The FSF has a page dedicated to this exact question: https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html.en

Why do I want this? There are already many browsers available, and this one isn’t even (apparently: yet) FOSS, so why should I be excited about this one?

such organizations already exist, e.g. Software in the Public Interest (most well known for hosting Debian)

I remember a similar screen, though with the elements beside each other rather than on top of each other because I was on desktop. So yes, Cloudflare’s error messages are actually accurate in that regard.

It reminds me more of the AWS outage last month.

It’s probably not half of the Internet, but the fact that it’s so many very visible sites should be a warning sign to everyone that the Internet is nowadays too reliant on a few points of failure (which can cause other problems, e.g. censorship).

both lemmy.world and lemmy.ca are working for me right now? Maybe they’ve come back up.

likely not either (much) better or worse than any other place where you store your files unencrypted on someone else’s computer?

Not sure what exactly you’re asking.

When I read things like this, I struggle to understand the economic logic behind it.

How much money does Microsoft really expect to get from more people using Edge instead of Chrome? I mean, both of them are provided free of charge anyway. Does the control over the default search engine or the advertising technology or something like that really bring them more money than these “rewards” cost?

KDE uses “meta” to refer to the Windows key. Emacs uses “meta” to refer to the Alt key. You are correct that GNOME calls the Windows key “Super”.

This causes some confusion, obviously we Linux users don’t want to call it the Windows key, so the best solution is to call the keys “Super” and “Alt”, those are unambiguous.

I think I may have written that, but that was when all that was being talked about was allowing services to scan voluntarily. There was no mention of “all appropriate risk mitigation measures” when I wrote that.

Mostly the same as Windows, ie for opening the application launcher menu, as well as for a variety of global shortcuts.

The menu key is a convenient place to put the compose key.

KDE mostly calls it Meta, GNOME calls it “Super”.

You can have a non-infinite loop without a break statement, you just need a return statement in it. Also for(;;) is much faster to write than while(true).

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*looks at username* oh, I remember that username from a few previous threads…

Reforming the GDPR is in principle a good idea because many of the terms used in it are so vague that it’s completely unclear what it does or doesn’t mean.

Somehow I suspect that improving this isn’t what’s going to happen…

no, “Missing Link” is a regular series on that news site: https://www.heise.de/thema/Missing-Link

not-so-common setups like two monitors

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with these things, I always wonder how different I would feel about them if my first language weren’t German and I didn’t understand what was actually being said; as it is, I need to concentrate very much on the subtitles

I don’t think I understand the question.

The Internet isn’t supposed to have a “center”, at all. If it ever does, something has gone wrong.

Federation, like what we’re doing here, can make it so that everyone’s personal “center” can be whatever platform they choose to use most of the time. Someone trying to communicate may be using an entirely different one, it will still get federated to whatever you prefer.