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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sentence⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds pretty insane tbh

  Over here in Germany and probably the entire EU punishments don’t stack.

  If you commit multiple crimes doing a single act (e.g. in a bank robbery: violations of weapon law, trespassing, theft, threatening personnel, driving violations…) only the most severe one is prosecuted.

  Multiple seperate crimes can stack but the punishment must be strictly less than the sum of punishments if they were prosecuted independently and must be less than 15 years (unless murder is involved).

  There is no way in which you can get less time for murder than for attempted murder here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If this were actually done to children/teens surely their brains would not form any associations between being restrained and horny, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The government is “social” democrats and “Christian” “democrats”. Both are very tough on crime and very pro corporation.

  There’s a reason Germany has some of the most restrictive copyright law in the world. For example, only recently became making certain parodies legal due to a EU law forcing Germany to allow them.

  Copyright infringement over here has the same exact punishment range as child kidnapping for non-monetary reasons.

  There is a fee for anything that can cause copyright violations paid to copyright collectives including but not limited to storage mediums (CDs, flash drives, hard drives), electronic devices with said storage medium (mobile phones, computers) printers, scanners as well as yearly fees for having publicly accessible printers (for example, 190€ per printer in public libraries, 418€ per printer in universities/colleges) or general fees, like 17,222,621€ paid by the state for continuing the existence of libraries per year (in 2014, today probably significantly more).

  Hardly anyone provides free WiFi because you can be sued for the copyright violations of your users. Or rather, you get a cease and desist with the demand to pay 1000€ in damages and if you don’t then you will be sued and lose.

  Emulators for modern video games are almost certainly illegal because all modern consoles include DRM you’d need to circumvent to get a game to run on the emulator. This means the development would already be illegal. There hasn’t been any court case though because no emulation developer is based in Germany.

  Only since a few years is publishing photos of the interior of your home if your wallpaper is copyrighted legal. Prior to that, you’d always lose if you were sued in Hamburg.

  Hamburg has also ruled the website youtube-dl.org was illegal and that youtube-dl violates copyright. Sony and others successfully sued the hosting provider and were granted damages.

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  There’s probably a million more things but copyright in Germany is generally fucked. There’s no way any politician that has ever been in government will do anything that doesn’t further strengthen copyright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump reportedly to back ceding of Ukrainian territory to Russia as part of peace deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just one more land bro, then Putin will finally be appeased

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  log(e^imtiredboss.exe^) = imtiredboss.exe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(@￣□￣@;)！！⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am getting numerical analysis flashbacks, please help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No they didn’t. Computers were just talking to each other. And we stole their mouths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under-22s in England should get free bus travel to access work and training, MPs say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Long-distance trains aren’t covered by the ticket, only regional trains.

  For example, the trip Munich -> Berlin would take around 10-11 hours with 5-6 different trains you need to catch. If you paid for a long-distance train it would be 4.5 hours with no changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Really?

  Over here in Germany refusing to return items which someone contractually entrusted you is a misdemeanor. You would be treated like, say, a car repair shop who refuses to return your car you entrusted them to repair.

  This differs from not paying debt, in that case you are legally in possession (not ownership though!) of whatever indebted item so the only recourse is a civil lawsuit. Besides, repossession can only be done through a court-ordered official:

  Due to the state’s monopoly on the use of force, foreclosure may only be carried out by state foreclosure bodies, such as bailiffs. With the exception of permitted self-help, unauthorized foreclosure by the creditor is prohibited and is generally unlawful as vigilante justice.

  This translation sucks btw, the term “foreclosure” is inaccurate because it refers to a court ordered official either seizing money/stocks/investments and/or physical valuables (valuables = items not required for a modest lifestyle such as jewelry, designer clothes, fancy non-IKEA furniture etc) or foreclosing your property. In case of specific debt like your car they would probably seize that instead unless you demonstrate you rely on it to get to work unless it could be substituted with a cheaper car which would then be provided in exchange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t they just file a police report suggesting you stole it? It’s the government’s job then and since the police barely have to investigate anything they are sure to actually do something. That’s a quick way to get a search warrant filed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  m’slurdy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New study sheds light on ChatGPT’s alarming interactions with teens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI was never more than algorithms which could be argued to have some semblance of intelligence somewhere. It’s sole purpose was marketing by scientists to get funding.

  Since the 60s everything related to neural networks is classified as AI. LLMs are neural networks, therefore they fall under the same label.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Duckduckgo uses Bing which has deindexed a couple of sites.

  I have found the emulation wiki to no longer show up through DDG. It’s the first result on Google but DDG gives you just Fandom garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mogbattle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you give this vague of an age for the baby???

  Like of fucking course it’s less than 5 years old. It’s also less than 80.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Notice how the developer argues he forbids packages and how the AIR is in violation of this? But an AUR PKGBUILD is not a package - it’s build instructions. It doesn’t distribute or package anything, you can check it yourself. It’s not called “PKG” for a reason. He misunderstands his own license and believes the allegedly broken PKGBUILD violates it.

