I see. Not familiar with any good interface for that.

No, I thought that was a separate question precisely because I don’t see a connection between merge requests and mailing lists.

I don’t currently use mailing lists but when I did, I found Thunderbird very usable. Just set up a filter to move each list’s messages to a separate folder.

For merge requests, doesn’t the default GitLab web interface do those things already …?

It does.

That’s why IntelliJ shows you, in these kinds of cases, the names of the parameters where the function is called…

There are also languages, like Scala and Swift, with named parameters, which also solve this problem.

Windows becoming a Linux distribution.

not what I want, I want Windows (as in, the existing Windows codebase) to become FOSS, if that happened, we would no longer need to care about anyone switching to Linux, in fact I might then install a FOSS Windows myself

Matrix is basically federated Discord based on an open standard. But it’s a separate thing from the fediverse.

The thing is that Matrix and Discord are really intended for real time chatting, including private and encrypted chatting, in a way ActivityPub isn’t (which is more about persistent public conversations). So it makes sense that they are separate things.

I remember already playing it through Wine in like 2009 or so, so all that is new is that it’s now a decompiled version.

Well, ok, if all OP wanted to know is what a copyright license is:

By default, copyright law in most countries prohibits anyone except the author or other copyright holder from distributing creative works, including software, even in modified form. There are a few exceptions to this, but this is the general rule.

A license is a document that the copyright holder agreed to that grants someone permission to do so anyway.

In the context of open source, such a license needs to meet certain conditions to be considered open source. Among other things it needs to allow anyone (not just specific licensees) to distribute the software for any purpose, even in modified form.

Alcohol damages the body, phones definitely don’t do that.

I remember being a child and early teenager before anyone I knew had mobile Internet. Many of us engaged in highly disruptive behavior, including behavior harmful to others, when bored.

Researchers believe that the students, especially younger ones, may have turned to more disruptive behavior when they no longer had access to their phones.

Yeah, no shit? Phones tend to serve as a distraction that kills boredom; disruptive behavior is frequently (maybe usually) the result of boredom.

“One conjecture is that this resembles, to some degree, withdrawal symptoms,” he said. “Students are unhappy and disruptive the moment their phones are taken away.”

They’re understandably bored and then, understandably, try to kill their boredom in other, more disruptive ways. I for one very much prefer students being on their phones (or other devices) to beating each other up, damaging property, or insulting each other in psychologically damaging ways out of boredom! No idea what about this is supposed to resemble withdrawal symptoms.

The community is called “no stupid questions”, not “completely unclear questions”. I genuinely have no idea what you want to know. 🤨

“without exaggeration”

I haven’t seriously used it myself, but maybe Qt Quick is somewhat like you’re looking for?

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qmlapplications.html

The main question I have is this: is it going to be replaced by something better (such as federated services)?

Or will this just mean the Internet as a whole will lose lots of users? That, I think, wouldn’t be desirable. Whatever one may think of Meta, they’ve definitely done a lot to popularize the Internet as a mainstream technology, which by itself is a good thing, though if they use Meta platforms, it ought to be only the first step.

I use Arch speak Esperanto btw

Yes, of course I’m talking about spoken language. Of course if English were written in kanji we would need fewer characters to express the same information, but it wouldn’t change the spoken language at all.

(I remember learning the following graphical user interface design rule: switch your application to Spanish or Portuguese to check whether UI messages still fit in the boxes you’ve put them in. Spanish and Portuguese are the common languages that need the most characters per unit of information.)

There already are plenty of conlangs (constructed languages). The main thing that differentiates them from natural languages is the fact that their grammar generally doesn’t have any exceptions (irregular verbs or nouns). It would be possible to create such a language based on the grammar and vocabulary of English.

The only conlang I’m proficient in is Esperanto, which definitely works very well for practical communication. One cool feature about Esperanto is the system of prefixes and suffixes that acts as a vocabulary shortcut, for example the word for “cold” is just “un-warm” (varma / malvarma), or the word for “school” is just “learning-place” (lerni / lernejo). The language you’re imagining would likely also consist of words like “unwarm” and “learnery”.

Meanwhile I don’t think the length of (root) words needs to be especially short. Studies have found that all languages transmit information at approximately the same rate, which is why Spanish with its relatively long words seems to be spoken so fast. Human brain capacity is a limiting factor for things like that.

I’ve never bought VPN access, so am not sure; but don’t you need to have a bank account or even credit card to pay for VPNs anyway? How many very young people are even capable of paying for VPN access?

Does it really seem to you like the forces of freedom are winning? Not to me. :(