And when asked about that they smugly pretend being absolutely innocent.

If you need some context, Musk is actively trying to influence German elections by advertising for the far right party afd. While doing something similar in the UK with the right wing Reform party, and calling for a neo nazi to be released from prison.

So there’s that. It doesn’t even matter if this was a nazi salute or not, because it was clear that he is a fascist before this incident.

What’s the purpose of this? You have to supply a correct answer to make the ad go away?

Especially considering the last Spongebob movie was an atrocious 3d animated abomination. Oh god, I sound like Squidward.

Fascinating. I was just wondering if anyone could actually like snap and I personally knew no one until now.

FWIW I’m a long time Kubuntu user and I like it very much. But the snap experience has me on the brink of switching to a different distro.

VLC always had a ton of applications, network device playback, TV, streaming server, files, physical media, music player, effects, recording, AV format conversion, subtitles, plugins and so on.

I think VS Code is doing its own thing and it might be better if you create your own. It doesn’t have to be called .venv, that is just a VS Code convention.

python -m venv myenv

and then

source myvenv/bin/activate

should do it.

Otherwise there is something wrong in your path or a weird python installation.

python --version should give you a version number 3.4 or above, because these have venv included and need no additional pip installs

Some NT net utilities even had BSD info in their binaries.