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Von der Leyen won’t rule out working with right-wing parties in c/europe@feddit.de
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, I didn't follow EU politics at the time of the last election, but didn't she campaign on green-deal policies for her first term? I remember reading about this somewhere. So moving away from that and closer to ECR would be quite the shift.

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Von der Leyen won’t rule out working with right-wing parties (www.politico.eu)
 

The European Commission president hinted Wednesday she would be open, after the European election in June, to working with some politicians in the European Conservatives and Reformists grouping

“The cut-off line is ‘do you stand for democracy?’, ‘do you defend our values?’, ‘are you very firm in the rule of law?’, ‘are you supporting Ukraine’ and ‘are you fighting against Putin’s attempt to weaken and divide Europe?’And these answers have to be very clear”

With the projected increase in seats from ECR and ID, this shouldn't be surprising to anyone, however EPP getting closer to ECR isn't exactly the best of looks.
To me, this sends a clear message that, as Renew falls off due to Macron's impopularity, the EPP is trying to gain more right wing seats by disregarding integration further down the line and possibly adopting more populistic policies.

Poliverso è un progetto indipendente per mettere a disposizione modi alternativi di usare il Fediverso. Ecco i motivi per cui è importante sostenerlo. Anche se sei un utente di altre istanze in c/fediverso@feddit.it
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 8 months ago

Ahahaha splendida analogia.

Non metto in dubbio i vantaggi di Friendica. Anzi, volendomi avvicinare al mondo del microblogging (dal quale ahimé sono tagliato fuori, usando Lemmy) stavo giusto pensando di aprirmi un'istanza con Friendica, piuttosto che Mastodon. Però personalmente trovo l'UI davvero DAVVERO brutta, è ciò che finora mi ha allontanato dal provarlo.

Se si riuscisse ad avere un backend come l'attuale Friendica e un'UI bella moderna come Soapbox o Misskey sarebbe davvero il meglio dei due mondi.

Poliverso è un progetto indipendente per mettere a disposizione modi alternativi di usare il Fediverso. Ecco i motivi per cui è importante sostenerlo. Anche se sei un utente di altre istanze in c/fediverso@feddit.it
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Mai usato Friendica, ho giusto dato uno sguardo all'API per un'applicazione a cui ho lavorato (wink wink), ma consultando la documentazione ho notato che implementa l'API di Mastodon. Non basterebbe utilizzare uno dei tanti frontend già disponibili per Mastodon? O per caso Friendica ha delle funzionalità in più che non sarebbero disponibili su tali frontend?

Smartphones to be banned in Italian classrooms in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 8 months ago

That ban has been in place since about as long as smartphones have been a thing. And even regardless of the national ban, generally school forbade them as a local policy.

Doesn't change the fact that nothing will happen if the teacher doesn't act. So TL;DR nothing will change, it will remain up to the teacher like it already was.

EU opens formal investigation into TikTok over possible online content breaches regarding online content rules aimed at protecting children and ensuring transparent advertising in c/europe@feddit.de
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I see. Well, I for one, think TikTok is definitely worse than Twitter because of its addictive nature, little user agency (you have almost no freedom of picking your own content, you are basically in the algorithm's hands) and serious privacy concerns.

Twitter is by no means a great platform, it's just that TikTok is SO BAD that it's actually hard to beat it in terms of shittiness.

EU opens formal investigation into TikTok over possible online content breaches regarding online content rules aimed at protecting children and ensuring transparent advertising in c/europe@feddit.de
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Why would that be weird? Which platform would you have preferred (other than Mastodon, I guess)?

I have read about this procedure yesterday and it was also on twitter, from the account of the Commission.

EU leaders unlock €50bn support package for Ukraine in c/europe@feddit.de
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 5 points 9 months ago

Possible. I'd love it if they actually went through with the article 7 threats, but until then using said threat to have Orban sit down is the next best thing.

EU leaders unlock €50bn support package for Ukraine in c/europe@feddit.de
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

News outlet are being extremely vague about Orban's motives, but it's clear that no funds have been unfrozen. By the looks of it, it seems Hungary received no grants at all and just changed its mind out of the goodness of her heart, which is weird.

