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I mean, i go through the motions of voting. but i'm voting against an overwhelming amount of feelings-voters that are easily manipulated. i don't think it makes much difference anymore.

If i wasn't busy, local politics is where one could make a difference. Nation politics seems completely captured by now.

Re:Europe's fires are just the start on Thursday July 30, 2026 @11:05AM (#49111113)
hundreds of millions of people coming to europe (i didn't mention) is still lowballing on purpose. sure it's billions, but not all will go to one place was my thinking here.

you are talking reason, you are in the wrong timeline buddy. i'm talking about what we will chose as a society, i feel we can't help ourselves.

You can convince a person (me certainly) that we should stop immediately (or very very short time frame). But most people have experienced their entire lifetime of propaganda and fallacious arguments that words and reason have lost all meaning.

We are still getting cooked so slowly that people will only see unrelated incidents for a long time. World War(s) 3 is what the survivors will call it.

Re:Europe's fires are just the start on Thursday July 30, 2026 @10:37AM (#49110669)
I always find it interesting when politicians mention temperature target goals.. what are you still talking about, it's done. We now need to worry about the hundreds of millions of people that are neither asylum migrants or economic migrant but survival migrants. The real discussion will become how we keep those out very soon. And since there are no good solutions from the "good" people who ignored everything and got us into this mess it will be the bad people giving us the only remaining "solution": violence.
Re:Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy on Thursday May 28, 2026 @09:35AM (#48308785)
I knew it! When i get frustrated to a certain point i start berating my agent. And I noticed it stops trying crap fixes in a cycle and starts listening again.

So I'm not talking to myself. I'm fixing the machine :D

Wasting scammers money seems like it's targeting itself in the right direction.

i used adnauseam a while ago. it clicked on about 1.5 million ads in half a year of usage.

Not sure i can give good reasoning for this, but it felt like doing the right thing. :)

Re:Why are there no good dinosaur films? on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @06:05AM (#44498615)
The original Matrix was an exceptional Movie looking into the brain in a jar concept and even becoming an even more popular analogy to explain the concept. All the supernatural stuff happens within the matrix and still stays in the natural world.

I'm happy they never made a sequel where supernatural stuff happens in the real world. They still would have been worthwhile Hollywood action movies, but nothing like the original which was one of my favorite movies growing up.

Re:Go European: Discover European products and services on Monday March 10, 2025 @09:30AM (#43320396)
hetzner has been working great the last 10 years for me. they opened datacenters in the us too.
big HDDs are getting cheap. just checked, 16 tb is only 260E by now
I think maybe some entangled cable. even very little rotation would keep them at a fixed distance.
Re:How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M' on Saturday November 20, 2021 @07:03AM (#29287348)
wait till you notice the i has a slightly different color :)

mun: #cd3545 i: #d02143

10x more productivity. oh boy, can i work just an hour a day with this thing?
Sleazy marketing promises makes me dismiss them outright.
Re:A problem repeatedly occurred with Safari 14.1 on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:15AM (#26990941)
same here. I completely forgot how to use the internet without uBO or another decent adblocker. same reason i can't switch to iphone, they don't have a firefox with addon support.
I noticed the package name com.qrcodescanner.barcodescanner. and went to https://qrcodescanner.com/ which advertises another very popular barcode scanner wescan.

they also offer an sdk of their own for including a barcode scanner into your app. https://github.com/WeTransfer/WeScan

I'm not really sure they are connected (package names don't verify domain names AFAIK). Just curious.

Re:Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:17AM (#25475275)
Peak german humor right there. Very efficient, I'm impressed. Thank you
Re:What were these Roman objects used for? on Saturday November 28, 2020 @08:33AM (#25237404)
your's is a better fit. but i felt instantly reminded of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jC6sKnq_sE
There is a difference between unintended yet inevitable bugs and negligence.

Deliberately cheapening out on security because security researchers generally hold to a responsible disclosure procedure is not in the users interest.

