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https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestine/comments/1bkfaca/al_jazeera_channel_shows_drone_scenes_showing_the/

Oh I get it. You don't like that fact that saying unhinged ghoul shit like "prepare children for war" (WW3 no less) is controversial. You want that to be normalized! As normal as teaching them how to "handle money" (interesting choice of example). So you complain about "clickbait", even though you do understand that it is controversial, and part of broader march towards war that worries many people, and therefore more relevant than the other things she said, and accordingly a perfectly reasonable choice for a headline.

Fuck off with your warmonger shit. And look in the mirror before you call others belligerent.

The context is that the defense minister said Germany must be "fit for war". That's not clickbait by DW, that's actually what anyone following the news would take away from this. They're just emphasizing the most important part.

As always, keep all your dollars in money

Btw, if you ever wondered why Debian uses dash as /bin/sh (the switch was a bit annoying at the time), I think the reasoning was something like this:

• dash is a bit faster, which might have saved a second or two on boot times (this was before systemd). Same applies to compilation times, configure scripts run faster with dash.
• A bunch of #!/bin/sh scripts in Debian did not actually work if you replaced /bin/sh with another shell, which I guess some people wanted to do. Making dash the default /bin/sh forced everyone to fix their scripts.

Also some history on the abomination that is m4sh, famously used by GNU autoconf configure.ac scripts. Apparently when autoconf was released in 1991, there were still some Unix systems that shipped some 70s shells as the default /bin/sh. These shells do not support shell functions, which makes creating any sort of shell programming library pretty much impossible (I guess you could make a folder full of scripts instead of functions). They decided to use m4 preprocessor macros instead, as a sort of poor man's replacement for functions.

In hindsight, it wish they had told commercial Unix sysadmins to install a proper /bin/sh or gtfo. But the GNU people thought it was important to make it as easy as possible to install free software even on commercial Unices.

Oh I wanted to say, "Do not use #!/bin/sh if you're not writing bash-only scripts". I think I reformulated that sentence and forgot to remove the not. Sorry about the confusion. You're exactly right of course. I have run into scripts that don't work on Debian, because the author used bashisms but still specified /bin/sh as the interpreter.

I use bash as my interactive shell. When ~20 years ago or so I encountered "smart" tab completion for the first time, I immediately disabled that and went back to dumb completion, because it caused multi-second freezes when it needed to load stuff from disk. I also saw it refuse to complete filenames because they had the wrong suffix. Maybe I should try to enable that again, see if it works any better now. It probably does go faster now with the SSDs.

I tried OpenBSD at some point, and it came with some version of ksh. Seems about equivalent to bash, but I had to modify some of my .bashrc so it would work on ksh. I would just stick to the default shell, whatever it is, it's fine.

I try to stick to POSIX shell for scripts. I find that I don't need bashisms very often, and I've used systems without bash on them. Most bash-only syntax has an equivalent that will work on POSIX sh. I do use bash if I really need some bash feature (I recently wanted to set -o pipefail, which dash cannot do apparently, and the workaround is really annoying).

Do not use #!/bin/sh if you're writing bash-only scripts. This will break on Debian, Ubuntu, BSD, busybox etc. because /bin/sh is not bash on those systems.

It’s not very humane but it’s the current law

They changed the law so they can deport more people!

They are absolutely going far right with this one especially and their rhetoric around it. These used to be totally unacceptable far right slogans and policies, but here we are. Basic human rights suspended. Just because the AfD is worse does not mean the SPD has not shifted into what not long ago was far right territory. But oh no, calling out racism and how the SPD is effectively enabling a shift towards fascism is too far for you! That's exactly how this rightward shift can happen, because people like you are making excuses for this shit.

Fucking Scholz said he wanted to "finally deport in a big way" ("endlich im großen Stil abschieben"). This is (well used to be) a far right agenda. They're sending weapons to Israeli fascists while they commit genocide, and defend them at every opportunity. These people support fascists and fascist policies.

What exactly do you even dispute is untrue about what I said?

The only “left” government we ever had in the last 36 years has been in the last 2, and they are heavily restricted by beeing in a coalition with a neo liberal right wing party.

They're all neoliberals. They wouldn't be doing anything substantially different if the FDP didn't exist.

Make immigration harder??? Nice euphemism for this fascist shit. They're throwing human rights out of the window. They're literally putting migrants into concentration camps, if they're don't drown first thanks to Frontex pushbacks. Greens defended this so-called compromise to their base while fascist Meloni was giving victory speeches.

