> how unhappy individuals must be who consume nothing but legacy news outlets

Probably less unhappy than those doomscrolling on Reddit/X/TikTok/BlueSky etc.

What makes Gitea controversial nowadays, I'm out of the loop.

"Forgejo was initially created in December 2022 as a fork of Gitea. The fork occurred after a for-profit limited corporation ran by the lead maintainer of the project, Lunny Xiao, silently transferred Gitea's trademarks and operations to the company and began to establish an open-core model."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgejo

Also see: https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/

EDIT: HN discussion on the latter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33372471

From a quick web-search: Apparently it was an open-source community project, but the governing organization created a for-profit entity and transferred most of the assets to that entity (brand, website, etc.). Gitea apparently still uses MIT licenses, but the community felt it was a betrayal of the open-source ethos. forgejo is a community fork of Gitea when the issues mentioned were not suitably resolved.

Bari Weiss is not a long-time anything, she ran a blog for a couple of years and has been appointed head of CBS to run it into the ground.

It's not that new tho. US Ambassador to the UN under Biden already called Albanese an antisemite. This is just the next logical step in US foreign policy.

That’s likely due to Albanese constantly indulging in bizarre racist conspiracy theories.

The linked Reuters article seems like a much better read https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trumps-war-global-jus...

Also post Fukushima.

Fukushima sure, but a lot of women were traumatized by Chernobyl and the news of a cloud of radioactive dust that was going to give them all cancer. I think Fukushima just reingnited those fears.

Mushrooms and boars are still contaminated in Bavaria

My parents neighbour is a retired policeman and a hunter.

I think he has to discard 3 out of 4 boar due to contamination levels, he told us not too long ago.

But Merkel AFAIR never claimed this decision was based on any science but on popular demand and public feeling after Fukushima.

That is correct. Before the nuclear exit due to Fukushima panic her government actually reverted the exit of the former government.

Of course not, and the company whose blog we're reading isn't doing anything similar either https://www.simplethread.com/case-studies/ Rather funny IMO

As someone who grew up poor in an ex-Eastern Bloc country, allofmp3.com was a godsend.

If you are looking for some modern stuff that would go nicely with Dostoyevsky/Kafka, I can warmly recommend Krasznahorkai, especially his first book, Satantango.

Really well written and well structured novel, and although he uses long sentences and no paragraph breaks, the writing is surprisingly accessible and incredibly immersive.

It was my first fiction book in a long time and it made me love fiction again.

Thank you adamors, I’ll be sure to give Satantango a go next- I’ve been struggling to find a modern substitute for the Russian classics and haven’t been able to put my finger on why- there is a quality to it that keeps me engrossed.