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- on Chinese Automakers Hit Record Market Share in Europe as Lawmakers Discuss Tariff Policy in c/europe@feddit.org · 18h ago
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on LGBT tolerance slumps in the Netherlands as debate turns vicious in c/europe@feddit.org · 2d ago
No, we aren’t. Some are much more targeted.
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on AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago
I can see where they are coming from, considering the downsides of AI.
They seem to be unable to train AI without brazenly stealing every single bit of intellectual property made by people, so the every product that comes out of this is tainted. Considering actual downsides of AI use comes much, much later…
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on AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago
Sadly doesn’t matter as media will just flood everything with some other shit before any election and so 99.9% of voters won’t know, won’t care, or will simply have forgotten by then…
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on LGBT tolerance slumps in the Netherlands as debate turns vicious in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago
What’s up with young men and fascism?
Brain-rot rots brains. It is that simple.
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on Thales launches European AI alternative to Palantir in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago
Because we really need our own domestic cancer…
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on Germany's Merz under pressure as AfD eyes second state win in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago
Given who’s in control of the mass media, we will never know…
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on The far-right tells a story people buy — so why don’t progressives? in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago
Yeah, sure. The left simply can’t communicate, while the right does it so well. The left is also stupid and has no actual plan while the right has a unified vision to sell.
…or we just take a look at who owns the media and realize that it’s not about the story or the communication but all about the platforms and what actually reaches the people.
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on Private DNS (with ad blocking) for newer users or those unfamiliar in c/foss@beehaw.org · 3d ago
I never understood the point in setting up unbound and pi-hole. Unbound is perfectly able to use all the filter lists you use with pi-hole, so at this point it’s nothing but an additional layer for some fancy webui with stats you never actually look at.
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on Private DNS (with ad blocking) for newer users or those unfamiliar in c/foss@beehaw.org · 3d ago
- AdGuard
Adguard’s dnsproxy also works well on its own. And it can very well spare you much of the overhead. Just pick a few dns providers you trust, query them in parallel and add whatever ad-blocking list you want to use locally. All with such on not that complicated command…
Example: dnsproxy --listen=127.0.0.1 --port=53 --bootstrap=9.9.9.9 \
–hosts-file-enabled --hosts-files=/etc/dnsproxy/blocklist \
–upstream=unfiltered.joindns4.eu/dns-query --http3 \
–upstream tls://dot.libredns.gr \
–upstream tls://dns3.digitalcourage.de \
–upstream tls://dns.digitale-gesellschaft.ch \
–upstream tls://anycast.uncensoreddns.org \
–upstream=quic://dns10.quad9.net \
–upstream=h3://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query \
–upstream-mode=parallel \
–cache
Yes, that’s an unreasonable amount of dns’ queried but I just wanted to get a few useful ones listed, also a wide spread from https (http2 and 3), tls and quic.
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on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@beehaw.org · 3d ago
which under an authoritarian regime can be torture in prison or being summarily executed or dissapeared
The finer point is that you are still thinking in terms of authoritarian regimes ruling by force or intimidation. You don’t need to if you can direct the opinion of 90%+ of the population via methods totally unfit to do what they claim they are employed for.
For some very strange reason you seem to be under the impression that I downplay this massive insane censorship measure they try to enact with this bill. I’m not. Quite the contrary I am telling you very plainly that it’s inefficient FOR WHAT THEY CLAIM THE GOAL IS. Because they are lying.
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on wallpaper of the year in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 3d ago
For those who want… to look at the details of the wallpaper some more:
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on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@beehaw.org · 4d ago
Internet censorship is very easy to do, I don’t know why some people tunnel-vision on the fact it’s not perfect. It doesn’t have to be perfect to still be very effective.
That was my actual point. It’s effective for censorship and targeting the broader population. It’s ineffective for preventing piracy as a lot of people there are indeed tech-affine and belonging to the <1% that will go the extra mile to circumvent it.
So implementing provider and dns blocks against piracy is either stupid or an intentional lie. I assume the latter.
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on CachyOS & Arch's Heated Rivalry in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5d ago
especially if you use the AUR
Which you do by default even without knowing it as Manjaro comes with an AUR helper pre-installed and also skips all the “this is user generated content; use at own risk”-warnings an Arch user would find in the wiki when trying to install something from the AUR.
