barsoap

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 21 minutes ago

Yes it's a good thing and it's more locally-running stuff that they're investigating. Things like fuzzy search on your history, tl;dr bot, etc.

Malware site detection would be another idea, though they of course already have a non-local solution for that. Maybe, we do have to come full circle after all don't we, a model that can give you an estimation of how likely it is that the page you're looking at is AI slop.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 29 minutes ago (2 children)

No, it isn't. It's integrated into the browser, and running locally.

I'm just saying that if you a) want translation and b) privacy then you want c) AI in firefox. Because, you know, translation models are AI tech, figures that natural language is too fuzzy to do in other ways.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago)

It isn't, and has not been, illegal to carry knives out in the open in a public area. You don't usually see people running around with 12cm Fahrtenmesser but it's completely legal. That's blade length, to be clear, not total length. This kind of thing. Or things like an Opinel, completely legal to EDC.

And mass gatherings aren't the same thing as a random public place.

EDCing swords was outlawed in 2008 IIRC, now it's aforementioned 12cm max, only a single edge etc.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Not just building it's shipping by default. That is, language detection and code that displays a popup asking you whether you want to download the actual translation model is shipping by default. About twelve megs per model, so 24 for a language pair.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

The result of the whole thing was project quantum. Firefox includes lots of Rust code. Servo was never intended to be a product, it always was a research platform.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

You're free to send your data to google or deepl instead of using Firefox's included AI translate. You know, privacy, no AI in the browser, choose one.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago)

Not in general I don't think so. Probably depends on whether you're talking about Frankfurt HBf or some forgotten platform at the arse end of the heath.

Courts are generally quite on top of making sure that those zones are very specific. All four of duration, time of day, space, and cause.

And, of course, over-regional train station are federal police jurisdiction. In SH that's a downgrade when it comes to the quality of officers, in Bavaria an upgrade. Also in Hamburg which yes is still a police state. You get some, you lose some.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

When’s that going to happen? Right after the green hydrogen revolution?

Already happening, on a small (but industrial) scale. You can buy that stuff off the shelf, but it's still on the lower end of the sigmoid. Most new installations right now will be going to Canada and Namibia, we'll be buying massive amounts of ammonia from both.

Sorry, I didn’t think someone would deny the existance of dunkelflautes. It’s currently happening in Germany.

Yes and elsewhere in Europe the wind is blowing. Differences in solar yields are seasonal (that's what those three months storage are for, according to Fraunhofer's initial plans), but reversed on the other side of the globe, and Germany would be better situated to tank differences in local wind production all by itself if e.g. Bavaria didn't hinder wind projects in their state. The total energy the sun infuses into the earth does change a bit over time, but that's negligible. In principle pretty much zero storage is needed as long as there's good enough interconnectivity.

...meanwhile, we'll probably have the first commercial fusion plant in just about the mean construction time of a fission plant.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

The declaration of a weapons-free zone makes searches legal. If you don't want to be searched, you're free to not enter.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

You must be confusing us with the UK or France. You can carry (concealed or otherwise) knives up to 12 cm or folder that are not designed to be openable with one hand. If you want to transport a Chef's knife on the metro, do it in your backpack, that is, you're not supposed to have it at hand. Some types of knives (e.g. butterflies) are right-out outlawed, you're not allowed to have them even in your own home.

Mostly though these weapon-free zones are a way to allow police to do searches.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Wouldn’t it be better to go fossil free. Given, you know, climate change.

Gas can be synthesised and we're going to have to do that anyway for chemical feedstock. Maintaining backup gas plant capacity is cheaper than you think, they don't need much maintenance if they're not actually running.

That’s physically impossible for a place the size of Germany, much less Europe.

Unless we use a different technology, that is not renewables + storage?

It's not technology it's physics. It is impossible for there to be no wind anywhere, at least as long as the sun doesn't explode and the earth continues to rotate and an atmosphere exists. If any of those ever fail electricity production will be the least of our worries.

