Assuming “EU” means “European Union” (the acronym can stand for other things too): if you don’t put “Europe” or “European Union” in the title or sidebar, no one who searches for these things is ever going to find this community.

also there is already !EuropeanUnion@europe.pub

IRC still exists, the closest FOSS IRC client to mIRC is KVIrc.

The closest thing to a modernized IRC is Matrix.

Tram-trains are a thing that exists in various places in the world, so it isn’t impossible.

But heavy rail usually has higher platforms, bigger trains, wider wheels than light rail. So there are some challenges, such as:

• Even tram tracks are a tripping hazard e.g. for bicycles; heavy rail tracks an even bigger one, and what you want means you need heavy rail tracks in all roads where the system goes, making them dangerous to cyclists.
• Platform heights might be around five times (or even more) higher on heavy rail than in the streets, so you need a solution to make them compatible, all solutions are either expensive or unusable for wheelchairs.

I remember reading that Loops (? - may be wrong about which one) does the same thing, only displaying statuses with videos in them. I have not, so far, seen anyone claim that that is a bad thing, and frankly don’t agree that it is. If we can’t do that, then we can never have specialized platforms built on ActivityPub, e.g. platforms only for videos or for photos, etc., and that would severely limit what we can do with it.

The law will be the same in all EU countries, including whichever parts you think will be “not mandatory” (I did read those news articles and am fully aware that mandatory scanning is no longer on the table).

misleading headline, this isn’t a list of countries in which the law will (if it passes) be different (it won’t be, it’s an EU law, so will be the same in all EU countries), it’s a list of countries that currently support/oppose the law

a desktop version of a web version of a desktop app? talk about going full circle :D

somewhat oddly, in the real world, a clause like this would make the program no longer free and open source software

I wish my own city’s airport were that well connected to the city.

It’s an expansion to say that LLM training constitutes a derivative work. You are of course entitled to your opinion that it should be the case; all I can say to that is that in the 2000s and 2010s nearly everyone on the Internet tended to argue for more limitations, not further expansions, of copyright law, and I wonder what happened to that attitude.

and yet it is still a legally unsettled question whether LLM training requires a copyright license at all; and it is my opinion that no one should want that to be the case, why would people on the Internet want to argue for an expansion of copyright law?

The PlayStation one is the symbol, not the letter, so that one is a bit different.

No I don’t. I don’t have a PS controller and have never had a PlayStation, so this knowledge is much less universal than you seem to think.

What would be interesting is whether there are any countries that voted differently from what they currently do (ie countries that have the death penalty but voted for a moratorium, or the other way round).

I don’t see where I said anything that contradicts anything in your comment.

Then no one can cross the tracks there at all anymore.

If Google is their default search engine, they must at least be tech-savvy enough to have changed the search engine in Edge, or installed another browser (probably Chrome).

Which “non-techy people” are we talking about here?

Nowadays some people only use smartphones or maybe tablets, and they might not know that. But most non-techy desktop users still use Windows and they certainly ought to know the default browser (and its search engine) on their OS, I would think.

That’s what https://lemmit.online/ is for reddit to Lemmy, https://sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/ for Twitter and apparently also Instagram.

One problem with this is copyright; if it’s OC images or text posts, it could infringe on the original poster’s copyright. Not a problem if it’s merely sharing links.

No, this is false as far as I can tell. I am willing to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable but my understanding is:

Communities are implemented not as hashtags, but as special users who “boost” everything addressed to them. That is why Lemmy sometimes gets posts made on Mastodon that mention a Lemmy community. It doesn’t always look great: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/45785836

So communities and hashtags aren’t the same thing. In particular, communities have moderators who can remove things or ban people. Hashtags don’t.

It is a feature of Lemmy that all new posts (not, AFAIK, comments) also get the community name added as a hashtag. This is what OP was seeing and serves to somewhat increase the reach of Lemmy posts. But you can’t follow microblog hashtags on Lemmy.