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  • The states generally have shit covered on their own and aren’t relying on the BPOL, the BKA certainly won’t get involved, they could divert some personnel from the railway system or Bepo. I very much doubt that, though, why do things when you can say that you’re doing things.

    …in fact, if I were a BPOL higher-up I’d interpret “tighten border controls” to mean “stop that pointless driving around in the countryside and station those people at international airports, instead”. You know, places where there’s actual border checkpoints that can be tightened. Let state police deal with stray foreigners dumped roadside.



  • Yep this should work SEPA-wide, In Germany POS terminals occasionally fall back to the old way of doing things (print out a long-ass reciept, sign it), the card then is just a way to transfer bank details, the actual authorisation is the signature, can be done offline, harkens back to the Eurocheque system. Basically the same thing as, I might be giving away my age, writing your bank details on a postcard and signing it, “yes I want to subscribe to your newspaper”, just that you don’t have to write out your account number.

    Sounds like it’s vulnerable to fraud and abuse but if your bank authorised you to debit other accounts like that and complaints or chargebacks pile up you’re in all kinds of trouble: The bank knows where you live. Chargebacks also cost an arm and a leg, and if a customer charges back illegitimately you might have to go to court to recover it.


  • In case anyone is curious what that means in practice: There’s federal police driving around in border areas investigating “lost people” reports, i.e. people dumped at the side of the street by traffickers, and drive them to the next town to get processed. Occasionally they can catch a glimpse of a license plate. Those guys now get more overtime.

    As to the rejecting asylum thing: IIRC you’re supposed to apply for asylum in the first EU country you step foot on, the refugee distribution mechanism only distributes people who filed paperwork, it doesn’t mean that you can choose where you file.

    This is 100% symbolic, with no actual real-world impact. Which, we can only hope, is the only type of politics the Dobrindt will do.






  • A crawler is a data processing machine, nothing more. therefor you are disrupting dataprocessing through data. If you think its not thats ok too.

    Nah it’s definitely disrupting data processing, even though at a very low-key level – you’re not causing any data to become invalid or such. It’s the intent to harm the operator that’s the linchpin: “Jemandem einen Nachteil zufügen”. “Jemand” needs to be a person, natural or legal. And by stopping a crawler you don’t want to inflict a disadvantage on the operator you want to, at most, stop them from gaining an advantage. “Inflict disadvantage” and “prevent advantage” are two different things.

    I would still advise to contact your lawyer in germany if you are thinking about hosting a zipbomb

    Good idea, but as already said before: First, you should contact a sysadmin. Who will tell you it’s a stupid idea.




  • Casting concrete requires building formwork to cast the concrete into. For any standardised shape constructing the formwork is easy: Just assemble it from the parts you have. Straight sections? The most common case. Rounded corners? As long as you’re fine with “should be round” and don’t require some very specific radius, those are probably also at hand. A gargoyle? Well that’s not an easy form to produce but once you have it, you can cast 1000 gargoyles.

    Where 3d printing comes in is places where you have a shape that’s literally or nearly unique, where building the formwork would be a PITA. In all other cases, the traditional method is quicker and cheaper.

    Also interesting is stuff like solar sintering plain sand.



  • Severely disrupting other people’s data processing of significant import to them. By submitting malicious data requires intent to cause harm, physical destruction, deletion, etc, doesn’t. This is about crashing people’s payroll systems, ddosing, etc. Not burning some cpu cycles and having a crawler subprocess crash with OOM.

    Why the hell would an ISP have a look at this. And even if, they’re professional enough to detect zip bombs. Which btw is why this whole thing is pointless anyway: If you class requests as malicious, just don’t serve them. If that’s not enough it’s much more sensible to go the anubis route and demand proof of work as that catches crawlers which come from a gazillion IPs with different user agents etc.


  • Yes they aren’t the same, that’s precisely why I made the distinction. Also Greenlanders are all three of Greenlandic, Danish, and EU citizens.

    Doesn’t mean that they’re comfortable with Greenland University teaching e.g. pedagogics in Danish. Electrical Engineering who cares (can’t even study it in Nuuk) but pedagogics? Psychology? Law? It’s a challenge is to switch those over without hurting the quality of the programmes, the university is tiny (~600 students) and relies a lot on guest lecturers. Greenlandic independence sentiment revolves around cultural sovereignty, not around hating the Danes, everything Danish, wanting to get rid of them ASAP, or suchlike. Still, achieving independence as a state serves as a point of reference for “we actually did it, culturally, organisationally, we are strong enough”. Which isn’t easy when you’re 56k people.




  • Denmark has claimed Greenland for longer than the current batch of Inuit live there. Norse settled there some 500 years before Columbus, in completely uninhabited lands. Those settlements failed, current batch of Inuit moved in, history happened. At some point Danes ceased to be assholes thus Denmark fully recognises the Inuit’s rights to self-determination, to declare independence if and when they so desire. No “unfortunate necessity” excuse why they can’t do it which you seem to believe is justifiable. There’s also no deciding for the Inuit “you must become independent, now”, like you’re doing.

    Go, look in the mirror, have a long, deep, thought about who has a colonial mindset, here, and who doesn’t. Who is keen on deciding things for another people, and who isn’t.


  • I don’t even know whether I understand I just hear MacOS users griping about fullscreen, and a quick google gave quite recent results. Especially with fullscreen being incompatible with other windows on top (each fullscreen window necessary is on its own workspace) which would be highly annoying in Blender. You can configure blender to have file open dialogues, render results etc. in its main window, but certain stuff like preferences always open a second one.


  • They don’t (usually) display the temperature but they definitely sense it, and react to it. When the sensed temperature is at or higher than the set temperature, the valve will be closed, if it’s lower it will be opened. Mere valves can’t do that.

    That’s what a thermostat is: A negative feedback control system regulating sensed temperature towards a setpoint, and keeping it there. They’re simple, inexpensive, reliable. Yes having the temperature sensor right next to the radiator isn’t ideal but unless the room is quite large that’s not an issue. Also with large rooms you probably have more than one heater and thus thermostat. And you could, in principle, put the thermostat far from the heater but I’ve never seen that done.