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I think that this is okay, because this lemmy instance isn't a commercial operation.

I guess that places like PinkNews and similar commercial media outlets might be open to lawsuits, though.

Note that under the Kansas bill, it appears that depictions of homosexuality qualify as also needing to be locked behind an age gate. Like, not "homosexual sex", but homosexuality.

https://kansasreflector.com/2024/04/03/dont-look-kids-according-to-kansas-lawmakers-this-is-pornography/

Don’t look, kids! According to Kansas lawmakers, this is pornography.

Images and text depicting gay affection could be swept up by age-verification bill

A same-sex couple exchanges rings at a marriage ceremony. You might think it's a sweet moment. But should we be protecting children from seeing it? (Getty Images)

Take a good look at the photo just above these words. You should see two men exchanging rings at a same-sex marriage ceremony.

You’re also seeing, according to the Kansas Legislature, the kind of pornographic content that should be walled off from those under age 18 with age-verification software. That was the consequence — intended or not — of passing Senate Bill 394. All 40 state senators voted for the legislation, including 11 Democrats. In the House, nine Democrats joined Republicans to pass the bill, 92-31.

Max Kautsch, a Lawrence media lawyer, outlined some of the problems.

“The online age-verification bill expressly incorporates the definition of ‘harmful to minors’ that already exists in Kansas statutes, a phrase defined to mean ‘any description, exhibition, presentation or representation, in whatever form, of … acts of … homosexuality,’ ” he told me. “The term ‘homosexuality’ is undefined in the law, but it could include a wide swath of conduct between two persons of the same sex, including kissing, hand-holding, and other activities that would be considered ‘public displays of affection.’ ”

A couple of gentlemen exchanging rings, as shown above, would certainly qualify.

I encourage everyone to study the actual bill. From my perspective, it not only invokes a double standard against the brave Kansas LGBGTQ+ community but actively seeks to chill free expression. The proposed law applies to “any commercial entity” that shares content online, which means it could sweep up individuals trying to make money from a travel blog or small businesses that take wedding photos of same-sex couples. (As a nonprofit, Kansas Reflector appears exempt, which comes as a relief given my columns.)

I don't think that they're obscure. If you asked me to name a major, non-state-run English-language mainland European news source, it'd be in the top three to come to my mind: Euronews, Euractiv, and EU Observer (with the last focusing on stuff in Brussels; maybe a better source for the !EuropeanFederalists@lemmy.world community).

They featured prominently on /r/Europe back when I followed it.

Some cultural context, for those who may not be familiar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Hill

Boot Hill, or Boothill, is the generic name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States. During the 19th and early 20th century it was a common name for the burial grounds for paupers.

Looking at several of the newsreader software packages that do have offline support, it looks like "subscription" is typically used to refer to that simple action of adding a newsgroup to a list of "favorite newsgroups" for quick access.

It sounds like Thunderbird is not an offline reader. Apparently it supports a limited form of marking a group for offline use, and that groups are explicitly marked for such download via a second mechanism, not subscription:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693668

Are the newsgroups set up for offline storage?

That would be the "select newsgroups for offline use..." button on attachment 566469 [details] ?

However, this does not download the bodies of posts in such a newsgroup, just the headers. These will include the title of the post, the author, and some other information about it, and I suppose might let you see a list of posts in a newsgroup, but won't let you read posts in a newsgroup offline, which is normally how a newsreader software package with offline reading support works.

It sounds like the real problem is that we don't automatically download bodies for offline retention in newsgroups, which I don't think we've ever supported, but which I think is worthwhile to support.

Yes, "Select this newsgroup for offline use" might be misleading, as it does not mean that bodies will be saved as well when new headers are fetched.

Two different things there.

• There are news servers, like news.eternal-september.org.

• There are newsgroups, like sci.physics.

Any news server may provide access to any newsgroups that they carry via NNTP. To do that, you'll need an account on the news server.

Once you have an account on that news server, you can subscribe to newsgroups there.

These days, most Usenet servers are, I think, commercial access, though news.eternal-september.org apparently provides free accounts with registration there:

https://news.eternal-september.org/

news.eternal-september.org provides free read and write access to all text newsgroups. It requires a registration that can be done online.

For newsreader software (which I assume Thunderbird can do; I know it as an email client) there'll be a way to plug in your NNTP server, account name, and password in your settings. Once that's working, you should be able to obtain and view a list of newsgroups that the news server provides.

There is no real concept of "subscription" to a newsgroup at an NNTP level in the sense that you subscribe to a community here on the Threadiverse. Some newsreader software packages will let you specify a list of newsgroups for which you download the entire contents of a newsgroup from a news server to your local computer so that you can read them when you're not connected to the Internet. These are typically called "offline" newsreaders. They might choose to call that a "subscription". Not all newsreader software packages support this mode of operation.

A newsreader software package may also have a list of "favorite" newsgroups for quick access, and might call that a "subscription".

