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When considering the widely discussed ethical issues with generative AI (unrestrained energy use contributing to climate change, theft of creative work, perpetuation of biases, etc.), I wonder if there's a meaningful difference between current-generation models like GPT-4O that can generate image descriptions on top of everything else LLMs do, and earlier, more specialized vision models used in things like the Microsoft Office apps and Microsoft's Seeing AI app.
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Matt Campbell
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In other words, if I were to take a stance on not using the former kind of model for ethical reasons, then to be consistent, would I also have to refuse to use the latter (but earlier) kind of model?
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James Scholes
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The fact that the latter runs on my phone with decent performance, and the former does not, would suggest that there are differences. Whether or not the latter's initial training exhibits some of the same problems as generative models, I don't know, but it's one of the many reasons that just referencing generative models as "AI" is lazy and harmful.

For instance, I read an article yesterday about a publisher updating their copyright statements to include the text:

"No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems ..."

The lack of nuance immediately made me wonder if I would be violating those conditions if, through my legitimate and unintended actions, any part of the work ever came into contact with any machine learning technologies, e.g. those used for OCR.

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At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments (Wired)

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At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments

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Anon: “A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.”

Good night! Sleep well! 🐈

citation extremely needed???
“Nearly two years after ChatGPT, AI coding assistant is perhaps the only product that has found the ever-elusive PMF (product market fit). Almost every programmer is using some form of AI-powered copilot-type product, even when their employers don’t encourage it – does not get more PMF than that!” The claim about almost every programmer using AI tools is highlighted

I really like Drew's framework here dividing current AI use-cases into Gods (human replacement, which I think of as still mostly science fiction), Interns (assistants you delegate closely-reviewed tasks to, which is most of how I use LLMs today) and Cogs (smaller tools that can more reliably serve a single purpose, like Whisper for transcription) - more of my own notes on this here: simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/20/…
note.computer/@dbreunig/113330…

Drew Breunig (@dbreunig@note.computer)

Simplifying the AI noise by segmenting everything into 3 big use cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs. https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/18/the-3-ai-use-cases-gods-interns-and-cogs.html
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Matt Campbell
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You sure you linked to the right song? Have you gone through the kind of existential crisis portrayed in that song? I always saw you as being cautiously optimistic about AI, that it can be a useful tool if used well, but not making us redundant.

@forrestbrazeal

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Simon Willison
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@matt @forrestbrazeal oh I absolutely went through these 5 stages of grief, but I've been firmly in the 5th step for over a year at this point
When ChatGPT first came out, I think a lot of us went through about 5 stages of grief: 1 Shock (how is a language model this good? what the actual ***?) 2 Denial (it’ll never be as good at writing code / words / etc as me. look at these hallucinations! silly model) 3 Anger (how dare they train their models on my creative work?) 4 Depression (what’s left for me? Who even am I) 5 Acceptance (this is the new world, AI isn’t going away, let’s figure out what that means for us)
@Matt Campbell @Forrest Brazeal
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@forrestbrazeal I don't think I ever actually felt the anger. And I feel kind of guilty about that, because of course some people have decided to stop there and fight against AI, and they have such moral certainty about it.
@Forrest Brazeal
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Simon Willison
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@matt @forrestbrazeal I've not felt the anger personally, because I've been releasing open source code for 20+ years so I already default to "I want people to be able to reuse my work as much as possible" - but I absolutely understand the people who ARE angry

If I was an artist and someone trained Stable Diffusion on my work without my permission and then started competing with me for commissions that used my own personal style I think I'd feel very differently about this all

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Glyph
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@matt @forrestbrazeal I don’t feel like I am stuck in step 4, but I can’t get to step 5 because I do very much believe that (at least in their current incarnation) AI is very much going away. I am worried about the collateral damage that this particular dead tree is going to cause when it smashes into the rest of the ecosystem. E.g.: nvidia currently has a market cap of 11% of GDP, which I do not think is sustainable. But who on earth is going to get a positive ROI on ChatGPT at $20/mo?
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Simon Willison
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@glyph @matt @forrestbrazeal I expect there's going to be a substantial AI crash, but I don't think (most of) the tools I'm using right now will become unavailable to me - especially since I can run Llama 70B on my own laptop now
@Matt Campbell @Glyph @Forrest Brazeal
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About running models locally, I've experimented with that, but large context windows take up lots of RAM, right? Like, isn't it O(n^2) where n is the number of tokens? Or do you not depend on large context windows?

@glyph

@Glyph
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Glyph
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@matt while I agree that the models you are using locally will not go away, I am also skeptical that they will receive much in the way of maintenance once the commercial bubble has burst. Nobody is getting paid when you run a model on your laptop locally, and training them still requires a zillion hours of GPU time and a corpus in the petabytes
@Matt Campbell
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Matt Campbell
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@glyph Yeah. Today I went down a rabbit hole looking into what it would take to reproducibly, deterministically build some video assets for a little side project I did. It reminded me of how some hard-core free software folks, particularly the GNU Guix developers, have been working on bootstrapping a whole OS with minimal dependence on existing binaries. We're never getting that for these big models.

