A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things as well.

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  • I’m not sure about that either. From what I read sex without consent was not necessarily a crime under the previous law, and that’s what they fixed?! I finally have to find some source and read what actually happened and what’s in the bill and not just some summary…

    Edit: From reading a few news articles, I’d say consent wasn’t the deciding factor under previous law. So technically having sex without consent was fine. Unless there was something like coercion or violence involved. And likely there are quite some loopholes with that.



  • Good question. I was under the assumption lawmakers don’t mandate something to exist (consent), unless it’s also someone’s obligation to take care of it. And it obviously can’t be the injured party… But you might be right, there is more to it. Unfortunately it’s kind of hard to get the exact wording of the bill. The journalists don’t seem to provide any links for me to look it up. But yeah, I’ll edit my post, that was mostly my speculation.


  • I feel “word or deed” isn’t the entire story, right? Once the burden of proof is this way around, and it’s a he-said-she-said case like with spoken word, you’ll kind of want to fill out a form and have it in writing.
    But word or deed is the right thing to do, you shouldn’t have sex unless it is clear the other person is on the same page, and they show it in some way.

    Edit: I think my previous take here wasn’t super clever. Seems the main achievement of this bill is rewriting law so sex is about consent. Directly. And not defining rape via some other things like coercion or violence (which might have loopholes or other issues). And now consent (or the lack thereof) is the deciding factor.


  • You’ll find a different prevailing mood in different communities here on Lemmy. The people in the technology community (the example you gave) are fed up with talking about AI all day, each day. They’d like to talk about other technology at times and that skews the mood. At least that’s what I’ve heard some time ago… Go to a different community and discuss AI there and you’ll find it’s a different sentiment and audience there. (And in my opinion it’s the right thing to do anyway. Why discuss everything in this community, and not in the ones dedicated to the topic?)


  • Try finding out if it received an IP address, if the driver is loaded or if there are any error messages in dmesg. You might also want to give more information. Which ethernet card? Which version of Linux are you running? And there seem to be some similar reports on Reddit and in some Linux forums. I couldn’t find a solution, though. Maybe you just want to buy a cheap new network card.




  • I can’t remember the exact details, but I believe the attackers also targeted instances? So it’s not just that it happens with certain problematic instances, but everyone could have that uploaded to their media storage. And it can come from arbitrary places. I believe that adds to the problem. And it kind of requires to shut these things down for everyone. Or at least everyone except a few excellent hand-picked instances who cooperate closely, and the moderation tools actually work.

    Yes, they’ve done an excellent job. I just wish they wouldn’t have to deal with these things.

    (And I also think some of the child protection agencies should finally offer some open-source tool to scan content. Afaik there are still no image classifiers or hash tables I could use for my projects.)




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    Supposedly, yes. Though I only ever read about attacking with uploaded images, maybe lots if requests which are crafted to result in expensive database queries… I’m not sure if it’s ever something Cloudflare could protect from? I mean all their advertising about security, mitigation and prevention sure goes down like oil. But I sometimes wonder if it’s just 100% snake-oil for use-cases like this…

    I think the fire-extinguisher is a proper set up of Linux, updates, backups, and a web application without a lot of issues in the program code, and a minimum of attack surface.





  • This discussion is about some peculiarities in German law concerning hate speech. And about how it might be considered hate speech if someone were to call for the termination of the country. And how we deal with that here on Lemmy. It’s complicated though and you need to read the law and not take my summary. This has nothing to do with whether one or two states or other ideas might be better or worse, or with what’s right and what is wrong.