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The quote is attributed to Bismarck, but there is no German source for it, so I don’t think he really said it.

Also the unification of the German states was a grave error and a lot of innocent people paid the price for it.

Maybe they are doing “trial balloons”, to see what the reaction is if they put that out there.

Just put it on the light side if the moon - problem solved.

Every 2-3 years Radiosynthesys comes to the surface in science journalism. So far no one has come up with an explanation how it could work or if it could work.

They best they got is, some kind of melanin response to radioactivity, which would make sense as a protection mechanism.

I can avoid travelling to the US or other states that want to kill me actively or by negligence.

At what point do pilots and other people who go there because it’s their job, stop going there I wonder.

I’m not sure if the people living in Paris were mad. It might be the people who commute that hated her anti-car politics.

On the other hand we are talking about a nation that wanted to put a highway interchange in the middle of Paris …

I’m not sure if the anti-fascism is not by accident. Tolkien was pro Franco.

This! Bats signed a peacy treaty with every known virus. You didn’t, so the virus will happily kill you.

Here is a paper about some of the adaptions on a genetic level. Bats seem to have evolved remarkable virus co-existance.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08471-0

The world does not consist entirely of the US.

While I agree that openai can buy enough “law” in the US to do what it wants, the license is important in other jurisdictions and can be enforced.

Good luck - uv is under a MIT license, so every fork is just a free buffet for openai to incorporate into their enshittified version of uv. There is a reason the GPL exists and many people will learn this the hard way …

What did you expect from the Microslop trojan horse that was brought in to destroy Linux from the inside.

The enshittifcation will continue until it served it’s purpose.

Bavarian Motor Works

Thanks for the replies - going to check that out when I have time.

It’s a cheap Chinese made, it prints when I turn it on and that’s like every two months for the last 3 years. So I guess it’s good. I also only use it to print from linux or my phone.

I got a cheap Xerox laser printer, the toner is cheap and lasts forever.

I agree with you on some points here. The problem is that these crawlers are hostile to the point of DDOSing sites

So the problem is not that someone archives your public accessible data, the problem is that in doing so either breaks your site or makes you pay for the excess traffic.

I think the web is now broken beyond repair. The commercialisation killed it and the tech monopolies are all that’s left.

So I think small invite only fully encrypted enclaves are all that is left, until someone comes up with a “new Internet”, that can resist the " Techbros", but for now I don’t see that.

Also I don’t see the Fediverse as a solution, it’s just under the radar for now, but if it gets bigger it will be coöpted and sunk.

I wonder what Bram’s stance would have been on AI.

Anyway, looks like it’s time to learn emacs.

Das ist natürlich dämlich.

Ich würde nie etwas per Überweisung zahlen. Entweder Bankeinzug, dann kann ich mir das Geld zurückholen oder wenn man nur per Kreditkarte bezahlen kann benutz ich wegwerf Karten. Dann kann man mit der Nummer nix anfangen wenn ich die deaktivier.

Exactly, people don’t understand that an Army is formed by removing internal resistance to orders.

So basically you can point the military at to something to kill and they will do it.

It’s the Two Santa Strategy, they have been doing that since Reagan.

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/12/thom-hartmann-how-the-gop-used-a-two-santa-clauses-tactic-to-con-america-for-nearly-40-years_partner/