The SPD was always like that. There is a quote by Tucholsky saying that about the SPD in 1932.

Translation by deepl, original below

“It is unfortunate that the SPD is called the Social Democratic Party of Germany. If, since August 1, 1914, it had been called the Reformist Party or the Party of the Lesser Evil or Here Families Can Make Coffee or something like that, the new name would have opened the eyes of many workers, and they would have gone where they belong: to a workers’ party. But as it is, the shop does its bad business under a formerly good name.”

“Es ist ein Unglück, daß die SPD Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands heißt. Hieße sie seit dem 1. August 1914 Reformistische Partei oder Partei des kleinern Übels oder Hier können Familien Kaffee kochen oder so etwas –: vielen Arbeitern hätte der neue Name die Augen geöffnet, und sie wären dahingegangen, wohin sie gehören: zu einer Arbeiterpartei. So aber macht der Laden seine schlechten Geschäfte unter einem ehemals guten Namen.”

You really think the Stasi (Secret Police in the former GDR, East Germany for those who don’t know) existed to protect the citizens from fascism? That’s the most outrageously boneheaded tankie propaganda I have ever read.

Afaik that is a unit code, not a personal identifier. But I could be wrong

If scraping the entire internet for training footage wasn’t enough to make a refined AI video tool — and then further fine-tuning it on a Hollywood studio’s catalog — what will be?

Maybe we should make more movies then? ^^

Ist eher die Absurdität die es für mich lustig macht. Das Meme falsch genutzt und und Wolfgang mit Stuhlgang in Verbindung gebracht. Ich kann’s nicht erklären :D

Boah ist das blöd. Hochwähli für dich ❤️

It was similar in Germany. I owned a pickup truck campervan a few years ago (really old ford ranger which was tiny compared to current models) and they suddenly taxed the vehicle as a commercial truck instead of an RV, this made it really expensive. Taxes are the way to go to discourage people from driving these cars.

It’s an interesting discussion to witness in these posts: convenience vs privacy and control.

The convenience and integration you get with commercial products like IOS or Android comes at a price. Everything that matters to you on a daily basis bundled together in one convenient package means that all things which define you as a person are conveniently interconnected for corporations to sell out your data for everyone who wants it.

GPS: your current whereabouts at any moment in time and a complete history of where you have been in the past

Payment functions: what you are buying and where you have bought it

Communication (Messengers, Phone): Who you communicate with and what you are talking about

Photos and Videos: Real life evidence from all the stuff mentioned above.

Web Browsing: Interests and Needs which will be used against you in a totalitarian surveillance state, at a glance

If you in 2025 still think this convenience is there to please you as a consumer I have bad news for you.

Convenience and interconnection of services look nice and useful but at the same time they’re a privacy nightmare that makes Orwell’s 1984 look like a bedtime story for children.

What this all comes down to: Strictly airgapping the boundaries between the different services is the only way to have a modicum of privacy. Photos do not belong in a cloud controlled by someone you don’t know and should be taken from a separate device. Navigation belongs on a separate device with no internet connection, payment should not be done with a personal identifier at all (if avoidable) etc. Living your life this way might seem terribly inconvenient, but as someone who was alive at a time where all this convenience didn’t exist I can tell you it has its advantages too. You’ll rediscover what really matters.

Don’t worry, he’ll come back to developers crying for help when his precious coins get stolen due to sloppy coding

Petitions like these are made to raise awareness of the issue. That’s a win even if only a tiny fraction of their userbase are involved.

Only if you still use the obsolete Gregorian calendar. Linux support for this was dropped as well

Yeah I tried that with a local makerspace and it didn’t work out for me, sadly. I wanted a sense of community, contact with likeminded people to do stuff together. They just offered lots of machinery to be used in solitude. It went like this: “So, you wanna 3d print something? Sure, just go to person X, they will show you how to operate the thing. You don’t know how all of this works? We have some resources on our discord to get you started.” Okayyyy

This article expresses opinions which are so dumb that it hurts.

Thinking that Trump is “anti-establishment” was fucking stupid to begin with. As a millionaire he is by definition part of the elite.

And if it takes the Epstein case to realize that you have been duped you’re also a bit late to the party. They have been taking everything they can from you and gave it to the rich for months now, and there is no end in sight. Enjoy working those shit jobs for minimal wages. Those that were previously done by immigrants which you wanted to see deported.

Also the whole gullible MAGA male problem is not limited to Gen Z. Being a dumb fuck is a fun activity for the whole family.

I don’t like LibreOffice as the only open source Office software that seems to compete with Microsoft. It feels bloated and outdated and for years and years I have display problems with it. The community answers to problems are often written by arrogant pricks.

However, at the pace Microsoft Office is deteriorating with all that copilot crap LibreOffice begins to look better every day. They don’t even have to do anything for it.

You got that totally wrong. In fact we replaced dog shit with horse shit.

/s

I feel your pain. Our parent company has set a ridiculous goal of replacing 50% of processes with AI. As a developer I know that our processes are mainly based on automation. Systems that do automatic data processing without any human interference. AI can’t make this process any more efficient than it already is. And yet these clowns demand we change it to involve AI. The fun part is that they appointed me of all people to oversee this AI transformation for our unit. Fun times ahead and my only hope is early retirement.

Nice. I’m talking about the LLM craze which is what these companies are selling as AI and what they are building the massive data centers for. Of course there are working AI applications. But Microsoft, Google, Meta aren’t selling these. They sell LLMs

There is a key difference to early railroad and telecom investments. With both it was very clear from the beginning how those technologies were immediately useful for the masses. AI Investment is fueled by a lot of hype and not much actual immediate usefulness to show for. It is perpetually “almost useful”. Proponents try to force AI usage in every way they can, to a point where it is more of a threat than an offer: “you WILL use AI and you WILL like it” - with total disregard of actual usefulness or fitness for purpose. In my opinion it is even worse than the cryptocoin hype, which followed a similar pattern (albeit on a much smaller scale) but at least had some real usage incentives (Greed, FOMO, black market sales etc.) instead of trying to force people to use it.

It seems to be a general trend among the biggest players like Microsoft, Meta, Google etc. to simply ignore their users interests and then go and try to force selling them useless shit they don’t want. I’m still wondering if they found a loophole in capitalism or if these business models are bound to crash big time in the near future.

Compared to Spotify’s artist/song radio feature, Qobuz attempt at radio is absolutely horrible. They seem to sort everything into a literal handful of genres. The “similarity” seems to stem from song features like “has a singer” and “uses chords”. I switched from Spotify to Qobuz a few months ago, it’s comparable in available content, has much better audio quality but is severely underwhelming for discovering new music.

Yo dawg I heard you like fences