There was this weird guy around here who claimed women are 100% man - they have been made out of a man’s rib or so.

And a lot of people believed this guy.

Someone forgot to add the googly eyes.

What a burn. The Tesla might even catch fire from this comment alone.

tja.

Yes that’s right. It’s a get your shit together or go bust moment for us here in Europe.

Yep, I know that for myself. But I can’t switch away from github as that is where the huge company I work for has its stuff - and it needs convincing the enterprises, not the individuals.

Personally I just have my own repos which I can move anywhere in an eyeblink. But it takes political power to. move governments, departments and companies.

For example I have no way to ditch Teams or Outlook, because that’s the accounts my employer set up. I can’t ditch my RSA hardware token, because that’s what my. employer’s customer uses. I can’t ditch. my work phone as only Samsung and Apple are vetted.

That’s something that needs to change on a pan-europrean level.

Migrating cloud servers to European hosters. Give EU money to improve/build a linux desktop. Use that desktop in government, schools, universities… (instead of Windows). Fork Firefox. Host fediverse services and use them where the governments use Twitter / TikTok / Insta.

Harder: Mandate for mobile phones with a user installable OS (Cyanogen etc.) Force tech companies to provide total transparency about data usage. Cancel any safe harbor agreements.

In the end, everything the Open Source crowd wished for.

Btw, I’d have no issues with American / Russian / China hosted open source stuff when we can review what it does. Ah, ok, a “european code review agency” might be a thing.

We need our own tech stack, that is at least verifyable. It’s due time to kick out the American tech giants from government projects etc.

With America possibly becoming the new Russia it is just not safe to rely on Microsoft, Apple, Aws etc.

We need an Europan open source stack.

Yes, we’re tempted by the right, too. But ousting them now would do no good.

But Ramstein (only one m, unlike the band) - keep the USians there for a time, let’s keep it as is for a time until it’s time to make some kind of deal.

They might need it one day, so we keep it as a collateral.

All long term international agreements and security guarantees died on the weekend so we need tangible things to force our former allies - now those we have deals with - to ensure they behave.

The correct thing to do would be our foreign office to issue an official travel warning for the US. (Which would have some impact on tourism to the US)

Let’s keep the big things for later, we WILL need them.

See, for me - I crashed in that time, burnout, divorce, financial problems.

I’m rebuilding my life now step by step, and I’m rebuilding it in a way I don’t get into overload too much anymore.

I learned to offset stressful times by time off, for example, and 4 out of 5 weekends I relax. (And, yes I do allow myself to cheat, but I’m aware I go into “credit” energy-wise. So in total I take care my “energy account” stays positive and my life is so much better for it)

It got better, that time was peak responsibility.

Being 55, I agree.

Some of them want to use you, some of them want to get used by you.

We’ll have an election in a few days here in Germany. And we’re already stumbling. The polls don’t look wo good.

6 bits per digit, 12 bit words. Octal (8) number system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8

I always thought it was the christian brand version of Roman Saturnalia.

Heh PLA. While it is made from starch it’s also not (really) biodegradable, it just is in a very controlled environment.

And PLA still is plastic.

I personally absolutely agree of getting rid of that shit. I just said there are big hurdles, and you need to do so in a very organized and based on proof way.

You can’t just outlaw them because you don’t like them, that doesn’t work. Germany having laws against hate speech doesn’t mean there’s not also a law about freedom of expression in the Grundgesetz.

You need to prove them to be against democracy in a watertight way. That’s what I mean with not willy-nilly.

Or as I read it once: Democracy implicitly protects its enemies.

Quite contrary, we have a big problem censoring Nazi speech.

We have some very specific rules when something can be censored and when it can’t - and the far right has quite some training in “just not saying that, maybe only implicating it a little”.

So any legal action outlawing then needs to rest on really solid legal basis or it will fail. Such a failure would be the propaganda the right wishes for.

Consequently they are always just shy of openly saying things but implying them. Like having election posters where their politicians can say “No we’re not showing a Hitler salute in that image, we were just miming a roof of a house over a bunch of kids”

Sometimes a single politician gets caught with doing something too far, but then (of course) the whole party acts like they are shocked.

Getting rid of this shit is not easy, unfortunately. We can’t censor what we don’t like willy nilly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy