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That slogan was originally coined in 1848 by King Ludwig I. But as with many things, the nazis severely tainted it. (Even though it was used by the socialist party after WWII, too.)

There’s a whole German Wikipedia article about this.

The VS is completely independent.

§7 BVerfSchG:

Die Bundesregierung kann, wenn ein Angriff auf die verfassungsmäßige Ordnung des Bundes erfolgt, den obersten Landesbehörden die für die Zusammenarbeit der Länder mit dem Bund auf dem Gebiete des Verfassungsschutzes erforderlichen Weisungen erteilen.

or in English:

The federal government can, if there is an attack on the constitutional order of the Federation, give necessary orders to the highest Federal State authorities for working together with the Federation in terms of protection of the constitution.

Just for transparency: The first link is the "old" report from 2021 which was public IIRC. The partA/partB links seem to point to the newer one - clearly showing the "VS - NUR FÜR DEN DIENSTGEBRAUCH" ("Verschlusssache" - confidential, official use only) at the top.

Keyword: supposedly

Because that's what it said in the report my instance has received. Somebody on the moderation team made the same mental gymnastics you did. Just because I've questioned the stated conclusion of a report that was kept secret from the public. Nothing else. Nowhere did I say that I support that party. I just don't like blindly trusting what politicians (and their government institutions) announce without giving any challengeable proof.

Their status as extremist as per that report mentioned in my toot has been revoked/put on hold until a proper court case: German news article

If it was as crystal clear as you make it out, why revoke it?

(These days, the constitutional courts of all the states try to get that status reinstated in their respective states. But that wasn't a thing back when I did this toot.)

They claim "usually within 24 hours". 2 days later I still have no reply. But yeah, I might try the follow-up email... although I don't have much confidence that it'll do anything. It's more important that people get to know the risks of these huge monolithic instances.

These are quite some mental gymnastics going from my toot:

Oh, did he? He just stood there and claimed something. There was supposedly a great report with all the hard facts, but no one was allowed to see it. That’s not much different from “Yes, I did my homework, but then my dog ate it.”

(Correctly translated, btw.)

to:

3: […] Support for violent groups or events is prohibited.

Wow! Just wow! You should sign up as a moderator on mastodon.social. You'd fit right in.

I’m waiting for somebody showing a Switch 2 running SteamOS on June 4…

The glasses will include cameras, microphones, and speakers for real-time interaction, allowing users to make calls, get directions, enjoy music, and benefit from live translations.

I can do all that with my AirPods already. What would I need those glasses for?

Despite “AR” features being absent, do they at least have a simple display in them - similar to the Even Realities G1?

Yeah, I can’t imagine they do this single piece of glass approach they came up with in those designs…

Same here. It's probably easier to print out the QR code(s) for your home wifi network(s) on a piece of paper and hand that to guests when they come over...

It was exactly this and people were furiously pointing it out in the comments.

Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace

I loved that book!

No, the LIDAR is an infrared laser. Invisible and harmless to the human eye, but a phone's camera can pick it up. And due to the intensity, if going too close, it'll burn out the pixels of the camera sensor leaving permanent damage.

Here's a great demonstration: https://x.com/niccruzpatane/status/1924485047580586294

You mean cyclists?

Looks very much like KDE Plasma. Not sure which distro, though.

Just wanted to throw Kate into the mix of suggestions…

Well... https://lemmy.ml/post/30395990

Why do you prefer Discord? What do I miss?

I’ve had a discussion with someone about this. Apparently, there are people that enjoy the social contact. Some seem to like sitting in a Discord chat all day long and answering the same questions over and over again. Others like to “just ask” someone instead of looking for a solution themselves.

That there’s no clear structure of all the solutions provided via Discord and thus people have to ask the same things, nor a proper way of backing everything up in case Discord goes rogue seems to be blissfully ignored.

It’s probably part of the same phenomenon that, nowadays, people seem unable to write or read a few lines of documentation and instead create/watch 20 minutes on YouTube.

At least in Germany you vote for parties. These parties then create coalitions which water down most of the reasons why they were elected in the first place.

The guy in the EU council is supposed to be the highest leader of each country. In Germany that’s the Chancellor. Which is elected by those parties/coalitions. You as a normal person have no say in who it’s going to be.

Same for the EU commission. You have no real influence on who’s going.

Then those parties/coalitions create lists of candidates for becoming MEPs. You vote for those lists. There’s no way to vote for specific people to go to the EU parliament. And those lists are basically suggestions as people can be crossed out or exchanged on those lists even after the elections are over.

Nobody voted for the people sitting in lovely Brussels and making decisions that impact all member countries in all their different situations. It was good when it was still the EEC and meant to improve trading between member countries. And trading only. How we ended up with this monster of EU trying to dictate things like you can’t sell cucumbers which are curved more than X degrees, or banning incandescent and halogen light bulbs, and stuff like that… I don’t know. But I don’t like it.