While it isn’t easy for Matrix, running an quivalent XMPP server on Tor, I2P or similar is fairly well documented, and there are multiple such servers accessible both on the clearnet and Tor.

Many XMPP clients also have built in Tor proxy settings.

I don’t get why people continue to recommend Minecraft when there is the much better open-source Luanti project: https://www.luanti.org/

Saudi Arabia isn’t great on human rights either…

This is depressing. Profoundly depressing. i look at the statistics board for my reverse-proxy and i never see less than 96.7% of requests classified as bots at any given moment. The web is filled with crap, bots that pretend to be real people to flood you. All of that because i want to have my little corner of the internet where i put my silly little code for other people to see.

From the conclusion, and I feel exactly the same looking at my server logs.

Das wundert mich jetzt aber doch. Schließlich überzieht Friedrich Merz seit Jahren andere mit solchen Klagen um sie mundtot zu machen.

Most developing countries don’t have a brain drain problem but a capital problem. Remittances from people that moved abroad are a strong factor helping with that and are bigger than the official development assistance for example.

Also jetzt mal von den ganzen anderen im Artikel genannten Vorteilen abgesehen… wenn eine Wohnung in der Innenstadt kein zur Wohnung gehörenden Autostellplatz hat, ist es absolut im Interesse der Allgemeinheit dann den Autobesitz einzuschränken, denn wo soll das Auto sonst hin? Alternativ halt nur kostenpflichtige Parkplätze mit Anwohnerausweiß, die dann aber entsprechend auch kosten.

Have been running on the 8.0 RC for a week now. Very nice release, and imho the important part isn’t even mentioned: they upgraded the official containers to Debian Trixie, which includes a much more recent version of ffmpeg.

https://www.shotcut.org/ and https://www.openshot.org/ are other options, besides the already mentioned KDEnlive.

That’s quite impressive given the limitations.

Very few in Africa are under any sort of illusions about Russia. They just play both sides for their own benefit.

And it is anyways China that has a much bigger influence these days in many African countries.

Due to the colonial history most of Africa isn’t particularly fond of Europe. And modern France being insensitive on the issue certainly didn’t help this lately.

This kind of video content is apparently not popular here 😅

I am not overly surprised by this. The humanitarian response funding has been absolutely gutted this year, and not only by Trump (for example German gov. funding is down by 50% since 2022).

Thus organisations are struggleing to keep the lights on in the many emergency responses they already previously committed to, and have also not yet structurally adjusted, so there is an administrative overhang that further swallows what little funding remains.

And without NGO pushing for it, the shallow self of what journalism has become is totally oblivious to such relatively slow moving disasters. But it also becomes a self-reinforcing death spiral with no media coverage there is little non-government donations, thus further reducing the funds available.

Something is wrong with the link or website.

The idea as a PoC is not bad, but it would probably make more sense to use an open standard like GNU Taler for it and only do the data transmission over Meshtastic.

Conversations/Cheogram are excellent XMPP apps for Android that are freely available on F-Droid.

If would need to be patched in on Linux kernel level, which is annoying to say the least.

Because there exists only one place in the world and that is called US of A? 🙄

Saudi Arabia is still the biggest oil exporter in the world (as of 2024). If you drive an internal combustion car anywhere, chances are high that you paid the Sheiks at least some money for doing so.

Not really, as traveling by bus is quite popular in Europe as well. I just personally try to avoid it when there are better options.

Yeah, those have been pretty common with similar comfort in Latin America since decades. I always wondered why they never made the jump accross the pond.

But traveling by bus kinda sucks. I rather take a sleeper train or a high speed one than a bumpy slow bus (or car).