Stefan Raab to organise German national final as public broadcaster NDR/ARD is set to collaborate with network RTL for selection processes
Für den kommenden ESC haben sich ARD, RTL und Stefan Raab zusammengetan. Genaueres wird in einer Pressekonferenz am 31.10. enthüllt.
Raab was also responsible for the national final in 2010 which resulted in Germany winning the contest with Lena and the song Satellite
If you know how to use them, than you probably also know how to properly align stuff using tabs
It's a term that goes back to the cold war. There was a strike and the Soviet Union ended it violently by rolling tanks into the city. This put communists all over the world into a bit of a dilemma: on one side of the conflict was the working class making their opinion known (a communist value) and on the other the Soviet Union (the good guys). So whose side should they take?
It was British communists who coined the term "tankie" for those who defended the SUs actions to brand them as "fake communists" who are more interested in identity politics (the good guys did it, therefore it's OK) than the plight of the working class.
The best part of the blogpost: They are going to invest even more next year.
Last week, the budget committee of the Bundestag decided to increase the Sovereign Tech Fund's allocation by €4 million for next year. We're honored and thankful for the German Parliament's recognition of the importance of open source technologies, and for their continued trust in our work.
Musk’s other companies appear far more solvent than X.
This is your friendly reminder, that the Stop Kiling Games campaign is still running. I haven't been posting updates for a while, because progress has slowed considerably over the last month and there hasn't been anything to write about. But it feels relevant here.
(Campaign only running in select jurisdictions, the US is not one if them)
This is your friendly reminder, that the Stop Kiling Games campaign is still running. I haven't been posting updates for a while, because progress has slowed considerably over the last month and there hasn't been anything to write about. But it feels relevant here.
(Campaign only running in select jurisdictions, the US is not one if them)
America is too big for planes
>America is too big for planes, too. If your transportation solution is flying, now everyone has to get around via endless highways or big, complicated regional airports, and you can only have so many of those. There's a reason why rural areas in North America have completely different politics from urban areas, and why so much of it is driven by a sense of isolation and abandonment. Trains promise to help here because they are able to stop in small places that will never, ever have practical airports. > > A good rail network provides a reliable, consistent, repeatable, and straightforward three hour connection from Nowheresberg to the nearest city. Slow, but good enough to feel like they exist in the same planet. Unfortunately, that promise is subtle, and it plays out over decades, so the reward system we've created for ourselves is incapable of supporting it. And thus, we have Amtrak and confederate flags
https://cosocial.ca/@dylanmccall/113233671160717813
I have my non english language content seperated in a different library. This allows you to set the language of the meta data to German so you get German episode titles and descriptions. Downside is that the two versions won't be showing up in the same list (at least not on the web. Some clients might combine libraries)
Years ago I tried Ubuntu which used GNOME and assumed that its desktop layout was “the default” GNOME.
Ubuntu never provided a "default" GNOME experience, or at least not since the early 2000s. At one point Ubuntu had it's own desktop environment, unity, and when they abandoned the project and switched to gnome shell, they modified it to look similar to that. So we went from this:
to this:
I later tried PopOS which also uses it and it was the same
I doubt that. Pop_OS was never the same as Ubuntu. In the beginning it provided an experience that was arguably much closer to vanilla gnome than Ubuntu:
later they started to add their own flare customising the desktop a lot and rebranding all of this as Cosmic Shell:
I installed Mint I saw that it’s still fundamentally the same
Mint never used Gnome. They have their own desktop environment called Cinnamon, which uses some of the same underlying technology, manly the GTK toolkit but is it's own independent project.
Well, few days ago I installed Bazzite (Fedora) which is also GNOME. It doesn’t look anything like anything I’ve seen before
It still should be familiar in some aspects. The grid-view of all apps for example should be something that you know from Ubuntu (Pop replaces that part in more modern iterations - kinda). Bazzite still does modifications, they're just a lot more subtle than the ones from Pop and Ubuntu. But I agree with you: Gnomes workflow doesn't agree with many users. There are those who like it and they tend to really like it. Gnome wants you to heavily use keyboard shortcuts and virtual desktops and I found that casual users aren't really a friend of either.
