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As some people do not seem to understand sarcasm at all: they mean the opposite of what is stated.

Username checks out. /s

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ZL;NG: Webp hat gerade einen 0-Tag-Käfer am Hals, aktualisieren Sie einmal alle Ihre Weichware.
(Nein wirklich, das geht einmal quer durch den Softwarestack, Browser, Dateivorschaubilder im OS, ImageMagick, etc. pp.)

Well here is where my PhD in tracking stuff on paper, which gets handed out in triplicate to every German child at birth, comes in handy. The signature line customarily includes the date again because printing date and signing date (and thus validity) might differ. And yes, I know this is not applicable in a restaurant (hopefully), but that’s generally the reason when it occurs.

Yeah it helps the Ukrainians, but that’s the only valid use, and 4000+ satellites for basically only war seems like a bad idea. Cell phone 5G service will be cheaper in peacetime, and wartime has other communication platforms.

Uhh sorry but this line of thought seems pretty incoherent. Its use case clearly goes beyond just war (e.g. coverage of rural and wild areas where a land line or 5G will not be economical), since StarLink has gone online pretty much every global super power has started or announced building their own constellations, and during wartime you want to have as much redundancy in your systems as you can get, especially so in your lines of communication. And Ukraine is using it right now, during wartime. I can’t follow this logic at all.

I meant scientists did too. They thought it would take way longer to turn bad than it actually did, at least most of them thought so. Would probably be interesting to do a meta-study on how much the corridor of estimates narrowed or widened in the IPCC reports over the years, and in which general direction they trended.

To my knowledge yes, “we” did. Actual measurements have turned out to be on the pessimistic end of the spectrum of predictions or beyond consistently. The first IPCC report that got really into doomerism was the one from 2021, that was supposedly leaked for fear of political censorship:

IPCC steps up warning on climate tipping points in leaked draft report

Scientist for the first twenty years of my life:

We are destroying the only ecosystem supporting human life, it’s going to start being really bad in a hundred years.

Scientists for the last ten years of my life:

Haha, we might have been a bit optimistic on that estimate, this new data looks really bad. Oops.

Anti-doomers the whole time:

Hey don’t be alarmist, you will just make the public apathetic and nothing will get done.

The public:

The fuck are these fucking idiots sitting in the god-damn road for? I gotta get to work, move it!

Politicians:

*doing nothing*

Im Verlauf der Zeit wurde das dann immer mehr ad absurdum geführt, indem die Geldpolitik dahin gehend geändert wurde, dass die Banken mehr Geld verleihen dürfen als sie an Rücklagen haben. Dazu kam dann, dass durch Niedrigzinspolitik die Banken Geld “umsonst” bekommen konnten.

Es sei angemerkt das ich auch kein Experte bin, aber das ist nach meinem Verständnis sogar noch perverser: Durch Vergabe eines Kredits “erschafft” die Bank neues Geld das vorher gar nicht existiert hat. Die leiht sich das nicht irgendwo zu Zinsen, die zieht sich eine Zahl aus dem Arsch, schreibt die doppelt in ein Buch, und verlangt dann darauf selber Zinsen.

Das Resultat ist, dass man heutzutage quasi gezwungen ist ein Konto zu haben, während Banken es eigentlich in Zeiten moderner EDV einfacher den je haben die Konten zu verwalten. Trotzdem wird jetzt angefangen mehr und mehr Geld für die Konten zu nehmen, nicht weil sie es brauchen, sondern weil sie es können.

Das müssen die ganzen Pascal- und Cobol-Programmierer sein welche den langsam vergammelnden Onion-Code der Banken warten, und dank des Selektionsdrucks am Markt Freudenhauspreise aufrufen können. /s

So it’s either a Chrome thing or a Mac and Chrome thing.

Neither really, it’s a font thing. I see a wooden wheel in the page title, a car wheel in my tab bar, and it’s missing in the window title.

Die Bundeswehr benutzt bereits einen Matrix-basierten Messenger, den BwMessenger, und die Firma welche den entwickelt hat arbeitet gerade auch an einer Version für den ÖD im Allgemeinen, den BundesMessenger. Ist technisch gesehen noch in der Beta, aber die haben das komplette Backend containerisiert und einen eigenen Client entwickelt. Vielleicht sieht das ja für eure Admins ein wenig überzeugender aus als ein (zugegebenermaßen komplexes) Matrix-Backend selber zusammen zu frickeln:

https://messenger.bwi.de/bundesmessenger
https://gitlab.opencode.de/bwi/bundesmessenger (Das info repo enthält Stoff zum einlesen)

liveuamap.com reports there was a second plane owned by Prigozhin in the air, so my conspiracy theory is he got wind of the impending assassination, swapped the passenger lists, and will be announcing his “March of Justice” 2.0 shortly.

Actually you are both wrong, since the Balkenkreuz and the Eiserne Kreuz are but two of hundreds of variations of the same symbol, the black cross of the German Order of knights, dating back to the 12th century. It’s the same symbol.

And not only that, the particular variation you are going on about, the Balkenkreuz, black cross with a thick white and small black outline except for the endings of the cross, isn’t a Nazi symbol. It was used in the first world war already.

Which is all completely ignoring that it’s a simple cross with a single outline, one of the most basic shapes there is, used by a medical company.

All to say, I see how it’s easy to mistake, but you are wrong on the facts and you are airing your grievances on the wrong venue. Write to the company, maybe they will even agree with you and change it.

Ah yes, Popper’s paradox of tolerance strikes again. (If demonstrating intolerance is the appropriate reaction to witnessing intolerance, how can you distinguish between first order and second order intolerance in the behaviour of others?)

Healthcare could definitely be better, but 67% of Americans are satisfied with their insurance.

No offense, but this sounds a bit like asking the congenitally blind if they miss seeing.

Yes, the Nokia X10. Worked rather well over the last two years, although the only thing I can compare it to are devices I got from work (mostly older Samsungs with a ton of crapware).

The third iteration of Nokia is back to building phones, and the smartphones they sell are part of the Android One program (stock Android, two years of updates guaranteed).

Well as one of today’s lucky 10,000, let me tell you it’s not dependent on the KDE/Android combo. There are versions for Windows, macOS, and iOS (although some functionality is missing).

*cries in Stargate Origins*

Would really like to see the conclusion to SGU although that seems unlikely at this point… Anyway, let’s hope for the best with the (hopefully) upcoming Amazon/MGM thingy.

Well I haven’t been following the story anymore for the last year or so, but there were some suspicions regarding that level 4 bio-lab doing research on Coronaviruses in the very epicenter of the 2019 pandemic, Wuhan…

For those that were as confused as me:

Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”,[5] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[6] The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki,[7] which The Independent called “the most apt description of Twitter you’ll ever see”.[8]

From Wikipedia:Sealioning

P.S.: the comic in question:

Wondermark webcomic