BonziBuddy was a herald of the apocalypse.

Thank you all for your work in contributing to the Fediverse! Both to you two main devs, and everyone that contributes, be it code, hosting or even just adding to the community!

I may be misremembering, so take this as potential bullshit, but I seem to recall there was a study (or just a survey?) that seemed to indicate, that onlineness for men generally correlated with less mysogyny than the overall population - with the exception of those explicitly in the "manosphere" bubble, who then spike on the far end of the spectrum.

Thinking back of how I remember groups of boys and men (which I was a part of) talking with each other offline before widespread internet access (or even now), that kind of made sense to me. I remember being often rather alone with my opinions and being told stuff like: "Just accept that sexism is funny." Especially thinking back to pre-internet teenage me, I had a lot of weird assumptions internalized that online exchanges, seeing actual, unfiltered opinions of women mostly, helped correct.

Also on PeerTube

She literally died for our sins

I've got some torrents that I've been seeding for months barely breaking 0.1 - for some that are in low demand and have some dedicated seeders with better internet connections than yourself, you will have to acceppt not being able to seed them properly, especially when they become outdated.

Just do your best and aim for a good ratio above 1:1, but don't beat yourself up if it won't work out. 1:2 as a goal is fine, not everyone has to be a dedicated super-seeder (which would be impossble anyway).

Und die KillerDrogenspiele!!!!!

Wann wirds mal wieder richtig Sommer
So ein Sommer wie er früher einmal war
Ohne Hitzerekorde und ohne Waldbrände
Und nicht so heiß und drückend wie die letzten Jahr'

I mean - kind of? I do agree a lot of "reaction" content is bottom-of-the barrel shit, but it's not like this one is just making funny faces and going "woaaah, nonono, they didn't!!" or something. He does use the video as a jumping off point for his own commentary, providing his own perspectives (those segments are also edited with cuts, showing this wasn't just turning their webcam on and rambling without any evaluation later). Just roughly looking through the preview thumbnails hovering over the video progress bar, easily more than 50% is talking about topics in the reacted video without even the reacted-to footage on screen.

One interesting thing is that we don't really kow much about her. The few things we can be pretty certain of, are (Spoilers ahead):

• We know her hedonistic escapes from a guilt complex are real, and that some forces in the MI truly want her dead - confirmed by our ESP if we do take her in. (Much to the shock of some players who had hoped to arrest her and keep her safe somehow, from the blind playthroughs I watched people play)

• We know she really has some skillset that indicates some sort of spy work, but where does it really stem from? It could be from what she tells us, but it could also be something different, maybe something worse, maybe something more mundane.

• We do know she has seemingly always had the problem of being fetishised by men around her, as we witness with at least Tidtus and the Deserter (EDIT: And of course Harry), and that she both inadvertantly and consciously used that to her advantage (mostly: trying to survive) if possible, while also not having a choice about it. EDIT: Her relationship with the mercenary is really interesting in that regard, she probably witnessed unwillingly bringing out the worst in men around her over and over, turning them into monsters. Then there is a monster, and in her mind, she turned him into a better version of himself, reducing hist monster-ness. Not that that is healthy, but it is a great characterisation by the writers for sure.

But no matter what, I, personally don't think prison (which results in her death) is something she deserves. There is a part within me, that would love to somehow keep her "safe" while also putting her into a situation where she has to reveal what is really in her past - but that part of me, I realise, is exactly the fetishising effect she has on het men in action, even as a fictional character (combined with my often aggressive curiosity).

So, my vote is: Let her go. She might not be a great person overall, and has definitely some shit in her past, whatever it really is, but she deserves to live. If she really does deserve prison, then only, as she herself put it, in a new world, after La Retour, which would stop hunting her as prey, both literally and in the way people who are attracted to her force their fantasies on her.

Will Moomin's rope be in time? I don't know, but what I do know is, that that is one hell of a throw!

Man kann mit Ping-Nachrichten, die im Client vom Empfänger nicht sichtbar sind, anhand der Zustell-Bestätigungen und Zeitunterschieden bei diesen Dinge abschätzen wie, nutzt die Person gerade Desktop/Mobile, Browser/app, welche Geräte hat die Person? Welche sind gerade aktiv? Wird gerade aktiv auf die App geschaut? Damit kann man Profile von Aktivitätsmustern erstellen, abschätzen ob jemand gerade zu Hause ist oder nicht.

Hat man mehrere Geräte, z.B. weiß der Angreifende, dass man auf Arbeit einen Mobile-Client und zu Hause einen Desktop-Client benutzt, dann kann daraus auch geschlossen werden wann man wo war.

Für WhatsApp wird erwähnt, dass durch gezieltes spammen von solchen Trash-Ping-Nachrichten Datenvolumen und Akku bewusst aufgebraucht werden kann. Erwähnt werden 13GB pro Stunde bei einem dedizierten Angriff. Grund ist: Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung ermöglicht hier, dass erst wenn solche Nachrichten vom eigenen Client bereits heruntergeladen wurden, diese als Trash aussortiert werden können - Server zwischendrin bemerken zu Recht ja nicht, was genau in der Nachricht steckt.

