The prohibition extends to services supporting prediction markets, like virtual private networks, that could allow consumers to disguise their location and get around the ban.

so, the same as what Utah did? Or am I misunderstanding this?

Should not laws prohibit things that harm other people? How do prediction markets harm anyone?

More generally I think this https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship is a good way to think about things like this.

It does.

Well, ok, if all OP wanted to know is what a copyright license is:

By default, copyright law in most countries prohibits anyone except the author or other copyright holder from distributing creative works, including software, even in modified form. There are a few exceptions to this, but this is the general rule.

A license is a document that the copyright holder agreed to that grants someone permission to do so anyway.

In the context of open source, such a license needs to meet certain conditions to be considered open source. Among other things it needs to allow anyone (not just specific licensees) to distribute the software for any purpose, even in modified form.

The community is called “no stupid questions”, not “completely unclear questions”. I genuinely have no idea what you want to know. 🤨

Laws that you cannot enforce without looking at people’s private communications are, in my mind, very likely to be laws that should probably not exist anyway in a free society. Crimes that actually harmed another person have, you know, a victim who can testify to the police or in court that the crime happened, and if you have that, what do you need to look at encrypted communications for?

The National Assembly killed it, with the Macronist deputies, the left, and even the Rassemblement National voting it down.

huh, at least one good thing happening somewhere in the world

“without exaggeration”

I use Arch speak Esperanto btw

Yes, of course I’m talking about spoken language. Of course if English were written in kanji we would need fewer characters to express the same information, but it wouldn’t change the spoken language at all.

(I remember learning the following graphical user interface design rule: switch your application to Spanish or Portuguese to check whether UI messages still fit in the boxes you’ve put them in. Spanish and Portuguese are the common languages that need the most characters per unit of information.)

There already are plenty of conlangs (constructed languages). The main thing that differentiates them from natural languages is the fact that their grammar generally doesn’t have any exceptions (irregular verbs or nouns). It would be possible to create such a language based on the grammar and vocabulary of English.

The only conlang I’m proficient in is Esperanto, which definitely works very well for practical communication. One cool feature about Esperanto is the system of prefixes and suffixes that acts as a vocabulary shortcut, for example the word for “cold” is just “un-warm” (varma / malvarma), or the word for “school” is just “learning-place” (lerni / lernejo). The language you’re imagining would likely also consist of words like “unwarm” and “learnery”.

Meanwhile I don’t think the length of (root) words needs to be especially short. Studies have found that all languages transmit information at approximately the same rate, which is why Spanish with its relatively long words seems to be spoken so fast. Human brain capacity is a limiting factor for things like that.

Hint: photo and video evidence has only been a thing for less than 200 years when photos and videos were invented. So if humanity managed without it before that, it can do so again.

To any local business owner reading this: entering your business on OpenStreetMap is completely free of charge and will cause it to be found on many apps on many platforms. (I use it myself when looking for shops or restaurants in unfamiliar areas.) You’ll also do some good for the world by supporting infrastructure that serves humanity as a whole instead of one company.

There actually was a diesel ICE for some time too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_TD

Entering “artificial intelligence” in my instance’s community search gave me a few like: !ai_@lemmy.world !machinelearning@lemmy.world !gai@sopuli.xyz !artificialintelligence@lemmy.sdf.org !Aii@programming.dev !artificial_intelligence@lemmy.world

There is also one in German: !kintelligenz@feddit.org

https://xkcd.com/1105/

Wait until you find out about https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_(Waschmittel)

Certainly not, just look at !brandnewsentence@lemmy.world for some examples of things unlikely to have been said ever before. (The non-federated link aggregation website has a busier version of that.)

The Internet really does threaten the people who are in power. They are currently realizing it and doing what they can to stop it. I just hope the Internet ends up winning. I used to be fairly optimistic about this in the mid-2010s when I hadn’t been hearing very much from the copyright industry anymore… then, in the late 2010s, attacks on the free and open Internet really started to get serious. I wonder how much they will escalate.

Shouldn’t there be some constitutional requirement, maybe under “due process” theory or otherwise, that US state laws cannot apply to anyone who has no way of knowing that they are even doing something (in this case: serving customers) in that state? Has anything similar been litigated before?

Guess not, outside of sentences like this one. 😉

I only buy calendars as Christmas gifts.

I know of a company where you can order custom calendars with your own photos and design and IIRC you can make those start in any month, they can be for any period of 12 consecutive months.