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<span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">// File: hello.rs
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">fn </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">main</span><span style="color:#323232;">() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    println!(</span><span style="color:#183691;">"Hello there!"</span><span style="color:#323232;">);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
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Dealing with death threats to the president is what the black ops teams with no judicial oversight are for. 😉

But seriously, if some billionaire feels safe enough to threaten the president, they’ll probably start a coup if they don’t cooperate. How many people’s loyalty can they buy?

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Why limit yourself to subscriptions if you can do both and earn even more money? 🤑

PS: Microsoft perfected this with Windows bloat ware, adverts and tracking. Why did they need to integrate that, if you already paid ca. 150€ (Home) or 250€ (Pro) for a licence? Those prices are integrated into the prices of hardware purchases too, in case anyone is wondering. Purchase a laptop without an OS and it’s generally about 100-150€ cheaper. Anyone interested in Microsoft 365 and Windows 365?

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You can also try to force stop the game by holding down STEAM + B. Suspend and wake can fix it too sometimes, if the quick menus appear but not the main UI. Just some things to try before forcing it to reboot.

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Real vanilla is also very expensive, so having an exotic and expensive flavour as the default is pretty weird.

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And then you have ASML who sell the foundry equipment that makes the steel.

No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows (gadgeteer.co.za)

Based on Ubuntu. Interface and functionality like Windows, users will not feel much difference. BRICS countries committed to their own Linux distributions. South Africa has been the exception.

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They still had to buy new hardware, because the newer Windows version didn’t support the old hardware anymore.

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Cars were almost banned when they first became popular. The existing infrastructure and traffic safety regulations (shared roads) were not adequate for a speeding death machine. However, cars were very important for the military, so highways and modern road networks were quickly pushed as “the future”.

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Not at all. Most German car companies know this and some have even said as much (focus on luxury cars, car sharing and subscriptions). The Greens (part of the government) have been pushing for better public transportation and now Germany has a nationwide ticket for just 49€ per month. We still need much more investment in infrastructure, but that opinion is shared by many town planners and politicians. An added benefit with reduced road traffic is that driving becomes easier and fun again.

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Better public transportation shouldn’t mean that cars or motorcycles will be banned. It’s a way to move more people more efficiently. Ideally, you wouldn’t want to own a car or motorcycle, because other modes of transport provide a better service. While it might seem very German/European, it’s actually not that straightforward if you consider that the modern car, truck and motorcycle were all invented in Germany (by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler) and that the economy of Germany and Europe as a whole is dependent on the automobile industry. However, other companies in other countries are facing similar problems, so it’s not unique to Europe either. The ones which adapt best will survive (probably).

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Still much cheaper than owning a car.

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Still nothing compared to Roman design. Penises, penises everywhere.

There’s a funny candle holder in my local museum in the form of a naked man. I’ll let you imagine how the candle is being held up.

PS: The German word for candlestick is “Kerzenständer” (candle + stand). However, “Ständer” also refers to a boner, so “Kerzenständer” is the best description for that object.

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Experience the challenges of living with a terminal illness in a futuristic crime-ridden neoliberal metropolitan city, where solely you are responsible of saving yourself. Pull yourself out by your bootstraps and become a rising star in its criminal underworld.

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Way to go, choom!

EDIT: I just realised that this synopsis could also apply to Breaking Bad.

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My name is Bond, Spider Bond.

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In German, cellar spiders are called “Große Zitterspinne” (Great Trembling Spider), due to its defensive mechanism. There’s a whole family of Zitterspinnen. Crane flies are called “Schnake” (no direct translation, large mosquito). There are regional variations, however, where both are also referred to as daddy long legs.

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Reminds me of this video of Huawei showing off its copy of Heidelberg at one of their campuses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGOlzkK_Bsw. The streets are almost completely empty, so relaxing. /s

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343 m/s auf der Autobahn mit einer verteilten peer-to-peer Verkehrsregelung oder lieber 343 m/s auf der Schiene mit zentralisierter Verkehrsregelung?

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Dann halt nur in einem Vakuumtunnel von Elon. Das wäre ja nicht mehr Luftraum.

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Der heißt doch Neudorf Langhintern 😉

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Zitronenbrausebonbon!

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Das Zeichen einer gelungenen Geschichte ist, dass alle Kinder von dieser Szene traumatisiert wurden, unabhängig ob es das Buch, das Hörspiel oder der Film war.

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)

“As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media...

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With Mastodon being a German non-profit company, it’s natural that Germany is also well-represented with a federal instance social.bund.de, instance for the state of Baden-Württemberg bawü.social (both since 2020), world’s largest public broadcasters ARD ard.social and ZDF zdf.social, and AFAIK the first news publisher to officially launch its own instance, Heise social.heise.de. There are probably loads of other instances and accounts I’m missing.

PS: The production company behind ZDF Magazin Royale (late night comedy and investigative journalism show, think Last Week Tonight ) is also running a private instance edi.social and a public instance det.social, named after the Mainzelmännchen.