From DW

"From what we are hearing from our sources, they made it very clear to Viktor Orban that he is standing all alone in the EU, blocking this essential aid for Ukraine," she said, adding that following the message it became clear Orban would finally say yes and so the EU leaders sat together to finalize the deal.

This makes me wonder if anything went on behind those closed doors. We know that yesterday Orban met with Meloni, who according to euronews

[Meloni] has fashioned herself as the most dexterous mediator between Budapest and Brussels. Meloni and Orbán held bilateral talks on Wednesday evening in anticipation of the high-stakes meeting.

All that's left to hope is that Meloni and other EU leaders succesfully managed to scare off Hungary and that no backroom deals went on.

EU naval mission to protect ships in Red Sea set to be launched on 19 February in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 9 months ago

I can agree with that. Something that looked particularly bad was von der Leyen openly supporting Israel, in contrast with what had been decided by the rest of the EU institutions. Basically she took initiative and used her position to support her own agenda rather than the one agreed upon by the institution she was representing. (source, albeit soft paywalled)

A more direct approach in foreign policy is sorely needed for our continent, but I think we are still going to have to wait a few years before we can see it.

EU naval mission to protect ships in Red Sea set to be launched on 19 February in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Quickly? By EU standards, I suppose, but this is the furthest thing from "quick" in the real world. We are about a month late compared to the UK and the USA.

but they can’t do the minimum decent thing and say “we condemn Israel’s atrocities” in the UN

The EU is a permanent observer in the UN and as such doesn't have any voting rights. The common foreign policy is decided by the Council and requires unanimity so every member state has veto power. As such it's practically impossible to come to a conclusive decision on divisive matters such as the current Gaza conflict.

Do any of you program on non-US keyboard layouts? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 points 9 months ago

I mainly write JS and not having a backtick on my keyboard annoys the fuck out of me. Other than that the Italian keyboard is alright, never had any other problems with it.

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger quit ECOWAS in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 9 months ago

I guess we could all see this one coming. IIRC all three nations had been suspended after their respective military coups, so it's understandable that the dictators had little simpathy for ECOWAS

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Introducing user flairs (only for lemmy.basedcount.com users) (lemmy.basedcount.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com to c/pcm@lemmy.basedcount.com
30 comments fedilink
 

You've read it right, flairs are finally here.
No longer will you have to endure cringe and based opinions alike, in a vast and boring sea of flairlessness. No longer will you have to actually read someone's take, to be able to judge them. I bring you... THE FUNNI COLOURS.

@Atalocke@lemmy.basedcount.com and I have been hard at work on this feature for the last couple months and we're so glad to finally see it live. There is, however, an asterisk.

For the time being, only users from our instance (lemmy.basedcount.com) can see and set user flairs, as this feature doesn't propagate through federation. As such, users from other instances (less than half of the !pcm@lemmy.basedcount.com userbase) won't notice any changes.
My next project will be bringing support for user flairs to other instances through a browser extension, but that'll probably take me some time.

Of course, if you want the full PCM experience™️ you can always open an account here (wink wink).

In the meantime, enjoy your funni colours, pcm. Stay based and flair the fuck up.

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Introducing yet another AutoMod for Lemmy (github.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/225787

I have built an AutoMod bot for my instance, lemmy.basedcount.com. The bot covers the following features:

  • Automated removal
    • of posts, based on their title, content or link
    • of comments, based on their content
    • configurable with either regular expressions or substrings
  • User whitelisting and exceptions for moderators to selectively lift some or all of the aforementioned rules for certain users.
  • Mention based pinning and locking of a post, through commands exclusively available to the mod team
  • Discord notifications for new registration applications through a webhook. [only for admins]

Naturally, the bot is completely open source. I have also written a rather comprehensive (albeit long-winded) documentation and some examples.

This project is mainly targeted towards admins of small instances, however anyone can spin up their own AutoMod instance for their favourite community (provided they are a moderator there).
The automoderator is also available as a Docker image, for ease of installation.

Feel free to suggest any additional features that you might want to see added to this bot.

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Introducing yet another AutoMod for Lemmy (github.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/225787

I have built an AutoMod bot for my instance, lemmy.basedcount.com. The bot covers the following features:

  • Automated removal
    • of posts, based on their title, content or link
    • of comments, based on their content
    • configurable with either regular expressions or substrings
  • User whitelisting and exceptions for moderators to selectively lift some or all of the aforementioned rules for certain users.
  • Mention based pinning and locking of a post, through commands exclusively available to the mod team
  • Discord notifications for new registration applications through a webhook. [only for admins]

Naturally, the bot is completely open source. I have also written a rather comprehensive (albeit long-winded) documentation and some examples.

