There is hope, that they might run out of managers, though /s

Insults are a crime in Germany.

Keep in mind that someone actually has to go sue for that, it’s usually not automatic, unless you do it right in front of a police officer trying to insult some public figure. In front of court it’s weighed against freedom of expression. So there are plenty of examples were the “insult” becomes a “matter of fact”. Like for example the matter of fact that AfD politician Bernd Höcke is a Nazi.

German here, so i’m speaking from the German perspective and protest culture:

There are some organizations who often plan protests. Peaceful ones at least. It can be worker’s unions, it can be political parties or it can be just some random people who came together to organize something. For example in my area, there is “Passau gegen Rechts”, who often organize protests and other social actions against the proliferation of far right ideology. It’s just a group of random people who came together and meet up every once in a while to exchange ideas or just talk in some pub.

I usually get the info either via their newsletter, or from Verdi, the worker’s union i’m part of. The organizers then talk with the town’s authorities and exchange info with police, so that everyone stays as safe as possible. If we for some reason couldn’t communicate with social media, we can do mail, phones, letters, SMS, or whatever else is available.

Americans seem to have that weird idea, that the entire country just meets up in some city and does the protest there. That’s not what’s happening. The vast majority of people come from around the immediate area. Either they’re directly from town or from the surrounding area, maybe up to 2 hours away. Since a lot of those local organizations are also organized on a country’s level with other orgs from other towns, cities and so on, they coordinate with them for a nation wide protest if necessary. Modern communication makes it easy. In some cases they also organize a bus.

Here’s how the last protest i attended worked: Verdi sent a newsletter about a protest on Saturday. I saw it and decided to drive into town to check it out. There, we met up with the student’s protest in the town’s center, and from there we walked up the street to the actual meeting place, approx. 5 km away (uphill btw). Lots of chanting, some angry drivers who couldn’t go shopping at Edeka because of that, and lots and lots of sun. Halfway through the “Omas gegen Rechts” (grandmas against the right) joined in. Once we reached the destination, we joined the other Verdi people, SPD, Greens, Seebrücke, some Church groups, lots of other random people and so on. Plenty of groups around. The whole thing took the better part of the day and then we went home.

The details can differ, the route and destination too, but that’s roughly the gist of it. I’m guessing it’s a bit of a culture thing. We Germans are already a bit lazy with protesting, but the Americans seem deeply propagandized into an unhealthy amount of individualism.

And too old

I got around vacuuming by getting a robot to do it for me. The Chinese may now see my dick, but that’s a sacrifice i’m willing to make.

I want those brain cells back

I prefer the term “long term job security”

I will only agree if you give Lower Bavaria to the Russians. But not before i could move away from there.

And it’ll probably feel 150% faster compared to Windows. Just like Edge. lol

That’s fine, it’s the most important one anyway.

Signed, a totally not biased Bavarian

Oh, i’m with you, don’t worry. Just wanted to note that. Yandex has several datacenters, so for a really noticeable drop they’d need to wipe several of them. Though, they might have some more spread around the world…

Yandex also offers Cloud Services. Just saying…

I’m a penguin

I found it doing quite decently when using it with strongly opinionated web frameworks and some rules. After all, most web projects are mostly CRUD anyway. For desktop apps it seems mixed, probably because there aren’t many frameworks that give structure. It did however throw together a working app for me so i can map my mouse buttons, but it’s in golang. I’m more of a python / php guy, so i can’t really tell if it’s coded correctly. It didn’t delete my computer yet, though.

With this photoshop clone however, i’m surprised it starts at all. Last time i’ve tested something more complex for desktop, it failed spectacularly. So i’m quite curious how far they can push this thing. What i don’t like, is that GenAI stuff they have to generate images. Coding is one thing, but using it for “automated art” is not so great…

Tbf it’s declared “early alpha”, so not surprising.

Holy shit it happened, someone chose the passphrase

It’s a nice idea, but random passwords are quite a bit safer than any manually created password. We use password generators for that. Some of them also support passwords that can be pronounced. In some way, anyway, because the “words” make no sense.

Though, i’m still waiting for someone who would accept a passphrase.