You mostly understood it right.

I think of Mastodon/Twitter as essentially server-side RSS readers: you follow the sources you want to read, then are notified when they are posting something. If you don’t already have any followers, there is little point in posting anything there. The forum-like structure of Lemmy is a lot more suited for ordinary people to discuss topics they are interested in.

Not very, it is mostly downvoted so won’t appear very high in most people’s feeds

For Python definitely PyCharm.

In my language the expression is “jemandem einen blasen” (to blow one to someone) and I remember reading a long time ago about a story where a teenage girl (?) actually injured her boyfriend when she blew into the penis. Seems not to be a very good idea.

Honestly I have to remind myself of this myself. Yes, these are images of events in (say) 1938. No, things weren’t actually black and white in 1938, people saw colors the same way, with the same sharpness, they do in 2024, it’s just photographic technology that has improved since then.

I remember that RMS’s position is that if someone (!) can change it (eg there is an “update firmware” button), it is a computer and should run free software. If no one can ever change it, it is a circuit. I think that makes some sense.

they said wrong answers, not AI generated answers

More or less an instinct I think. That is how I was able to tell I was starting puberty, that I started to imagine and want to see and touch naked breasts of the women and girls around me. I myself didn’t have an explanation why, but that was now more than half my life ago and it hasn’t stopped.

I don’t have strong preferences as to shape and size. Small breasts are still breasts.

any distro except the ones listed here https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html technically already “took” that “route”

I know all of that. The “not have owners” wording was mainly a reference to https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.en.html

When and where was that? I have never seen cherry on pizza before, nor do I remember reading about it.

Free software doesn’t have owners, that is kinda the point of free licensing.

Someone else would do whatever Linus does now. I am not sure what exactly that is nowadays. In fact it is already now the case that if he (or any maintainer of any FOSS) did a bad job maintaining it, someone else could step in, do a better job and many people would switch to that fork.

The thing is that the presidency of the Council will change (I remember reading: from Hungary to Poland) at the beginning of 2025. Now look at the map which sides Hungary and Poland are on.

Convenience link https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

I’m a native speaker of German and of course I spoke English to the people in the Netherlands when I was there. I don’t know any Dutch and don’t expect them to speak German, so English is pragmatically the language that we have most likely in common.

NOLITE ACCVSARE DE NOSTRA LATINITATE SI NON POTESTIS LOQVI LINGVA CELTICA

VOS AMAMVS

honestly not sure how grammatical that was, I never really learned to write Latin :(

yup, now that I think of it again, I think smooth scrolling is something different, autoscrolling is what I meant

The good part is that at least according to https://netzpolitik.org/2024/letzter-anlauf-zur-chatkontrolle-ungarn-will-zustimmung-zum-scannen-erzwingen/ this is the last time they’re trying to get the Council to agree.

The EU legislative process is long and convoluted, there are many websites where you can look it up. What’s happening now (what OP is about) is figuring out whether the Council will agree to it.

In Firefox (and many forks of it) this is a setting in the app preferences, I think it is called “smooth scrolling autoscrolling” or similar.

In most other apps I do not think this is possible.

edited, thanks for correction below