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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I wouldn't count on the federation they've been doing nothing all these years. Schleswig-Holstein law has favoured FLOSS solutions since 2009 ("where technically possible and economical"), and bits and pieces were introduced as early as 2012. ZenDiS exists since 2022, opendesk is based on dPhoenixSuite, work done by Dataport precisely for Schleswig-Holstein, and they're still doing most of the development work. More importantly though I'm not seeing any political commitment on the federal level, the Bundeswehr switching over because they care about stuff doesn't mean that the, what, finance ministry cares. The BND probably also cares but tough luck getting them to confirm or deny anything.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

SteamOS is not a good desktop distribution, which isn't surprising as it's not supposed to be one. It's specialised for handhelds.

Go install Ubuntu or something, really anything, ideally don't have an Nvidia GPU, install steam, done. SteamOS has no special sauce regarding running games.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago
Sandwich.hs:6:11: error: [GHC-83865]
    * Couldn't match type ‘Bread’ with ‘Cucumber’
        Expected: Bread
        Actual: Cucumber

This wouldn't have happened with Burritos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ne das passt 100% Faust auf's Auge. Mantasleep is ne US-Firma, bei denen wird ja inzwischen absolut nichts hergestellt, die sagen auch dass es in China hergestellt wird, die Chinesen verkaufen das Ding dann ohne Markenlogo selber, Produktionslinie steht ja schon. Um sowas zu verhindern müsste man selber herstellen, weltweit Gebrauchs/ Geschmacksmusterschutz beantragen, oder weitaus weniger gierig bei der eigenen Gewinnmarge sein.

Musterschutz müsstest du mal nachgucken kann ja einen Grund geben warum es das China-Modell nicht auf Amazon gibt, ansonsten fröhliches Dropshippen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Bevor das was aus macht musste nackt und ohne Decke schlafen. Schwitzen tut man in der Gegend nicht wirklich.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You don't need nukes to make Russia think thrice, they can be easily hurt a lot in very conventional ways. What the nuklear deterrent is good for is them not defending themselves with nukes. Generally speaking the only thing nukes are good for is to stop others from using nukes.

Also do watch Yes, Minister, and Yes, Prime Minister. Best political TV show ever and not just because it's hilarious. Only show able to put Babylon 5 on second place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What if I told you that Germany is a federation. NRW would be the fifth largest US state, Bremen the third smallest (actually, almost identical population to DC), most of all the US has more states. They can do stuff in parallel that's no excuse to not have quick election results. And now don't come with "but there's so much space in between" you're not sending the results via horse buggy are you.

And, no, of course the federation doesn't legislate on state elections. It gets to say how federal (and EU) elections are run. State's rights my ass in Germany the federation has no tax office, it's all collected by the states, and their police can't put boots on the ground outside of international borders (incl. airports) and the train system (cf Amtrak cops). Certainly can't just decide to invade a city like is happening in LA. They also don't have anything like ICE, that's all state responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

You mean cause a chargeback or something? You'd have to find a sufficiently shady seller, the key might get revoked, also you're supporting another ilk of scumbags.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Du ich hab' eine und die passt. Die Firma hier, mehr oder weniger per Zufall ausgewaehlt. Das Premium-Ding wäre das hier, verstellbare Augenmuscheln hören sich Sinnvoll an, die alte funktioniert aber ausreichend und ist nicht abgenutzt also is es mir das Geld nicht wert. Bin aber auch ein ruhiger Schläfer.

Ansonsten -- Gewöhnungssache? Wichtig ist halt wirklich kein Druck auf den Augen. Evtl. beim Musikhören oder so dran gewöhnen.

Wenn alles nicht hift gibt's natürlich immer noch Rolladen und du kannst auf LED-Jagd gehen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Covid was a completely different situation, also, here in the north people took it very well (Wat mut, dat mut).

Importantly: Fighting Covid largely meant sitting on your arse. In isolation, bored, for months and months on end. Fighting a war is, psychologically, more like getting together and sewing masks and that worked effortlessly, organically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Germany, with 100% paper ballots, has preliminary results in by the end of the night. That's preliminary as in "everything has been counted, but we haven't double-checked anything yet". The final result comes later and has never differed in even close to significant ways from the preliminary one. Most of the time delay is not due to voting but to give people and courts time to deal with any challenge there might be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

The German constitutional court declared voting machines unconstitutional for the simple reason that they don't allow people with just an ordinary education, no specialist knowledge, to ascertain for themselves that the vote is kosher.

