2006: user generated content is a revolution! We are now exchanging information and ideas directly with each other without needing information gatekeepers like traditional media or paid advertisers or anything like that! The future is gonna be a utopia where the powerful will be challenged at every turn!

2026: a significant percentage of “user generated content” is generated either by AI or people who are being paid to do so for commercial or political reasons… I suppose those are “users” too…

why, humanity, why??? ;____;

I’m not sure if that law will pass/has passed,

It has already passed the legislature and been signed into law, but not become operative yet, won’t until 2027-01-01.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

I am not. I am from a country whose constitution starts with the statement that it is a democratic republic.

Yes, that makes sense that very small apartments would also have very small kitchens where you’d have these kinds of fridges. Point is, most people do have much bigger ones, even in Europe. :)

I would find it very sad if they were a majority, anywhere. :(

I really didn’t hear anything about it until recently

Yes, I expressed the same sentiment here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55959326/24302621

Is our entire information “ecosystem” so broken that we only pay attention to bad things after they’ve already happened, not before when there is still a chance to stop them?!

OK, that’s about the elaboration I was looking for…

Somehow I don’t think this is the central reason. I think governments are perfectly capable of doing bad things completely without billionaires having an interest in it. It especially doesn’t explain things like the California law that will regulate how we can or cannot program operating systems (hint: software code is a form of speech, meaning that this ought to be struck down as a violation of free speech), because no age verification services are involved in that.

Billionaires certainly are people, but these laws don’t even serve billionaires in any meaningful sense, so that’s hardly an explanation without more elaboration.

In my youth I was taught that democracy meant that the government served the people.

What do any of these laws have to do with serving the people? Do they have anything to do with the will of the people?

Now something important about Wales (and I’ve heard this applies to other European countries) is that the big fridges and freezers common in the U.S are not common there.

I’ve lived in central Europe all my life and all apartments I remember living in had fridges similar to this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bosch_Electronic_no_frost_fridge_freezer_(2019)_06.jpg (on the top is the fridge, on the bottom the freezer)

Smaller fridges where the freezer is only located on one shelf in the fridge are a thing too, I’ve seen them in vacation apartments, but I think only people with extremely limited space in their kitchen would get one of these for their homes.

“Fediverse content” is absolutely indexed by Google, like everything else on the public web. Why would Google choose to ignore it just because it is from the fediverse?

But it usually doesn’t show up very prominently, and which instances’ copies do show up can be completely unpredictable. Probably the search built into fediverse software is more useful if you want to specifically search here.

not really, every Lemmy instance has an owner…

What federation is is that every Lemmy instance gets some of its data not just from its users, but also from other Lemmy instances. You can think of each Lemmy instance as one mini-reddit, in principle there is no difference between reddit and one single Lemmy instance. Federation means that Lemmy instances copy their data from/to each other so that you can talk to users who use other ones too.

It used to be that similar (and equally bad) ideas were getting traction because of copyright law, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_Television_Promotion_Act

Now other excuses for the same thing have been invented. I wonder which will be next.

You can name them with a string that helps you identify them while you’re editing, then only when you’re finished run search and replace to replace those names with numbers.

Or I guess you could write it in MediaWiki which does exactly this automatically with its references feature. 😁

This debate is about as old as the existence of free licenses. I doubt anyone will have anything new to say in this thread.

One aspect that isn’t raised very much is that for a company to maintain software (including their own fork of any software however licensed) costs developer time (= money). It may be cheaper to contribute back anyway, no matter the license, just in order to outsource that effort. If we are talking about software where this is true, companies have an incentive to work with the existing maintainers even if they aren’t legally obliged to.

IIRC it wasn’t crashing, it was UI elements just not doing what they were meant to do. But I haven’t tried it in years, so I don’t remember it very well and certainly can’t say if those problems are still there.

The thing about PDF is that the whole point of PDF is that it shouldn’t be easy to edit. So you’re asking for hacks around something that isn’t supposed to be easily possible.

It’s possible to import PDFs into Inkscape. But my experience is that the result is usually not very easily editable (probably depends on the PDF) because it puts everything into very complex groups and other structures.

I use Shotcut, works well enough for what I need.

You can also try Kdenlive, though I have previously had problems with it where it just failed to work at all (have not tried recently). There is also a video editor integrated into Blender.

What if I’m running an email client in the terminal? ;)

I myself prefer dark mode for everything. But if somebody prefers a bright background, why would they not in the terminal too?

It makes sense to use the same setting for this, at least by default, as for dark and light mode in general. Why would you want your terminal dark but your email client bright?