With an email address, they can be a lot more certain you're the same person as everywhere else you've entered the same email address. Browser fingerprinting is a thing, but many people use different browsers at different times (e.g. one on their smartphone, one on their personal laptop, one on their work laptop, etc.).

My reaction when I see that is "ok, then you don't want me to read this, fine, I have plenty of other things to do anyway".

As far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter. Even if the goal is banning kids, it's still a bad goal to have.

da akzeptiert man dauernd Cookies und dann kommen trotzdem keine Kekse in der Post :(

Isn't that what we are doing here, at least arguably?

Improving social media is what I meant. But the metaphor is bad. Social media is a place to exercise free speech rights and otherwise participate in society, quite a different thing from smoking!

WordPress powers a huge percentage of all websites, and that's written in PHP. MediaWiki is too, although that's obviously a much smaller percentage.

The COVID vaccine definitely did cause me some pain on the skin when I got it. That doesn't mean I shouldn't have gotten it, of course.

hexagons are the bestagons? :D

That's not "happened to"; read the title text if you want to remove all reasonable doubt that it's a reference to it.

Ich hab schon oft dort gebucht und keine schlechten Erfahrungen gemacht.

How is the fediverse different from traditional social media?

The fediverse is a decentralized network of social media platforms that freely interact, unlike traditional social media.

I have a bit of a problem with the term "traditional social media".

The earliest popular form of social media was Usenet. The first one I ever used was web forums (run on phpBB or similar software). Those have a lot more "tradition" than Facebook or Twitter or TikTok, so why are they calling the latter three (deviations from the decentralized "tradition" of the Internet) "traditional social media"?! Is it just that they're the first form of social media that the authors of that article ever used?

Do they always do that?

I just looked through recent articles on vehicle-related incidents on a major local news website for my city, and that doesn't seem to be the case at least there.

• https://wien.orf.at/stories/3376060/ doesn't mention it, though it does have a photo of the car in question
• https://wien.orf.at/stories/3375812/ isn't directly about a car crash, but is about someone getting assaulted over vehicle-related behavior; doesn't mention the car model
• https://wien.orf.at/stories/3375778/ doesn't mention it

I was unable to quickly find a recent story on that site that does mention it, so your premise doesn't seem to be exactly true; maybe it's true where you live, but not everywhere in the world.

Of course. I find "social media" a suboptimal term anyway. A good term for the concept is the "participatory Internet".

But if we are going to use it, then it's just media that is produced by society at large as opposed to paid journalists or authors. Meaning Usenet is social media.

Ich auch (relativ knapp) nicht, außerdem bin ich Österreicher, Deutschland ist mir etwas zu weit weg, um dafür extra dorthin zu reisen. :P Kennt jemand ein österreichisches Äquivalent dazu?

Selbst, wenn https://www.der-postillon.com/2015/06/urkunde-aus-dem-16-jahrhundert.html eine echte Meldung gewesen wäre, wäre München etwas weit weg von Wien, wo ich wohne. :P

What does that calculation look like when also considering used cars?

I think nearly all popular ones that come with a graphical interface at all. There is a graphical updater by KDE called Discover that works on a lot of different distros.

I think very few if any words on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Basic_English_word_list are offensive, and it has the size you want.

Ich verwende diesen hier https://f-droid.org/packages/org.solovyev.android.calculator/ ungefähr schon, seit ich angefangen hab, Android überhaupt zu verwenden.