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I think chapter 2 does a good job presenting the advantages.

Maybe you inherited someone else’s codebase. A minefield of nested closures, half-commented hacks, and variable names like d and foo. A mess of complex OOPisms, where you have to traverse 18 files just to follow a single behaviour. You don’t have all day. You need a flyover—an aerial view of the warzone before you land and start disarming traps.

Ask Copilot: "What’s this code doing?" It won’t be poetry. It won’t necessarily provide a full picture. But it’ll be close enough to orient yourself before diving into the guts.

So—props where props are due. Copilot is like a greasy, high-functioning but practically poor intern:

• Great with syntax
• Surprisingly quick at listing out your blind spots.
• Good at building scaffolding if you feed it the exact right words.
• Horrible at nuance.
• Useless without supervision.
• Will absolutely kill you in production if left alone for 30 seconds.

Yeah, I understand your point and I think it might be the only way of silencing these trolls. Perhaps making it this explicit is the only way of providing clear enough guidelines, I just feel like it's a bit bombastic as a point 2.

What left me a bit reluctant was your comment that other communities "are hosted in Germany which is a Zionist police state". I'll be the first to criticize Germany (this is precisely what got banned me from [email protected] half a year ago, after all), but this seems a bit bombastic especially when paired with rule 2.

I already got banned for criticizing Germany, I don't want to get banned for defending them as well! ;)

I guess the problem is that if you take your car to the plane, then your plane somewhere else, suddenly you don't have your car. And then if you drive somewhere else you don't have your plane any more.

I think it's pretty obvious that rental cars and commercial flights make a lot more sense for most scenarios. But I guess it's possible to imagine scenarios where this vehicle makes sense, either for extensive round trips or for places where car rentals don't exist but the roads are nevertheless pretty good.

Stradalex is just some random corporate website made by folks who want to make a profit from publishing open licensed documents on a single site. They have no relation to the EU or any member state, and they have no interest in making stuff accessible to anyone who is not going to pay them at some point.

I don't know the Belgian case, but I think it's the same thing in many member states; the publishing of laws online is done by private for-profit companies, and comes with weird restrictions. I'd argue it's a democratic problem, but it's on the national level.

EUR-lex would be the place to look, as it's the official site of EU law. That, or official web sites of the member states.

So indeed: National transposition in the left bar of legislation viewed in EUR-lex is the best the EU can offer.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/NIM/?uri=CELEX%3A32002L0058

You're right that EUR-lex, or the EU, does not (at least not consistently) publish national laws. This remains the job of the member states, and EUR-lex might not even have the rights to publish all national laws on their sites even if they had the resources to do so.

In terms of languages, English is never prioritized even if these documents were to be translated. As much as we all love Malta it's just not that important. But translating national laws to any language would be way too much work for an Union that already spends a fortune on lawyer linguists.

So while I sympathize (I would love to have these data readily available), I'm afraid the best you can do is to look up the official publications of each law in their separate national journals (as cited in EUR-lex) and take it from there.

If I remember correctly the Commission used to publish some notes on implementation, but I don't think they do that any more. In general the Commission is not making too much noise about non-compliance these days, as they tend to prefer muted talks through the EU Pilot. Some scholars have recently argued that the Commission is intently stepping away from enforcing compliance so that it can have better luck in its policy making role. But that's another issue.

They don't have a general rule to ban all protests, but they did ban several of them and cracked down on protests pretty effectively early on. As is reported in plenty of media.

Well, the entire thread is still there except my deleted comment reading as follows:

insufficient avenues for engagement beyond voting.

Funny what banning protests does to a country.

So you can see in the thread that I provide sources, such as the New York Times:

The country’s authorities have banned many protests in the name of fighting antisemitism. Critics say such restrictions are discriminatory.

To me, this seems relevant in a thread about how German youth feels that their avenues for democratic participation beyond voting are restricted. Besides, I was not banned for alleged misinformation, but for "derailing".

Even if I was wrong, which I do not believe I was, I hardly see my comment being worthy of a ban in a reasonably moderated community. Discussion, yes.

Thanks for this! I will contribute for sure.

Edit: I would possibly revisit rule #2 though - making the rule more general, such as "no hate speech", and specifying that proponents of any hateful ideologies should be excluded. Right now it's strangely targeted - I guess "no antisemitism" goes under rule 1, but I think rule 2 should be wide enough to also cover "no nazis".

Edit edit: As frustrated as I am by [email protected], I think I'll proceed with some hesitation.

I got banned from [email protected] at some point for raising the German response to pro-palestinian protests as a potential democratic problem. Seems European enough to me. 🙃

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Governments post vital information there, they try to turn it into payment services you might depend on, personally I've lost contact with friends who are only answering on platforms I don't use. The entire business idea is to make it so that those who are not using the platforms are missing out.

I think maybe it does, but I'm a pretty normal user who just used the Murena quick installer to get /e/OS. Reading up on Magisk after some web searches I quickly realized it was more than I could bite over without spending too much time trying to figure it all out. If people insist on making apps I can't use I'll just accept that I won't be using them at this point. Their loss.

Along with a bunch of open source alternatives everywhere. But mainstream options are always run by capitalists, and they always try to find ways to punish people for not using them.