Funny how shit turns out, I remember quite vividly how in 2022 everyone was like “oooh Germany dumping their useless outdated dumb shit on Ukraine just so they sent something too”. Today Germany is biting their own ass for discontinuing that system and the military units using it cause we gotta start from scratch buying new shit and building up new military units using it.

Still better than the millionth “hey look someone on reddit mentioned us” post.

Well basically use ad-blockers in your browsers and get patched APKs of apps you use that don’t show ads so they don’t make money off you even if you still use their services.

Yeah but would the box have slipped without the penguin in it? We need more penguin box experiments I think.

Cool birds, but how is this related to Europe, other than that European settlers used to shoot them?

Great idea, I’m always looking for stuff to watch.

I just watched Borderline, the ~20th remake of The Bridge, this one’s set in the border region of Ireland/Northern Ireland. It’s not great but not super terrible either.

Then I watched 3 commisaire Dupin movies that are currently available on German public broadcasting streaming sites. Again not exactly blockbusters, I mostly watched them cause I read all the books and I like the nice landscape shots in Bretagne. :)

Basically I’m just watching all the crime series they got on ZDF.de lately.

EDIT: Almost forgot, I was randomly browsing dailymotion.com (French owned YouTube alternative) and found that they apparently aren’t super strict about copyright and such shenanigans, stumbled over classic British comedy Saving Grace there and watched it. :)

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Nice, I just watched a video today about jailbreaking and gave it a try and it’s super easy, took like 10min and is fool proof. Hadn’t had time to check out all the benefits though but KOreader seems really nice and just sending epubs to your Kindle w/o Amazon in the middle is nice too.

That would require him to give a single shit about the consequences of his actions, but he’d rather watch his country burn than admit he was wrong about something.

I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that as soon as there is a anything on the website that could (even just in theory) help you make a single cent, it’s considered commercial. Any ad banner, an affiliate link or in case of your author partner a link to their books on amazon or wherever is probably enough to be considered commercial. I honestly wouldn’t take any risk there, especially as an author. 1 single hater is enough to cost you up to 5k€.

It’s not just for commercial websites, any website that provides any kind of content is subject to Impressumspflicht. AFAIK strictly private/personal websites are exempt in theory, however in Germany it’s a fun pastime for asshole lawyers to automatedly search the web for websites w/o impressum and extort some bucks off some poor granny’s recipe blog, so it’s better to be safe than sorry. And since people generally don’t want to put their full private address on the web and most don’t have have a postbox or something like that, I totally get why they’d use the company for simplicity.

I’m 100% convinced DOGE will stop this as it is not very efficient use of tax money.

Might be worth telling your local shops about it, maybe they just don’t know this exists. When I told my mother about the app she liked it so much she talked to a bunch of local shops she’s a regular at and a couple of them joined afterwards.

Odenwolf (formerly Wolfgang), Germany: https://odenwolf.shop/

Don’t know if it’s true for all EU countries but it’s very common I think, although “local” elections meaning municipal elections, not the “local” federal elections.

Careful about Heise. Their tech news are probably alright but they also got Telepolis which is their super weird conspiracy nut pro-russian political branch and it’s easy to end up reading that shit on their intermixed website.

TBH while Springer’s main outlets like BILD are shit, I found politico quite alright so far. I mean whatever news source you’re consuming it’s important to know where they’re coming from anyway. I like politico cause there’s no shit paywall and non-enshittified website and also a proper RSS feed, which is super rare these days.

Way better than Google and I especially love that in translatons they also seamlessly convert weirdo imperial units to metric so you don’t have to deal with cups and feet or whatever.

Kinda funny because just recently Sweden canceled plans to build new wind farms because they’d interfere with their radars. https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/11/11/why-sweden-nixed-new-wind-farms-for-fear-of-missing-russian-missiles/

Haven’t used it myself yet so can’t talk about it their recommendation algorithm, but Qobuz has been recommended several times here, it’s French and apparently has a very good payout to artists per play compared to others.