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on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@beehaw.org · 6d ago
And who’s going to block all the freely available DNS servers, proxies and also TOR? 😆
That’s just another piece of bullshit legislature to enact censorship measures in the name of some seemingly legit reason. You will never actually get rid of piracy sites with local ISP and DNS blocks. But the moment there is a procedure to easily make them happen, they can indeed be used to block the not tech-affine majority of people from news and information they should not see.
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on Far-right leader Wilders calls for “Nexit” and U.S.-style ICE for mass deportation in c/europe@feddit.org · 6d ago
Targeting a country whose military is so deeply integrated with its neighbour’s is still ambitious.
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on Far-right leader Wilders calls for “Nexit” and U.S.-style ICE for mass deportation in c/europe@feddit.org · 6d ago
It’s people whose position in society is more tenuous.
You already explained it yourself. It’s about perceived competition.
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on Exclusive: Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel in c/technology@beehaw.org · 17 Sep 2026
Those are to different groups, the investors into nuclear spending some money (but neglectable amounts compared to their primary investments) on desinformation campaign so idiots stay on the train, and the idiot cult created as part of those campaigns. That’s what makes such investment so efficient. Once you reached a criritcal mass the bunch of morons is self-replicating in their own echo chambers, so it doesn’t need maintenance anymore. (Also the reason nuclear is so well received in far-right circles… there isn’t actually a direct connection, but a massive overlap in how these groups are created.)
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on Exclusive: Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel in c/technology@beehaw.org · 17 Sep 2026
Don’t let the nuclear cult hear such blasphemic facts.
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on How "secure" is your setup? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Wait… IT isn’t informations technology?
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on Is Authelia enough without fail2ban or crowdsec? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
Not OP, but it’s two-way TLS. It’s not only your server providing a certificate to prove it’s the real thing and not just some men-in-the-middle device or your connection for redirected, but the other side of the connection using a certificate, too, to show they are actually the devices allowed to communicate.
So this basically reverts the security. You are no longer trying to filter out access attempts when they show questionable behavior, but completely reject anything unless it’s explicitly authorized. Which of course only works when you or (a small number you can manually manage of) others access that stuff from fixed devices that you can set up properly.
PS: For me fail2ban does basically something similiar. I have several web interfaces exposed via reverse proxy. But I barely ever use those interfaces manually; normally it’s via apps that access the services via that web interface. So things like failed authentifications or misstyped passwords don’t happen (unless when setting up something new maybe and then I’m there to unban a device manually if I screwed up). So fail2ban is set up to aggressively bans IPs for hours just for a single failed attempt.
That’s keeping all those spammy bots looking for easy targets away very effectively, yet completely invisible for my legitimate use. After all that’s always the core issue: security vs. convenience. You build the best possible security that also doesn’t overly interfere with your normal use. Also the reason there is no on-size-fits-all solution because it’s about your use-case.
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on Finnish government AI plan puts thousands of public sector jobs at risk - Nordic government estimates huge cost savings and productivity gains through public sector AI plan in c/europe@feddit.org · 15 Sep 2026
its a government so they don’t have a profit margin?
As long as the government pays public money on jobs in the public sector there isn’t. The moment that government tries to replace workers with AI –that they definitely not build, train, probalby not even run themselves– there is a profit margin, for the AI companies. Also now for the first time the public money spend to provide public services is no longer going back the tax payers in the form of wages but flow out to private companies. And it’s about AI so out of country, too.
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on German wind energy industry expects drop in new orders in c/europe@feddit.org · 15 Sep 2026
Falsche Perspektive: “Die westlichen Regierung bekämpfen seit Jahren die Windkraftindustrie für ihre fossilen Gönner” trifft es besser.
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on Finnish government AI plan puts thousands of public sector jobs at risk - Nordic government estimates huge cost savings and productivity gains through public sector AI plan in c/europe@feddit.org · 15 Sep 2026
Because if your prime factor to optimize for is cost savings “AI can do the same job equally well but cheaper” quickly becomes “AI can so a somewhat worse job but much cheaper”, then becomes “AI does quite a shitty job, but that’s what we have to live with now as we laid off all workers to save money”…
(Also thanks to capitalism it then continues with “Now that AI is the only option in that sector, let’s raise prices to increase our profit margin”.)
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on there's mostly only two relentless hardships in programming: networking issues, naming things, and off by one errors. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
Low TTL of dns entries is there to avoid classical Cache Invalidation, so kind of…
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on there's mostly only two relentless hardships in programming: networking issues, naming things, and off by one errors. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
I’m not old enough to having been bothered by network rings and grew up with the high-tech that were end resistors.
