yetAnotherUser
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- Comment on Clock logic 2 days ago:
To some extent, though I still often hear people using the 12 hour system.
Just yesterday I’ve heard someone complain about their night shift which starts at 6.
Especially because in German you can’t say “half 17” for 16:30, only “half 5”. You save two whole syllables with this way over “sixteen thirty”!
- Comment on Good boah 2 days ago:
Yes, the joke is that being raped makes you a woman. Not very funny imo.
- Comment on Fell off the horizon into a black hole 5 days ago:
I thought time was a cube?
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
Hasn’t he admitted to changing his opinion after learning about the effects on children? I’m not in the loop about this.
But yeah, you definitely shouldn’t treat his words as gospel. A lot of questionable-at-best stuff in there.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
I sometimes like to read his political posts:
www.stallman.org/archives/2025-jul-oct.html
And honestly? I mostly agree with them? Like this:
ABC ordered to pay Antoinette Lattouf another $150,000 for unlawful termination over Gaza Instagram post.
But a company faced with enormous threats wielded by fascist officials who demand that certain views be suppressed will treat such penalties as the normal cost of sucking up.
The [Israeli] army says that HAMAS is using apartment buildings for “surveillance”, and has bombed some of those buildings to destroy them. Based on this logic, the army might bomb every tall building in Gaza City with the large bombs that the US is providing
He has some questionable beliefs as well, though for unusual reasons. He accepts non-binary people but refuses to use they/them pronouns because he doesn’t like the ambiguity of singular/plural pronouns. So he has invented the neopronouns per/pers to refer to singular non-binary persons. I genuinely think no other person on this planet could hold this opinion.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
Same here.
A pattern in almost every song, book, poem, movie?
Like greed? Antisocial behavior? Populism? Lies? Belief in your own supremacy? Capitalism?
Honestly, my first thoughts were they eitnessed Cthulu. Though I suspect they intentionally chose to phrase it such that it invokes this analogy.
If we ignore the pattern aspect they mentioned maybe how history repeats itself? How tyranny emerges and sustains itself on fear and oppression?
I have no clue. It’s so vague.
- Comment on ralph 1 week ago:
When I met Ralph, he actually gave me enough fentanyl to overdose every day for a century.
(I haven’t met Ralph [A false precondition says nothing about the truth of the postcondition])
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 1 week ago:
According to the German (I have not found an EU equivalent) office for statistics, you are part of the top 1% of full-time workers if you earn >213,286€ per year:
www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/…/PD25_134_621.html
Sure, this doesn’t include billionaires who don’t work but there just aren’t enough of them to matter. It’s not like there are hundreds of thousands billionaires in Germany.
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 1 week ago:
Earning 400,000€ in two years makes you part of the 1% though?? Where else would this guy be? Upper middle class?
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
Do we know this?
I suspect they usually compress videos at most a couple times (for each resolution) and then keep the results cached somewhere. At least for popular videos that combined take up 99% of bandwidth. For 0 views videos I’d imagine they only store the highest resolution and compress it further down on demand.
I’d argue DRMing all those popular videos would take up so much computing power it cannot be offset by ads.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
DRM is expensive. Very expensive in fact because it is basically non-trivial encryption.
A website with as much traffic as YouTube cannot afford to DRM every single video stream. There just isn’t enough processing power and electricity available.
Netflix et al. have a tiny fraction of YouTube’s traffic with more income per user due to subscriptions.
Plus YouTube’s storage demands are many orders of magnitude larger. A maximum upper bound for Netflix is 1 PB I’d imagine. Archiveteam alone has selectively downloaded more than 3 PB. YouTube has, I’d imagine, a double digit exabyte amount of data stored + backups.
- Comment on Doot doot 2 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself
- Comment on Port-O-John Art 3 weeks ago:
The face is bigger than normal size I think. The proportions of the face itself seem mostly fine, yet the eyes are far too high up his head.
- Comment on Clock logic 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Many countries use both systems actually.
For speaking, it’s quicker to say something like: “The party starts at 8” instead of “The party starts at 20 o’clock”.
For writing though, you would never use the 12 hour system.
- Comment on choice 4 weeks ago:
As long as the rate of cyanide is low enough, you can do it no problem.
- Comment on LGBTQ+ Americans consider move to Canada to escape Trump: ‘I’m afraid of living here’ 4 weeks ago:
I think the only country with as liberal of cannabis regulation is Canada and maybe Thailand. Not sure about other countries.
Medical use is still covered in much of Europe, though as far as I’m aware solely as a last resort for chronic pain. I think medical cannabis can only be consumed through weed pens as well, pharmacies aren’t going to give you joints.
Though I’m fairly sure a doctor would first attempt to find the cause of your insomnia because symptom treatment is of secondary concern. That might make for an uncomfortable first weeks.
- Comment on LGBTQ+ Americans consider move to Canada to escape Trump: ‘I’m afraid of living here’ 4 weeks ago:
None. No European country allows for legal cannabis concentrates.
As for the rest of your requirements: Most, I think? Except for affordable gigabit internet outside a few select countries perhaps.
- Comment on Trumps says Venezuelan jets will be 'shot down' if they endanger US ships 4 weeks ago:
The Secretary of State is appointed by the President though.
And I’m certain they argued there was no credible information Israel committed gross violations of human rights. Maybe it was only “normal” violations of human rights. Or maybe the information was somewhat incredible. Or maybe the Secretary of State said “LALALALALALALA” and closed their eyes and ears when presented with information so they didn’t technically have it.
- Comment on Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood" 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t really. The only smuggling is for yourself in form of alcohol tourism where those living close to borders drive across and stock up on it.
Alcohol is still available in Sweden, just more expensive. Hardly anyone turns to the black market to get like 30% off.
- Comment on Steam cannot handle the Silksong release 4 weeks ago:
I mean at that point just get it through GOG.
- Comment on Simplify your life. End the stress. And just get one of these to make all your decisions 5 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on Left-handed sep funnel anyone? 5 weeks ago:
I mean the solution would be to literally just label both sides.
- Comment on Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse? 5 weeks ago:
The pizza delivery person will invite themselves in and you will eat the pizza together.
- Comment on I love a good fractal 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, GNU did a ton of work at that time (and today still). GCC and glibc alone are monumental works of software. Add programs like emacs and you now have millions of lines of code you need to develop and maintain.
- Comment on Uhm 5 weeks ago:
An LKW and an EKW
- Comment on Life Hacks 1 month ago:
It’s not meant to be food safe and therefore doesn’t have to abide by any of the usual food safety requirements.
For all you know, the salt lamp could’ve spent a month inside leaded fuel and was only superficially cleaned prior to being sold. Sure, it’s almost certainly not the case but you just do not know how the lamp was handled and whether it has absorbed hazardous contaminants.
- Comment on sentence 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
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 month ago:
Just one more land bro, then Putin will finally be appeased