Is the source code already available?

There are lobbyists for non-profits (that you can donate to if you agree with their goals) too.

Not really.

Lawmakers in a democracy can’t possibly be experts on all the fields they make laws about. Without any lobbyists at all, they wouldn’t know what kinds of laws any organizations (whether for-profit or not) would like to see passed. This would likely cause worse laws to be passed.

Ultimately lobbying is just (parts of) the population attempting to influence what happens in politics, which is what is supposed to happen in a democracy.

In some cases what you say may be true, but not in all.

That’s not what I asked. I asked about a comparison of both of them to PostgreSQL.

Are there real advantages to using either MySQL or MariaDB instead of PostgreSQL?

The uplifting news is that even someone in the European commission (unexpectedly) prefers the less privacy-invasive version the parliament wants, not the one the council wants.

That is interesting. I have wondered before why I regularly heard and read about peanut allergies in US media and US Internet forums when I’ve never actually encountered anyone with one here (in central Europe). This answers that question…

Eh, the Danish presidency will end in the end of December. Whether any future presidency will take it up again is a different question of course.

I suspect OP wanted to know about a video platform where they were not getting any automated recommendations that they hadn’t chosen to follow… my point is, chronological sorting is still an “algorithm”.

There aren’t any because all ways of displaying any data at all involve an “algorithm”. There are no “algorithm-free alternatives” to anything at all except not using computers at all.

Maybe think about what you’re actually trying to ask, then ask that question again.

I don’t think they’re any more cringe than most non-federated services.

Zero Wing Rhapsody

I found it (in the mid-2000s as a preteen) before I consciously learned about the original Bohemian Rhapsody, so every time I now hear the latter, my mind immediately goes “what happen, what happen, somebody set up us the bomb, somebody set up us the bomb”.

maybe https://openlevelup.net/?l=0#11/1.3025/103.9049 to the extent that it is mapped in OSM?

Geographical aspects are incomparable between 1930 and 2025. Germany is a lot smaller in 2025 than in 1930 and German division hadn’t happened yet in 1930.

A bear walks into a bar and says “I’ll have a …....…...….….….….….. beer.” The bartender asks: “Why the big pause?” The bear responds: “I don’t know, I was born with them.”

(Pic in OP relevant. Even bear cubs have big paws.)

Antau longa tempo (antau ol la fediverso ekzistis) mi estis tre aktiva en la forumo de lernu.net - nun mi demandas min, chu eble ghiaj administristoj pretus konekti tiun forumon al la fediverso? Eble iu, kiu legas tion chi, ankorau havas manieron kontakti ilin pri tiu ideo. Ghi certe estus bona por ilia forumo, por la fediverso, por Esperanto.

Chu vi konas aktivan Esperanto-komunumon en la fediverso? Mi abonas !esperanto@sopuli.xyz kaj !esperanto@lemm.ee kaj !esperanto@lemmy.world kaj apenau iam ajn iu afishas ion ajn en iu ajn el ili. :/

What is the stereotype about dbzero? Out of the loop on that.

I hardly ever check how old anyone’s account is. I try to be nice to everyone regardless of who they are, and discuss issues rather than posters.

I used to read RSS feeds from Thunderbird a long time ago, but that required me to set them up again on every reinstallation and every device, so I eventually stopped doing that.

Nowadays I read RSS feeds on Mastodon. There’s a service https://rss-parrot.net/ that converts any RSS feed into a fediverse account, so you get RSS feed updates into your feed along with everything else you follow there. Of course it would be even better if blogs and news sites just posted directly on the fediverse, but not all of them do.