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The question should be: Who is spending more than 21 hours per day on Peppa Pig in the last two weeks?

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I’m afraid to ask how you didn’t notice that it was running in the background and why your PC is running nonstop for months 🫣

Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works (www.cnn.com)

Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

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Both are at fault: Google for distributing pirated material and OpenAI for using said material for financial gain.

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Even more so, if you consider that the LLMs are marketed to replace the authors.

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They’ll probably be called X-AEA-12-3b’s, or something similar. He’s seems to be an XCOM fan, so it needs to be something futuristic and cool 🛸

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After everything tried to be TikTok

How exactly do Matrix bridges work? Are they secure?

What I’m looking for ultimately is a universal chat type app like Beeper that can handle Signal and SMS, however, reading this about it gives me pause. It would be nice if I could get all my peeps on matrix, but since it was so hard to get them on to Signal, I think the best I can hope for is something than can handle matrix,...

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There are many different types of bridges, but the most seamless one is a type of Man In The Middle (MITM). You give the bridge full access to your other services, which allows them to copy everything to Matrix and vice versa. Naturally, this circumvents E2EE as the bridge needs to access and manipulate the content somehow (E2EE only exists up to the bridge, not the whole way to your client). The bridge can theoretically do anything, as it is a MITM. However, because most bridges are open source and you can host them yourself, the risk that unauthorised parties can gain access to the data is fairly low. If it’s hosted by a third party, you have to trust them that they won’t abuse their power.

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There are a few more settings you can tweak than your standard messenger (e.g. message bubbles or timeline), but the day-to-day interaction should be fairly similar. Chat rooms allow you to chat with any number of participants. Matrix doesn’t really differentiate between “direct” chats and group chats, as you can always add more participants later. Spaces are a way to organise rooms, like a folder.

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I learned about it from the reports that too many people were sending top secret information to .ml domains instead of their official .mil counterparts.

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The problem isn’t the mods themselves, but that they serve as a proof of concept for the publishers to do the same.

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Depends on how you define “hard left”.

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For some people, the engagement has been similar on Mastodon, even though they only have a fraction of the followers. This might suggest that either Mastodon users are generally more engaged (they actively chose to follow and can see every post) or that Twitter follower numbers were artificially inflated.

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If you want to use a paid service from the developers, there’s Element One: https://element.io/element-one

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There’s an Ansible playbook that allows you to install everything easily, but I don’t know how difficult the maintenance is. It’s definitely possible to self-host Matrix with bridges.

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Generally, the games that have a larger up-front price are good. Bonus points, if they were ported from PC or consoles and don’t track you.

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I don’t think you can from Lemmy, but /kbin has a microblogging feature where it’s fully integrated.

The dominance of cat content VS dog content on Lemmy reflects its current techie userbase

I originally joined Reddit in 2011, and in the beginning it was dominated by cat content. It was rare to see a post about dogs. Sometime in the mid 20-teens this phenomenon reversed. It’s always been a “pet theory” of mine that this reversal was due to Reddit becoming mainstream, and that it’s initial nerdy/techie user...

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Some people like cats more, because they leave you alone for most of the time and aren’t smothering you with love. Others prefer dogs, because they want to be smothered. If you go with your stereotypical tech person, they would be introverted, so more likely to be a cat person. That’s just my theory 🔬

I think the average person just simply doesn't care about their privacy.

In some of the music communities I’m in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They’re all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match… Mark was right to call the people he’s leaching off of fucking idiots.

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I think in Mastodon’s case it was less that you had to pick an instance, rather they were all instances from companies/people that they didn’t know. How many email providers does the average person know? The “my Mastodon admin can read all my posts” discussion also fits into this (they were fine with Twitter doing it). Threads will behave just like any other service in the Fediverse at the end, with all that “complexity”, but people will say Threads is easier, just because of the recognition factor and that they already have an Instagram account.

What will Meta gain from fediversing?

I don’t understand what Meta will gain from participating in the fediverse? Their ultimate goal is to make money of Threads and I just don’t see how encouraging an open federation will help them do it? Even 3Eing the fediverse will not do them much good as they already have sooo much traffic already that killing the...

GlowingLantern ,
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They are probably also hoping that it will give them the necessary good will with EU competition regulators that are already trying to break Meta’s market dominance on social media and communication.

GlowingLantern OP ,
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You just inspired me to play Stardew Valley again 😄

GlowingLantern OP ,
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Is it the competitive multiplayer aspect that draws you in, or is it something else?

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Mods are great! I’m really interested in projects like Skywin or Skyblivion. Recreating the whole modern Elder Scrolls franchise within Skyrim is just crazy.

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I don’t know how to categorise these types of players. If it were a board game or TTRPG, they would be casual players (e.g. the people who only heard of Monopoly), but the average playtime would make them hardcore gamers. It’s weird.

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Speaking of loopholes, I'd install a game engine and create all the games I want to play myself. There are a few of them on Steam and IIRC, the Switch has a game to teach game development (basically a simple game engine with tutorials), so technically it wouldn't be cheating.

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