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No, the GP is correct. The solution is simple. Calculate your daily passive calorie requirement, take in less calories and/or up active calorie requirement. Simple.

Now, implementing this is hard or maybe impossible for many individuals, I'm not denying this. The solution is simple, but for some it is not easy to implement.

See, that's just the point. You see a need for that. I'd never enable push notifications from a news site, I don't need to know NOW that some pupil shot 17 teachers and pupils in the elementary school around the corner. There is nothing I could do anyway. I'm extremely unlikely to enable notifications from async messaging because, you know, they are async. If it's urgent, come over to my desk or use your phone to call me.

Financial data or travel info is something I'm actively watching, when I travel, just like car traffic. Otherwise, why would I need to know? That's a good question to ask anyway anytime you come across an inbox. I have been in management really long now and designing your information flow strategically is crucial to being effective.

That's depends what you want to do. If you want an all-in-one solution you'd go with the solution of your distribution vendor, e.g. Red Hat IPA/Satellite, SUSE Manager, or Ubuntu Landscape. Linux just plays nicer with ADS than MS Windows with any Linux solution, so most fall back to ADS in mixed environments.

If you only want Identity, Policies and Audit trails over several different Linux distributions, FreeIPA is your weapon of choice. It is clicky and requires no scripting. Just like ADS it is a bit of a pain to get into, but easier to run than OpenLDAP ;) If you want OpenID, too, connect FreeIPA and Keycloak, but you will need to dive onto the CLI. For configuration management connect Saltstack, here you have to edit rules files.

LOL, you need to get out more.

Me neither, but as the discussers point out, the Weimar Republic totally failed to apply serious consquences, e.g. Hitler's very short arrest after the Munich coup. Besides, the safeguards include more than limiting free speech.

Of course, those safeguards were designed in the late 1940s, so it's interesting, to say the least, how they cope with modern demagoguery. In any case it is worth a try.

Tangentially, that's a great site! I hadn't heard of FIRE before, but I'm glad they exist. I hope they don't get suborned by one side or the other.

Those fighting democracies are very specific about what is and what is not irreconcilable. For example, in Germany you can murder the president--that's just homicide--but you cannot abolish the protection of minorities. That's a violation of the constitution. Germany's far-right party Alternative für Deutschland has been under suspicion of violating a few of those provisions for quite some time now.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (aka. Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) completed a report a few weeks ago but is required by law to withhold it from the public due to due process. Of course it leaked, you can read the report here [1] (it's in German, obviously).

Now there is a discussion ongoing, if the Alternative für Deutschland has to been dissolved. That's a fighting democracy at work, following the rule of law.

[1] https://assets.cicero.de/2025-05/Geheimgutachten_Teil%20A.pd...

"Virtue signaling" is moving the Overton window. The far-right got very far with it, so do not dismiss it. Every journey starts with a first step.

They missed that liberty and freedom is not a god-given right, but hard-earned privilege. They missed that liberty is not a personal property but a shared practice of pluralism. They missed that liberty is not absolute, but requires compromise and limitations so that we all can be free.

To be fair, those are not things that are taught in school. If they come up at all it is in some historical context, a battle someone else fought--and won. There is no mention that maintaining a liberal democracy requires effort and vigilance. Modern, ie. post-WW2, "fighting democracies" have built-in safeguards to oppose internal enemies of democracy, but if they are effective remains to be seen. The USA mostly does not even have such mechanisms and it shows.

You are mistaken, just read the whole science service report and not only the chapter on subsidies (which leads with a definition of subsidies that includes all furtherances). However Mr. Mosdorf is not wrong, even if his data foundation remains unclear. There were, respectively are, no direct subsidies, just tax exemptions, indemnifications, and cost absorptions, esp. with regards to long-running waste disposal costs.

Anyway, nuclear power probably is not economical, but it also is not an existential threat, like climate change. So there are better hills to die on than this topic.

I'm usually not one to defend Elmo, but it was a response to P47 threatening to defund SpaceX. It's like watching children. Poor USA, poor us.

I appreciate the cynicism but who would you donate to?

How so?

Thank you for giving me an opportunity to research this stuff again.

> Not the power plants problem, as per law the government is responsible for it and the utilities have to pay them. The govt is in breach of this by not opening Yucca Mountain.

Strange, we assigned blame, yet the problem persists. What are they going to do with nuclear waste until the government acts? [1] I guess you wouldn't be willing to put a barrel or two into your garage, would you?

> Thats what insurance pools like the "American Nuclear Insurers" are for

I have heard of those. Let's check how much they disbursed for Fukushima. Apparently Fukushima was insured by the German Nuclear Reactor Insurance Association. And apparently the Association did pay out... nothing [2]. Furthermore, liability is often capped for those insurance associations, just like in the USA [3]. In the end the public will pay anyway.

> German commercial nuclear power plants for example never received ANY subsidies and they still made a lot of money.

The science service of the German Bundestag seems to disagree [4]. A more comprehensive study is here [5].

[1] And "act" could just mean to revoke the law and institute something like in Finland. Proper compensation of risk could certainly speed up finding suited locations. I'm all for it.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Nuclear_Reactor_Insuran...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...

