Notices by Andreas K (yacc143@mastodon.social), page 2

@saxnot @TomDB @petergleick @chris
"freedom of speech" is only one of the ingredients for a democracy, and by far not the most important one.

Rule of law is certainly at least as important.

@jeffowski
Books have let kids develop their own opinions and independent thought.

That is way scarier than a machine gun in the hands of a loyal follower.

@glynmoody He obviously is not.

But somehow the media does not like him, perhaps he is not deferent enough to wealthy owners of the media?

And now he looks bad on 🎺 surprise 🎺 media, which is also the part of “society” that calls loudest for him to resign.

Funny, isn't it? I'm totally confident that they did everything to show our beloved Joe from his best side, right?

Just saying, as an old timer in my area, I'm quite capable of making even good products look bad in presentation.

@br00t4c Job accomplished.

The GOP is on a time journey into the good old colony days, and surely, you don't think that the colonists had that many doctors available?

@Volksverpetzer
https://www.daz-augsburg.de/regierung-von-schwaben-keine-verletzung-der-neutralitaetspflicht-durch-ob-eva-weber/

@Volksverpetzer Ist bekannt von wem, und weswegen?

@mirabilos @prefetcher ITS_FALSE_BUT_THE_CUSTOMER_INSISTS_WE_TREAT_THIS_CASE_AS_TRUE

@davidzipper We do this in the EU already.
Now if you just tell me how cars are supposed to reliably tell the speed limit.

Analysing video for signs is highly reliable (in the data science way), >90%.

GPS location (does have a problem with parallel roads, so is that the city road inside the neighbourhood, or the interstate?) + map data (needs constant updating and will never we 100% up to date).

So yes, it's one cool gadget more that in practice one needs to turn off after powering on a car.

@davidzipper In the EU actually, AFAIK, it's been mandatory for all new car types for the last 3 years or so, but from July 2024 all new cars registered for the first time for road use will require this (and half a dozen other gadgets).

@HistoPol @ploum
Sigh, I lived the XMPP episode, and while I did maintain any opensource packages, etc.

Yes, some other competitors did enter based internally on XMPP, I know, I did the customisation and extensions of the XMPP 3rd party network transports for them as an external consultant.

@csilverman @JoshuaACNewman @dukope
It also looks surprisingly similar to some characters in the X11 Cursor font.

Somehow the rotten fruit company always got away with getting very detailed inspirations from 3rd parties.

@csilverman @JoshuaACNewman @dukope
Yes, but I did not find any images of the font earlier. X was released mid 1980s, but was based on the W Window System, which on the modern Internet is missing in action.

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| In 1984, Bob Scheifler of MIT replaced the synchronous protocol of W with an asynchronous alternative and named the result X.
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https://lunduke.substack.com/p/w-the-window-system-before-x-that

@ryanhoulihan That is exactly the point.

As much as you want to whine, see any feasible alternative to Democrats or GOP? No.

So realistically it's these two options and that means probably Biden & Trump.

Not voting, or voting GOP will not bring you one inch nearer to your dream. And that's a kind of unmovable point.

@ryanhoulihan Slightly different formulation:

How exactly will your life under Leader Trump become better?

Even if you think you are already at the bottom, it's a fallacy that the bottom you feel you are at, is really the worst case for your life.

And I'd like to point out that the Biden administration has changed signifiant things, e,g. how anticompetition law is enforced.
Sadly, it takes longer than 4 years to see the effects. It took decades till it became unbearable bad after Reagan.

@ryanhoulihan Oh, it's simple.

There are existing laws to protect employees. You can be punished, if unlucky, even severely if you do not protect them the way the law/rules say.

Now, as a guess, there are no rules setting exposure levels and protection levels for school kids.

As schools are often PUBLIC schools, and thus creating such rules legally would mean the state creating obligations for itself.

@briankrebs 🤷
But surely it won't be illegal to pay for IT security consultants to repair the systems. You know, "specially highly recommended" remote working specialists who prefer to be paid in crypto.

But yes, that's the obvious solution.

Till somebody make it a case about "Freedom of speech", just a curious observation of a foreigner, the most curious things in the USA (medical therapy, fraud, …) all end up as 1st amendment cases.

@TruthSandwich@qoto.org @Teri_Kanefield Well, if even lawyers suggest that, please can anyone point me to an explanation, why Mr Trump is not in jail, or considering that he claims to be a billionaire with businesses around the globe, why has his bail not been set at a reasonable level to his worth?

You don't let a drug dealer walk around freely waiting for his trial either, right?

Bankman-Fried had his 250m bail (!) also revoked for interfering with the investigation/trial, hadn't he?

@roadriverrail @Gargron Well, nuclear plants are a nice way to greenwash your energy needs.

(Not that arguably it might be a short-term solution to avoid CO²)

@Gargron You do realize, that from the perspective of a rentier capitalist, that old model had a very big problem, called “artist” that wanted to be paid?

@MartyFouts
Don't take it wrongly, but the German car makers literally spent years in R&D and ended up offering way less (co pilot system for limited use cases eg high ways/autobahns), literally citing this as the safe state of the art. They could offer more of they were willing to associate their brands with unsafe cars.

@goatsarah @robcornelius