But normally (outside some unusual Usenet server software packages like LeafNode, if that's still around, that have a caching, fetch-on-demand mode of operation), a Usenet server has a fixed set of newsgroups (which may not be a full list of all of the newsgroups out there; it looks like news.eternal-september.org doesn't carry alt.binaries newsgroups, which are very bandwidth-heavy) and receives all of the posts to those newsgroups. End users don't ask the news server to start receiving posts to a newsgroup via subscription, don't affect what the news server receives the way they do instances here on the Threadiverse. You can browse any newsgroup that you have access to on the news server without a subscription.

In exchange for key support needed to form a new minority government in 2023, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez entered into an elaborate deal with Catalan separatist lawmakers in which he committed to getting Catalan, Basque and Galician recognized as official languages of the EU.

The move requires unanimous backing of the bloc’s 27 member countries, and Spanish officials spent the past two years lobbying European capitals for support.

My understanding is that each EU member got to choose a single official language, and that the EU was obliged to support that language. Regardless of whether Spain is willing to pay in perpetuity, I have a hard time believing that Spain is going to get unanimous support, since it'd presumably create a can of worms for other governments who would then get political pressure from regional groups to fund their particular favored languages as official EU languages, and who may not want to fund that. I mean, kind of a slap in the face to various regional groups in other countries if Galician gets official EU language status, but a regional language in another EU member that has official status at a national level doesn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages_by_country_and_territory

There are a lot of official languages at the national level there.

EDIT: Maybe Spain could just commit to internally providing and funding Catalan, Basque, and Galician translations of EU official documents, as that wouldn't require sign-off from other EU members.

EDIT2: Huh. Apparently none of Catalan, Basque, and Galician actually have official language status today at the national level in Spain. If they were to become EU official languages, I think that they might be the only languages that don't have national official status, but do have EU official status.

“I wish I had a plane to give you,” a seemingly exasperated Ramaphosa said at one point.

“I wish you did. I would take it,” Trump responded. “If your country offered the United States Air Force a plane, I would take it.”

"The EU hasn't given me even one plane," Trump added meaningfully. "Our talks there aren't going anywhere either."

The stuff there is a heck of a lot easier to input than memorizing numeric Unicode codepoints and using GTK's control-shift-U thing that the parent post was suggesting.

Emacs also can do that (C-\ u c s RET to enter ucs input method, and u 2 0 1 4 with that input method enabled), but it's almost certainly not how you want to input oddball characters unless you've no other choice.

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/orange-juice

Looks like it's mostly dropped back over the past couple months.

EDIT:

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025/03/19/orange-juice-price-fall-explained/

The price of orange juice stopped climbing and began to dramatically fall just before the start of 2025. One of the reasons for this is the significant fall in demand.

High prices and the poor quality of orange juice have led to this decreased demand. According to the Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics (Cepea) from the University of São Paulo, major players have said that the orange sugar/acid ratio was below the desirable level for crushing activities, decreasing quality.

Furthermore, the fruits have had an excess of limonin, a bitter compound commonly found in citrus fruits, due to ‘heterogenous’ harvesting. This has increased the juice’s bitterness and decreased consumer acceptance in major markets such as the UK and US.

This low quality has also reduced exports from Brazil significantly. According to Capea, the July 2024 to January 2025 period has seen exports of not-from-concentrate 3.4% lower than in the period the previous year.

Another reason for the price decreases, reports Food Manufacture, is an exceptionally large crop in Spain, one of orange juice’s biggest exporters.

Most people aren’t taking the time to type in ctrl+shift+u+2+0+1+4 when a regular minus-dash would get the point across with a single keystroke.

emacs:

• C-x 8 _ m

• C-x 8 RET e m SPC d TAB RET

emacs using input methods

• C-\ T e X RET to enter TeX input method. - - - to enter an em dash when in that input method.

• C-\ s g m l RET to enter sgml input method. & m d a s h ; to enter an em dash when in that input method.

• C-\ r f c 1 3 4 5 RET to enter rfc1345 input method. & - M to enter an em dash when in that input method.

For X11 or Wayland, if you have assigned a key to be Compose: Compose and then three hyphens to get an em dash.

I have a JBOD SATA USB-C enclosure that can do eight drives and has a fan. I'll follow up with the name in twenty minutes or so; not by it at the moment.

It took me a while to find it when I got it, because my previous JBOD USB-C enclosure

as with, apparently, most enclosures

didn't have the ability to power back up on power loss without the power-on button being pushed. This has a mechanical button that locks in and doesn't have that issue. If that's something that would matter to you, I'd look for that when making a purchase.

It's not a hardware RAID enclosure, but if you're using it on a Linux system, you can set up RAID in software on that.

EDIT:

https://www.amazon.com/Syba-Swappable-Drive-External-Enclosure/dp/B0DCDDGHMJ

Also, follow-up point, but if you don't have a backup already, I'd do that and then if you still want a RAID setup for data redundancy on top of that to reduce downtime in the event of a failure, do that then. RAID won't guard against some issues that a backup will.