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Die zwei Gesichter des Friedrich Merz

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Da war ich im ersten Teil des Artikels doch baff erstaunt. Es sieht so aus, als halte im Bundeskanzleramt die Vorstellung Einkehr, das aktuelle Regime in Washington sei nicht mehr durch Besänftigung in Schach zu halten.

Wenn man ihm wohlgewogen sein will könnte man also interpretieren dass Friedrich Merz hier die Gangart umschaltet und sich nun auf die eigene Bevölkerung in Deutschland (und auch in Europa) fokussiert.

Soweit, so gut.

Und dann reißt der Kanzler, wie man das von ihm gewohnt ist, alles wieder ein.


Bundeskanzler: Friedrich Merz zeigt sich desillusioniert von Trump und der US-Politik

Donald Trump gehe auf Kritik nicht ein, sagt Kanzler Merz – sondern halte, was er tut, für richtig. Statt das Völkerrecht zu achten, machten die USA reine Machtpolitik.
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Stephan

Im Schnitt kämen die Beschäftigten in Deutschland auf 14,5 Krankentage, sagte der CDU-Politiker. "Das sind fast drei Wochen, in denen die Menschen in Deutschland aus Krankheitsgründen nicht arbeiten. Ist das wirklich richtig? Ist das wirklich notwendig?," fragte Merz.


Die Frage ist so unfassbar dämlich, dass ich gar nicht richtig weiß, was man da erwidern will.

Glaubt er, die Menschen sind freiwillig krank? Dass ich mich, wenn ich krank bin, halt nur ein bisschen zusammen reißen muss, um wieder mehr für die Wirtschaftsleistung des Landes beitragen zu können? Glaubt er, dass Kranksein eine Willensentscheidung ist?

Was er damit infolgedessen automatisch insinuiert: Die Deutschen feiern krank und betrügen. Anders kann ich seine Argumentation nicht nachvollziehen.

Wie man mit solchen Aussagen ein Gemeinschaftsgefühl erzeugen will, das geeignet ist, äußeren Widerständen zu trotzen, das weiß vermutlich nur Herr Merz. Und Herr Linnemann vermutlich.

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YouTube has started randomly switching German video audio to English even though I can totally well understand German. How the shit do I turn this off? I'm not having YT Premium for this kind of nonsense, especially while the Android app is already as inaccessible as it could get. I know how to switch back the audio track for a specific video, but I have to do that all the time then good bye lol.
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Tech Singer

I get it, constant praise becomes boring, but seriously, @Bri has a gift. The gift isn't to develop software, lots of people can write code, that's nothing special, with the greatest respect. The gift is to write code which doesn't sort of work slowly and while drawing attention to itself. It's to write code which works quickly and blends into the background until called for when it does what it's supposed to and then goes back to the background until next time. That is both unusual and very useful.
@Bri🥰

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Okay, so here's a silly test poll. Aliens have just landed on Earth. They explain that the Galactic Council of Sentients will allow them to provide humanity with one game-changing technology. The aliens will observe us to see how we use or abuse this gift, then decide when and how to proceed. What would you want their gift to humanity to be?

  • Medical advancements allowing low or no cost healthcare for all, and various new treatments (33%, 1 vote)
  • Clean energy generation allowing low or no cost energy/electricity for all (33%, 1 vote)
  • Molecular recycling and assembly allowing abundant low or no cost food/clothing/etc. for all (33%, 1 vote)
  • Something else, send a mention! (0%, 0 votes)
3 voters. Poll end: in 6 days

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Years ago I got one of the first Alexa devices and I was really looking forward to install it. When it arrived and I powered it on for the first time, its LEDs blinking, I felt a panic creeping up in me. It was the moment I understood that centralised collection of such amounts of private data is unacceptable and will ultimately break democracy and free societies. That was the moment I decided to go decentralised. That Alexa device is still here, visible but unconnected. To remind me every day.
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#Ollama v0.14.1 has Experimental image generation models.
ollama run x/z-image-turbo
Only available in Mac Silicon and Linux with Cuda, and apparently more models are coming soon such as GLM-Image, Qwen-Image-2512, Qwen-Image-Edit-2511... #LLM #ML #AI github.com/ollama/ollama/relea…

Releases · ollama/ollama

Get up and running with OpenAI gpt-oss, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3 and other models. - ollama/ollama
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#AI #ML #llm #ollama

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I rode passenger today on a patrol watching for ICE in my neighborhood in Minneapolis.

Our ride was mostly uneventful, the neighborhood we patrolled has been a target but just not this afternoon.
It took me a while to follow everything that is going on, and I felt rather incompetent even as a passenger. These communities are rapidly developing processes and their own kind of professional standards even as new people are constantly joining in. There is a large set of Signal groups covering different portions of the city and into the suburbs, as well as many subdivisions for reactive response. There's a schedule of dispatchers who run calls, formal handoff, other support people to take notes and follow the chat. Drivers are trying to spot ICE, peering into the tinted windows (so many people have tinted windows!), looking up license plates.

There's a protocol that I don't yet understand for what to do when you encounter an ICE vehicle. Several times a day I hear the caravans of ICE and observers honking as they go down one of the streets by my house; protocol is only to do that after a direct encounter and ICE officers leaving their vehicle. I'm not sure what that implies in terms of numbers.

