Felix Frank

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Nerd. felis_rex on Twitter.

Open Source beneficiary. Freelance IT consultant.

@voxpupuliorg alum. Desperate supporter of @AufstandLastGen

#puppetize #mgmtconfig. Neutral Good.

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Here is a quiz for anyone who is not a native German speaker.

You may have heard that in German, the two letters "st" are usually pronounced like [ʃt] "sht", a phoneme cluster that is unusual in English.

Consider the following German words and names:

Reichstag (Imperial Diet, by extension parliament)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (author, playwright)
Konstanz (city)
Künstlerhaus (art institution in Vienna)

How many of them are correctly pronounced with [ʃt]?

No spoilers in the comments. Boosts OK.

None
44.6%
1
24.6%
2
23.1%
3
7.7%
Poll ended at .

SPD Politiker und Ex-Staatssekretär Christian Lange tritt aus der Kirche aus — aus Protest gegen das Kirchenasyl. Die kirchliche Praxis (durch der in diesem Beispiel drei Menschen aus Somalia Asyl gewährt wurde) sei eine Missachtung rechtsstaatlicher Entscheidungen.

Ein Mensch mit Herz wäre aus der SPD ausgetreten, aus Protest gegen deren Versuch das Kirchenasyl abzuschaffen und den Familiennachzug auszusetzen. Alle Verbrechen der Menschheit waren rechtsstaatlich, das ist nicht die Norm nach der man sich richten sollte.

So now when I watch a YouTube video that is not in English, YouTube crams an „auto dubbed“ version down my throat. AI slop of horrible quality. Absolutely disgusting.

On desktop I can opt out of this on every single video. No option anywhere to opt out for all videos. In the mobile browser, there is not even a way to do it for an individual video! Currently it’s impossible for me to watch German yt content on my phone.

What the fuck

I've been talking to GitHub and giving them feedback on their "create issues with Copilot" thing they have in the works.

Today I tested a version for them and using it I asked copilot to find and report a security problem in curl and make it sound terrifying.

In about ten seconds it had a 100-line description of a "catastrophic vulnerability" it was happy to create an issue for. Entirely made up of course, but sounded plausible.

Proved my point excellently.

‼️ Großartige Neuigkeiten: Das Warten hat ein Ende! Der Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags hat unsere Bundestagspetition "Tax the Rich" für eine gerechte Besteuerung großer Vermögen ENDLICH online gestellt! Unterschreibt, teilt und sagt es allen weiter – schon ab 30.000 Unterschriften muss der Petitionsausschuss des Bundestages eine öffentlichen Anhörung zur Vermögensteuer einberufen. Setzen wir das Thema endlich auf die politische Tagesordnung! #TaxTheRich

https://www.attac.de/startseite/teaser-detailansicht/news/tax-the-rich-epetition

Tax the Rich: Startschuss der Online-Bundestagspetition für eine Vermögensteuer

Attac will mit der Reaktivierung einer Vermögensteuer Überreichtum entschlossen zurückzuschneiden

An important but inconvenient fact to remember about NYPD "work stoppages" and "quiet quitting."

When NYPD intentionally makes fewer arrests and does less police work in protest, violent crime goes *down*
🙂🙃

Read that again. Violent crime goes *down* when cops quit.

And we've known why since 1970

Once you understand a few things about US policing, this outcome becomes incredibly obvious and unavoidable.

First, understand that "Law and Order, SVU," is not how policing works, and not what police do.

What most police do, most of the time, is arrest and fine innocent Black people.

This makes it unsafe for Black people to call the cops in any circumstances. A Black person that has recently had a violent and racist encounter with the cops, will not call the cops to save you if they see you being assaulted.

So the more "policing" happens, the greater this depressive effect.

The irony:

As you ramp up "policing," it becomes impossible to catch and arrest any real, violent criminals... because you betrayed and violated all of the civilians in the communities that you were supposed to partner with.🤦🏿‍♂️

You created the pre-condition for ineffective and futile police work.

As an NYC resident, you pay $12B a year for a police force that is not good at what you want them to be good at: solving and preventing murder, theft, and sexual assault.

