veavo

Na, it's just that ipv6 was conceived when the ideas of privacy on the internet weren't advanced enough.

It is. People here are fervently pro-ipv6 and won't admit it, but your theory is completely right.

We already know the political slant of "experts". Making "experts" write the community notes would lead to them being as untrustworthy as "fact checkers".

Well, George also bought a wig and thought he would never have to take it off.

While I agree with you in principle, having your balls cut off does not sound like an easy thing to go through.

No because I can leave a social network and go to some other website or publisher that allows me to publish whatever I want. The worst thing that can happen is that they delete my comments.

You can't escape the state. If they don't like what you post they'll beat you up and put you behind bars. Not good.

Regarding your "democratically appointed censor" point, freedom of speech means that I should not be a slave to whatever the status quo is.

Here in Spain we eliminated special classes for disabled children and put them in the normal classes.

The obvious result: everybody is worse off. Disabled children are not properly accommodated and the performance of the rest of children suffers because of everything going slower. And all the responsibility of dealing with the situation falls on the teachers, who aren't adequately equipped.

No need to be a nazi or anything to see why that's a bad idea. Of course, the left destroying public education is nothing new.

Anyway, back to your comment: we were talking about the perception of Germany from outside Germany.

For a long time people said that deleting comments on social media wasn't censorship because it was done by private companies, and I agreed.

Now it is the state mandating censorship. Can we call a spade a spade?

So... the taxpayer pays money... just so the taxpayer has to pay for more expensive wine?

Most of the time you get a new client and they have a website with a theme and plugins that haven't seen updates in years because the authors abandoned them. You have to constantly fix them. Even if you create the website yourself you really have no way of knowing for how long it will be supported, and even then, you are not going to do a complete security audit of the codebase.

For example because of latest updates to PHP 8 they have deprecated the $var{key} syntax - who the fuck uses that?! I did not even know it existed until some of my clients' websites crashed after I updated PHP.

It's an absolute minefield since we moved on to the PHP 7 branch. I am glad for PHP because the language sucked before because of how lenient it was. But it creates a lot of work for me.

>the only exception being poorly written 3rd party plugins

Unfortunately you need several of these to make any web site plus a theme, so yes, it happens.

If you have so many clients you know it well that you can't upgrade from php 7 to 8 without the site crashing. Well, unless you are really lucky.

$31.66 a month for a wordpress hosting plan is an absolute rip-off.