Accessibility direly needs more volunteer work in almost all projects. So you could, for example, pick your favorite desktop and get involved in their accessibility efforts (e.g. start here for KDE).

And the politician himself, MEP Maximilian Krah.

I don’t have a really good English source, so see either here (German) or here (English, the “European Conservative”).

Extensive context about how the Trump administration used its power to protect Andrew Tate and why they shifted course can be found here at DemocracyNow (contains descriptions of extreme violence).

Provisions against pulling any Ireland-Luxembourg-Malta shit should be mandatory, though.

General recommendation: pick a provider that allows you to make a number of aliases. Good for privacy and against spam.

Specifically: in Germany, the top paid recommendations are posteo.de and mailbox.org

Good article. The most important points imo are these:

Despite the recent momentum, advocates like Marthews worry that too much of the pushback is limited to Flock itself. Even now, competitors like Axon smell blood in the water, and they’re moving in to capitalize on the widespread public scrutiny of the company. It highlights what privacy advocates see as a critical vulnerability in the current tech backlash movement — the tendency to focus on one or two highly villainized companies instead of the technologies and systems themselves.

“… I think it’s an important moment because reformers are talking more and more about ‘guardrails,’ when the proper solution is abolition.”

Superb, thank you for sharing!!

Oh how you reply to most every comment in this post except for the one where I talk about mechanisms (the mechanisms which the Guardian writes about also).

Parliament on the lowest bill: Yes, disgraceful.

Court of auditors on the 200€ bill: Well, when do ordinary people use this bill anyway? Conversely, I like the idea of giving a subtle reminder about the Court of Auditors to those who primarily handle high-denomination bills. (Plus, this bill is first in line for being potentially discontinued, like the 500€ before it, so little sense to have more important institutions on it.)

Noise consistently activates the stress axis, which governs extremely potent biochemical pathways and thus over time can bring about physical changes easily. Especially to sensitive tissues like nerve tissue. This is well established. It’s similar with disturbed sleep. For Parkinson’s disease specifically, the Guardian article mentions this:

Existing research has found potential biological pathways that link noise exposure to Parkinson’s disease, largely due to stress responses and disrupted sleep.

“Potential”, sure, but altogether (i.e. now also including the prospective (!) decade-long (!) cohort study with over three million (!) participants), the causal link is very probable.

Regarding the magnitude observed here, I admit a hazard ratio of 1.04 (so +4%) is not large. Note, though, that it’s “per interquartile increment of 8.9 dB”. So going up three quartiles (+27 dB, about 7 times as loud) already gives you somewhat above 12% additional risk.

This is territory where it’s getting relevant for personal and societal decision-making—especially when considering that Parkinson’s is just one disease of many.

That’s a super weird correlation

Why?

And “may” is doing a lot of work in that headline

Not overly, it’s usual scientist caution. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/2851756

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for vegan cinnamon rolls.

… which should make you wonder even more why they chose to have this video deleted.

The answer is obvious, by the way. Acting like a charity is how they plan to build their business. Play their game if you want to, we won’t.

More details in Elena Rossini’s blog: https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/

Roughly from high level to low level:

1. uBlock custom filters
2. Make pages unusable or less attractive by wonky per-site browser or extension settings
3. IP and DNS blocks on your local machine
4. Run a DNS proxy on your local machine and block domains with it
5. Host a pihole server on a different machine, make it your DNS server and block domains there
6. IP and DNS blocks in your router (if your current one has no option for this, consider buying another, preferably used)

Best apply the methods arbitrarily, so that you get even more confused about how you might restore access to a given website.

Options 5 and 6 may be the only viable ones for locking down certain smartphones or tablets.

In Firefox & LibreWolf it’s native:

Settings -> Privacy and Security -> section “Cookies and website data” -> “Manage Exceptions”

You may want to start using Tor especially for your current Librewolf use case. Compare fingerprinting

You should add permissions for select sites to store their cookies permanently. This reduces the annoyance dramatically.

I also don’t think Germany sells entire tanks to Israel.

Important side note: anti-tank weapons are also being used for urban warfare

What’s especially unfortunate is that calling it a protest isn’t primarily a matter of downplaying things—it’s to miss the key, dramatic point: Their line of defense is not “we didn’t do it” or “you can’t prove it” or “we didn’t intend for things to go as they did”. Instead, what they say is: “We did it all, and we did it on purpose. The equipment was intended for a genocide, the German government has been allowing or even supporting it, protests did not help, therefore we were justified under German law to destroy part of these systems.” In order to judge whether this was indeed an act of legitimate defense of a third party (Nothilfe), the court may be forced to officially judge whether Israel has been conducting a genocide and whether the German government has been inactive or even complicit in it.

https://www.kontextwochenzeitung.de/gesellschaft/791/unrecht-und-strafe-10921.html

https://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/details/rechtfertigender-notstand-prozessbeginn-gegen-die-ulm-5-in-stuttgart-stammheim-interview-mit-ra-duesberg

Apart from food, look at what crows themselves give as gifts, e.g.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWXe7Js6GnI
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNpfz4UzqU