I mean, I consider myself to be one of those people “not comfortable with problem solving,” but my curiosity saw me through. 😅
Anyways, my point is that had I not been previously exposed, I might have found getting into Lemmy difficult as well.
I mean, I consider myself to be one of those people “not comfortable with problem solving,” but my curiosity saw me through. 😅
Anyways, my point is that had I not been previously exposed, I might have found getting into Lemmy difficult as well.
It might be an instance-dependent or user-setting-dependent thing, but I've noticed that my responses default to English.
For the time being, I've set my language preferences to these languages:
If my hunch is correct, my instance will detect that I haven't selected a language for this reply and set it to English.
Edit: It didn't. 😅
Edit 2: I'm stupid. The OP is talking about post creation, and not reply creation. My bad.
Thank you very much for that link! I didn't even realize there's an English version of the article. Again, thank you!
The charges of terrorism are strongly rejected by the defendants. They denounce a political trial, a prosecution and a lack of evidence. In particular, they point to decontextualized remarks and the use of trivial facts (sports and digital practices, reading and listening to music...)[3]. For their part, the police acknowledged that by the end of the investigation - and ten months of intensive surveillance - no "precise project" had been identified[4].
The state has just been condemned for keeping the main defendant in solitary confinement for 16 months, from which he was only released after a 37-day hunger strike. A second complaint, awaiting trial, has been lodged against the repeated illegal strip-searches to which a defendant was subjected in pre-trial detention[5].
If those translations from DeepL are sufficiently accurate, at the very least, the main defendant was arrested has been held for 16 months.
As for the rationale, I suppose it's their relationship with the ‘far-left’ that have caught the police attention. There was a link to the French Wikipedia article on the arrests and the entire incident. From there, I gleaned that the ‘far-left’ relationship is with the YPG.
According to the Wikipedia article, there's still ongoing cases against the defendants.
I hope someone else who've got a better grasp of both the French langauge and the Rovaja/YPG situation give their two cents since I've got no idea.
That first article, though I have read it through a translation app, is truly insane. The judge's quoted statement is just terrifying:
> « L’ensemble des membres de ce groupe se montraient particulièrement méfiants, ne communiquaient entre eux que par des applications cryptées, en particulier Signal, et procédaient au cryptage de leurs supports informatiques […]. »
Translated via DeepL: > "All the members of this group were particularly suspicious, communicating with each other only via encrypted applications, in particular Signal, and encrypting their computer media [...]".
Clandestine behavior, he says. Is the judge seriously thinking along the lines of “if you've got nothing to hide…” and associating ‘clandestine behavior’ to being a criminal? That's scary.
EDIT:
English language version of the first article (much thanks to @vanecx@mastodon.pirateparty.be): https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/
That's great!
Not about you not having a guillotine, of course, but about the notifications about impending strikes. I think that's sufficiently fair giving people a head's up—even though it gives management time to prepare and fend-off the strike's effects.
But I thought protesting is the French pastime?
Just kidding, don't guillotine me.
My first time (on the Fediverse) was with Mastodon, but when I created my Lemmy account, I wasn't aware that I can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account.
In hindsight, however, I think keeping my Mastodon and Lemmy "experiences" (for the lack of a better term) is a good thing.
Agreed. I remember being confused as all hell back in early 2018 when I made my Mastodon account (at mastodon.social
).
Had I not been previously exposed to the Fediverse (through Mastodon), getting into Lemmy would have been equally difficult, if not even more so because of the rush.
Arch Linux with KDE Plasma
Had previous experience on Linux Mint way back, then Ubuntu. Had Manjaro with XFCE for a couple of years before moving on to my current one.
Moving on to Arch, btw, wasn't my idea. Someone convinced me to let him have a go at converting my Manjaro installation to Arch. It was an interesting experience, but not one that we would want to go through ever again.