Oh do they? Never heard about that. Guess I've learnt something new. I wonder if it would be different for us, given how fewer big companies the EU has compared to the US.
I'm not familiar with the Delaware situation. Is it similar to Ireland's, then?
Foreign-owned multinationals continue to contribute significantly to Ireland's economy, making up 14 of the top 20 Irish firms (by turnover), employing 23% of the private sector labour-force, and paying 80% of the collected corporation tax.
I don't think the language barrier is that big of a deal. And more importantly I think the cultural value it provides us vastly outweights the economic benefit of a shared tongue.
I think one of the more urgent reforms that could help the EU prosper would be a common fiscal policy. We have the same tarifs on goods coming from abroad and most of us share the same currency, but countries are still offering varying tax rates. I think having an EU wide tax policy would help spreading the European branches of foreign companies more evenly. Though I reckon not everyone would like this (wink wink, Ireland).
EDIT: oh and also. I agree with your overall point, but using Lemmy as an example for "great innovation coming from the EU"...
I love Interlingua, as a Romance speaker I find it awesome, but after having consulted with some Germanic and Slavic friends it seems pretty unintelligible to them. Unfortunate, cause it's so easy and effective for us.
I think it'd be a pretty dick DM move. I'd hate it. Gear comes and goes, but when I was a player I'd spend entire weeks planning how I would minmax my builds over the next levels. Getting sent back to square one on that would feel terrible. I get that you've only just started your campaign, so maybe your players aren't that attached to their characters, but my players would probably still scream at me if I tried to pull something similar on them.
I didn't, up until yesterday night when you mentioned it. Had a quick Google search and read the wikipedia page, holy fuck there's some sick people out there. But I still fail to see how defed.xyz could help them doxx or otherwise harass people.
I don't want to be the author of software used for harassment, obviously, but I don't think you could use my tool for that, even if you wanted to.
Well of course I can't guarantee that I would be convinced, even after hearing that but explanation aside
Just because data is publicly scrape-able doesn’t mean it’s acceptable to do so.
Isn't it? If, an instance admin, has the possibility of hiding some data to the public and refuses to do so, it's either:
Because they are fine with the public accessing it
Because they are ignorant and unaware of such a feature, which I honestly don't think is an acceptable excuse (after all users have entrusted this person with their data, ffs)
At the end of the day what I am doing is nothing more than what any user could do by checking the "Moderated servers" section of the about page of any Mastodon instance.
I'm sorry but I'm really am not seeing the logic behind your point.
I'm sorry could you please elaborate on why the rest of the Fediverse would be enraged, or how this could be used for harassment? I don't think I follow. I'll admit, I only interact with the Fediverse through Lemmy so maybe there's some dynamics of the Masto-sphere I'm not picking up.
My understanding is that Mastodon admins can choose to hide their /domain_blocks endpoint to either outside users or even to all non admins. (source), and as a matter of fact almost a thousand of the 1700 Mastodon instances I'm querying already do so, so really I can only get the federation status of the few hundred that remain.
I think the admins that prefer not to show their defeds, in fear of harassment, are already hiding them, so it should be ok for me to query the remaining ones.
Yeah sure. Assuming you are only targeting Lemmy instances (other softwares make this a bit more complicated), A "can interact" with B if:
A hasn't blocked B
B hasn't blocked A
Neither A nor B are on allowlist. If either is on allowlist, it must have explicitly added the other one to its allow list (this is very uncommon, the only big instance using allow lists is hexbear.net)
So, to verify this, you could query the Defed Investigator with the instances you care about, one at a time. Only select the softwares you care about (likely only Lemmy) to make the query faster.
Say you wanted to verify the compatibility between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (just making an example). Go to https://defed.xyz/check?name=sh.itjust.works&software=lemmy
✔ lemmy.world doesn't appear in the "Instances defederated from sh.itjust.works" (this means .world hasn't blocked SJW)
✔ lemmy.world doesn't appear in the "Instances defederated by sh.itjust.works" (this means SJW hasn't blocked .world)
✔ lemmy.world doesn't appear among the "Instances not allowing sh.itjust.works" (this means .world isn't on allowlist or, if it is, it has explicitly allowed SJW. Again, this is very uncommon)
Also make sure the instance you are looking for isn't among the "Instances that returned errors", of course.
Funny seeing Von der Leyen in the thumbnail when really the "EU institutions" in questions are the EU parliament, who is trying to take the Commission (lead by Von der Leyen) to court for being too kind with those EU funds.
Uh interesting. Did you have any fancy custom configuration? Maybe you were blocking all requests to other hosts or something like that? I also have ublock origin and it didn't give me any troubles.
I have, even Nutomic asked me to, but the thing is I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to Rust. That was my first Rust project ever and the Lemmy backend is big and scary. I would rather gain some proficiency with the language first.
Plus, it would likely have to be structured somewhat differently than my implementation if it was integrated into Lemmy proper.
User flairs are currently invisible on my instance because I didn't get the chance to update my modded UI to the most recent Lemmy version, but the microservice itself is still perfectly operational.
Some errors will happen, that's inevitable, CORS is a bitch, but if you are getting that many I'm going to make an educated guess and assume there's something wrong with either your device or your connection.
Seeing as I am already Italian I suppose I will pick Chinese.
Also I guess I'm going to be that guy. "La vida es bella" is not Italian, it's Spanish lol.