Throughout the neighborhood many corners had people in hi-viz jackets on guard. It was around the time kids were coming home from school. These are being organized separately, by schools, community organizations, churches, and the many ad hoc groups that are popping up block by block.

This is all heartening, and impressive, and also sad because it's not nearly enough. People are doing their best, but their best can only slow down ICE. We can't solve this from here.

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If you want a bunch of random noise and chaos in your life, there's a silly thing I put together, called FX Radio.

It's a box running Liquidsoap that mixes several audio players going through a huge library of sound effects, production libraries, and other odd things.

Don't expect anything to make sense. If it does, it's purely coincidental.

stream.borris.me:8888/fx

This is running on the same machine that hosts @NoiseBox, which throws a random sound at the fediverse once an hour, at a random minute each hour.

Fun fact:
This is running on a shelf under my mom's desk. While she knows the box is there, she doesn't know what it does. So, it's fun just for that reason.

@NoiseBox

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@Bri New silly bug! Send a new post. In the invisible interface, navigate to that new post. Before anything else comes in, delete that post. Now you're apparently still on that post in the buffer even though it doesn't exist! What's more, you can keep hitting next post, next post, next post, in the invisible interface, and it's entirely silent. Your position in the buffer keeps going up and up and up, E.G. Home. 171 of 162. To recover, hit previous post enough to get back to the real last post, then if you hit next post, it correctly recognizes that you're at the end and prevents you from going off into never-never land again.
@Bri🥰

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> Elasticsearch was never a database. It was built as a search engine API over Apache Lucene (an incredibly powerful full-text search library), but not as a system of record. Even Elastic’s own guidance has long suggested that your source of truth should live somewhere else, with Elasticsearch serving as a secondary index. Yet, over the last decade, many teams have tried to stretch the search engine into being their primary database, usually with unexpected results.

We demanded to keep our normal logs but you know how corporate IT is ...

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Long post on the durability of US racism

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Tim Bray

What would happen if ICE wanted to join the Fediverse? Most instances probably wouldn’t host that account, but some would. The account would be broadly blocked at both individual and instance levels, and some instances would probably defederate the hosting instance. Some folks would migrate between instances based on these choices. All this, I think, would be a good outcome?
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Yo, Bulgarian is not an easy language, yet here we are coding it in. Whoever can help tune it, well, it may need some. Good news with it is that it's largely a "what you hear is what you get" kind of language, and with 30 letters, well, seen worse. Bad news? Cyrillic support is hard to code out for the IPA normalizer. Good news? We need Cyrillic support anyway before turning the normalizer into a frontend DLL, which is the next milestone of this project.
Why not keep the frontend normalizer in Python you ask? This good for now, but to ship recompilable and buildable DLLs, it's clear that we'll have to do this, not to mention when NVDA goes 64-bit, although for the latter the issue is more embedding Espeak than the frontend need itself
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NV Speech Player (github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…): Updated readme with section that describes how phoneme data is added or changed, as asked by some. Feel free to pull the repo, modify data.py and open a PR, or drop me an updated set of lines if you'd like, and they will get tuned accordingly.

GitHub - tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer: A Klatt-based speech synthesis engine written in c++

A Klatt-based speech synthesis engine written in c++ - tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer
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Amir

@serrebi Sure.
1. BlindRSS has issues with Youtube feeds. We can add them and articles get refreshed, but upon pressing Enter on their articles we get the following error:
Error dialog Could not resolve media URL via yt-dlp: ERROR: [youtube] Fub7pSvlrlc: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication.
Check the following Youtube RSS URL as an example:
youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?c…
2. BlindRSS has serious issues with Bluesky RSS feeds. Articles do appear, but the article name/ title/ text all are reported as being unknown. Try the following Bluesky RSS feed for an example:
bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mtxyc…
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In "I Still Hate WiFi" news:

In the house where I'm staying now, there are three wireless access points in strategic places in the house. Unfortunately, the linking isn't as optimal as I'd like it to be.

I've been primarily using a remote computer from my iPhone for nearly three weeks, so when there is any lag, it becomes pretty obvious.

Pretty much every night here, the lag increases to an annoying degree, so much so that I get better results by turning off WiFi and using mobile data (currently AT&T is working the best in the house).
Because I'm using Tailscale, I still get access to all the same resources whether I'm on WiFi or not, and it only takes a second or two to reestablish the connection when the provider is switched, even if I change between my primary and secondary eSIM for data.

This place is so congested, though. If I do an environment scan from my UniFi controller, I see about 85 wireless access points in the area.
It's not that bad in my New York City neighborhood.

I've confirmed that latency and jitter are perfectly fine on wired devices here in the house. Even with three wireless access points spread out as much as possible as far as spectrum goes, things still get stupid, especially in the upstream direction.

Anyway, I hate WiFi. The end.

In case anyone cares, here's the latency and jitter I get when pinging my iPhone on AT&T from one of my home computers in New York, about 500 miles away.

36 packets transmitted, 36 received, 0% packet loss, time 73ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 40.558/171.173/370.040/104.540 ms

On WiFi, it was more like min 39ms, max 550 ms, average 100 something ms. I've seen better while on AT&T.

Ehhh, whatever.

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Tamas G

@jmd2000 well, it technically last got some code changes in 2021, picked it up again a few days ago because even though ESpeak did eventually integrate Speech Player it just never quite sounded as good as the standalone version that just borrowed it for phonemes. So I'm super happy to have it back, for me it's closest so far to an Eloquence replacement.
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