Germany and Austria are divided into Länder (singular: Land), which literally just means country. (Germany has 16 of them, Austria 9.) This is usually translated as states or provinces in English, but the word in German isn’t Staaten or Provinzen, which is what we call the subdivisions of Australia, Canada, and the US.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands is also divided into 4 countries.

Nothing I wrote is about “denigrating” people wishing for self-determination, or about “supporting the oppressive larger states”. It’s just currently a fact of the world that the independence movements in those places have not yet been successful. They might still be in the future!

Catalonia (the autonomous community or “nation” which Barcelona is the capital of) absolutely does have:

• its own parliament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Catalonia
• its own legal system, in the sense of laws passed by the aforementioned parliament
• its own justice system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_of_Justice_of_Catalonia
• its own education system, nothing special about that, even in Germany each state has its own education system
• I can’t easily find information on taxation, benefits, or housing, but strongly suspects those are regional matters in Catalonia too

Lots of places have subnational entities which they may or may not call something that translates to “country”. Nothing particularly unique about the UK. The only thing that is unique is that in some sports, the UK’s subnational entities have separate teams, you are right about that part.

If everyone who sometimes calls themselves a nation counts, surely Barcelona must too… 😉

“National capital” = capital of an independent sovereign state.

Vatican, not really because it’s surrounded by another national capital.

Vienna and Bratislava are creating an interesting effect too.

That’s why it says “national” capital. The national capital of those places is London.

Me neither. Anyone know what advantages or disadvantages it has compared to Shotcut?

I remember reading that Loops (? - may be wrong about which one) does the same thing, only displaying statuses with videos in them. I have not, so far, seen anyone claim that that is a bad thing, and frankly don’t agree that it is. If we can’t do that, then we can never have specialized platforms built on ActivityPub, e.g. platforms only for videos or for photos, etc., and that would severely limit what we can do with it.

The law will be the same in all EU countries, including whichever parts you think will be “not mandatory” (I did read those news articles and am fully aware that mandatory scanning is no longer on the table).

misleading headline, this isn’t a list of countries in which the law will (if it passes) be different (it won’t be, it’s an EU law, so will be the same in all EU countries), it’s a list of countries that currently support/oppose the law

That looks good, I might try it over the weekend. :D Thanks for the effort.

If you come up with one, I might start to use it. I generally like the classic Windows style because the first computer interfaces I ever used looked like that, but nowadays I definitely insist on dark mode.

a desktop version of a web version of a desktop app? talk about going full circle :D

somewhat oddly, in the real world, a clause like this would make the program no longer free and open source software

It isn’t any of my business whether other people use light themes… but IMHO dark themes are just so much easier on the eyes, no matter the surrounding light, that I don’t get why anyone would if they have the option.

In my mind it’s weird to use any light theme at all now that dark themes are widely available, but if you are going to, this isn’t any weirder than any other.

Another disadvantage it seems to have over many other themes is that in tabbed interfaces there is no color bar on the currently active tab, so you can’t spot the currently active tab as quickly.

It’s an expansion to say that LLM training constitutes a derivative work. You are of course entitled to your opinion that it should be the case; all I can say to that is that in the 2000s and 2010s nearly everyone on the Internet tended to argue for more limitations, not further expansions, of copyright law, and I wonder what happened to that attitude.

and yet it is still a legally unsettled question whether LLM training requires a copyright license at all; and it is my opinion that no one should want that to be the case, why would people on the Internet want to argue for an expansion of copyright law?

The PlayStation one is the symbol, not the letter, so that one is a bit different.