This is not one of those inevitable bugs. This is an indicator that there maybe security issues littered throughout the system because no one cares.

I'm not sure i would have either. this is not not a security bug. this is pure negligence and doesn't deserve the courtesy IMHO.
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:25PM (#24875830)
I don't get why you where downvoted. the analogy is pretty accurate. knifes are utilities which can be used to kill. guns are made for killing only.

There are plenty of legitimate uses for youtube-dl. There is even fair use in the US. How can i make fair use, eg. remix or a commentary if i can't access the videos outside of youtube.

During my apprenticeship my final exam project was to write OxPro. A breeding database for the local aurochs breeding association.

edit: I had to check if it's still around. https://www.aueroxen.de/oxpro-2/

Re:PHP 8.0.0 beta 2 on Friday August 21, 2020 @01:39PM (#24237084)
I don't agree with the faster and extremely simple to deploy points, at all. Both objections have to do with php-fpm.

it spawns a new php interpreter for every request, which means for example that symfony framework setup (routes, controllers, service dependencies...) have to run before every request. Sure it does that faster than python, but python only needs to do this once.

deployment is my personal nightmare. try to set the max children or whatever so concurrency is ok but memory does not run out. I mean facebook did it so it has to be possible but damn, that was hard to get `right`. Setting up logging is a mess. There is the application, the admin and the fpm error log, I gave up trying to have every log event logged exactly once. Segfaults are a common occurrence, still. I heard it mentioned just before leaving for vacation.

Re:Worms Armageddon 3.8 on Sunday July 19, 2020 @04:42PM (#23892278)
hedgewars is awesome. lived with 3 friends and installed this on our beamer in the living room. Competition is fierce still, in 5+ years nobody would even change team once. we lost track of score 3 years into the competition tho.
It takes one external party checking the wiring to make sure and it can't be patched by an update.
Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:35AM (#23758089)
1. opt out is not gdpr conform. 2. saving a cookie no_consent=true does not require consent by the user. that's the type of cookie easily classified as functional/necessary
Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:29AM (#23757622)
if it's an android, I'm very happy with firefox + ublock.
Re:The PEPs of Python 3.9 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @07:41PM (#23344468)
how will that number look when you first autoconvert via 2to3?

I did two migrations of >500k loc projects in an afternoon each, and admittedly some days of testing to gain confidence since there where few unit test. But i found it to be very smooth sailing.

I was very familiar with both projects, so that helped a lot.

EDIT: I also want to add that i did this using python3.5, when to ecosystem seemed to be at a sweet spot of dependencies supporting both 2 and 3 mostly. I guess if one has been waiting until now, the divide between library versions will be a lot bigger.

Re:Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @01:28PM (#23326719)
How does distrust create trust exactly? I give out trust freely (within reason) until it's broken. Gaining back trust is hard. When I find out you went through my mails to find out if I'm trustworthy, you loose my trust.

When I learned of the BND's Crypto AG involvement I felt a deep sense of shame. All the CIA's fuck ups in south america for example. Not only the CIA anymore, we where involved too. Which makes me loose some trust in my government to act on my/our behalf. There is a cost to it and the benefits are questionable at best.

Re:Running decade-old games in containers on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @03:30AM (#22943122)
Always wanted a blog. I have no blog.
Re:Running decade-old games in containers on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @03:23AM (#22943077)
It's kind of playable using XQuartz on mac. But i'm only using that for debugging the setup really. This is intended as a test bed for keras bot experiments, so controls are not important to me.

Main components are wine, ffmpeg, nginx+nginx-ts-module and xvfb. It runs diablo2 and livestreams the screen capture.

I'd love to push this to git or docker, but it's currently littered with blizzards game files. I'm most likely not allowed to share the current state.

I put some files together to get a rough look. I'll try to make it a bit more usefull when i'm done with actual work and not exhausted.

https://github.com/tuco86/docker-diablo2

Re:Running decade-old games in containers on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @12:14PM (#22936285)
i was curious if i could run diablo2 on my kubernetes clusters.

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