Also, just to indicate the orders of magnitude: The German electiricty grid roughly operates at a power of 200 000 MW on average.

Source (the colorful graph in the middle of the page). (Be mindful that the absolute numbers in the graph are given in “MWh per 15 minutes” (power*time/time), so to get the Watt number (power) at any given time, one has to multiply the number by 4.)

What is this worth, given that spring is approaching?

Please let us recall the Capitol attack. It was much, much worse, targeting not cars, but people and democracy itself.

(As for Elon, it is important to recall that back then, neither he nor any other liberal magnate had free access to the oval office and his own-or-technically-maybe-not-his-own government agency. His status is wholly unprecedented.)

I would even go so far as to say let’s hope that China steps in, too.

(Disclaimer: I’m not American.)

Not to argue for vandalism, but with the US government illegally detaining and deporting people for saying things that right wingers don’t like, I don’t think the MAGA crowd retains significant reservations about engaging in vandalism themselves – it’s just that so far they haven’t spotted a target where it would serve their cause to do so, and because, with the federal government in their hands, Republicans have much more effective and ostensibly legal methods at their disposal. (Should Republicans be voted out of power eventually, there will most certainly be vandalism from the right, conceivably even widespread violence against people, but this will probably be the case irrespective of whether Teslas keep exploding due to vandalism or only due to bad engineering.)

At this point, a perspective might be that it’s no longer about “a political goal”, but about preventing permanent loss of the ability of the people to achieve anything at all through democratic means.

Still, though: Even with this in mind, it’s utterly true that one should be careful about cheering for any such actions.

Actually this might make for a fun propaganda game: Set up a website where every person can mark, for each item on the list, whether they made the switch, so that in the end they receive a picture they can share on social media so as to engage in a low-key “competition” with their friends.

Worth noting that with KeePassDX, there’s a compatible mobile app.

Von diesem Aspekt ausgehend und unironisch: Es könnte sich hier gerade eine gewisse Chance auftun, die öffentliche Wahrnehmung von Impfstoffen in den USA wieder ein Stück weit in die richtige Richtung zu lenken. Es wäre ja tatsächlich etwas sehr Gutes, wenn jetzt etwa die Amerikaner monatelang ihr Heil von Impfstoffen erwarten und wenn es durch Anknüpfung an diesen Diskurs den Befürwortern von Humanimpfstoffen gelingt, auch ihren Argumenten wieder mehr Gehör zu verschaffen. Bisher sind zwar viele Amerikaner, aber längst nicht alle verloren. Zumal wenn am Ende tatsächlich ein Impfstoff das Ruder der Eierpreise herumreißt, dürfte durchaus ein bisschen gewonnen werden können.

I suggest to message the instance admins & everyone who facilitates the blocking efforts, telling them the BTC / LTC addresses, so that they can quicly set up corresponding filters.

Andy Yen went on to make an explanatory statement on Reddit, which provides a few insights: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2nz9v/on_politics_and_proton_a_message_from_andy/

For one thing, from the context of the original tweet – which referenced a screenshot of some other person’s statement – “little guys” was quite certainly meant not as consumers but as “little tech” as opposed to “big tech”. One might still consider it irresponsible and shitty to say anything good about the Grand Oligarchic Party, but what he said was not as deranged as it is often taken to be. And indeed, the Democrats do also have a long-standing problem of being in liaison with billionaire donors in particular from the tech industry (remember, Peter Thiel used to be an outsider in Silicon Valley with his pro-Trump stance); it was only rather recently that most of the billionaires decided that their interests are much better served by “Republicans”.

I’m still not using Proton though. When I get around to switching to a paid provider, the top contenders right now are posteo.com or mailbox.org, but everything could change depending on what cloud plans they offer. And! it’s highly plausible that we’re going to see several new attractive offers being made in the next few weeks or months, so it might pay off to delay switching just a little bit.

(For calendars, by the way, teamup.com is really, really awesome. It’s Swiss.)

Yeah, I think at scale what we can do is to provide grassroots political support for this push. So that could in fact become our major task: To figure out collectively what to do next: what to demand or build, and how to gather support for it.

True on the one hand, but on the other hand, at least the EU/its member countries have sharper teeth with regards to antitrust measures and customer protection than the US have.

It is almost certainly harassment. At some place (which I’m not going to mention), there are photos of her that look very much like her phone was hacked to take pictures without her knowing. All information that I’ve seen about her is consistent with her being a real person, and it is the kind and context of information where it’s practically unthinkable that she would be sharing it herself.

I think someone living in the Toronto area should see if they can get the police or other professionals to look into this.

In jedem Fall sollte man den Streisand-Effekt bedenken. Alles, was auf Absage abzielt, könnte schnell zu Wasser auf die Mühlen der Rechten werden. Junge Leute hierzulande würden auf das “Verbotene” wohl umso neugieriger werden – und dann Videos von einem Mann finden, der durchaus elegant und respektabel aussieht und redet, dem Anschein nach sogar mit philosophischer Tiefe, und durch den man leicht den Eindruck bekommt, mit ein bisschen Logik, Pschyologie und Kritik am akademischen Betrieb kann man schon über die Prognosen des IPCC richten.

(Übrigens sollte man auch die wahrscheinlichen Rückwirkungen auf den Diskurs in Nordamerika bedenken, wo derzeit ja energisch an dem Narrativ gestrickt wird, in Europa und insbesondere in Deutschland herrsche Zensur.)

Angenehm an den Dingern ist, dass man die Artikel nach dem Scannen mit derselben Handbewegung direkt in die Tasche räumen kann. Ich wurde dabei bisher nur einmal bezichtigt, ein Dieb zu sein, diese Falschbeschuldigung konnte man dem süßen Racker aber verzeihen.

Unschön ist freilich der Gedanke, dass Leute mit weniger heller Haut ihre Sachen möglicherweise nicht so bedenkenlos direkt in den Rucksack räumen können.

Amor Armoris

To be fair, though, iirc a lot of IT corporations have their German headquarters in Munich.

Ja, da müssen wir uns alle nochmal mit auseinandersetzen

clip.place seems to be a reasonably reasonable PeerTube instance