"Endlich im großen Stil abschieben" (Scholz). I can't tell the difference an NPD slogan and the SPD chancellor.

And for the other shit, there's some extra police authority or surveillance law proposed every other month or so. Pro-palestine protests are criminalized and they're threatening Muslims with deportation for not being loyal enough to Israel. All the parties are discussing what sort of services they can cut so they have more money for the military. Real wages are shrinking. You can't open a newspaper without reading about how Germany needs to prepare for war. Things are not okay.

Yeah yeah, I remember all that shit from back in the day. Die Russen kommen! Die Russen kommen! Oldest trick in the book.

Natürlich, das einfache Volk will keinen Krieg […] Aber schließlich sind es die Führer eines Landes, die die Politik bestimmen, und es ist immer leicht, das Volk zum Mitmachen zu bringen, ob es sich nun um eine Demokratie, eine faschistische Diktatur, um ein Parlament oder eine kommunistische Diktatur handelt. […] Das ist ganz einfach. Man braucht nichts zu tun, als dem Volk zu sagen, es würde angegriffen, und den Pazifisten ihren Mangel an Patriotismus vorzuwerfen und zu behaupten, sie brächten das Land in Gefahr. Diese Methode funktioniert in jedem Land. -- Hermann Göring

Also, I love that you want a source for something that was a top news story for months. You somehow heard, dass die Russen kommen!!! but not the Sondervermögen? You're just fucking with me, aren't you?

In reality, far from stopping the far right, Germany is implementing a far right agenda. Increase police authority? Check. Scapegoat immigrants and other marginalized groups? Check. Build up the military? Check. Suppress protests and dissenters? Check. Impose austerity, providing the fertile ground for fascists? Check.

By the time the AfD comes to power, they won't have to do anything. The liberals (including socdems and greens) will already have created a fascist society.

They are spending on energy subsidies, and therefore, "the economy". It's just not enough to prevent recession.

Machine translation of FAZ article:

The energy crisis has caused public debt in Germany to rise to a record high. According to the Federal Statistical Office, at the end of the first quarter of 2023, the federal government, federal states, municipalities and social security funds were in debt to the tune of 2406.6 billion euros. Compared to the end of 2022, this was an increase of 1.6%. Compared to the first quarter of 2022, debt increased by 3.8%.

Compared to the previous quarter, the federal government's debt rose by 2.4% to 1659.6 billion euros. "This was primarily due to the increased financing requirements as a result of the current energy crisis in connection with Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine," the office announced in Wiesbaden on Wednesday.

The increase in federal debt is therefore largely due to extra budgets. The Energy Economic Stabilization Fund, which was established at the end of 2022, accounted for the largest share. The debt of the Corona Economic Stabilization Fund also continued to rise. For the first time, the special budget for the Bundeswehr also created debt.

This says it is from 2017 and wtf is this website. I'm pretty sure this is some soa network or some shit, designed to trick people into clicking Google search results. I suspect the article itself is plagiarized, since at the end of it, there is a tweet and extra paragraph that doesn't make a lot of sense as part of the article, but would maybe make sense as separate "related" clickable story. Whoever or whatever ripped this article probably accidentally copy-and-pasted a bit too much.

This is incorrect, that firmware is not included in the installer (for legal reasons, probably). firmware-b43-installer is just a script. It downloads some driver from a website and extracts the firmware blobs from that driver using another utility called b43-fwcutter. The package description for that reads:

Description: utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware

This package provides a tool for extracting BCM43xx wireless chip firmware from Broadcom's proprietary driver files.

It is used by the firmware-b43(legacy)-installer packages as part of the automated process of downloading and installing firmware.

Copying this package over USB will not work anyway, even if you get all the dependencies, since firmware-b43-installer is just a script that downloads the firmware (probably because it is illegal for Debian/Ubuntu to redistribute this firmware because of the license).

You need internet. You'll need to use a different network device for this, or use a phone as the other person said.

Or you can copy the firmware files over by hand, from a different Ubuntu/Linux computer. They should be under /usr/lib/firmware/b43.

He doesn't have internet.

Auto-Updates! Nice.

1. It is not illegal to assinate terrorists.
2. It is not illegal to dress as a doctor or nurse.
3. There is no occupation, only conquered territory. The lands were lost when the Arabs invaded Israel and lost. Israel should incorporate non-citizen Arabs into Israel and I believe it will eventually happen.

Wow.