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'Never again': Huge protests against far-right continue in Germany

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There were various secret meetings that became public afterwards. From plans to storming the Bundestag like Jan 6 and the Capitol to meetings with far right Nazis that are on watchlists of the local secret service, the Bundesverfassungsschutz.

Latest meeting was on the topic of „How to deport political opponents and immigrants after seizing the political system“ which not only featured known Nazis but members of the CDU Conservative Party (Merkel‘s Crew).

That was the drop too much that ignited the whole protest we see now. And it is well overdue if you ask me

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German far right hails 'historic' election victory in east

Many attributed gains for the AfD with people voting out of protest. I think that explanation does not cut it anymore.

Over 30% of two German federal states voted far right out of conviction. You can no longer claim this is just protest. Wish I could say where it all went wrong, why a big chunk of east Germany rejects democracy and embraces this.

Dark days ahead for our democracy.

EDIT: the results in Saxony had to be corrected, robbing the AfD of the blocking minority size in parliament. Probably seeing a „they stole the vote“ form soon on social media.

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I need to vent about Windows. I want workplaces to use Linux.

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How do you manage your fleet? How big is your network?

I‘d love to push for Linux at work, but have yet to see a solution with similar management capabilities than a Windows domain. And I don’t want to manage individual clients, as sysadmin I want to push templates like GPOs and the like.

Can see it work for smaller environments, but not in a company with a couple hundred machines.

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German members of parliament (MPs) advised to drop Signal in favor of Wire over security concerns

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A lot of journalists got that wrong in initial reporting. But as an IT administrator you can see where they are coming from with their switch to another platform.

Signal is end user software, and a very good one at that. But it is no enterprise grade software. It lacks the management and policies needed for such user groups, which Wire seems to provide. Things like a mobile number as primary account handle spells ease and low entrance hurdle for end users, and a security problem for administrations.

The fractured nature of the IT in German politics is probably still keeping the attack surface alive. As outlined here by heise:

https://www.heise.de/en/background/Signal-attacks-Political-reality-bites-the-IT-admin-11279251.html

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Thank you France and Germany

ARTE Concerts on YouTube has some of the most well produced live recordings I ever found. And from such varied genres as well.

The concert by LANDMVRKS from Hellfest is so well done, you can press it on BluRay and sell it.

Highly recommend to check their collection, from Jazz to Pop and everything in between - ARTE got you covered

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LTT does another Linux Challenge

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They are going the way normies would, which includes asking the LLM of choice for a recommendation. But as they just regurgitate listicles inhaled from the web, that is what you get.

Bazzite and Cachy are the more sane choices, though Luke is by no means counting as a Linux noob

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Why I’m skipping the proprietary "Little Snitch" for Linux

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Little Snitch is a application based firewall for outgoing connections. It is not mainly an Adblock of any sorts. It may be used that way with filter lists, but that is in no way it’s primary goal or purpose.

My main point was that you don't have to use it for blocking the other traffic, because Linux systems won't have unwanted traffic to begin with, since you have full control over it.

That is kinda naive, and absolutely depending on what software you install and use. Thinking „there can be no unwanted traffic on my system, as I use Linux and am in full control“ means you either have VERY high faith no application on Linux calls home ever, or vastly overconfidence in yourself and your system. If there was absolutely no use in applications like little snitch, things like OpenSnitch or Portmaster would not exist for Linux either.