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by corty 5y ago
In Germany you do not get all the cases, just the ones the courts deem important enough. E.g. if the ruling is different from earlier ones in some aspect, if it is a higher court or if the case was of particular public interest.
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by corty 5y ago
Regular courts are already responsible. They can and do order illegal content to be removed, accounts blocked and users punished. Some new legislation in Germany requires Facebook to also proactively remove posts from users that have been r
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by corty 5y ago
The above article isn't very elaborate on that, but the heise one[0] cites the judges: 'Es bedürfe "einer umfassenden Würdigung und Abwägung der wechselseitigen Interessen", insbesondere der "kollidierenden Grundrec
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by corty 5y ago
Canned responses from a bot and answers without weighing the arguments given will loose them the following lawsuits. And Germany is a looser-pays country, so given a lost lawsuit after each deleted post or blocked account, they'll be o
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by corty 5y ago
What the article is also missing and what will be a major problem for FB: FB will have to give the user the opportunity of a statement _before_ blocking their account and give reasons for blocking and why the statement was not acceptable.
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by corty 5y ago
There is a huge difference between "incredibly carcinogenic" and "potentially carcinogenic". Basically everything that comes out of a pan or fryer and is even slightly darker than "basically raw" will have some
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by corty 5y ago
Rented or not doesn't matter. If you rent a rack or more in colo, you get your uplink fibres and starting there can use your own network equipment. And for big enough customers, the uplink fibres aren't necessarily ethernet but op
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by corty 5y ago
Yes really. With DKIM, you blacklist domains, not IPs. Of course, only if you do it properly. Hotmail doesn't...
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by corty 5y ago
Same with GCP, they just announced IPv6 availability for VMs in the last few days. Unbelievably you couldn't even get a IPv6 address for a GCP instance up to now! APIs don't work over IPv6, and lots of other stuff doesn't as
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by corty 5y ago
Even before the pandemic, in the office, most of the collaboration was remote. Even with people in the same building, because lack of meeting rooms, noisy open-space office and loong looong walks down endless hallways we'd all rather d
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by corty 5y ago
The entire premise of the article is untrue. Larger farms always had paid or unpaid laborers who where not "the Farmer" but still farmers. With the industrialisation this tendency increased as mom&pop farms got fewer and avera
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by corty 5y ago
"Big pockets" isn't really true in this aspect. Part of the problem with the automotive chip crisis is that car companies are stingy customers and treat their suppliers badly, with insane contracts. So when production was sto
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by corty 5y ago
They just didn't decrase as fast as they could have, given falling prouction cost. But then again, the market was heavily distorted by German and Chinese subsidys anyways, so it is hard to know what the subsidy-free "real" ma
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by corty 5y ago
Since it is about corruption, of course there is only wild speculation. Maybe in 20 years someone will confess in their posthumous memoirs or something. Until then, there is only speculation, inference and the recognition of parallels to ca
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by corty 5y ago
There is no overt pushback. That doesn't mean that there is none. And the presence and activity of the usual environmental NIMBY organisations like Deutsche Umwelthilfe, NABU, BUND, etc. point to at least some covert opposition, since
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by corty 5y ago
Maybe. But I think all the politicians Tesla could have bought are already owned by their German competitors.
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by corty 5y ago
Problem with new players imho is the high level of corruption in certain parts of government and industry. While you cannot usually bribe a policeman in Germany, construction, permitting and industry subsidies and politics are heavily corru
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by corty 5y ago
Practically all went bancrupt between 10 and 12 years ago. Starting around 2000, Germany began to heavily subsidize private solar panel installations with guaranteed prices around 1Eur/kWh (later falling to 0.5Eur/kWh, now around
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by corty 5y ago
In her case: Der Apfel faellt nicht weit vom Stamm. She is a chip of the old block. One of the things that got her famous in Germany was her persistent lying and schemeing, including "think of the children", including showing actu
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by corty 5y ago
Yes, mostly you are right, nowadays. Problem is, imho, only in 2007 or 2008 China surpassed Germany in production (I can't find a source atm, just from memory). That would have been the right time for the EU involvement, but they took
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by corty 5y ago
It is possible to compete with China on things that require special knowledge and are rarely needed. "Special knowledge" because China doesn't have the local skills to produce it (yet). "Rarely needed" because China
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by corty 5y ago
The "making silicium" part is indeed similar enough to making aluminium that there shouldn't be much of a problem there. It needs lots of electricity, but isn't terribly hard. The complicated part is in growing silicium
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by corty 5y ago
From clicking around a little, it seems they were bought by elecnor, who seem to, among other things, use the solar panels to build power plants. So they found a buyer who just bought its own manufacturer, selling the excess on the side. No
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by corty 5y ago
Mostly sand for the silicium. A little doping materials, phosphorous, arsenic. If you want to get fancy, cadmium, tellurium and selenium (but mostly that fad is over I think). Aluminium and copper for the frames and connectors, a bit of the
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by corty 5y ago
Germany once had a flourishing industry producing solar panels. Domestic demand was high, supply followed, driven by high subsidies to home-owners producing solar electricity. For a few years all was fine, until Chinese manufacturers provid
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by corty 5y ago
Maybe. Germany had a very rainy summer this year, and the flash floods were just single-day events in a long period of cloudy, rainy but noncatastrophic weather. The regular, noncatastrophic rain actually made up for most of the draught in
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by corty 5y ago
The slight unbalance and the not-totally-uniform looks make cmr much more readable. The breaking with the typesetting tradition makes it better, because it is unhindered by such useless flourishes as "must taper" or "must loo
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by corty 5y ago
E2EE isn't forbidden per se. But if you are a public communication provider over a certain size you need to provide access upon request if technically possible. It isn't really clear even in the case of Tutanota if they fall into
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by corty 5y ago
Well, yes. Matrix is a federated protocol like IRC, XMPP/Jabber, IRCv3 and a few other less known ones. Being federated is basically what made Email so widespread, and I guess in the long run that model of doing things will be the only
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by corty 5y ago
Well, they could still have opted for something proprietary, weird and broken. See for example the De-Mail desaster[0] and the beA desaster[1]. Both supposedly better and secure email/messenger replacements with huge problems like lack

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