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I can’t imagine how stressful it must have been to have a small hobby project you’re devekoping for fun and then suddenly get the insane amount of traffic from the Reddit exodus over night without having been able to prepare for it at all. I was low key worried we killed him with stress.

Happy that’s not the case.

I think engaging with people on a human level rather than giving unsolicited advice on how to use fediverse to every new face around could be a place to start. Half the time I see a new user here they seem to get flooded with technical advice that, while well-meaning, is somewhat off-putting.

A simple “Welcome! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about how to make the most of your time here” is plenty for most people. And if they do ask questions, go wild.

Is there a good community in which newcommers can ask basic questions, like a fedi help desk community/no stupid questions fedi edition? I feel like that could be useful to point people to. Edit: Blaze linked [email protected] in another comment.

“I’m not even a nazi, but it sure is nice to see the fascists marching in the streets as a demonstration that free speech is truly alive and well”

Still a pretty big hurdle for most bots that just aimlessly flow through the webs trying to sign up for things. I don’t think anyone will bother tailoring their bot for europe.pub.

Putting the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy between the question and the answer field might further confuse LLM outputs. :)

The rendering engineer working on Zootopia 2 is on Mastodon, at @[email protected].

It’s a pretty neat follow, and has made me somewhat excited about this movie despite having lukewarm feelings towards Disney (at best). It seems a lot of love is going into it.

The worlds smallest violin keeps getting smaller.

"I left this gigantic capitalist American monolith and the alternative I found was full of leftists! "

Well, duh.

(Obligatory fuck tankies.)

Oh yeah, it seems like half the posts I made on reddit in the end were shadow deleted, and I’m not even sure what I did wrong. Just automatic and instant action from Reddit. At least here when your shit is deleted you know about it.

I’m not here to suffer fools.

And bans come cheap because they’re on an instance level. Go out and find yourself a place where you belong. If it turns out the people you’d like to talk to don’t like you back, maybe recalibrate.

The Commission has no law-making power on its own. They can open proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union to verify compliance with existing laws, or they propose legislation that will have to go through other EU institutions (the Parliament, which is elected, and the Council, which consists of representatives from Member State governments).

The job of the Commission is to propose laws. The job of the other institutions is to reject these laws if they are stupid. The Commission opening an investigation does not mean that the EU is “adopting similar regulations” - it is an extremely long way away from that.

And even the Commission itself is likely to contain a wide spectrum of opinions within it - it tends to be a strange political constellation. So until there’s a Commission proposal (as happened with chat control) there’s really nothing. After the Commission proposal, we need to make sure it’s stopped by pressuring national governments (Council) and elected MEPs (Parliament).

Yeah, there’s no guarantees against stupidity in the member states. That’s easier to reverse than if it happens in an EU regulation.

This kind of misinformation is why people get confused and vote for right wing eurosceptic parties, which ironically tends to be the parties most eager to strip people’s rights away.

What exactly do you think a Commission blueprint is?

It’s nothing but soft power and hardly even that, little more than just thinking out loud. It has no implications whatsoever unless member states decide they want to implement the ideas nationally, in which case it’s on them. The Commission cannot implement EU law unilaterally.

As for chat contol, that’s about banning true encryption. Very different from regulating big tech.

I would like to know which EU law it is they are takling about, aa they proclaim pretty boldly that the Union is adapting “similar Regulations”. I follow EU politics somewhat closely and I have no idea what they are talking about.

The Commission has published some guidelines and recommendations, which are as legally binding as a fart.

As for chat control: With that attitude, probably.

Are you talking about chat control?

It was rejected once, and will be rejected again. At least if people mobilize a bit against it. There’s a long way from Commission proposal to law.

Equating the proposal of a law with the adaptation of it is highly misleading. The EU is a complex institution where different bodies are pulling in different directions.

Yeah, it used to work with the account from the first university, and has probably been disallowed somewhere in the settings as a “safety feature”.

I’m just thankful IT seems to be as fed up with Microsoft as I am, so hopefully some day they’ll make the change to something else.

I think it reveals that the antagonist is more used to hunting humans than animals, and that referring to the target as an “it” takes a bit of getting used to.

For the movie it might help make the stakes seem a bit higher, underlining that this is no ordinary hunt.

But also of course it hints that he know the identity. Especially so maybe when he feels the need to correct himself - the vicar gets the feeling something is off.

I have Microsoft Outlook accounts with two different universities.

Outlook does not work with Thunderbird or any other app besides the official Outlook one, which doesn’t exist for Linux. Even if it did I wouldn’t want to install it. So I am forced to use web mail.

Even though the domain names are different, Outlook freaks the fuck out at the notion that one could be signed in with two different Microsoft accounts in the same web browser. It’s hard to access my inbox for one university without completely signing out of my inbox for the other.

Now I just allocate one university to container A, and the other to container B. It’s just one of the many hoops I have to jump through to make e-mail barely functional in 2025.

Is there a pretty list of federated NodeBB forums anywhere? I like to check out which ones are listed on fedidb every now and then, but it’s not the most convenient list as the topic of the forum is often obscure based on its name.

(I really enjoy being able to follow and participate in communities in forums around the web - thanks for making it possible!)

Shouldn’t we try to gift them our technology so they are better equipped to survive?

Looking at the state of affairs right now, I’m not entirely sure this is the effect the “gift of technology” has had. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they end up outliving all of us.

group of people who don’t want to compromise on any of their values

Of course I don’t want to compromise my values in order to see growth of a platform that I use precisely because it aligns with my values.