[4] https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/877586/4e4dce913c3d88...

[5] https://foes.de/publikationen/2020/2020-09_FOES_Kosten_Atome...

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Who would you donate to, if you'd donate to an effort in the "plastic space"?

From TFA

> Meta and its Big Tech peers have fallen head over heels for nuclear power lately. Meta announced earlier this year that it was soliciting proposals for new nuclear power plants that would generate between 1 and 4 gigawatts of power. Today, the company said it has received over 50 qualified submissions for sites in more than 20 states.

I would like to see one of those submissions. Is Meta getting into the utilities business? Have they figured out how to store the waste yet? How to insure the power plant? How to make a dime of nuclear power without relying on massive public subsidies?

I have fond memories of the "Dial-a-Pirate" [1] and similar copy protection wheels of Lucas Arts Games such as Monkey Island. I think I have them somewhere in a box.

[1] https://oldgames.sk/codewheel/secret-of-monkey-island-dial-a...

I think I get your meaning, but it cuts both ways. The angsty populists of today celebrate the transgression, ie. showing bad manners, dumbing down language, or flaunting low concepts.

Giving something a derogatory name that the yellow press (or rather some Telegram group) can sling around to vent their frustration and fear could be a win in this place. Of course, leadership persons of such groups are usually just demagogues looking out for their personal gain, so it might just as well be another rallying cry leading to really bad policies hitting those that vote in favor the most. But such is the world today ;)

No idea. The site plays a little more text after "Remember?" and tries to engage you in a Q&A game. I did engage, but the site crashes on entering a number and pressing enter on the second question. I'm not clear on its purpose and would file it under "art".

In Germany, everybody and their siblings usually ask for a recent copy of the trade certificate of registration--it actually is quite annoying. Google could do the same.

So GitHub notes let me do what Zim Desktop Wiki let me do since 2005 without requiring internet.

But I get the OP, if you live in GitHub, it makes perfect sense.

> Running an exe shouldn’t require decades of maintenance. It shouldn’t be that complicated. It doesn’t have to be.

What do you think is all that stuff in C:\Program Files, C:\Program Files (x86), c:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32, C:\Windows\SysWOW64, %USERPROFILES%\%APPDATA%\Local and %USERPROFILE%\%APPDATA%\LocalLow or the seven versions of the C/C++ VS Redistributable you have installed?

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I'm mostly with you. However, dailies are little "dayplanners" for the team, too. For the benefit of the team as a whole, I'd suggest more context, like "I'm still on the state machine, but should be done today. After that I'll start on the DB migration. Jenny, I'll ping you then." or "Still fighting the runtime for the Box ticket. I need a second opinion."

Takes only a few seconds more. Of course, the Dev should know beforehand what he is going to say ;)

Spaghetti code is underrated.

I get your frustration but this is really a problem of the vendor. We had something similar about 3 years ago, where a vendor delivered a proprietary driver for a piece of hardware that only worked with a specific 2.6 Linux kernel version--making it at least six years old. Is this the Linux project's fault? I don't think so.

> SI should never have a space

You are mistaken. SI units and their numbers always have a space. For reference [1], [2].

[1] https://www.npl.co.uk/si-units cf. Numerical Notation

[2] https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html cf. #15

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European Commission is going to simplify GDPR to reduce burden on SME.

I'm sure that's true for you and you are entitled to your opinion, in fact, I am happy that you read more. For me, I find paper books more convenient, easier to use, easier to make my own (I like to scribble into books), easier to read. They only lose in the storage department, but I've got a dry cellar.

I own a Kindle since, I don't know, 2015, and I can count the number of books I read on it on two hands and I read about 30-40 books a year. The only reason to rent an e-book are imports that otherwise are hard to get or cost an arm and a leg.

Upgrading is magnitudes faster than building new. Apparently the current Finnisch idea is to actually build new tracks next to the old one, which requires wider beds, which requires more land, which requires more negotiations. Replacing in situ would be faster, but you would cripple your whole network for the duration.

It's a tradeoff and worthy of deliberation.

An acquaintance used to work airport security and he told me they asked to unlock/power up etc. electronic devices such as phones, laptops or SLR to check if they are real electronic devices. Apparently they were -- maybe are -- afraid of EDs that looked like electronics on the scanners.

Not completely groundless, even if I could think of more than one way to construct a device, e.g. laptop, that boots up and still explodes, but hey.

Ignoring an OSS option is not the crux of the issue, it only adds more stupid to the cake. They don't deserve a place on the OSS hall of shame, but on the list of shysters and fraudsters.

A company is exploiting your free-trial offer, defrauding your project of resources even if it is only a buck and a half. Why are you sending them money? Just shut them down. Unless you have some really unfortunate wording in your TOS, there is nothing they can do. On Monday, send an e-mail to all accounts associated with $COMPANY and tell them in clear terms that you are going to terminate their free-trials COB EOW. Leave a special contact number to negotiate fees, wait for your phone to ring.

Seriously, why are you putting up with this?