  He may be right about some users annoying him with bug reports though I’d be surprised if it was that common. It seems like he got a couple of reports, noticed the “forbidden” PKGBUILD and then reacted like this. Just like when changing the license from GPL to CC-BY-NC-ND in order to combat… GPL violations and trademark infringements?

  Frankly, the project has not had parricularly stable leadership in a while. Though a bit unfair of a comparison, compare it to Dolphin and you can see a night and day difference in project management.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ze princess⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zelda

  Equine

  Link

  Daddy

  Asshole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨chained⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I am not just going to tap at those footpaws >:3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Goddammit you are an hour quicker and have found a more readable source for the same comment I wanted to write.

  Anyway, this right is granted in paragraph 36 of Directive 2014/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on the comparability of fees related to payment accounts, payment account switching and access to payment accounts with basic features Text with EEA relevance:

  Consumers who are legally resident in the Union and who do not hold a payment account in a certain Member State should be in a position to open and use a payment account with basic features in that Member State. The concept of ‘legally resident in the Union’ should cover both Union citizens and third country nationals who already benefit from rights conferred upon them by Union acts such as Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 ( 1), Council Directive 2003/109/EC ( 2 ), Council Regulation (EC) No 859/2003 ( 3) and Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 4 ). It should also include people seeking asylum under the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 Relating to the Status of Refugees, the Protocol thereto of 31 January 1967 and other relevant international treaties. Furthermore, Member States should be able to extend the concept of ‘legally resident in the Union’ to other third country nationals that are present on their territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Location sharing doesn’t prevent any of that though?

  Like, no criminal who would want to rape/murder/abduct you knows whether you are sharing your location with anyone. They would do so regardless before anyone can arrive to help you.

  Also, no kidnapper on this planet is stupid enough to take your phone with them. You have a slightly higher chance for authorities to be alerted sooner but that’s about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My first colonoscopy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Three mini figures, 139 pieces AND two prints (computer screen and sign on the right)??

  Damn, that’s AT LEAST a 30€ set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cookie combs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No they don’t (necessarily))??

  Notice how they didn’t spread the cookies evenly on the tray? If they had, it would’ve resulted in squares - not hexagons. On the left, some cookies look more like squares already.

  Hexagons are just one possible way to tile the plane without gaps. The only reason bees use hexagons is because tiling a plane with hexagons results in the lowest possible total perimeter for equally sized shapes. And bees build the edges of their comb shapes using wax, which is expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mass and energy are basically the same thing though. Since E = mc² you can substitute mass in any equation with E / c².

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU brat mathematician behavior⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think of the definition of a derivative.

  d is just an infinitesimally small delta. So dy/dx is literally just lim (∆ -> 0) ∆y/∆x. which is the same as lim (x_1 -> x_0) [f(x_0) - f(x_1)] / [x_0 - x_1].

  Note: ∆ -> 0 isn’t standard notation. But writing ∆x -> 0 requires another step of thinking: y = f(x) therefore ∆y = ∆f(x) = f(x + ∆x) - f(x) so you only need ∆x approaching zero. But I prefer thinking d = lim (∆ -> 0) ∆.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily, many small animals have an utterly insane metabolism making them eat their entire body mass in a couple of days. For example, hummingbirds eat the human equivalent of 150,000 calories per day.

  Larger animals typically cannot afford to spend so much energy - there is just no large food source that has sufficient calory density.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus even if they were to implement those features, the challenges would still get increasingly harder the more bot-like a scraper behaves.

  You can’t prevent scraping entirely but you can certainly prevent scraping that behaves like a DOS attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET BRUSHIED IDIOT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t mean it’s nice to have gum infections though. I can also imagine they are more of a threat to baby crocodiles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Germany.

  8 patients per room is really the upper legal limit (as anything more is considered intolerable) and exceedingly rare but having at least one other patient in the same room is the default. Even if single rooms are available, hospitals prefer to put you into rooms with other people as they offer single patient rooms for ~120€/day and dual patient rooms for ~70€/day.

  When I was in the hospital for a pretty severe gastrointestinal infection as a child, I had one bed neighbor with a severe cough which I obviously caught after the stay. It wasn’t as severe but pretty annoying nonetheless.

  TVs generally exist for free but usually only one per room so you’ll have to negotiate with your roommates. WiFi, if existant, definitely costs money and will have early 2000’s speed.

  In general, hospital stays have roughly the same standard as in the 70’s or 80’s as there hasn’t been noteworthy investment ever since. Anything considered a luxury and unnecessary for treatment will likely not be provided for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Solitude? Damn, are your hospitals made out of gold as well?

  If you’re unlucky over here you get up to 7 other patiens in the same, unventilated room. Including patients who have air-transmittable infections because why not?

  Air conditioning doesn’t exist in hospitals either by the way. That’s a luxury hospitals aren’t obligated to (and as such never) provide. Enjoy dehydrating in 30°C+ rooms.

  I’d much rather just stay in solitude in my home for a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨413524 Gang, rise up!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How about 31415?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Over here in Germany encryption is most definitely illegal. This includes encoded messages only the intended recipient could decode.