Ben Matthews

If you really want the selfie-type view, try this espreso link.

I hope you are right but fear that in practice (has this ever been tested?) you might not be.
See for example this discussion ( note especially comments by ‘MadHatter’ )

Maybe Euroclear is not the only reason - rather a convenient excuse for De Wever to waste time - as his seat of power is Antwerp with a huge chemical industry partly fueled by Russian gas, and his party is right-wing nationalist and maybe more sympathetic to the Putin-Trump vision than they dare to admit (as not in line with sentiment in the country as a whole).

When I look at polls it suggests little moved since last election, so Продължаваме Промяната & Демократична България are still far from leading an alternative government. Are those polls wrong ? Or is this another example of optimistic youth on streets in the capital, outnumbered by conservative old people in small towns (as elsewhere in europe)? How do they expect to change this ?

I’m still confused by this. Doesn’t that imply that if a derivative SaaS is created in combination with a weaker ( less-copyleft ) license such as GPL, Apache or MIT, then the weaker licence wins, so the derivative source code no longer has to be published ? I’m not looking for a ‘do whatever you like’ licence, I’d prefer a copyleft approach like AGPL, but one that’s easier to defend in europe.

Glad you raise this topic.
Can anybody elaborate on the practical difference between EUPL and AGPL ?
Iirc, although these both cover software as a service, EUPL is more relaxed about conversion or combination with other ‘compatible’ licenses which don’t include SaaS. So I’d be worried this keeps open a pathway for a bigger power to ‘enshittify’ my code.
Another question - has anybody experience defending rights under EUPL ?

The money to run EV comes from the voters (paying per sms etc), as well as tv advertising. So in this situation it seems likely that many individuals will also choose to boycott it, choosing not to watch and not to vote. That might lead to a financial penalty for EBU, but at the same time this will distort even further the ‘results’ of what what may be considered one of the largest (albeit very biased) global experiments in democracy, especially for teenagers. Maybe an alternative can emerge ?

It’s well known that each person has to have a different account for each of those big-tech services. Whereas in the fediverse, the original idea was that one account can traverse multiple services. The problem as the OP explains, is that it may seem you are following your friend’s account, whereas actually you might see just a small fraction of it, and not be aware that there is more.

I recall China had comfortable sleeper buses back in the 1990s - when they had more gaps in their railway network. Tatami -style mats were enough, what’s important is to lie flat. It can help sleep to feel a little movement, knowing you’re going somewhere. But to succeed in europe they should integrate better with railway stations.

I think OP has a valid point - it’s not about experienced users, but newcomers to the fediverse, who may think they are following an account, when actually they only see a small part of it - there could be some indication of what’s missing.

Seems dust devils make sparks fly.

I suppose to get more ships to the Caspian, they’d have to transport them in sections (from Europe or China) to assemble them in situ - some modular concept ?
Side thought - has anybody considered refilling the caspian sea via some pipe from the black sea ?

That’s a rate of only 1.2% per year, was that your intention ?

Can see reasons why this compromise makes sense:

• Flying so many participants to Adelaide would result in much greater CO2 emissions, while Türkiye is much closer to the centre of gravity of global population.
• The Australian team has support of a better scientific capacity (like CSIRO), motivation from the network of small islands, and the language helps run such negotiations (although a pity it’s like that).
• Both countries have a high vulnerability to climate change impacts - drought.
• But the Australians don’t want too much scrutiny of their high per-capita emissions and coal exports.
• While Türkiye is not a fossil-fuel exporter (unlike previous 3 COP hosts in middle east), and has a relatively large young population, so the ‘enthusiasm’ generated by hosting the COP may help build long-term capacity lacking in that region.

However, pity Türkiye choose Antalya, a haven for russian oligarch sunbathers, and doesn’t even have a railway.
And, zooming out, pity the system of UN regions, and in general the system of COPs is so crazy.

Interesting concept, but the efficiency compared to standing turbines needs to be calculated based on the expected lifetime. What’s the leakage rate of the helium? What’s the resistance of the fabric (or whatever it’s made of) and cables to UV light ?

Most pre-putin-era russian music stars are in exile somewhere in europe. They should coordinate together, make a big concert in some safe place, with clear political messages, some might penetrate through to people behind the state-tv propaganda wall.

A more convenient link format:
!india@lemmy.zip
Note also:

• !Indianews@lemmy.run
• !India@lemmy.ml
• !Indianpolitics@lemy.lol

(there may be others - didn’t re-search).
Although I don’t live there, I’d like to see more discussion of India on Lemmy.

I guess you are right about building railways in Romania, for example I remember a train crossing the (then) shiny new EU-funded rail bridge across the Danube from Vidin, then continuing at a walking pace towards Craiova. However, where i lived near Ottignies in Belgium it was no better - they demolished houses, build tunnels and bridges, then postponed laying the rail track for over a decade. As for projects getting delayed and costs inflated by archaeological digs - check out tunnels in London… And don’t get lemmings (?) started on DB infrastructure… Maybe the emergency situation in Ukraine, oddly helps them to get some things moving faster ?

I remember in 1990s the talk about “Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok”, also having crossed the land border from Russia to China several times during that period, I felt the relative european culture on ‘our’ side. So, yes, there was a lost opportunity, and we could have been more welcoming, but it was not a conspiracy, nor were any specific political groups to blame (as article hints) - rather just the slow muddled consensus-processes of EU and NATO could not cope with any faster expansion, meanwhile russians got impatient and let Putin (KGB) take over, so it went bad.
If we were to redesign the whole structure, I’d say we should abolish NATO and replace it with a mutual defence organisation for democracies anywhere in the world - including Brazil, Japan, India, etc. if they like, but with no permanent membership. There should be clearly specified democratic criteria including freedom for political opposition, media, NGOs, etc., and when these are no-longer fulfilled, a procedure for suspension of rights that requires a large majority but no vetos. So, currently Hungary might be suspended, and even USA if it continues its current track, while democrats in Russia (or in exile from R) might be encouraged to see a long-term pathway open.
Such redesign of NATO - conversion from a tribal members club to a defence of democracy - might even be an face-saving way to end the war.

Ah yes, I see it on openrailwaymap, which also indicates mixed gauge all the way along the Tisza valley to Vinohradiv, also a ukranian gauge line from Uzhhorod to Kosice - are these still operating ?