Technology comes into play when it comes to shovelling electricity from one end of the continent to the other and yes we need more interconnects and beefier interconnects but it's not like we don't know how to do that, or don't already have a Europe-wide electricity grid. The issues are somewhere in between NIMBYism regarding pylons and "but we don't want to pay for burying the cable earthworks are expensive".

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Die Tendenz ist eine Konsequenz, es geht darum gesellschaftlich mangelnde Achtung und Wahrnehmung auszugleichen indem man auf dicke Hose macht. Das ist alles etwas kindlich, ja, aber was erwartest du von jungen Menschen. Da eine kulturelle Strömung zu sehen ist psychologisch naiv, die Psychologie erschafft die Strömung.

Frauen sind eine Mehrheit im Middle Management, tut man nicht so als ob das keine Machtbasis wäre, kümmert euch mal darum dass man als Bäcker angemessen entlohnt wird, sowohl was Anerkennung als auch Lebensplanung angeht, will sagen macht endlich Ende mit Kapitalismus, und die ganzen Kevins werden ganz schnell lieber dicke Brote backen.

Ich kann mich noch gut daran erinnern wie hier in SH damals gegen die Abschaffung des dreigliedrigen Systems gewettert wurde -- von, absolut überwiegend, Frauen aus dem Mittelstand, mien Moddern inklusive. Abgeschafft hat man dann nur die Hauptschule und ersetzt mit Gesamtschulen, was natürlich ziemlich blödsinnig ist. Zwanzig, dreißig Jahre später konnte man dann den nächsten Schritt gehen denn der Gegenwind flaute nicht, diesmal wurden die Realschulen abgeschafft und einige (aber längst nicht alle) Gymnasien umgewandelt. Mit Salamitaktik entgegen den Willen von Frauen soziale Mobilität einführen, erstmal Hut ab vor den SH'schen Pädagogen, sowohl Uni Kiel als auch im Ministerium.

Kann ja nicht sein dass der eigene Spross mit Lumpen in einer Klasse sitzt. Ne die kommen schon auf's Gymnasium, auch wenn's zwanzig Nachhilfestunden in der Woche sein müssen. Die machen auch G12 denn die sollen ja einen Vorsprung haben. Vater sagt man kann auch als Bäcker glücklich werden? Gleich mal lieber scheiden lassen. Wer Polemik findet darf sie behalten.


Ich will jetzt aber auch nicht alles schlecht reden. Der Anteil von männlichen Kindergärtnern ist immer noch gering aber es geht (IIRC in ganz .de) gut aufwärts, mit bis zu 40% Männern unter jüngeren Kollegen. Vergleicht das mal mit den USA wo es in der frühkindlichen Bildung genauso viele Männer gibt wie hierzulande in Arztpraxen männliche Sprechstundenhelfer (will sagen: Null, +-1%) und absolut kein Impuls besteht das irgendwie zu verändern. Hierzulande wurde das Ungleichgewicht fachlich als Problem erkannt und es wird aktiv dagegen gesteuert. In der frühkindlichen Bildung isses halt extrem wichtig, bei Sprechstundenhelfern ist die Geschlechtermischung weniger systemrelevant.

Und da geht's auch nicht um viel. Da geht's darum dass es ein Erwachsener mal toll findet (und nicht nur "toll" sagt) wenn man im Holzklotzbau geteilte Fensterstürze erfindet und jetzt selbst wissen will wie groß man die machen kann bevor alles einstürzt. Das ist Achtung, das ist Wahrnehmung und da hilft keine gespielte Begeisterung das merken die Kinder.

Und bevor hier jetzt jemand mit "Aber das ist doch alles Aufgabe der Eltern" ankommt: Ihr hört euch an wie meine Mutter. Ihr seit die die sich Nachhilfe leisten können, die Besitzstandswahrer. Gesellschaftlich wird dan ganze nur gelöst wenn jedes Kind in den Genuss kommt.


