alright, point taken :)

neither of these people seems to be using Linux, so why is this a Linux meme?

“I saw in the pub at the weekend that they are now drinking. They were gathered together, talking, and then they were drinking. I’m really glad that they’ve stopped having that crystal and everything. There really aren’t any drugs in Tarnazsadány, you can’t find them anymore,” he said.

lol

the enemy is both weak and strong

??? relevance to parent comment?

I prefer this distinction: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship

Have you looked into vector graphics editors?

yup, I think until the US gets things sorted out, it’s not a good idea for anyone to travel there:

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/germany-investigates-after-national-with-green-card-arrested-at-us-border
• https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/german-tourists-detained-otay-mesa-detention-center/3770608/

Different pieces of legislation. This was about the French legislature voting against a national anti-encryption bill. Chat control is an EU-level bill and the French legislature isn’t really involved in that, only the French government and France’s EU representatives.

It was definitely a good development to let social media operators make automated “recommendations based on what you seem to like” instead of, you know, letting users decide manually what they want to see, amirite… /s

GTK being a part of GNU (at least originally)

“The OS” doesn’t exist. The operating systems you’re talking about are called Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, RHEL, etc etc. The main work of making an actually usable OS from the various free software components others have written has always been done by the teams responsible for these products.

But we still need a way to refer to them collectively, and it used to make sense to call them “Linux” because they were pretty much the only operating systems that used the Linux kernel, but now that Android is the most widely used OS on the planet, it doesn’t anymore, and this alone is a reason to say GNU/Linux unless you want to include Android.