Björn Tantau @ bjoern_tantau @swg-empire.de

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Actually, thanks to @zelmon64@programming.dev recommending prism glasses I was able to read a little bit of her book.

I started somewhere in 1932 and am now in 1934. She came from a relatively poor family where they were used to make do. Unemployment was high, overall prospects were bad. She met the man who would become her first husband. He sometimes wrote theatre critics for a small struggling newspaper that often was banned for publishing anti-constitutional articles.

When in 1933 the Nazis took power they saw it as a positive thing and had hope for the future. The newspaper was picked up to be the prime paper in the area and so they could pay him more and his personal situation improved massively. He proposed to my grandma and gave her a ring with a swastika as a present.

Their interpersonal relationship crumbled a bit because he would spend so much time with his friends and neglect her. She moved away for a bit to get some distance and evaluate their relationship. This was planned for a year. But after a few weeks he surprised her with a visit and managed to sway her into marrying him for real.

He had left his job at the newspaper and become a Gauwart at the organisation Kraft durch Freude. Basically a regional manager of this Nazi organisation that is supposed to promote Nazism to the people by organising vacations and leisure events for the general public.

In 1934 they married and lived a nice life. The salary of Gauwarts was reduced from 1000 to 600 Marks and he was devastated but she managed to pick him up by reminding him that she was used to living with little money. But all in all their life seemed to be great. Better than before. And finally a baby was on the way, lifting their spirits again.

In all these little stories not much of politics is to see. A cousin emigrated to the US with her Jewish husband. A famous actor she knew also moved to the US and got a new first name that's not "Adolf" to avoid association.

But if I didn't know this was all real I would think I was reading a good novel with some subtle foreshadowing. I'm really on edge to find out how the upcoming war will affect them.

But all in all it doesn't feel like what is happening in the US right now. No idea if that is due to the better media connections we have nowadays or if I'm still too early in Germany's history or if it's because people are more aware in the US because they actually did learn from history.

I'm especially missing the positivity from the US. But that might also be because Lemmy is more of a left leaning echo chamber.

My grandma had written some memoirs that of course also show her life in Nazi Germany. I haven't read them yet because Long Covid has killed my ability to read long texts. My parents are trying to find a way to make AI read the book for me. No idea whether I will be able to handle an audio book.

Anyways, supposedly there are some nasty revelations in there. And the other relatives don't want to publish it. At least not without changing names. I would rather publish it for free as is. If I happen to get my way I will post a link here. But I doubt that is going to happen.

All I know about that time is that my grandpa was an influential music teacher. And I always figured that at least kept him from having to enlist. But of course what really happened is more nuanced.

I wish I had read that when I still could. At least I have her art I collected at https://brigitte-tantau.de/.

Edit: I looked at the table of contents and it looks like the music teacher was her second husband whom she met after the war.

Or not enough.

Similar but not exactly the same is the German Klabusterbeere.

Also !selfhosted@lemmy.world

Are that static pages or are they dynamic with written with some scripting language like php, python or ruby or so? Static pages without any programming are much more secure.

You should set up a schedule to regularly do updates and backups. Maybe even automate them if you can.

If you isolate the server from the rest of your network there isn't a lot someone can do if they do manage to hack it.

The way you describe it I'm reminded of when the South Korean president tried to ... I don't even know what his goal was. Apparently the soldiers were confused, the pooiticians were confused, everyone was just too confused to get violent.

I dunno. If you can get away with murdering civilians, children, aid workers and journalists. Maybe you want to start testing if you can get away with murdering celebrities.

And usually it's the overpowered joke character who notices.

You can't afford a credit card or some kind of parking space with electricity, but you can afford a brand new car?

And uh also no, no, the SteamOS Benchmarks came out less than a week before this announcement.

I meant that they maybe used SteamOS (or a similar distribution) on whatever prototype they had to make some benchmarks to compare against stock Windows or their own Windows build.

But you seem to have better insight into the way they work.

Yeah, I just fear that our differences are not in levels but in time.

It's so cool to play the old X-Wing and TIE Fighter games and be able to control them with some custom HUDs.

I dunno, I kind of believe them when they claim they seriously debloated Windows. I bet they actually used SteamOS benchmarks to sway the higher ups to be allowed to do this. It will be interesting to see benchmarks when this thing is released.

Although I also believe that they would lock down the bootloader. And not release this mode to the general public. They haven't been very lenient with the media people testing these things. They weren't even allowed make their own videos of the interface or games running on them.

Not the genus of nouns? It makes so little sense I couldn't explain it to anyone.

Edit: That's why we argue whether it is der, die or das Nutella. When of course it is obviously die Nutella.

Nur für den Kick, für den Augenblick?

Traumatic memories of tubgirl intensify.

Honestly, it's not as rosy as this makes it out to be. Germany and the rest of Europe have their own surge of right wing extremism to contend with. Some of it can be traced back to Russian and Chinese influence. But they wouldn't have it so easy if there weren't enough seeds already.

Police groups that have chats where they share their racist views. Clubs fighting to keep their sexist and racist "traditions" alive that are about a hundred years old. Our current government is conducting illegal border controls despite rulings deeming them illegal and ordering a stop.

A quarter of last election's votes went to the extremists. Another quarter but slightly more to the not so extreme racists who now form the government together with a so called left wing party that failed biology when backbones were discussed.

Our media just ignores it all or amplifies everything the extremists are saying in an attempt to "show all sides".

By now we have an official document by our constitution defence spelling out without a doubt that the extremists are not a democratic party but want to dismantle democracy. And our government refuses to open up the lawsuit to ban them because "we have to defeat them politically" when that has failed spectacularly over the last decade because bit by bit they copy their talking points.

This mechanism to ban extremists in Germany was explicitly implemented to fend of exactly what is happening right now. Because we know from our history that anti democratic parties can rise to power through democratic means. And we have to fight that every way we can before it is again too late.

They'd probably invent a new one. There isn't one for biology, right? Can't be bothered to look it up.

Physicists might claim it since everything is physics anyways.

My aunt discovered several new species as a scuba diver. That was her job.

And I think an astronaut discovering a new species in space that is not of terrestrial origin will earn themselves a Nobel.

Yes, I'm fun at parties, why do you ask?