and do you think there were repercussions before?

For X? Sure, that's why they're leaving in the first place - by not complying to the judge's orders, they'd surely get slapped with fines and such. As a company, it makes sense to leave and avoid being accountable, but given the influence they (sadly) still have in the media, avoiding those repercussions and letting bad actors do their thing, they're adding gasoline to the burning world.

The fact that Whatsapp is more popular in Brazil than X is beside the point.

Thanks for this write up. I still can't say I condone some of Russia's decisions and posturing even in light of the data you presented, but these data certainly paints a more nuanced picture than people are usually led to believe, I think.

Here. Tl;dr: He took it private for reasons, should bring it back in a "build it yourself" form later.

Not really new. It's basically LCD without backlight. So, higher resolution GBC / GBA alike screen.

France has a big, big problem with overemphasizing individual politicians over policies.

I think that's a "humans" problem, really, specially in the last few decades.

Yeah, and it's not Mozilla either.

Which one do you think it is, then? Genuinely curious here. I don't disagree with on most of what you said - I find the simping for Mozilla (and sneering towards chromium) here in Lemmy rather annoying. Mozilla and its browser both have shortcomings as well, and choosing a web browser these days is, as most things in life, choosing the lesser of evils vs. one's own needs.

Actually, we just entered spring, on late September. And we did so in the midst of a heatwave that broke heat records for this year - we had days with 37C, which is high even for summer, and it won't be summer here until December.

Yes, I'm scared af as well. My family is sort of ignoring my warnings and actually planning to move to the coast (Santos), which is even hotter.

Some guys here in the comments said about migrating to the north, and that's something that has been on my mind as well as a long term plan, although I find it unlikely I can move to North America in the short term, so I'm thinking more realistically maybe southern Argentina?

Yes, and you have to remember that the situation there is so volatile due to the factors involved.

Just FYI, Barrier has been abandoned / unsupported for awhile. Although the last release mostly works, don't expect future support.

Its successor is https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap, and although there have been some coy maintainance on it, they have yet to provide an installable release, due to "reasons".

I use Synergy myself, which is the ancestor of both of the above. Although it started as open source, it has been turned into a commercial product a long time ago, which is why I'm not providing the link here. It's still maintained, for better or for worse, but in the latest release-to-be they revamped the UI and for some reason I couldn't get it to work at all on my setup - it seems to rely on some auto configuration / autodetection gimmickry which simply is not working here. To make matters worse, the new UI is essentially an electron app, which means it has become a lot more bloated. And then there's also the telemetry thing. I've been using the old 1.1 legacy version, holding out hope that input-leap eventually lifts off.

Hold on, is that for real? Like, for Unity games developed years (maybe over a decade) ago, developers would need to start to pony up if they're installed now? I thought that pay by install thing was just for licensing contracts from now on (not that this isn't bullshit too, but at least people could just move on to another engine).

Until The Expanse she was more known as a dancer / singer, although even then she wasn't super famous.

Marketing-wise, I believe it's very hard to make a name for a product/service/platform/app/whatever that has (or sounds like having) more than 2 syllables catch on. I mean, mas-to-don doesn't quite roll off your tongue like face-book, twit-ter, you-tube, lem-my, etc.

In that sense, I agree with the OP in that "Mastodon" was a poor name choice (and as opposed to him, even if there is an explanation for it), and may well contribute to hurt its adoption by the general public. It's the kind of name you sometimes see FOSS enthusiasts come up who can write great software but has poor knowledge (or downright disdain) in marketing, product management, and other business aspects.