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on Survey shows 78% think Merz is the wrong guy for chancellor job in c/europe@feddit.org · 13 Sep 2026
Who cares? Voters are mostly brain-dead and will vote for his party again anyway when they put up another candidate thas is obviously just as bad. Or they think “I want the same bullshit but more radical, corrupt and insane pls”.
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on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
It’s doable with a swap file instead. But some filesystems are more supportive than others.
For example BTRFS doesn’t support swapfiles over multiple devices (so my raid1c3 spanning 3 differently sized disks for example) and also swapfiles must be completely pre-allocated.
And no matter the filesystem you need to manually tell the kernel device and physical offset for the file via kernel parameters. Which can again be easier on some than on others (also causing the no-multiple-device filesystem problem mentioned above.
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on Germany’s Merz cancels phone call with Trump after social media post celebrating AfD win – as it happened in c/europe@feddit.org · 10 Sep 2026
Probably not, but a big Ego going to be hurt can work as a short-term replacement
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on Software Freedom Day is on September 19 in c/foss@beehaw.org · 9 Sep 2026
For some reason companies always call it by a different term when I free software.
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on EU universities struggle to cut out Israeli partners, with €15m in EU funds in defence-linked projects in c/europe@feddit.org · 9 Sep 2026
No, they struggle to cut ties because they don’t want to.
“€15m in EU funds” is meant to impress people with some big number they can’t practically imagine, but it’s a miniscule joke compared to actual EU numbers. If there was any interest, they would simply do it.
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on European democracies are running out of time to turn away from the abyss | Rafael Behr in c/europe@feddit.org · 9 Sep 2026
Wait? We are supposed to turn around instead of happily marching on towards fascism ever faster? Why did nobody tell us? ^/s^
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on Germany defends arms exports to Israel before international court in c/europe@feddit.org · 8 Sep 2026
And this is why that fucking shrill propagandist screaming is actually hurting their goals.
It’s been two years now and we are still locked in a discussion between lying idiots (German weapons are used to commit a genocide!) and corrupt idiots (We deliver exactly nothing that can be used against Palestinians!).
It’s still a fucking manufactured team sport event instead of an actual nuanced discussion. And no matter if you pick the propagandist liars, because they are after all on the Palestinian side, or the corrupt idiots, because facts actually mean something, it is just a show to keep you occupied and not rationally argue for an option c.
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on Italian tech collective to shut down after US terrorist designation in c/europe@feddit.org · 8 Sep 2026
If we want IT independence
“We” as in Europeans? Or “we” as in the corrupt politicians with actual power? Not the same group of people, definitely not the same agenda.
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on Italian tech collective to shut down after US terrorist designation in c/europe@feddit.org · 8 Sep 2026
I hope this is a wake up call for someone
Sure… a call for our corrupt politicians to increase their prices because it again became a bit harder to sell us out without affecting public opinion. Not that they actually care about the latter, but getting reelected means getting paid by their actual employers longer.
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on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil in c/europe@feddit.org · 7 Sep 2026
For polar orbits the location of the launch site doesn’t matter
It does. The rotation perpendicular to your orbit is a problem. For that reason they go further north (or theoretically south) for polar orbits.
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on Germany's far-right AfD clear frontrunner in eastern state vote in c/europe@feddit.org · 7 Sep 2026
That’s not how you use these terms in English usually:
A majority is more than half of a total, while a super majority is the amount of votes needed above a simply majority (usually things like 2/3 to do constitutional changes…).
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on QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
it will bring value to […] the community.
I’m inclined to find this more believable than similiar statements of all the usual AI suspects.
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on German rocket reaches space as Europe enters satellite launch race in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026
SpaceX is just worse but there were still a lot of explosions etc over the years. Ariane 5 for example used the tried and tested software of its predecessor… and failed rather spectacular mid-air when its higher accelaration paired with 16bit to 64bit conversion caused a buffer overflow.
Or to quote what I consider a modern classic nowadays: “They say Space is hard…” *sing*
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on Merz warns of more industrial job losses amid Volkswagen crisis in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026
Demand more work hours for less pay, undermine social systems to reduce costs for his rich corporate buddies, scrap climate protections as the unfair and expensive burden on his billionaire boss friends and loudly proclaim –for the 100th time– that we need to get rid of the (imaginary) “combustion engine ban” because those are obviously the future.