So what is the default Gnome experience? try it out. There is an extension manger installed that ships with bazzite (and if not use the software store to install it). In it you can disable all the modifications. You can also install extensions to fix some of the usability problems. "Dash to Dock" tends to solve like 90% of them (It's also what Ubuntu uses for their modifications)
EU lawmakers want EU countries to lift current restrictions hindering Ukraine from using Western weapons systems against legitimate military targets in Russia
In a resolution, MEPs want EU countries to lift current restrictions hindering Ukraine from using Western weapons systems against legitimate military targets in Russia.
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/3142746
> - Ukraine must have the possibility to defend itself fully > - Parliament deplores the declining volume of bilateral military aid to Ukraine by EU countries > - MEPs demand tougher EU sanctions against Russia and its allies > - Accountability for war crimes and Russian reparations are essential elements of any peaceful solution > > In a resolution, MEPs want EU countries to lift current restrictions hindering Ukraine from using Western weapons systems against legitimate military targets in Russia. > > The text, adopted on Thursday 19 September with 425 votes in favour, 131 against and 63 abstentions, states that without lifting current restrictions, Ukraine cannot fully exercise its right to self-defence and remains exposed to attacks on its population and infrastructure. >
It's worse than that. The numbers I originally posted was only the exit poll. Now we have a preliminary result and it's not looking good.
Here are the results:
Parties with less than 5% of the vote share don't get any seats (there are exceptions but these don't apply here, resulting in this makeup of state parliament:
You need 45 seats to have a governing majority. SPD and CDU together have only 44. There is no majority without either the fascists from the AFD or the tankies from the BSW.
Der SPD-Ministerpräsident ist tatsächlich extrem beliebt mit Zustimmungswerten von 61%. BEI EINEM SPD KANDIDATEN! Das muss man sich erst einmal vorstellen! https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2024-09-22-LT-DE-BB/umfrage-aktuellethemen.shtml
SPD (social Democrats) set to finish ahead of far-right AfD in German state election – DW – 09/22/2024
First projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more.
First projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more.
Datenschutz ist Herausforderung
Fotos vom Straßenverkehr sind auch eine datenschutzrechtliche Frage, einer der Gründe, warum es dauerte, bis das Projekt anlaufen konnte. Im vergangenen Jahr lief bereits ein Testbetrieb.
Der hessische Datenschutzbeauftragte hat mittlerweile die Kameraaufnahmen durch die Busse genehmigt
Irgendwer wird es vermutlich trotzdem versuchen
Buses in Wiesbaden, Germany are being equipped with a camera to catch illegally parked cars
Wiesbaden kämpft gegen Falschparker, die Busspuren und Haltestellen blockieren: Um die Parksünder zu erwischen, haben einige Busse nun Frontkameras. Das soll auch gegen Verspätungen helfen.
I couldn't find an English language source, so here are some excerpts from the German one, translated with deepl [Stuff in brackets are additions by me]:
> Wiesbanden bus driver Antonio Lopes recently got a yellow button next to his steering wheel: if he sees a parking offender blocking the bus lane or a bus stop, he can trigger the front camera. >[...] >The images are sent to the traffic authorities. Drivers face a fine of around 70 euros. If they park in an environmental lane that is only intended for buses and bicycles, they will also receive a point in Flensburg. [Collect too many points and you loose your drivers licence]
He'll, even an Intel based thin client would probably be enough. You can get them on eBay for like 30 bucks, which is about as much as a pi costs. You'll probably have to replace the ssd though. That'll set you back an additional 30 bucks.
