I think you misunderstood the commenter you replied to. The issue is he’s blaming Thor as if Thor singlehandedly killed the initiative, when in reality it’s a wider societal issue.

Non-German but I am in the EU. Didn’t find it odd at all. Just assumed it was “flow market” in German.

Not sure about the rest, but Romania does. Communism fucked us up in many ways, but a positive legacy is how enshrined unions are in law.

Companies can get legislated to oblivion if it turns out they tried to suppress a union. We have “codul muncii” (the labour code EDIT: Found a decent English translation if anyone’s interested) which is a surprisingly readable government legal document that goes through exactly what rights you have and what obligations the company has towards you, as well as what legal incantations you need to do in which situations.

We have problems that spring up when both the workers and the company don’t know how this works. Workers being taken advantage of, unaware how much power they have, and companies not realising it only takes one person to report them before very bad things start happening to them.

We also have 18 days national holiday, minimum 21 days PTO per year (2 weeks of this per year must be consecutive and the company gets punished if it isn’t). Maternity leave is 126 days at 85% of your income (42 of it mandatory). These rules are fairly middle of the pack in Europe, nothing exceptional except the huge number of national holidays.

pi ends with the digit 9, followed by an infinite sequence of other digits.

That’s a very interesting use of the word “ends”.

to have this relationship between A and B you have to make a third database

Probably just a mistake here, but you make a third table, not a new database.

Apart from that (and the fact that one to many and many to one is the same thing), yeah, looks correct.

My best guess is that these multiple countries dont want to commit to fighting against the “anti lgbtq movement”.

For Romania, this is exactly the issue. The political situation is pretty crazy, we have a political party called AUR which is the worst reactionary tinfoil hat collection of crazies, very reminiscent of extreme US republicans. They are currently a fringe party, but growing. The mainstream socially conservative party (PSD, a socialist party… long story) don’t want to lose voters to the crazies, so they have to portray themselves as anti-LGBT. An alliance of socially progressive and economically liberal parties (PNL, USR+) is currently in power, and want to concentrate on how amazing the economy is and freeze social issues because they’re too divisive to win elections on.

TL;DR: Romanian politics are an absolute mess.

Romania is a messy country for LGBTIQ people. Generally speaking, LGBQ are accepted (trans people absolutely not), but the government tried to pass a constitutional amendment a few years back to solidify marriage as strictly between a man and a woman. Thankfully, it failed because the general population shunned the referendum so that it couldn’t get the required 50% turnout for it to be valid.

Positive steps are few and far between, but thankfully it isn’t backsliding.

Should be an option to allow/disallow non-instance users to vote. That’d be really useful here in sh.itjust.works for the Agora.

Very poignant point being made here about employee retention. Mass layoffs are a sledgehammer to institutional knowledge in companies, and retention and advancement of entire teams does the opposite.

A company literally cannot learn lessons from successes and failures. That’s done by employees in the company. Lose the experience, and you have to start again.

The best use case for purchasing FOSS software is contractor work, specific modules for existing platforms and/or FOSS projects. I’ve done that myself in the past. The client pays for the custom software, it’s written, and then they gets to do absolutely whatever they want with it. If the client wants to publish it, they’re well within their rights. Most of the time it’s too entangled with their internal company workflow to be useful to anyone else though.

According to a quick Google search (I’m no expert on copyright law), a sufficiently original email is automatically copyrighted. What constitutes “sufficiently original” seems to be pretty arbitrary.

So I guess if you post a short story, that’s automatically copyrighted. Commenting “this” is not. And then there’s a huge grey zone in the middle.

Only if the users on that server treat it like a death sentence.

Remote Follow sounds like a really amazing QoL improvement

Why does it start in Europe?

I’m no historian, please take this with a massive chunk of salt, but one theory I’ve read is that Europe started with much better and more varied domesticable animals. Better domesticated animals meant denser cities, which meant more division of labour and less people farming, which meant more technological innovation, until finally the industrial revolution happened which was the big push for the rest.

To add to what others have said, the real source of load is browsing. It’s much better than a few months ago, but it is still the case that users actively on the web frontend is the biggest load.

If you are actively using a single digit number of accounts simultaneously, no issue. A bot farm using 100,000 users simultaneously is a big problem.

Would need some kind of server setting to specify categorisation. Maybe open a GitHub issue for a server setting to do this, and then it could be displayed in the join-lemmy site

In the infinite multiverse, there’s probably a dalek that’s been reprogrammed as a beautician.

EXFOLIATE!

I’ve been saying exactly this since the news dropped. I fully understand people being worried, but I haven’t seen a concrete pathway to damage that doesn’t involve meta-hating users moving over to a meta product.

Check here for the federation list. lemmy.world uses a Blocklist, not an Allowlist so anything not explicitly blocked is allowed.

You can find your admins in the sidebar of the homepage.

Finally, you can see here what’s going on with Jerboa and here what’s going on with Lemmy as a whole.