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Any idea how this new law will affect instance operators?

3 things.

  1. Is there a minimum number of users for this to be effective? If so, just keeping you instance under that amou t should work.

  2. Can they really charge someone who is not running the instance for profit? The article states that the social media owner must take "commercially reasonable" action to verify users. Technically, nothing is commercially reasonable if you aren't running a Comercial business right?

  3. Related to 2. The article says "social media companies". Most instances aren't being ran by companies... So again this may be an out for those running instances.

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Programming communities already exist

Because we can. Because that's how federation works. If you don't like this instance, go to another. Or make meaningful strides to make this one what you would like. Beehaw already defederated from Lemmy.world, so I can't even see it. It's just a preference and if there is no activy at any given instance... Then that's fine. Maybe each find its own community preferences and rules. Maybe you just participate in both like many people are.

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What is the most WRONG thing a teacher, professor, or school book told you?

My college professor teaching FLUID POWER tried to teach our whole class that air does not compress and liquids do.

When he started the lecture and I attempted to correct him in a very soft and kind way (thinking he obviously is mixing up words) he denied it and told me I was wrong.

I tried several times to correct him nicely (because there were people in the class that would have taken his word) and was met by more and more aggressive denial. I finally stood up in the middle of the class, threw my hands up and said "Well Fuck! I just wasted all this money on a new air compressor" and walked out.

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What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?

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Additional fun fact. There has been a lot of research and activity dedicated to potentially switch coal power plants to nuclear. Currently, they cannot do it, because the coal plants and all the equipment associated produces far more radiation than regulations allow a nuclear plant to emit.

Therefore, unless they could find a practical way to decontaminate the radiation away from existing coal equipment, or regulations change for transformed plants, they can't do it.

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Almost no videos or gifs on Lemmy

So.. I'm speaking with little confidence in my words here.. But maybe this will spur someone to correct me lol.

I believe Lemmy doesn't embed photos and gifs and video as well yet. By that I mean, it seems like reddit could take a link provided by the user and find the meaningful content usually, then show it on your reddit card.

Since Lemmy is young, you have to make sure your link is directly to the content.

So if I give you a link to an imgur page, but not the direct link to the gif on that page, lemmy doesn't seem to embed it. Which is why they just show up as links right now, because people don't know to take that extra step. Or sometimes it's not easy to do.