Notices by Merovius (merovius@chaos.social)

Man, this tariff situation could be such an opportunity for the EU. I *really* like the idea of Cory Doctorow to, instead of retaliating with tariffs of our own, retaliate by no longer enforcing US IP (like pharma patents or DRM), which would harm US companies *and help* EU citizens and companies. And could be a strategic answer to the US tech monopoly.

But no one in charge seems to even think about that. They all just talk about retaliatory tariffs on fucking Whiskey…

How it is still inconceivable for US software engineers to be dual-lingual 🙄 YouTube auto-translates video titles, subtitles and descriptions. Even if you speak the source language. You can not turn this off.

I've also seen them start to do auto-dubbing - which luckily you *can* turn off (for now). But still.

Ich finde ja übrigens, über die nächsten 2 Wochen muss *die Frage* an alle Unions-Polikiter_innen sein "welche persönlichen Konsequenzen würden Sie daraus ziehen, wenn nach der Wahl Schwarz/Blau kommt?" - und die dann auch auf eine Antwort fest zu nageln und nicht mit "niemand hat vor eine Brandmauer einzureißen" davonkommen zu lassen. "Werden Sie aus der CDU austreten, ja/nein?", fertig.

"Also, die CSU existiert ja für mich nicht, das ist die CDU Bayern. Alles andere wäre politisches gendern und da mach ich nicht mit. Da können die sich schon mitgemeint fühlen, da unten" 😂

Ein Verbotsverfahren ist übrigens, wie man die AfD "inhaltlich stellt".

Der inhaltliche Kern des Faschimus ist nämlich das Recht der Stärkeren. Argumente und Logik sind egal, "Wahl gewinnen" ist, wodurch man Macht verdient. Deshalb sind Widersprüche auch kein Problem für sie.

Ein Parteiverbot begegnet dem, weil es zeigt, dass die Demokratie trotz Mängel *stärker* ist als der Faschismus. Entweder das Recht der Stärkeren ist also falsch, oder der Faschismus ist nicht stark.

TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine#Name_origin 😂

@SuperDicq @rick Uhm.
It's FOSDEM, not OSDEM.

@vaurora I tend to host stuff like that in a VPN. Of course, if you need to collaborate/share, that'll be difficult.

Got confused because I was supposed to walk south but had the sun behind me.

Then I realised which hemisphere I’m in.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/germany-influence-of-english-idiots-apostrophe

I mean, the prescriptivist assumptions of the article are already bad enough. No one "decides" what is "correct German".

But… it also links to
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/29/how-viral-tongue-twister-lightened-up-german-language
and I know this is a dumb thing to get angry about but… Does no one at the Guardian do even a *little* bit of research? Rhabarbar Barbara is *not* by Bodo Wartke. It's almost 20 years old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcMT395UvWI
Wartke just took someone else's work and made a song out of it.

The Simple Solution to Traffic…………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzzSao6ypE
#waymo #honking #cars

@rick @kaia Me neither =D Searched for "Cowell Olympics" - the former is a name you can read on one of the jerseys, the latter being inference from timing. Kinda amazing that worked.

@rick @kaia Rugby, apparently.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/31/ireland-rugby-star-shows-superhuman-strength-save-team-mate-certain-injury-paris-olympics-21331795/

@bagder @LangerJan At first I thought “curl forum” meant “a forum that you use curl to read from/post to”

I mean, you *got to*, right?

@feditips I'm talking about the server you are leaving.

Specifically, I believe you confirmed that, if Meta started federating and at some point wouldn't want you to leave, you just couldn't. Not any easier than, say, Twitter.

@feditips Thanks.

Okay, so, heretical question, but: *Does* ActivityPub actually enable people to easily switch servers on a protocol level?
Like, what prevents a server from just not supporting you moving out?
(Leaving aside whether the actual moving process works as advertised)

@truhe I don't think that matters terribly in terms of my question.

@truhe So ISTM what you are saying is that a) yes, a server could absolutely refuse to let you move out (by not providing the export and not telling your followers to move over) and b) even if working as intended, it doesn't *really* work as advertised.