That's not actually true, the guy who made them originally was from the west and those countries didn't contribute because they had no chance of any digital infrastructure yet but top level country domains use caracters from the correspinding countries name and those are all determind in the same way so you essentially use their name without their permission or based on scetchy and scummy legally binding agreements!
The US and UK build a military base and established it with that ages ago so I am not surprised the current population is fine with it but they expelled the original population to do so! :/
The domain bs is a interesting case of scummy practices in general, .tv was missused in a similar way with awful contracts, essentially scamming a already increadably poor country!
You mean the EU and German government proposals for a few years? :/ Luckily courts block that so far but who knows what will be next and where in it will happen!
They include extensive Telemetry as well, fired most of their employees while significantly increasing the executive pay once which lead to the death of various projects most notably Servo, they perform experiments on their users without notice, the build in tracking blocker is anything but great and they repeatedly defended Google for very shitty moves (probably because that's who pays them), they spread rumors about Google ending payment once to cash out and they keep inventing products in the hope of even more money most of which goes to talentless executives rather than development.
This list is out of my head and might not be 100% accurate and complete but what I can promise you is that Mozilla sucks too! :/
I use Firefox because I always did and because I don't want to support the Blink (Chromium web engine) monopoly that even Apples Webkit can barely keep up with but please don't think Mozilla (Firefox owners) are accaptable by any means, they just aren't as bad in my mind!
I am european too and have a very similar issue with moat of this thread but the mod who also answered me is right, for a internet forum about US politics it's probably still really civilized.
I wasn't really expecting much, just hoping but you are right, I guess Lemmy is a lot more public than Mastodon and the hashtags there probably don't look much better ether.
That's not at all what I mean! Just look through the comments and the stupidity from both sides will make your brain melt. I always have good and constructive talks on Mastodon that don't seem anything like this accident!
I don't think SystemD is bad, it has big advantages over the previous solutions but I do use Alpine quite a bit and SystemD wouldn't make sense for a distro like that so I definitely prefer software that can runn without it too!
Fuck, this thread feels exactly like Reddit and I hate it! That's not the kind of place the community build for years on Mastodon and I hope it won't be on Lemmy ether! :/
That's not actually true, the guy who made them originally was from the west and those countries didn't contribute because they had no chance of any digital infrastructure yet but top level country domains use caracters from the correspinding countries name and those are all determind in the same way so you essentially use their name without their permission or based on scetchy and scummy legally binding agreements!