For example, the most stolen items in NYC are smartphones and bikes. NYPD doesn't even recognize the most recommended bike lock🤡

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112451441016741832

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Grünen-Chefin: Waffenexportstopp für Israels Einsatz in Gaza

Angesichts zahlreicher Toter bei Essensverteilungen im Gazastreifen verlangt die Grünen-Vorsitzende Franziska Brantner einen Exportstopp von Waffen an Israel für den Einsatz in dem Gebiet. "Der Verstoß gegen internationale Verpflichtungen ist in diesem Fall so eklatant, dass endlich auch der Bundesregierung klar sein muss: Es dürfen keine deutschen Waffen mehr gelief…

📑 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-nahost-samstag-268.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de#Gruenen-Chefin-Waffenexportstopp-fuer-Israels-Einsatz-in-Gaza
🕗 28.06. 08:13 CEST

#Nahost #tagesschau

Nahost-Liveblog: ++ Offenbar Tote bei Angriffen im Gazastreifen ++

Bei israelischen Angriffen im Gazastreifen sind nach palästinensischen Angaben mindestens 81 Menschen getötet worden. US-Präsident Trump rechnet nach eigenen Angaben mit einer Waffenruhe im Gazastreifen innerhalb einer Woche.

tagesschau.de
Ich habe auf dem Heimweg mit dem Fahrrad aus der Innenstadt in Richtung Pieschen dieses Täschchen mit Rauchutensilien verloren. :(
Sollte es jemand finden, würde ich mich sehr über eine Meldung freuen, war ein Geschenk das mir viel bedeutet. #Dresden
New #Mansplaining Hall of Fame just dropped
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@lea

Are we expecting that to end up in someone's face?

@lea

NeVEr underestimate tEH poWeR oF sTrAwbeRrIeS!!!!!11!!!!one!!!!1!

@lea pure aggression against the cake by exposing it to this weather

@lea I think this is from the BLM protests years ago, because I painted a woman in a black hoody and backpack, serenely (allegedly) looting a cheesecake back then.

In fact, I've been looking for a copy of the video because it fell off YouTube, so could you let me know where you found this still?

@lea OH GOD NO NOT THE CAKE! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
@lea It may well be a cake from a foreign recipe. Bet you didn't think of that, did ya?
@lea Next time I go to a protest, I will be sure to equip myself with tactical cake

@lea OMG! They're going to destroy that poor law-abiding hard-working tax-paying cake! Won't somebody think of the cake!

Those monsters 😱

@lea that's a handsome cake, it could absolutely destroy my waistline if I had one.
@lea the cake is a lie
@lea
Oh, my dear lactose intolerance! 🥲
@lea Total clown show
@lea destructive for my waistline amirite
@lea
What? When you go out to protest all day, you bring yourself a snack!

@lea seconds later:

I THREW IT ON THE GROUND!!!

I DON'T WANT TO BE A PART OF YOUR SYSTEM!!

@lea The protesters absolutely demolished that cake …
@lea (Sparkles) is that because the cake is a lie?
@lea Can you imagine the level of boredom in the studio?
@lea Tons of sugar & fat. Very unhealthy.
@lea
Protestors deploy woke cake.
@lea Funny how a narrative like "protests turn destructive" delegitimises protesting but not, say, the military.
@lea
Carrying a cake is a clear indicator of cans of soup(™) in the backpack!

@lea

THAT is TOO MUCH whip cream.

I am horrified!
Outraged!
When will it END?

@futurebird @lea Shit could make someone go DIABETIC in 30 years! The horror of it all!

@lea ah yes, cake is destructive.

But no shit they turned destructive the MAGA agenda that's a fascist cult broke the law and human rights about 500 times already💀

@lea
That cake platter looks hard to me. Not sure what she's about!
@lea such a perfect demonstration of the problems with the media!
@lea
Someone left a cake out in the rain…I don’t think that I can take it, ‘cause it took so long to bake it, and I’ll never have that recipe again!
@lea
zooming in on someone's cake??? 
@lea They were surely planning to toss that in someone's face!
@lea
Cholesterol is a weapon!
@lea a perfect screenshot
@lea They're eating the cats and the dogs and the cake! 😱
@lea "i brought cake" is top tier passive agressive power move, we are dealing with someone very radicalized.
@lea not destructive enough, should have been a pie
@lea
Now now, they're probably going to share that cake, not self destructively eat it all themselves. 😂
@lea too much sugar isn't great
@lea They chose Butter over Guns. Whats the problem?
@lea in 20 years time the consumer of that evil cake might die of a heart attack
@lea they're about to destroy a lot of calories.
@lea he is hungry leave him alone
@lea baking news
@lea Obviously the caption was generated by GlaDOS
@lea because the precipitation literally destroyed the cake.