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Having been monitoring in parallel political discourse around Article 13 *and* the development of "Youtuber/social media influencer" culture of (mostly) younger Germans there seems to be a massive culture/generation gap within the country (maybe more so than UK?).
What is worse is some politicians who want to destroy the social media aren't old farts, they are younger than I am (but maybe did not take part in Gen X youth subcultures at all)
Schwarzer Tag für die Netzfreiheit: Das @Europarl_DE@twitter.com hat die Urheberrechtsreform mit #Artikel13 und #Artikel11 abgenickt. Änderungsanträge zur Urheberrechtsreform wurden gar nicht erst zugelassen. Das finale Abstimmungsergebnis: 348 dafür, 274 dagegen #SaveYourInternet
@Wolf480pl@quad What are you talking about? Which layout have you been using all these years that has Scandinavian characters available conveniently enough while still being shell-friendly on a physical ANSI layout?
@quad Wow! So tired of flipping layouts, especially on an ANSI keyboard where writing <> is impossible on the Finnish layout because that physical key is missing.
"Dark day for internet freedom: The @Europarl_EN has rubber-stamped copyright reform including #Article13 and #Article11. MEPs refused to even consider amendments. The results of the final vote: 348 in favor, 274 against"
This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer's specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.