I think you might not be considering all the European countries. I was in Spain this last spring and nothing prepared me for drivers just casually rolling through long red lights.

Very brave of you to travel to the US right now. Stay safe!

Unit testing and TDD are awesome; but if you can avoid it: Don’t write things in PHP (unless it’s for work).

Wow, wie schrecklich diese Nachrichtenartikel sind, die versuchen, Sie dazu zu bringen, sich um hungernde Kinder zu kümmern, indem sie Bilder von Kindern verwenden, die vielleicht „nur“ krank sind! Wie unverantwortlich von dieser Mutter, ihren Sohn nicht in eines der *kontrolliert Notizen* null noch funktionierenden Krankenhäuser zu bringen, die nach wiederholten direkten Angriffen auf die humanitäre Infrastruktur übrig geblieben sind. /s

Schau, ich verstehe es. Kritik an der Regierung, die das verursacht hat, ist in Deutschland nicht erlaubt. Aber wieso haben die Deutschen nicht gelernt „Völkermord schlecht“ und stattdessen nur gelernt: „israel gut“? Das macht mich wahnsinnig.

… That’s a lot of expletives for anyone who might have a differing opinion about the nature of consciousness or reality.

Perhaps ironically, this is mocking a strawman. Flatpacks can be installed and managed using the terminal! Not only that but Linux-Distros have had graphical package managers for decades.

The primary reason that distros have embraced flatpack / snap / appimage is that they promise to lower the burden of managing software repositories. The primary reason that some users are mad is that these often don’t provide a good experience:

• they are often slower to install/start/run
• they have trouble integrating with the rest of the system (ignoring gtk/qt themes for example)
• they take a lot more space and bandwidth

Theoretically they are also more secure… But reality of that has also been questioned. Fine grained permissions are nice, but bundling libraries makes it hard to know what outdated libraries are running on the systems.

I don’t follow German politics that closely, so I’ve probably missed something, but how was Baerbock involved in suppressing protests as Foreign Minister?

Her comments at the start of the genocide should be enough for her to lose her position in government. It is really sickening and sad. But when it comes to German politicians, I don’t know any that are better.

Sadly she’s probably one of the more moderate Germans from the last government. Germany as a whole, learned the most narrow lesson from the Holocaust and Munich Olympics; which, you would think would be “Genocide bad”, but is actually “Israel good”.

At least Baerbock has acknowledged the suffering and declared that “Palestine belongs to Palestinians”. That’s such a low bar but the majority of Germans don’t clear that. It’s very sad, but what can you do?

For so long anything critical has been labelled antisemitic and sometimes also made illegal. The first news org in Germany to do Israel-gov critical reporting would end up in court and might lose it’s license.

Try organic maps! It’s based on open street map data and doesn’t track you.

And HTTP/2 can be used to provide video steaming, but that doesn’t mean that nginx will be the next YouTube. This isn’t a question of technical feasibility, but project focus. Though, I must admit, I don’t follow the development of fediverse software all that closely, so maybe it is on the roadmap.

I haven’t seen their governance structure yet, but I don’t think it will ever be like Altman and OpenAI. Eugen just doesn’t have that cult of personality around him, and there’s not that much money in a free and open-source platform that doesn’t lock people in.

I think it’s unlikely that Mastodon (or other federated short form blogging platforms e.g. Pelorama) will integrate live-streaming as it’s pretty far outside of the normal content they are built for. There is a project that does support live streaming and is federated though: Peertube https://joinpeertube.org/

I will never get over how much media attention this gets.

Because its all one thing. The promise of AI is that you can basically throw anything at it, and you don’t need to understand exactly how/why it makes the connections it does; you just adjust the weights until it kinda looks alright.

There are many structural hacks used to give it better results (and in this case some form of reasoning) but ultimately they’re mostly relying on connecting multiple nets together and retrying queries and such. There’s no human understandable settings. Neural networks are basically one input and one output (unless you’re training it).

Maybe the time was before the Israeli Government assassinated the person they were negotiating with?