They probably were asking about the first name, which is Hebrew. But with the answer “from Israel” she emphasized her Israeli identity I think. I might react with laugh/snort if someone professed their Zionist political ideology when that wasn’t the question.

A host at a German public broadcaster allegedly had visceral reaction of disgust, when a guest, an Israeli-German cyber-security professor, said her name was “from Israel”. First of all, there is no such thing as being “from Israel”, and what’s an Israeli name anyway?

Only a Zionist would answer this way, I thought, and yeah, she has written an article about how “Israel must also defend itself on the Internet”.

The host is probably going to get fired, she’s Turkish-German so they’ll count that against her.

I guess you moved it before it was sitting in your corner? Some connection might have came lose during transport. Try re-plugging all the cables and and maybe even the other components. Though it’s probably related to power, otherwise it would likely do something. It’s possible though that it’s actually broken. Since it doesn’t power on that would either be the power supply or the mainboard most likely.

I mean you get updates from your distro. So in that sense every distro is equally backdoored. If some agents or criminals can get at the infrastructure & signing keys (or the people responsible for those), they could distribute backdoors through the update mechanism. I don’t recall this exact thing ever happening, but, for example, someone hacked Mint’s website some years ago and replaced to ISOs with backdoored ones.

Also, there are what’s called remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, those are found regularly in all kinds of software, but those look like (and most likely almost always are) honest mistakes. Anyone with the right know-how can exploit such an RCE in a vulnerable system. We do know that government agencies pay people to find RCEs, or buy them on the black market, and then keep them secret as a potential offensive cyber weapon to break into systems.

Accidents, not Russian sabotage, behind undersea cable damage, officials say (WaPo) | archive

I am very surprised by this. No one saw that coming. Nevertheless:

At a Baltic summit in Helsinki on Jan. 14, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced plans for new patrols by frigates, aircraft, submarine satellites and a “small fleet of naval drones” designed to detect undersea sabotage.

Mission accomplished I guess.

I have heard vinegar is bad for rubber (silicone?) seals which is why the acidic machine cleaning stuff is usually citric acid. I don’t think using vinegar once is that bad, but maybe don’t do it in the future.

I don’t have anything else to add, but good luck!

Wait, if the game volume is 1%, and the system volume is 50%, shouldn’t the resulting volume be 0.5% of maximum? Do you have that amp setup from Back to the Future?

Sorry, I’m joking. To be more helpful, this reminds me an old problem PulseAudio introduced (and then disabled) on Linux some years ago, it was a feature called “flat volumes”. The idea was to avoid the need to have two volume adjustments (if only one application used the sound card), one a per-application one (done in software) and then another from the sound card, which is wasteful and can result in lowered audio quality if one is set very low. So they got rid of the per-application volume in the case that only one application was playing audio.

But the result would be that, if an application (like a game) changed it’s volume (by setting the application volume), it would in effect set the hardware volume, resulting in this kind of sudden loud noises even if you previously had your system volume set all the way down.

Maybe on your system it works similar to this “flat volumes” feature and maybe that can be disabled somehow?

Notice the flags are just copy and paste jobs. The artist wants the audience to understand that war propaganda is just an oversaturated, cheap reproduction of a simple template. That the choir of voices all telling you the same thing is nothing but an illusion. It’s all just one voice, copy and pasted all over.

The Simpsons seemingly exist inside a void, staring blankly at you as you stare blankly into the emptiness of their expressions. It is frightening. Confronting! It dares the viewer to face what he may not want to: That there is nothing there! It’s all a lie.

Once you look beyond Marge, the focal point, you notice that something is not quite right. The drawing becomes cruder towards the edges, as propaganda tends to look when you look more closely into the details and circumstances. This also creates the impression (quite deliberately) that the artist gave up on this assignment, his professional self-respect, and life in general. Like he wants to say: Please Xi Jinping! The Simpsons yearn for freedom!

https://jumble.top/f/trueanonpod.xml

Low-end coffee hand grinders have gotten a whole lot better in the last 15 years or so.

Many years ago I bought what was a widely recommended coffee hand grinder made by Hario. It had a ceramic mill. It’s frustratingly slow and tedious.

Got a Timemore like two years ago, which has a stainless steel mill and they added some teeth into the mill design, which does sort of a rough shredding of the beans before they go into the lower fine milling, which makes this super fast and quite low effort. Takes less than a minute per cup. It’s also prettier and just better designed in every way when compared with the Hario. According to reviews the resulting grain consistency is pretty good and it can go quite fine, fine enough for espresso even, though I wouldn’t know anything about that.

On the Trans-Siberian they put trains on a ferry over Lake Baikal, but that wasn’t great because sometimes even the ice-breaking ferries couldn’t deal with the thick ice during the winter. So eventually they blasted tunnels through the mountains to go around the lake.

They just kicked out a pro-Palestine activist, Ramsis Kilani:

The Landesschiedskommission is thus following the logic of unconditional support for the State of Israel, in accordance with German Staatsräson, which it has put above the right to existence of and equal rights for Palestinian people.

The current development of the mass killing of the Palestinian civil population, which has also been confirmed by Amnesty International as a genocide, was given no import in the judgement of the context of my statements.

So Die Linke thinks Israel has a right to exist, and that armed resistance against a genocide is illegitimate, and anybody who disagrees with that gets thrown out.

So “Red Hitler” isn’t too far off here.

Anything used for internal Android usage will be formatted completely differently from the standard FAT32/exFAT, which is most likely what’s going on. It it wasn’t detecting the SD card it probably wouldn’t ask you to format it.

A reader from 2011 is almost certainly SDHC (spec from 2006) compatible and likely also SDXC (2009) compatible. Also I vaguely remember something about being able use bigger cards on older readers in an out-of-spec sort of way some situations.

I hate it. Still the best game of this type probably.

It’s 404 now. Used to be this there: https://archive.is/1yPRU

This was made with chatgpt or something.

I’ve been playing Dark Souls for a couple weeks on and off. First time playing any game like that. Took me a long time to get any idea what I should be doing, but I’m getting the hang of it. I think I’m in the mid game now.

That game is obtuse af. It gives off a vibe similar to a difficult, shoddy, cryptic retro game sometimes, but a lot of it is obviously designed with excellent attention to detail. So is all of that intentional? I don’t know. Even if all or most of it is intentional, I’m not sure it’s actually good design.

I do like it though.

Any way to get around the paywall?

I feel like contributing to this megathread by updating you all on frankly inconsequential and stupid internal German politics, and it makes me feel dirty. But here it goes anyway.

The FDP (liberal party) blew up the socdem-green-liberal coalition (Ampel, meaning traffic-light) and the media got hold of their internal powerpoints of how they planned this for months and referred to it as “d-day” and the final stage as an “open field battle” and now they’re outraged because of civility and bad faith or something.

So this might backfire on the FDP which I hope it does, but also none of this makes a lick of difference since all involved are neoliberal freaks and genocidal maniacs. It’s just lib infighting.

A spokesperson for the German regime said they will only definitely decide whether or not they would arrest Netanyahu or Gallant if/when they plan on coming to Germany, but he said arresting them would be “hard to imagine”. ^tagesschau

So they have definitely decided they will not arrest Netanyahu but don’t want come right out and say that.

I like them both.

The newer one (being wider and more symmetrical at the bottom) has a pleasing sort of triangle going on, like an arrow pointing towards the star. The old one just kinda has a star above it.

I kinda like the wider sickle thing on the old one on its own though.

Also it looks like the new one is a bit brighter. The darker tone makes it seem more badass somehow, but badassery is not really the main point you’d want to convey.