I've uploaded a picture to show what I mean:

Here's how it looks when there are alternatives to cars. (The Netherlands. Shitty photo by me today in the morning.)

Sorry for saying this in a car-related post, but the solution to car dependency is simply the availability of other forms of thansport.

Specifically, trains, intra-city bike lanes that are 2x faster than a car, ect

If you have that, you get choice and some level of control. (P.S. not in rural areas with no trains tho.)

Here, a person added GPL as a proposed alternative.

I think I see the point you're trying to make. I'm not sure if my question is purely aspirational, though. When you say "political realities of Australia" for example, shouldn't the word "political" already imply that this is heavily influenced by people's thoughts and resolve? I think Australians should evaluate that, not me who is in Europe or you since you refer to Australia as "they".

One important thing to keep in mind: it's not only the person who killed the cyclist. It's probably the system and how it's designed, too. For example, was the "50kmh" limit just a label, or was it enforced and made intuitive with road turns and speed bumps too?

The "justice" system and how it worked here feels like a crime though, to be honest.

I've found that the other replies don't really express my personal take on this, so I'll go ahead and write mine down.

First of all, and it's important, people's take on such topics is heavily dependent on the country they live in. It's legitimately hard to imagine why you would want to break government rules hard and be a good person if you live somewhere in Norway. And it's legitimately hard to imagine a world where you really trust your government and think that the current levels of censorship is actually good if you live in a dictatorship country.

With this in mind, a comfortable and universal level of censorship simply doesn't exist.

I think the lack of Tor support is valid criticism if you're in a dictatorship. Of course, DNS-based solutions are not good-enough for you. I hope you'll find something that solves your problems. Unfortunately a simple Lemmy instance is not a solution for you.

Generally, if I'd advise something, I'd suggest to look at what the project actually aims to do, not at what you think it should be doing. E.g. visit https://join-lemmy.org/ and there it says:

Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking,.......

Well, does it sound like a solution made for people in heavily censored environments? To me -- not. If you want to present your case and incentivize the Lemmy devs to ADD another perspective or direction to the software that they're spending time developing, prepare your case and argumentation well. Explain your situation (e.g. "I'll be hung if I speak freely where I live", or more relevant, "my country heavily DNS-censors 90% of the good existing Lemmy instances, I'm deprived of good information you have circling here"), propose some solutions or offer help. I don't know really. It's up to you. Good luck with your seach

Hey, first of all, thanks for for sharing and I do appreciate both Slint existing and you being able to do software that's usable by both businesses and, to some extend, open-source projects! (The latter depends on whether you consider contributing to the underlying libraries as a requirement for development, and if you're then fine with contributing with these MIT/non-MIT specifics.)

When you contribute to any MIT license project you are in the same situation

I would disagree here. If you're speaking about any MIT project, then many of them would be simply MIT. You contribute like MIT and you can use the code as MIT. Slint is not licensed as MIT-0 though. It's licensed as written here: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint?tab=readme-ov-file#license, and only your contributions are taken as MIT. This does set Slint apart.

It's a fair model though, if the developers are sufficiently aware of the deal. And it's a very sensible business model. I have nothing against it, and I only wish to make the exact deal more explicit. As you see around, I don't think it's 100% clear from the first glance.

Fair enough, thanks for the correction. I should be more careful with my wording. I think it's "open-source", but not an "open-source project". In a sense that, they release the source code under a restrictive license, but they themselves will not have it this way and can stop publishing the code any time they want.

So they publish the source code under an OSI-approved license as you say, but they don't develop it in an open manner and I think it's fair to say that they are not an open-source project.

It doesn't look too bad on the video actually, check it out. (See the post's EDIT, I messed it up at first.)

Depends a lot on your phone size, hand size etc though, I guess. Generally very small keyboards CAN be ergonomic, as far as I've heard (also from people with literally diagnosed RSI). How this one objectively fares IDK

I wanna use JXL locally. It's quite amazing technologically, you can losslessly compress a JPEG to 0.8 or so of the original size.

I compress my photos for long-term storage anyway, so why not do it with JXL.

Thanks for the app recommendation!

That's not a full solution really... unless you believe that the bluetooth software on the lamp has zero vulnerabilities that would ever be found and mass-exploited.

Dutch banks working without google are: BUNQ and ASN Bank (EDIT: and Triodos).

BUNQ has the built-in QR scanning functionality broken (the one for iDEAL, if you're living in NL you know), but that's acceptable because it works to scan the QR in Binary Eye, which in turn opens the bunq app and the payment can be made easily.

ASN just works, all features that I've tried I think. (This one is only in Dutch though.)

Banks that I've tried few years ago and they didn't work: ING, ABN AMRO, Rabonbank, Tridos, possibly few others that I forgot.

Also, lately I've started using some of those "international" ones, not so focused on NL. I've found that Wise (pure web, haven't even tried their app) and Revolut (app) seem to work well on my de-googlified phone. Hope that helps!

EDIT: re-worded the first line of my message to be indexable by search engines, because that may be useful for future readers.