There is BigBlueButton. It's more focused in educational usecases (online classes and the like) but it works just fine for everything else. You need to host it yourself, but there are hosted instances out there. I for example use senfcall.
But I think we are talking about different things here. What Chanuk was talking about (I think) is a ms-teams or slack alternative, not a zoom or oracle WebEx alternative. Basically Discord but for business. Sidenote: there is a open source Discord clone called revolt
I would probably go with bluefin. KDE is great, I myself use aurora on one of my devices, but it can also be kinda fiddley with all of it's options.
The user has never even used a PC and therefore won't profit from the familiarity that KDE's default desktop layout provides. Gnome on the other hand offers a more simplified experience with few options and big icons. All of that might be an asset here. You can use menulibre to hide menu entries from the menu and use the official documentation to remove command line access: https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/lockdown-single-app-mode.html.en
Plus it's still atomic which I actually think is helpful here. For once all the important system stuff is read only. Secondly if one manages to screw something up you can just rebase.
CalcGPT: an AI powered calculator
Somebody built a chatGPT powerded calculator as a joke
https://github.com/Calvin-LL/CalcGPT.io
>TODO: Add blockchain into this somehow to make it more stupid.
It's running slow because it's running at such a low framerate. The speed and the framerate are tied. Old console games used to work that way, which was a problem because games would run at different speeds in different countries (PAL vs NTSC). This is a solved problem in modern games. Just separate the game logic from the display logic. But this AI can't do that because there is nothing but the video.
Add to that that the AI was probably trained on high framerate footage but is only capable of generating low framerate footage and you get (gestures wildly) this
I can't find it
(Exploration: I'm using thunder, which is gesture based, you swipe to upvote rather than pressing a button)
That they leased
#StopKillingGames Update: Netherlands passes threshold
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/2628925
> Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it. > > Only two days ago Denmark passed its respective threshold (I reported) and just last night the Netherlands joined the club. Both countries did so after two weeks of virtually no movement in their numbers. > > To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. The Netherlands is the 6th country to pass the threshold. So who will be the 7th? Currently it looks like Ireland (69%) followed by Belgium (66%), France (64%) and Austria (62%). But as Poland has shown, things can change quickly. > > All that has happened already, happened in only just over one month since the initiative started accepting signatures showing a remarkable momentum. So let's keep the momentum going. If you haven't already signed and are a citizen of the EU (even one abroad) consider signing the initiative. > > Even if you are from a country that already reached the threshold you can still sign. Your signature counts to the 1 million goal. > > Relevant links: > - Sign the initiative here > - Initiative homepage > - Video FAQ by the initiator on YouTube > - The same video on invidious > > PS: Hi LTT crew. I'm honoured to be your source when reporting on the initiative. But maybe consider also citing the primary sources. The link "Sign the initiative here" leads directly to the page of the European Commission, which has even more up to date numbers than my screenshot.
#StopKillingGames Update: Netherlands passes threshold
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/2628925
> Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it. > > Only two days ago Denmark passed its respective threshold (I reported) and just last night the Netherlands joined the club. Both countries did so after two weeks of virtually no movement in their numbers. > > To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. The Netherlands is the 6th country to pass the threshold. So who will be the 7th? Currently it looks like Ireland (69%) followed by Belgium (66%), France (64%) and Austria (62%). But as Poland has shown, things can change quickly. > > All that has happened already, happened in only just over one month since the initiative started accepting signatures showing a remarkable momentum. So let's keep the momentum going. If you haven't already signed and are a citizen of the EU (even one abroad) consider signing the initiative. > > Even if you are from a country that already reached the threshold you can still sign. Your signature counts to the 1 million goal. > > Relevant links: > - Sign the initiative here > - Initiative homepage > - Video FAQ by the initiator on YouTube > - The same video on invidious > > PS: Hi LTT crew. I'm honoured to be your source when reporting on the initiative. But maybe consider also citing the primary sources. The link "Sign the initiative here" leads directly to the page of the European Commission, which has even more up to date numbers than my screenshot.
