7bicycles [he/him]

Love to keep ~15k people employed at a subsidy cost of “you could gift everyone involved a guaranteed 5k€ a month pension tomorrow and be done with it”. Truly in it for the love of the game alone

They will only do it if there’s a criminal case or some other significant interest to work from.

Significant interest has, just to name a few, lead to german SWAT storming the wrong appartment because somebody who used to live there called a politician a wiener on facebook. And also locking down entire main train stations for hours on account of some guy or at best a “super recognizer” saw what looked like the AI aged version of an RAF member. Or confiscating literally every electronic from someone because they used chalk spray on something (which is not vandalism as ruled by many judgements because it just washes off).

can’t read the article; did he actually or is the praetorian guard just suddenly very fond of cali style data protection laws in case it anything becomes a cross-state issue?

Young men, there’s no need to feel down
I say young men, they have all left the town

Recycling properly is a good and necessary thing.

Recycling plastic is mostly bollocks by numbers. To go by EU figures at best slightly over half of it even is recycled, of which 35% is thermically recycled i.e. burned. Another 1,3 Million tonnes which I can’t be arsed to manually calculate the numbers for get “shipped for processing” i.e. end up in a landfill / ocean / slum someplace else.

me when I never get over being an empire

remember when going online was a thing you used to do and not a 24/7 state of being

t440 gang what up

They’re sort of enshittified in the sense that with the older ones you could bash someone over the head with one and then keep using the computer but since that’s not a common requirement they’re just still insanely good

A year ago I put kali on a 2008 netbook and now it has a new life to be my shop machine so I don’t have to use a touchscreen when I need a man with a heavy accent tell me how to replace the bearings on a 1989 planetary gear made by a company that hasn’t existed since 1988

was anyone waiting for him to go and say “whoops, all my fault” or what

two triangles two wheels can make you go well far

I didn’t know the NATO is the arbiter of this. I’d’ve figured there’d be something less openly biased towards certain states here

I think the main issue that usually gets trod out is how Microsoft makes the most ergonomical and useable software which I think is an argument you can only arrive at if you’ve just literally used nothing else, ever. The supposed point is that large swathes of the work force in the public sector would be unable to cope with the new software and be unable to do their job, albeit I point at my printing out excel tables example there to say they already don’t know how to use software so at least save on the licensing fees

What will they use instead? Who the fuck knows! The article omits this crucial piece of information.

Whole bunch of shit going by different sources and the state itself from german, to supplement here

MS Office -> LibreOffice Exchange / Outlook -> Open-XChange / Thunderbird Sharepoint -> Nextcloud Windows -> Linux MS Active Directory -> Unknown, but currently Testing things Telephones use, among others, Kamailio, RTPEngine, Asterisk, GenieACS, Loki and Grafana For all the Software to do like specific work, i.e. the software that helps manage industrial permits or whatever, it’s case by case with them trying to replace them with mostly web based solutions so they’re OS-Agnostic.

They’re doing this together with Dataport, which is a sort of special government structure in the sense that it does IT for the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen and Saxony-Anhalt who share the costs. They’ve been at this whole thing of trying to make a FOSS standard software enviroment for years now, steadily improving, so things might actually be happening. Video conferencing should be Jitsi, that’s already in the portfolio, the chat components will in all likelihood be based on the Matrix Protocol which is aswell, I think they offer an offshoot of Riot.

It’s a good thing. That said, the way the german government works this only really includes the actual state level bureaucratic engines. Everything at the county and municipal level will also have to make the switch themselves so that’s 83 more government entities that would have to do this before the state runs on FOSS.

And like with all of them in germany they’re all flat out broke and can’t get personnel for this so this type of project, if attempted at all, is usually headed by a 60 year old who’s also the equivalent of a CIO because he once built an excel table with pivot functions and the general level of digital competency of the workforce is dire, as in people are printing out excel tables to do the calculations with a calculator and things of that nature.

us?

The EU could get a ridiculous amount done if it decided to seriously invest in it.

Yeah but they’re never going to do that. It’s an overgrown coal union at it’s heart. Like yeah, sure, they found a lot of somewhat leftist mostly green movement things within the EU but that’s just PR. The GDPR considers “me making a lot of money” to be a valid reason to go start selling peoples data

Just being in HR gives you some kind of brainworm but being in HR and posting about it with what seems to be a personal account is more like having a brain shai-hulud

Tagesschau, the public broadcaster, cites 4 1/2 years for the head of diesel engine develpment and two years 7 months for head of drivetrain electronics.

Highest ranking figure, the former chief of development got 1 year 3 months suspendet, a former middle manager got 1 year and 10 months suspended

EDIT: Tagesschau also cites tham as agreeing they are patsys, as according to them prosecution against many other people got dropped which they figure is due to some sort of plea deals. Guess these are the idiots that didn’t rat out their shitty colleagues.

If this is considered a problem of individual personnal responsibility then I will trigger stateccollapse

fucking go for it, king.

The entire concept of data privacy is antithetical to the modern nation state. Motherfucker you live in the hole. You are in the oubliette. What fucking governmeant bureau, under trump, do you see taking up the fight here, much less winning? You can’t unleak data. That shit’s out there, forever - and, again, probably has been for years considering what a goldmine the DNA databse of the USA is.

Lobby your state all your want, IT-Security and Data Protection starts at you. All the encryption in the world doesn’t save you from being spear-phished. You can encode this in law, but unless anybody starts executing legal entities and building the great firewall á la china, that shit’s out there in a real “can’t unlick that asshole” situation. It sucks! It is bad! The average person should not have to grapple with the realities of IT-Security and Data Protection much in the same way I don’t have the first fucking clue about how to keep an NPP from exploding. But unless we reinvent the whole thing from scratch that shit’s on you, me, and everybody else. Never give them anything. I own 18 bicycles.