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[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That depends on people's perception of the GDPR, rather than it's actual effects.

That's disingenuous. We have a lot of regulation that improves people's lives but isn't well-regarded due to politicial campaigns, or in the case of GDPR, malicious compliance [1].

At the same time: Even if a con man tells you that anti-con-men legislation is bad, and even if they're successful at convincing you of that — that doesn't change the reality that legislation against con men is probably a good thing and helps you.

Thanks for backing me up on this.

Ok, so I actually previously read too little of the discussion to participate competently. I missed was that you moved the goal posts: The poster above you mentioned that due to GDPR, people's personal data couldn't freely be shared around the world. That was the point and psychological manipulation was only mentioned to illustrate an end goal.


[1] I.e. it's totally possible to run GDPR-compliant site without a cookie banner, except corporate interests don't want that. Instead they'd rather harvest all the data they can and blame the inconvenience of the cookie banner on. GDPR

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Und mit "Anwalt" meinst du "Staatsanwalt", oder?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Freebird Airlines

Ok

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Luckily," one of Project 2025's pillars is removing career public servants with a spine and replacing them with MAGA loyalists.

And this is already happening: last time I checked 75k public servants had agreed to the layoff "offer" from the Fork in the Road mail. On the other hand, the Project 2025 people have been selecting a queue of new people via their own process since the latter half of last year. And of course, all the most important leading positions have already been replaced.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The US government is attempting a coup right now: Rolling back democracy, weakening US influence around the world to leave vast power vacuums, weakening the US internally, accelerating environmental breakdown, and clearing the path for wholesale privatization of the country.

I would still put some trust in civil society, in the judicial system and in state/city governments, but the federal government is completely corrupted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At the very least, Democratic power players were actively hostile against Sanders' bid. s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I wonder how many people see it that way.

How it is viewed is not the point. The question is whether it helps people.

It has nothing to say about psychological manipulation.

The DSA regulates dark patterns: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2025/767191/EPRS_ATA(2025)767191_EN.pdf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

History rhymes sometimes, sure. But consciously helping send humanity into a darker age even though the arrival of said darker age is absolutely not a predetermined thing seems like a terrible idea. "We need to do something bad now, because there are 80-year cycles for bad things and 80 years since WWII is over" is just a sorry, bullshit excuse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

At least one of the lines "wir waren halt vorher viel zu lang ein Staatsbetrieb" ("we were a state-owned company for far too long before that") is something nobody would say anymore, given how obvious it is that the "privatization" just made service worse.

 
 

Der frühere Bundespräsident Horst Köhler ist tot. Er starb im Alter von 81 Jahren, wie das Bundespräsidialamt mitteilte. Köhler war von 2004 bis 2010 das deutsche Staatsoberhaupt.

 

Das Narrativ vom »gefährlichen Ausländer« gehört zum Markenkern der AfD. Sie hat es mit langem Atem strategisch in den Mainstream eingeschleust und die Union überlistet: mit gezielter Realitätsverzerrung.

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Opposition leader Friedrich Merz accused of breaking longstanding political firewall against far-right populists

 

Für SPD und Grüne ist die Abstimmung der Union mit der AfD ein Tabubruch. Doch die Menschen erwarten entschiedenes Handeln, meint Hans-Joachim Vieweger. Dass der CDU-Chef nicht radikalen Kräften das Feld überlasse, sei richtig.

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Randomly, some websites seem to have a lot of fun breaking password managers. One inconvenience is sites now often asking for user name and password separately.

Another inconvenience is sites that use six-digit emailed codes instead of passwords. Which is just massively inconvenient because not only do I need to have an email program at the computer I am at, I also need to switch back and forth and copy-paste stuff.

Is there any password manager that works with those? Is there a way to get these codes working with Bitwarden even?

 

Wenn ihr könnt, bitte geht heute zu einer Demokratie-Demo! Vor allem nach dem Anschlag in Aschaffenburg, nach dem sich die Rhetorik nochmals verschärft hat, ist das total wichtig.

 

Kryptowährungen boomen. Aber das "Schürfen" virtueller Münzen ist energieintensiv, deshalb lohnt es an Orten mit niedrigen Strompreisen - wie der Konfliktregion Abchasien. Doch die kommt der Krypto-Rausch teuer zu stehen. Von S. Stöber.

 

Die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt nach den Landwirt-Protesten zu Beginn 2024 nur noch gegen einen Mann. Sie erkannte keine organisierten Gewalttätigkeiten.

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Aufgrund der Unübersichtlichkeit der Lage hatten die eingesetzten Polizeikräfte auf Deeskalation gesetzt und keine Personalien der Demonstranten festgestellt. Zudem erbrachte den Angaben der Staatsanwalt nach die Auswertung des umfangreich gesicherten Film- und Bildmaterials keine Erkenntnisse. Dafür sei die Qualität in der Dunkelheit zu schlecht gewesen.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/6853319

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