#StopKillingGames Update: Denmark passes threshold as initiative reaches 1/3 vote milestone
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/2583105
> Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it. > > To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. Denmark has just hit their threshold becoming the fifth country to do so. Earlier this week the initiative also reached 1/3 of the required 1 million votes. > > All of this happened in only just over one month since the initiative started accepting signatures showing a remarkable momentum. So let's keep the momentum going. If you haven't already signed and are a citizen of the EU (even one abroad) consider signing the initiative. > > Even if you are from a country that already reached the threshold you can still sign. Your signature counts to the 1 million goal. > > Relevant links: > - Sign the initiative here > - Initiative homepage > - Video FAQ by the initiator on YouTube > - The same video on invidious > > PS: Hi LTT crew. I'm honoured to be your source when reporting on the initiative. But maybe consider also citing the primary sources. The link "Sign the initiative here" leads directly to the page of the European Commission, which has even more up to date numbers than my screenshot.
Square Enix invests in Linux distribution
Playtron are quietly building up their Linux-based PlaytronOS behind the scenes, and not only have they released their first Alpha but they've pulled in another investor too.
may it rest in peace
Meme originally by Adam Something: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxGBHk9fqC5uOsbAlmFDxACBNkC_9SglYv
His YouTube-Post also contains a template for easy future memeability.
StopKillingGames: Deutschland erreicht Mindestanzahl bei Petition
Deutschland hat gestern Abend seine Mindestanzahl an Unterschriften bei der Europäischen Volksinitiative erreicht.
Vielen Dank an alle, die bereits unterschrieben haben. Und an alle anderen: Eure Unterschrift zählt immer noch. Wir müssen schließlich über die nächsten 11,5 Monate 1 Mio. Stimmen kontinentweit erreichen. Also unterschreibt fleißig weiter.
Stop Killing Games ist eine Bürgerinitiative, die sich dafür einsetzt, dass Videospiele spielbar bleiben, auch nachdem deren Entwickler und Publisher sich dazu entschieden haben den Stecker zu ziehen.
SKG wird keine offizielle Präsenz auf der Gamescom haben, aber wenn ihr vorhabt die Kölnmesse diese Wochenende zu besuchen und ein paar Flyer haben wollt, um die dort zu verteilen, könnt ihr mich gerne anschreiben. Ich lasse euch gerne welche zukommen.
> Relevante Links: > - Unterschreibe die Initiative hier > - Initiative Homepage > - Video FAQ vom Organisator auf YouTube > - Das selbe Video auf invidious
#StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/2071604
> This is your somewhat regularly scheduled Stop Killing Games update. > > Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it. > > Germany has hit the threshold sometime yesterday evening. France has also started to catch up. They are still below 50% but there growth over the last couple of days has been the biggest. Netherlands and Denmark are still in the low 90s. > > The milestone comes on the eve of this years Gamescom in Cologne, Germany which is set to kick off today. SKG is not going to have an official presence there. (I've checked with the organisers) But if you are attending and want to help spread the word I'm happy to share official marketing material, either in the form of flyers or the files for flyers, so you can print your own. They come in both German and English. If you want some, send me a DM. > > Relevant links: > - Sign the initiative here > - Initiative homepage > - Video FAQ by the initiator on YouTube > - The same video on invidious
#StopKillingGames Update: Sweden and Poland pass threshold as initiative reaches 25%
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/1854600
> I'm not going to post an update every time a (small) milestone is reached, but i felt this time it was warranted. > > Sweden and Poland both passed their respective thresholds. That brings us to 3 out of 7 countries where we need to pass the threshold. We are also past 25% of the one million signatures needed continent-wide. > > Thank you to everyone who already signed. > > Relevant links: > - Sign the initiative here > - Initiative homepage > - Video FAQ by the initiator on YouTube > - The same video on invidious