There certainly is a point to be made about US bases in Germany.

The government added that plug-in solar panels, which homeowners can install on balconies, would be available within shops over the coming months.

We have those balcony solar systems here in Germany with several millions of installations. Let me tell you: They do work. They are great. They are cheap. And they will help to keep your energy bill down and have a ROI of only a few years. They are called balcony solar, but you do not have to install them on a balcony. If you have one, great. But you can also put them somewhere in your garden or just onto your wall or even on your roof. They are just normal solar panels with a small inverter that you just plug into your normal power socket.

Why would you do that? It’s easier to install solar for one home than for multiple homes at once. If you mash together multiple tenants and homeowners into one energy system, you start having a lot of additional problems. They have to finance the installation together, they have to do contracts about who gets what amount of power when, they have to do billing, and so on. If you have your own solar system on your own roof, that’s easy. Everything else is simply not happening. So for example, what happens when one homeowner doesn’t want to have solar or can’t afford it?

What are you talking about? It’s a solved problem to install solar on an European roof. We have millions of installations without any leaks. Those companies do know what they are doing and have been for decades. And people have installed stuff on their roofs for centuries.

That happens a lot. There are a lot of people doing open zoom meetings and webinars. So you might have a webinar about “how to install solar on your roof”, organized by some organisation or a public zoom meeting for some online community. The link will get posted on socials and everybody can hop into the call and listen to it. Some other examples are in the article.

No mention that the people they are experiencing on have given their consent for this experiment.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

Yeah, that’s the problem: There is no paywall-busting archiver that doesn’t DDOS. If you know one, let me know.

Paywall free, but makes you part of a DDOS attack

It’s an island five hundred kilometers from the Russian border. That’s not really a safe place to put your aircraft in the drone age. Your supply ships will have to deal with some seababy type of naval drones and your airfield is vulnerable to all those shaed drones and rockets.

I think that the anti-democratic impulse here is that they are trying to get this by any means possible. They were refused by the elected parliament and they are still trying to get their chat control by trying it in other legislation, other channels and so on. That means that they are just using the democratic process and are not accepting that elected representatives refused their proposal. That is antidemocratic.

Can anybody explain how such a discrimination of EU citizens is legal under EU rules?

Thanks, I hate it

But what is the purpose of this? So people are setting up bots that are sending PRs to open source projects, but why?

Yeah, that’s a problem. So even if you want to search your local newspaper, you won’t be able to because of bot protection. Your crawler will be blocked. You also can’t put the whole of Reddit or even Lemmy in your search index.

It makes sense - a self-contained device can be circumvented. A connected solution is much, much harder to fool

Time to start self hosting

There is simply no usable self-hosted search engine. There are some projects like Yacy or Searxng, but they do not have their own index. And having your own self-hosted index is kind of impossible because you need to save the whole of the web on your own devices to be able to search it.

The fact that a multi-billion dollar company publishes a post like this shows how bad things have gotten.

That also means that all those apps which are embedding those location trackers are illegal in Europe and other countries. There is no way for someone to give his informed consent to sell his location data to the fucking FBI just by clicking a button.

It’s absurd to see that he is totally batshit insane and that governments still want to give all of our data to him