@simon

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Simon Willison
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@matt @glyph the models I can run in my laptop today are leagues ahead of the models I ran on the exact same hardware a year ago - improvements in that space have been significant

This new trick from Microsoft looks like it could be a huge leap forward too - I've not dug into it properly yet though github.com/microsoft/BitNet


GitHub - microsoft/BitNet: Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs. Contribute to microsoft/BitNet development by creating an account on GitHub.
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@Matt Campbell @Glyph

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victor tsaran
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Really cool. Thanks for sharing! I felt they overdid panning though! :)
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Jakob Rosin
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@vick21 I think the original was broadcast through multiple speakers in a conference hall, so thats wy panning happened so much.
@victor tsaran

On this day seven years ago I got A FRICKING GOLD MEDAL for my work on #curl. Real. Proper. Gold. From the hands of the Swedish king.

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Daniel on the left, king Carl Gustaf XVI of Sweden on the right.

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nora 🐭 (she/her)
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can he hug or is he one of those guys who hit you in the back repeatedly just to let everyone know they are heterosexual?

Just yesterday, I saw a boost of someone suggesting "grand theft autocomplete" as an apt phrase for describing what large language models (such as ChatGPT and Claude) do. But now I can't remember who said it. The phrase doesn't yet seem to be common enough to yield a useful result when doing a DuckDuckGo search for it.
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I'm pretty sure it originated from @johl here: mastodon.xyz/@johl/11205983391…

Jens Ohlig (@johl@mastodon.xyz)

Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ Autocomplete?
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Kámo na mňa niečo lezie... celý deň ma bolia predlaktia, pravý kľúčny kĺb na nohe a absolútne nič necítim, ani trávu ani voňavku a mám pocit že na mňa ide teplota. To nič, ráno som fit.

I might have just agreed to do a keynote on foss-north 2025

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Natanael Copa
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looks like the CFP is not open yet.

I wonder if something #AlpineLinux or #k0s/#kubernetes would be of interest for this event

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WTF is this Discord sound!
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Tamas G
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I ate the discord sound as part of my breakfast, sorry. If it sounds muffled or quieter, it's just cause it's coming from inside my stomach for everyone else now.
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aaron
aaron
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Yeah I’m not a fan. The incoming call one is fun though.
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aaron
aaron
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I checked in settings to see if they changed it lol
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Shay
Shay
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@fireborn I think that sound is only temporary for the season. Cuz if you remember they change it for Christmas, too
@aaron
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aaron
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The sooner they get rid of the message sound the better haha.

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 17 updated and one long-awaited added apps:

* Fossify Camera: your light-weight camera app from the Fossify collection 🥳 and it got the 🛡️ (i.e. it is reproducible), yay!

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps and #reproducibleBuilds with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


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This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
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#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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Escape from Metacity

#unix_surrealism #mata

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When I first played #stardewvalley I was overwhelmed by all the tasks you had to do. It felt like the opposite of a #cozygame is there something out there that has the same look and feel but doesn't have the huge list of todos you gotta do?
#cozygame #stardewvalley
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Triptych 🌱
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@erion I just remember feeling overwhelmed at the time I started playing it with not knowing what was the best way to go, and having a big list of quests and stuff. I guess for me I didn't take them as optional but wanted to play the game in some min max way. Perhaps I should revisit it as a sort of village sandbox.
@Erion
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Erion
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If you do, you will have a great time. When people experience the game for the first time, it's common to have 6-7 saves until you figure out what works for you. Just take it easy for the first few tries, and one day when you are familiar with everything, focus on maxing out things. You will have a great time.

I’m never going to forgive people who bought a new Tesla in the past year.

PRODUCTS I WANT APPLE TO SELL ME (but they won't):

An iPad Mini only instead of iPadOS it runs NewtonOS. Software updated to make use of the bluetooth and wifi stacks and USB-C port.

Comes with an Apple Pencil, of course.

C'mon. Wouldn't that be the most freakishly powerful Newton ever?

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Scott Jenson
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As someone who worked on the Newton (and the eMate) I can appreciate your enthusiasm. The Newton was designed from the ground up to be a content creation machine, not a content consumption machine so things like text editing and inking were better thought out.

Of course, it's also held back by it's old-school scrolling model, which I'd think could be updated to support touch (vs pen).