The CCC actually tried to get them outlawed based on technical grounds, including that it's impossible to have electronic voting that is both secure and private ("can't prove to the Mafia boss how you voted" type of private), the judges listened intendedly and asked many smart questions, just to then turn around and say "yeah we barely understood that and we're practically all professors and it's our job, can't expect J. Random Citizen to do that between shifts".

 

Die AfD kann nicht politisch besiegt werden – und genau das ist das Problem. Trotz Skandalen, Verfassungsschutzbeobachtung und offenkundigem Rechtsextremismus wächst die Partei weiter. Warum? Weil sie längst mehr ist als nur eine Partei – sie ist das Zentrum eines radikalisierten Netzwerks aus Propaganda, Sektenstrukturen und ausländischer Einflussnahme. Während Medien und Politik versuchen, mit klassischen Mitteln dagegenzuhalten, spielt die AfD längst nach völlig anderen Regeln. Warum Wahlen, Fakten und Talkshows nichts bringen – und was wirklich helfen würde – erfährst du in diesem Video!

 

Asianometry, 'nuff said.

 

So instead of my usual tube of store-brand I grabbed a tube of Pringles because they had fancy limited edition flavours.

They put the flavour on the wrong side of the crisps. If you put them, as is proper, into your mouth so that they actually fit, right-out embracing your tongue, the spice is on the top side. I don't have taste buds in the roof of my mouth. How can this kind of blatant incompetence exist in the world?

Also I would have expected more heat from something called "Thai Green Curry" but that's a whole another topic.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

 

Not sure whether we want this here but Kraut makes great videos and they're illustrated with polandball so I guess it's worth a try.

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Tariff! (aussie.zone)
 
 

blurb:

Let's talk about the stark differences between Ukraine and Russia's recruitment, drafting, and conscription practices. Who is targeted (primarily) to be drafted for military service, and why? You'll see why the answer really does matter, and how it reveals many other key facts that people often miss.

 

Transmeta was set to revolutionise the CPU market, but the market changed alot while they tried to build their revolution. Despite Transmeta no-longer being a CPU manufacture, they did change at least one thing that's still with us.

 

Albert Camus is one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century, and I get almost endless requests to cover him. I have done so in the past, but on reflection those treatments were inadequate, and a little misleading. So today I thought we would look at Camus from a different angle, and chart his philosophy from its inceptions to its culminations.

00:00 Absurdism and Misconceptions
01:37 The Absurd: A Brief Introduction
09:56 The Absurd Hero: Solitary Beginnings
17:34 Absurdism and Community
25:40 The Trivialization of Albert Camus

 

Blurb:

2024 was an extremely eventful year and not every crisis or war can get the individual follow up videos it might deserve. So to kick off 2025, we are going to zoom out and look at some of the wars and crisis we covered from late 2023 to assess what actors and countries came out as strategic winners (or losers) over the course of 2024.

00:00:00 — Opening Words
00:00:45 — What Am I Talking About?
00:02:56 — the Brief
00:03:51 — the Axis of Resistance
00:04:41 — Hezbollah
00:09:37 — Syria
00:11:46 — the Houthis
00:15:45 — Iran
00:26:02 — the Counterparties
00:29:52 — the Americas
00:37:03 — Cuba
00:39:39 — DPRK
00:52:59 — Europe
00:53:49 — the Baltics
00:56:59 — France
00:59:31 — Conclusion
01:03:11 — Channel Update

 

blurb:

The cases of maritime sabotage in the Baltic Sea raise questions about the Western strategy against Russian hybrid warfare. We should expect more open confrontations as the war in Ukraine enters its final stages, and the previous approach of simply ignoring Russia's attacks will not work.

0:00 Intro
0:20 Pattern of sabotage
0:55 Hybrid warfare
1:54 The Western strategy so far
3:16 Hybrid attacks will intensify
3:59 Maritime hybrid warfare
6:22 Countermeasures
7:15 Dealing with Russia's shadow fleet
8:26 A new Western strategy

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