Maßnahmen-Vorschläge sind: Automatische, zufällige Verzögerungszeiten einbauen in die Bestätigungen, um die Rückschlüsse zu erschweren/unmöglich zu machen, und automatisches Blockieren von unbekannten Nummern/Accounts standardmäßig zu ermöglichen.

Der Exploit wurde letztes Jahr im September entdeckt und an die Betreiber weitergereicht. Laut Video gab es noch keine offiziellen Äußerungen, weder von Meta noch der Stiftung hinter Signal, dazu.

Humans just can’t seem to stop being dicks

It's interesting, because the work itself seems to have the exact opposite thesis: Humans on average aren't dicks, but inequality and the interests of a few elites with essentially personality disorders the way he frames it, amplify our worst tendencies. For many thousands of years of pre-history, archaeological evidence and anthropological observations clearly show humanity in much more egalitarian societies. The example he uses is of the Khoisan people:

All Goliaths, however, contain the seeds of their own demise, he says: “They are cursed and this is because of inequality.” Inequality does not arise because all people are greedy. They are not, he says. The Khoisan peoples in southern Africa, for example, shared and preserved common lands for thousands of years despite the temptation to grab more.

Instead, it is the few people high in the dark triad who fall into races for resources, arms and status, he says. “Then as elites extract more wealth from the people and the land, they make societies more fragile, leading to infighting, corruption, immiseration of the masses, less healthy people, overexpansion, environmental degradation and poor decision making by a small oligarchy. The hollowed-out shell of a society is eventually cracked asunder by shocks such as disease, war or climate change.”

In general, it's not a very controversial take, that the current (i.e. of the past ~5k years) inequality did not arise as a natural state but became only possible through surplus.

You can still watch (and download) it here on peertube.

Andreas Peichl, Wirtschaftsprofessor in München und Experte des ifo-Instituts sagt bei RTL und ntv: "Wir haben tools wie ChatGPT das Sozialgesetzbuch lesen lassen und andere Gesetze. Und dann eine Liste erstellen. Ich fürchte, wir haben in der Tat mehr als 500 Sozialleistungen, die man einzeln beantragen kann."

Ich will ehrlich sein: Während ich die Tendenz nicht einmal hinterfrage, und die Probleme sehr real sind, eine ChatGPT-Auswertung erzeugt bei mir nicht viel Vertrauen. Ist aber vermutlich selbst symptomaufzeigend dafür, dass es schlicht keine gute Datenlage gibt, und Verwirrung selbst bei den offiziellen Stellen und in Expertenkreisen herrscht.

Because that is the maximum time an average Linux user can stand without trying out a new Distro.

Hab das mal sehr grob überflogen, die interessanten/relevanten Anteile beginnen ab Seite 35. In der Tat ein eher oberflächliches Verständnis von Marx u. Engels in der Begründung, wie im Artikel erwähnt wurden anscheinend "www.staatslexikon-online" [sic] und das Kommunistische Manifest herangezogen, um das relevante - die grundlegende Unvereinbarkeit von Marx und GG - zu begründen.

Andere Sachen beim Überfliegen, wie in wie Weit sich nicht ausreichend von alten Publikationen distanziert wurde, kann ich nicht beurteilen.

Aber das Verständnis von Marx und Engels Werken, wie hier formuliert, ist meines Erachtens tatsächlich so oberflächlich, dass es an sich nicht zu einer blanko-Einstufung der Verfassunsfeindlichkeit taugen sollte. Gerade der späte Marx und Engels haben da durchaus differenziertere Beiträge geleistet. Es wirkt auf mich so, wie die Denker und Prinzipien der Französischen Revolution als grundlegend und gänzlich unvereinbar einzustufen, mit Bezug auf einzelne von Aussagen von Robespierre und die Terrorherrschaft während der Revolution.

One time quite some time ago now, while I was away from home for a few days for work back then, I only brought an old, underpowered laptop to make sure I won't be tempted to waste any time playing video games. Widelands ended up ruining that plan thoroughly, it's a really nice, comfy experience.

EDIT: Also, hell yeah can I vibe with that sentiment:

There hasn't been a Settlers game since 1996. Whether they were good or not, its many sequels, as early as 3, started missing the point of the design. It's the roads, man. The roads!

This paper seems to suggest so, but also mentions "Previous empirical work on this topic, which shows a diverse range of estimated effects [...]" - so it seems like other factors will play a role. (Disclaimer: I read only the abstract)

EDIT: Another paper seems to back up those finding.

It's about Clippit, which was a mascot that notoriously annoyed MS Office users in the 90s and 2000s. It did not yet collect your data the way everything does now.