This project is mainly targeted towards admins of small instances, however anyone can spin up their own AutoMod instance for their favourite community (provided they are a moderator there).
The automoderator is also available as a Docker image, for ease of installation.

Feel free to suggest any additional features that you might want to see added to this bot.

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Here's your weekly PCM on the latest Lemmyverse drama (lemmy.basedcount.com)
 

Context

As you probably now, Hexbear is a fairly large leftist instance, whose users are notorious for being very loud in the communities of every instance they federate with. For a long time they blocked all instances, preferring to remain isolated. Recently, however, they have started allowing some large instances into their allow list.

Yesterday they expanded said list by including the popular sh.itjust.works (SJW) instance.

Some Hexbear users immediately jumped on the train by creating posts in !main@sh.itjust.works making sure everyone was aware of their presence and calling out what they thought was bigotry on SJW's side:

  • Example 1
  • Example 2, the post included in the meme, now removed

Currently, there's people on both sides calling for mutual defederation, as one Hexbear sees the other party as "bigoted" and "politically illiterate infants" while many people on SJW are just tired of the political spam.

Where do we stand in this mess? Comfortably on the sidelines, enjoying the popcorn while it lasts.

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The compass reacts to... recent events. (lemmy.basedcount.com)
 

Unlike a certain platform with an orange logo, we aren't keen on sheltering pedophiles. During your stay on Based Count, feel free to make as many wood chipper jokes as you deem necessary.

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Capitalism bad or something (i.imgur.com)
 

Test post

Idk. Not really sure what this community was about back on Reddit.

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Banana 🍌 (i.imgur.com)
 

Test post

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Political Compass of the Lemmyverse (lemmy.basedcount.com)
 

My humble takes on the most popular Lemmy instances, or "how to piss off the whole Fediverse with a single meme".

Here are the links to each one of the mentioned instances:

Far Left Centre Left Centre Right Far Right
Lemmygrad Exploding Heads
Hexbear Lemmy.ml Lemmy.world
Beehaw Pricefield Lemmy Based Count sh.itjust.works
Blåhaj Lemmy Divisions by zero Lemmy NSFW Hack Liberty
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ChadGPT's political compass. That was one fun project, wasn't it? (lemmy.basedcount.com)
 

The good thing about being on Lemmy is that we could bring back ChadGPT at any moment, without having to worry about the admins' banhammer.

Plenty of stuff to do before that can happen, but it would be a fun throwback.

Anyway, here are the links its funniest comment from his first rodeo on r/PCM. I took some creative liberty interpreting some of its comments. Most of those hardly made any sense.

Extreme Left Left Center Left Center Right Right Extreme Right
Called Stalin based Calls himself a tankie, claims to have destroyed villages in Ukraine "Giant colusseum in NYC" Comments on the Holocaust (NSFW) Hates Purple LibRight Converted to Islam, Mashallah
"The government should take full control of the economy" Thoguhts on the Nazis On the topic of free speech "I'm not a fascist" 16 year old having an abortion Abortion and monopoly
"Gay marriage would create jobs" AuthRights and trad wives What is love? How many genders are there? (pt. 1) "CNN uses AIs to generate their content because they are out of original ideas" "I don't really know what queer means"
"My pronouns are she/it" Condems cultural appropriation Engages in philosophical discussion "I think this bot is beyond our understanding of the compass" (sentient?) About the subreddit that shan't be named Thoughts on the LGBT community
"Now we can focus on how many genders there are" Single father Open Internet Has been involved in commercialising Q and G We should expand in the Chinese market Purple moment
How many genders are there? (pt. 2) Supports the complete removal of gender roles Shits violently "The industrial revolution was a mistake" Used to sell weapons to Al-Qaeda Supports the second amendment and the private ownership of tanks

Honourable mentions:

Link to the full album.

Disclaimer: the entirety of these comments were AI generated.

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Hello, based department here (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com to c/pcm@lemmy.basedcount.com
1 comments fedilink
 
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