It was probably this quote, which is less about America specifically and more about democracy in general:

Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

Winston Churchill, 11 November 1947

A lot of European countries have their own debit card networks. Germany has GiroCard, Italy has PagoBancomat and so on. The problem is that those are national systems that stop working once you cross a border. Most cards are therefore cobadged with Visa or MC as a fallback system.

What’s needed to get rid of the cobadging (at least within the EU) is some kind of translation layer to bring the existing European systems together.

Scroll to the bottom of the page. There you’ll see who is responsible for this manifesto.

The group of organisations or people who have signed includes Mastodon and Felix Ableitner, representing Lemmy.

Where do you get the government controlled from? It’s developed by European companies, not governments and you can selfhost.

As stated in the first sentence POG stands for “Protect Our Games”. For a quick overview of the bills content I’m just going to quote Wikipedia (emphasis by me):

In February 2026, the Protect Our Games Act was introduced. Initially proposed by California State Assembly member Chris Ward in February of that year, the bill would require publishers to inform consumers 60 days in advance about a game ending support and to provide clear information about the game’s functionality after its end-of-life. The bill would also prohibit companies from selling a game two months before their discontinuation and require them to provide either a patch for the game to function independently of the publisher’s servers, a separate version of the game that operates autonomously in the same vein or a full product return.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Killing_Games#Protect_Our_Games_Act

TLDR: it’s a bill that would, if implemented, mandate the things Stop Killing Games wants.

As we say in Germany:

Sackdoof, feige und verklemmt
ist Erdoğan, der Präsident.
(...)
 Ja, Erdoğan ist voll und ganz
ein Präsident mit kleinem Schwanz. 

https://lyricstranslate.com/de/jan-böhmermann-schmähkritik-lyrics.html

I assume, you are asking how to allow remote (as in outside of your network) access. There are multiple options to achieve this goal:

1. Local reverse proxy and port forwarding: You essentially poke a hole through your firewall to expose your Jellyfin to the internet. Only works if you got a static IP and your router allows it.
2. VPN: Sometimes your router has a VPN option built in. Otherwise Tailscale is a simple option. Requires some setup on the playback device. Not recommended if your users are using a lot of non-Android smart TVs
3. Tunneling to remote reverse proxy: generally the recommended option. Pangolin and netbird are two providers of such services. Your users connect to their servers and then they are automatically redirected to your server. Both services are also open source, so you can selfhost that part of the setup as well, if you want (that’s what I do)

Because the important factor is being in the European Broadcasting Area. This area is bigger than the European sub-continent and includes all countries with Mediterranean coastline and some countries to the east of Israel. Wikipedia has this helpful map:

dark green: Countries which have participated in the Contest at least once.

yellow: Countries which are eligible to participate, but have not (yet) done so.

light green: Countries which have competed in the contest as a part of another country, but never as a sovereignty.

red: Countries which were supposed to compete in the contest but withdrew right before the final.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EurovisionParticipants.svg

As you can see Marokko competed one time, Tunesia and Lebanon had had at one time real plans to compete and Jordan and Irak are also eligible but opt to not participate.

Australia on the other hand isn’t eligible at all but requires a special invitation from the EBU which they have received every year for the last ten years and are likely to receive until the contest collapses.

I’m fairly sure it can, but that’s default behaviour over there, similar to how Mastodon and X/Twitter work.

She’s posting from Friendica. Ignore the @mention, that’s just how that platform works

What do you mean “planned successor”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)

If you are talking about North America, then that might be true. But a lot of other countries have extensive train systems where even ruraler places are well connected. Add hotels close to bike trails and you’ve got two two examples of people not necessarily arriving by car.

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.

Nice to see (some of) my taxes going to improving the Fediverse.

The Sovereign Tech Agency (previously Sovereign Tech Fund) is an organisation set up by the German government to fund critical open source projects. Mastodon receiving funds therefore means that the German government considers the Fediverse critical infrastructure.

Qt (Sailfish Silica), C++ & Rust

Except the provision in question was copy pasted from an old law where it existed for decades without any change.

I find the tendency on Lemmy to see a conspiracy in every law concerning.

Criticise the law for what it does (there is enough here for it) and be wary of potential abuse. But sometimes warm water is just warm water.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-men-need-military-permit-for-extended-stays-abroad/a-76662677

1. The government is obliged to grant your request to leave the country unless there actually is a war.
2. There is no penalty if you leave the country without government approval.

You could use owncast as a twitch alternative: https://owncast.online/

Some Matrix clients such as comment also support screen sharing (for a more discord like experience). But I haven’t used it myself, so I can’t speak to its quality or reliability: https://commet.chat/

While the law requires men to request the permit, the [army] spokesperson clarified, it also obliges the military career center to issue it, if "no specific military service is expected during the period in question.”

"Since military service under current law is based exclusively on voluntary participation, such permissions must generally be granted,” the official added. (…)

When asked, the ministry spokesperson pointed out that "the regulation was already in place during the Cold War and had no practical relevance; in particular, there are no penalties for violating it.”