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We also updated our Photon frontend to the latest 2.0-rc5 just now. Please test and report any issues.

This goes to the main developer, which is a person in Canada. But I think they have a few collaborators that will likely get on board more now that they want to set up a non-profit (?) foundation to manage the Pixelfed codebase and IP.

Most of human history...hmm checks notes... since the invention of capitalism about 400 years ago, yes.

Even serfs under feudal lords had significantly more free time and while basic child labor was common, it was mostly in family run farms.

Afaik only 150b of that is actual new, the rest is just relabled national funding already previously committed. The EU likes to pretend they are doing something big, when in reality its the individual states doing it mostly.

As for not being able to change anything at EU level... that is of course by design so that the national governments can retain control. Very little is actually decided on EU level, most of it is backdoor deals of changing groups of national governments.

Related: https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

And Lemmy instances are also affected.

I discussed this on the Lemmy issue tracker and the Lemmy devs are not willing to put some standartized restrictions on password composition to ease such interoperability. Thus the only advise I can give is to change your password to not use any obscure non-ascii characters and keep the length below 60 (30?) characters.

This is or at least was a problem with cross-posts in the same community in Lemmy as well. I think now Lemmy just prevents posts with the same URL to be counted as crossposts when they are in the same community.

Too expensive to rebuild half the tracks to allow higher speeds.

Seems like a Github sponsors promotion website. Why waste money by using a Microsoft owned middle man, when better projects like LiberaPay exist?

They were the first movers with modern tracks, and now those older tracks hold them back. The TGV itself can go much faster in theory.

Update to Lemmy 0.19.10 was completed. Looks like it went fine. This update will allow us to remove that "Nicole" DM spam a bit better.

In other news: looks like those AI scrapers found a way around out attempts to block them again and this this afternoon we are at near constant 100% CPU utilization again because of this 😢 Lets see what we can do about this. Edit: got slightly better, only 60-80% now. Lets see in the coming days how it develops.

This sounds a bit like you are falling for the popular game of EU-washing that many local politicians like to play, i.e. push for something at EU level and later claim there is nothing they could have done against it because it was decided by those up there in the EU.

In general the EU is far, far from being the "United states of Europe" and most of the controversial decisions are actually taken by national leaders circumventing the EU and its institutions like the EU parliament. The EU commission is largely just a bureaucratic organ to EU-wash the general neoliberal consensus of local politicians.

And from an anarchist perspective, it is IMHO preferable to have some far away aloof bureaucrats occupying themselves with some non-sense of little relevance and which you can largely ignore, than a local autocratic government that is breathing down your neck.