EDIT: So ganz ohne Antworten gehe mal davon aus die Runterwähls kommen von Männern die Ghetto-mäßig auf dicke Hose machen und sich nicht eingestehen wollen warum, sowie Radfems aus dem Dunstkreis Alice Schwarzer mit genügend Geld um Steuern zu hinterziehen.

 

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Couldn't find any English source. Main relevance, politically, being that now the Bundestag will have to discuss it, and they will have to vote on it, one way or the other, no more ducking away.

Only the constitutional court can ban parties, and only the Bundestag, Bundesrat, and the government can ask the constitutional court to do so.

Google translate of article

Initiative of MPs Draft proposal to ban AfD submitted to Bundestag

Status: 11.10.2024 19:51

The AfD is to be examined by the Federal Constitutional Court - this is the aim of the draft for a ban application submitted by several MPs. It is now before the Bundestag.

The draft for a motion to ban the AfD in the Bundestag is ready. It can now be signed by members of parliament. The document, which is available to rbb, states that the AfD is opposing central basic principles of the free democratic basic order. Human dignity and the prohibition of discrimination are "blatantly called into question" by the AfD, its leading officials and numerous elected representatives and members.

According to the authors, the AfD aims to restrict or eliminate the rights of people with a migration background, with disabilities or with "non-heteronormative sexuality" as well as members of national minorities and ethnic groups in favor of a "nationalistic strengthening of a supposed Germanness".

The AfD has been a concern for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for years. In Brandenburg, the party is suspected of being right-wing extremist. This is certain for some people who will now sit in the state parliament. This apparently did not bother many voters. By Oliver Noffke more Application is based on findings from constitutional protection authorities

The responsibility of the German Bundestag for liberal democracy therefore requires that it "enables the legal review of the AfD by the independent Federal Constitutional Court."

The application is based on findings from the constitutional protection authorities, rulings from the higher administrative courts in Thuringia and North Rhine-Westphalia, and research by various media, which are listed on several pages. accusation of abuse of power by AfD

For example, according to the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia, it is clear that, in the opinion of the AfD, Germans with a migration background are not "fully-fledged Germans" and that there is an "insurmountable biological, ancestry-related difference" between migrants and Germans. The party's disdain for state institutions and officials also provides evidence of its hostility to democracy. It rejects democracy and the parliamentary system and advocates violent overthrow.

The AfD's work in parliaments also confirms the assumption that it uses the power it has gained "to take action against political opponents, weaken constitutional structures and procedures, exclude and disparage minorities, attack sexual self-determination and hinder and, in the medium term, abolish state support for democracy and civil society."

Numerous extremists and enemies of the constitution also have access to the German Bundestag and to sensitive data and information through the AfD. In part, the party is "the extended arm of authoritarian foreign regimes" and acts on their behalf against German interests. A young woman watches a video on a social media platform on her mobile phone (Source: dpa/Niklas Graeber) "There is a very strong urge against propaganda in the younger generation"

Populist and right-wing extremist content dominates the video platform Tiktok. This makes it omnipresent for young users. How big is the influence on their political attitudes? Nina Kolleck from the University of Potsdam is researching this. more Possible ban procedure meets with mixed response

A total of 37 members of the Bundestag from the SPD, Union, Greens and Left Party are behind the motion. Their common goal is to apply to the Federal Constitutional Court for proceedings to ban the AfD. A party ban can be applied to the Federal Constitutional Court by the Bundestag, Bundesrat or Federal Government. In the proceedings, the AfD would have to be proven to be aggressively and militantly acting against the constitution. It is not yet clear whether and when the Bundestag will vote on the motion.

The plan has met with a mixed response among the population. According to the ARD DeutschlandTrend published on Thursday, a majority of 46 percent of those surveyed are opposed to initiating ban proceedings against the AfD. However, the number of those who consider it appropriate rose to 42 percent.

The AfD, meanwhile, is relaxed about the initiative. The motion is doomed to failure and will not even pass the Bundestag, said party leader Alice Weidel this week. "You cannot exclude 20 percent of citizens in the Federal Republic of Germany from democratic participation."

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