Insanely corrupt puppets of (mainly fossil fuel) lobbyists only know one song. But as long as the majority of voters stays brain-dead and keeps voting for the problem as the alleged solution, that still somehow works. Well… not for the ecocomy, country or population of course, but for him and his buddies getting richer.
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on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026
not the more economically feasible equatorial orbit
You somehow manage to make that sound like polar orbits are a minor thing and equatorial orbits are superior and harder to reach when it’s the opposite. Equatorial in earth’s rotational direction is the by far easiest one. That’s the default because every other orbit is a lot harder in comparison.
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on German rocket reaches space as Europe enters satellite launch race in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026
…or if you are living in Russia and your location too far north makes satellites in geo-synchronous orbit sub-optimal because their angle means a much longer distance signals have to travel through that pesky stuff we breath.
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on German rocket reaches space as Europe enters satellite launch race in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026
as Europe enters satellite launch race
Sure… Europe isn’t launching satellites for decades.
This isn’t about satellite launching, Europe does this from Guiana Space Centre in Kourou for a very long time.
This is about it being the first successfull orbital launch from a European location (so without all that nice free speed you get when going for an equatorial orbit and starting close to the equator eastwards) by a private start-up less than 8 years old. On their second try in total (people following such things might remember the huge amount of explosions Rapid Unscheduled Disassemblies starting rocket projects –privat or otherwise– tend to produce in the beginning).
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on German rocket reaches space as Europe enters satellite launch race in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026
It’s best near the equator (and starting eastwards) if you want an equatorial orbit because then you get all the rotational energy from earth for free.
But if you want an polar orbit, so 90° to earth’s rotation that passes over north and south pole, you are not just missing out on the free speed but the rotation perpendicular to the direction you are going actually is a problem you need to compensate for with more energy spend. But the further north (or south) to the pole you move for your start the less influence has the earth’s rotation. The perfect scenario here would be a start exactly from the geographic north pole for no interference through earth’s rotation.
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on ‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true? in c/technology@beehaw.org · 5 Sep 2026
Sure…because the artificial general intelligence is right around the corner and just another update away. And it will totally transform the world while making all those stupid plebs requiring wages (or even sick days, vacations, or health care - oh, the horror!) obsolete.
Or at least that’s the totally insane myth they are trying to sell because nothing less will ever justify the insane amount of money they pumped in that stupid bubble.
Edit: Just 3 days later… AGI is here and will transform everything! Just trust us and buy our newest product
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on U.S. Sanctions against Autistici/Inventati are the next wake-up call for digital sovereignty in c/europe@feddit.org · 4 Sep 2026
Doesn’t matter if there is another wake-up call or one million. Our politicians are corrupt and won’t work for us when their donors have another agenda.
And the mainstream media is mostly bought anyway, so the majority of people will never even hear about it.
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on Cyber Resilience Act: EU Commission provides more clarity for open source in c/europe@feddit.org · 4 Sep 2026
how little people talk about CRA
People talk about the things the mainstream media tells them to talk about. Why would we be talking about something that actually affects us when we can talk about evil immigrants, the importance to spend billions on arms and the dire need to kill social systems?
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on Yes, no AI is now a feature - the Document Foundation in c/technology@beehaw.org · 4 Sep 2026
You would be surprised how much “We need AI to take over the world completely or there is no chance in hell to ever get our insane investments back” motivates people to push bullshit on you.
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on And thats why we call it Baud Rate in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026
would be called the teletype machine
Praise the TTY in all its forms…
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on Expanding my laptops HDD capacity in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
I’m more irritated than I’d like to admit by the fact that there is no 12V to 6x SATA power converter going with that M.2 to 6x SATA adapter.
But someone *cough* is paying a lot to tell these stories (always without context of course).
By now I’m used to media in Germany crying for many years about Chinese car makers totally dominating the market while tripling or quadrupling their market share (from nothing to next to nothing, but shush – after years of “record marketshare” month after month some even have something other but a 0 before the decimals) while our poor domestic producers don’t even have any models to compete in the first place.
All while in reality just VW alone –the brand, not the whole group even– has 15%+ marketshare and the top 10 bought EVs are (as per August 2026) produced by: Skoda, BMW, VW, VW, Mercedes, Skoda, Audi, Mercedes, Audi and Citroën.