The code base is a privacy nightmare (no protections on any user data!) Sadly, I doubt it would easy

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Malia Suhr
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@miki Oh that does sound cluttery and easy to run into. I think I have seen those actually, occasionally my mom would use them for blankets that were too big to go in the dryer.
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Mikołaj Hołysz
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oh yeah, I literally have some of these on mine right now. And yes, I've ran into it, many, many times, and gotten bruises in the meantime

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Do you ever think about how much time is spent just watching stuff? It's been quite the week, so I've turned to one of my comfort shows, the Goldbergs. As I was pondering all the things I still need to do, I suddenly realized just how much of my life I've spent watching it. If each episode is around 20 minutes and there are usually 24 episodes in a season, then in the last 3 1/2 days, I've watched approximately 24 straight hours of the Goldbergs. If you count the first time I saw it, there are 10 seasons, so I'm thinking that puts me around 3 1/2 days just for that run. If you count the spinoff series schooled and add it all up, I'm looking at almost a week straight of Goldbergs. And then I started to wonder how long I've spent watching We're alive, with all my rewatches, and I should probably stop now.
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Mikołaj Hołysz
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If you add social media, hn, youtube, podcasts, technical docs that I didn't strictly need to read for the problem at hand but that were too interesting to pass up... I don't wanna see these stats, I would probably cry.

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Elon Must is offering voters $100 to sign his pro-Trump petition

Shameless.
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I did not wish to change password managers. What's a decent password manager that's free software, and has a usable Firefox extension that works on both desktop & mobile?

Preferably one that is self-hostable, or where the database is easy to sync between Desktop and stock, non-rooted Android.

Bonus points if it is able to store additional custom fields, credit card data, and can generate TOTP codes too.

Is it KeepassXC, or is there something else? Last time I used KeepassXC (arguably, a good couple of years ago), the browser autofill was kinda flaky.

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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Hahaha. You always exercise it. But also, multiplatform, probably nothing is that accessible or pretty easy to setup.
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Erion
Erion
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I wouldn't mind the tinkering, knowing that things will be better, but right now everything looks worse than just waiting and hoping that they get their act together.

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Если клиент openconnect подключается к серверу через IPv6, то IPv6 он не настраивает

А если через IPv4, то настраивает

Ватафак

Ide mi urvať predlaktia a neviem z čoho.. a toto tie zádery sú prekliatie.
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Josef Zettl alias Princezna
Josef Zettl alias Princezna
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Pozor na to, z takových záděr často vznikají plísně, antibakteriální mýdlo ale dost pomůže.
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SuspiciousDuck
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@Zettl_josef ono to hlavne bolí pri každom dotyku a kontakte s vodou. Hlavne to mám z vetexu a jarovej vody čo stále utieram stoly, nemá sa to kedy zahojiť lebo "stále" robím.
@Josef Zettl alias Princezna
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Josef Zettl alias Princezna
Josef Zettl alias Princezna
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Tak to nezávidím.
Chce to hodně promastit, ideálně nějaký krém s kakaovým máslem, makadamovým olejem. Ale dobrý je i samotný olivový olej, nebo sádlo to je TOP.
No a před prací doporučuji promazat vazelínou, ta vytvoří tenký film, který chvilku vydrží i ten Jar.
Doporučovat rukavice je předpokládám zbytečné.
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SuspiciousDuck
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vazelínu nemôžem lebo je mastná a nemôžem nosiť mastné poháre/príbory, potrebujem krém ktorý sa hneď vstřebá, mám tip Ulipolitio alebo Neutrogenu.
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Josef Zettl alias Princezna
Josef Zettl alias Princezna
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Ten první neznám, ale Neutrogena je prakticky vazelína.
Tak aspoň na noc namazat něčím výživným, ta Neutrogena chrání, ale nehojí.
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Josef Zettl alias Princezna
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Musí to mít ve složení to, co jsem psal třeba kakaové máslo makadamový olej, olivový olej, nebo klidně použít to sádlo.
Pokud se bavíme o krému z drogerie, tak doporučuji tento: rossmann.cz/krem-na-ruce-s-oli…

Obsahuje jak kakaové máslo, tak olivový olej, vstřebává se rychle.

Krém na ruce s olivovým olejem | ROSSMANN

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Ongoing discussion, but it looks like Bitwarden may be starting to make moves towards no longer being open source:

github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…

Previous issues opened against the SDK have been met with replies that suggest they have no intention of reconsidering the licensing decision:

github.com/bitwarden/sdk/issue…


Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software · Issue #11611 · bitwarden/clients

Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: Y...
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chx
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@erion @tootbrute well here it is. Guess what? The world isn't ending. github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…

Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software · Issue #11611 · bitwarden/clients

Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: Y...
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Erion
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Well, that's disappointing. I was really looking forward to the chaos of the only usable password manager slowly becoming proprietary. The FSF should be proud, GPL has fixed a "bug."

Zajtra idem s cyklistom na pivo nech načerpám nejaké múdra.
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SuspiciousDuck
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pravdepodobne jo.
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Huch - ICE pünktlich und freundliches, tiefenentspanntes Zugpersonal. daran könnte ich mich wirklich gewöhnen.

Hoffentlich bleibt es so...

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Dickenhobelix
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@DerMolly @Bubu das halte ich für ein Gerücht, ich habe ein Talent fürs Erwischen von Desaster bei der Bahn...
@Bubu @Molly
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Bubu
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@DerMolly Ich glaube so viel Talent braucht man dafür grade nicht mal unbedingt.

(Erstmal Fahrgastrechteformular für die Hinreise ausgefüllt...)

@Molly
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