probably not, maybe you could ask a former sysadmin of lemm.ee whether they have a copy of the database and can extract this data for you, but if that doesn’t work, they’re probably gone

Dubai is likely the most well-known part of the UAE, so you may have heard people mention Dubai as if it were a country (because the audience might associate more with “Dubai” than “UAE”), without them meaning to imply that it’s a real country.

There are certainly irredentist movements in many parts of the world that want to restore previous states of geopolitics, including the existence of the Soviet Union.

A country is ultimately a country if it is recognized as such by other countries. There are videos on the Internet that give greater details (search for keywords like “how many countries are there”). There are many places that some other countries say are countries, others not.

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Out of the ones you mention, Dubai is in fact not a real country and I have not seen anyone claim that it is; it is a city and region of the country called the United Arab Emirates.

Israel isn’t universally recognized by all countries because some countries claim it is illegitimate (for religious reasons, because they say it is a colonialist project, etc. etc.).

Belgium is a country with different parts speaking different languages also spoken in neighboring countries, that is why some people have claimed it’s not (culturally) its own country, but I don’t think anyone seriously refuses to recognize it as a country.

As for Latvia, no idea whatsoever what you’re talking about.

So the question as asked is unanswerable because you’re giving confusing and inconsistent examples.

If they are using someone else’s GPL code and adding requirements like that, then yes, that is infringement.

I use neither Arch nor Ubuntu, btw

For a link, you’ll see it after posting if it appears in the list of places the link has been crossposted to, at which point you can delete it.

An image, that is more technically challenging because it requires detecting whether two images are the same, which is not as trivial as it sounds. But for images, I think reposts are no big deal anyway, many people will not have seen it the first time.

not everything bad is enshittification, it’s not meant to be a universal buzzword

Those are all good points, except of course that “live problem-solving sessions” and “trial work periods” were definitely already a thing at my current job, yet the employer needed the résumé to decide whether to invite/consider me for that in the first place.

I have been using Linux since my mid-teens in the late 2000s (with interruptions). In the late 2000s and early 2010s I really did do a lot of tinkering with the computer, but nowadays I rarely even install new software and hardly ever think of my operating system, at all.

the problem is, what is the alternative? I have never been on the employer side of a hiring process before, only the job-seeking side, but from what I’ve read, it’s not a very good system for either side, yet I can’t easily think of a better alternative.

I think it is asking about the rules of a specific subreddit, which seems like an oddly specific question which people here are unlikely to be able to help with.

Gender dysphoria is a real medical condition which I don’t think there’s an equivalent for many other things.

non-destructive photo editing software that supports raw files

They serve mostly the same purpose. RawTherapee IIRC has more file management functionality; I am more used to darktable, so can’t get used to RT.

I would say it is, but needlessly complex.

You’re looking for this I think: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retention_election

in 2025? Vaccines have been available for how many years now? Why does anyone even think about COVID vaccines anymore in this year? We would have figured out any adverse effects by now if there were any.

USB C … C … sea … you might be onto something there 😂

Both human and dog feces have significant variation in how they smell, so this question is somewhat meaningless. Dogs are carnivores, so if you ate meat, your feces is probably going to smell more like dog feces than if you ate only plant-based food.

I don’t see a lot of the things you’re trying to avoid on my instance. But I almost always browse “subscribed” and mostly have no idea what’s going on in communities I’m not subscribed to.

Federation means that when anything happens on one instance (post, comment, whatever), that instance will also inform other instances of this. Which other instances? The ones that have at least one user who has indicated they are interested in that kind of activity (on Lemmy mostly: by subscribing to the community).

So already now you can see eg my instance’s copy of a lemm.ee community at https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected] and this will not disappear just because lemm.ee goes down. It’s stored in my instance’s database. But it will no longer be possible to post or comment there because that will no longer federate to other instances.

It’s not guaranteed that all of lemm.ee will be accessible elsewhere. Some communities might not have (always had) subscribers from other instances, which would mean no other database has stored those parts.