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They did the same for me: I was - like the author - vague here, instead of "10/10 perfect score" and thus rejected pretty soon without any further information.

Hah some networks just get a 403 forbidden accessing this

This is one of the long time running instances shutting down, linking to the primary nitter author saying it's the end for all instances eventually. And providing insights from the status page.

If they don't get new guest accounts, they're all going to shut down withing 30 days. It's just left over accounts and caches giving you the impression everything is fine.

Don't forget the rolling DoS herds of scrapers having no more ways to do stuff on their own, which are now trying to use the remaining instances - killing even more.

Looks like this is the end

yeah no, the people complaining about their deleted data clearly wanted to keep using it - so much so, they didn't expect anything close to migrating away to another location

that's not the scream test, that's the nuke test - nuke it and see if anyone complains, if they do, it's already too late

I still have open issues on github for keycloak. One of them is for example, that you can use whitespaces for names, where keycloak can't actually accept whitespaces. So you find that out after you set the global name..

The upgrade path for keycloak is also similarly broken in my experience. Especially the total change in one of the recent versions broke a lot of things, which they are still fixing. Add no visible LTS or security patching on top, and you end up with something, that isn't usable for any enterprise rollout.

Yeah government officials.. You don't wanna deal with them. Not even as a native german. Hasn't gotten better with the new refugees.

Can definitely agree on that.

We germans publicly joke about the fact that visiting the older part of your family in those "nice small villages" is always one hell of a culture shock, to put it friendly. Which starts with not saying anything about what they have for political opinions and questions regarding your choice of clothes, sexuality and job.

They probably even have their own town slang. Not any "high german". This is 100% comparable to the political landscape that you have in America (city vs farms outside).

I can also recommend using Syncthing for a cloud-less synchronization between the machines

I'm just guessing, but KPXC could emulate a USB device, or - if such things exist - register itself as a security key provider with the operating system

because using a yubikey instead isn't that much more in terms of key-to-browser pipeline - the browser just requests the key from a providing entity

Old, it's not new that macro expansions, build files and build tooling can do that. (And if we sandboxed that, you still get infected release builds, check your deps..)

See NPM installations and "please sponsor this project" messages, which can also give you a virus.

Uhm, so all of the german subs are now in soccer ?!

I think you can add this to your original post.

Except it's not a standard. It's "everyone has a different API that is broken in another way". But you can threaten legal action if they don't fix it or help you, which gets stuff done.

I think you're totally right. I could write a lot about this divergence between knowing how the technology works and trying to get something done with the limited tools or time you have. But essentially you're right.

Also that auto-hotkey script for automatic driving in GT is really impressive. ( https://github.com/ByPrinciple/GT7-Scripts/blob/main/PanAmer... ) So that's something between scripting and RPA. Essentially a DSL for exactly this task, which totally destroys my point. And does make a case for learning how to script with a tools that's capable enough, that it is useful for more than the best case.

True, there is (hopefully) always something like a DB on the other end, containing the data in a a fashion that makes it much easier to operate on (sql).

But is that really RPA at that point ? Suppose your task is to scratch some data from a website, calculate something and if some condition is true also perform some form submit.

If you do have access to the actual database you can just use that. If you also have access to the API of the system, you have to "check some box", you might as well just write a normal application that calls some SQL, perform some http-posts and maybe also provides a nice website with that data it crawled, formatted in the way you wanted to calculate the data, in, let's say excel. (Some would say you wrote a microservice.) And if all of this is possible then you're apparently good enough in programming that such a solution is the way to go.

But if you're in the typical corporate environment where the API doesn't exist / you can't access the database / you're not allowed to interact with the checkbox except for the proprietary application, then you're back to what an RPA was supposed to do.

Because otherwise we're down to one question: When is it an RPA ? When you're just using a fancy UI ? When you're not accessing any API ? When you don't script ? Or is the example above with SQL + API also an RPA ?

RPA to me rings "mouse recorder for dummies" or "ugly hack that breaks depending on how good your visual detection system is". At least when you described discovering that you can actually just use real scripts instead of UI indirection, it reads like something like that. A "not invented here syndrome" of that RPA tool, instead of a helper that handles checkbox-detection + clicking for you.

Also don't forget that it's easier to never finish the story. To never go actually anywhere with your one idea. You don't have to explain plot holes, backgrounds, conclusions etc. Because "that's to be done in the next book" which never comes out. Fair, but then we simply can't judge anything until you're actually done - and then we may buy your stuff.

- Somebody who has never read GoT so isn't part of the fandom.

that's not true - and RT is state sponsored, DW isn't

Another fact is that russia did forbid some german media (deutsche welle) to broadcast, so it's certainly also revenge..

I think that's an attitude I can support.

You surely do have laws against incitement of the masses, don't you ?

One example: In Germany it's forbidden by law to deny the holocaust, use nazi symbols, greetings or other media from that era.

And some state sponsored TV telling your they're saving people or helping some states while raiding their homes, killing them and using thermobaric weapons is ok ? That this won't create an uproar among all families and relatives ?

You have at least laws against defamation and this is nothing else than lying and laughing into the face of people.

What you certainly do is restrict youtube channels of joe rogan, trump and facebook ads for elections. And nobody did sue for free speech or won a case. So the general direction is pretty clear.

Why do people here cry for freedom of speech ? We've had fake information laws in about every state in the last years. And now that it's not only banning some youtube accounts about covid but also fake information of russia about the war they are waging (and people they kill), you're surprised ?!

That's wrong. He was partnered with lego as a store, so he had exclusive access to stuff you can't get otherwise. After he brought up certain issues and they sued him he dropped that.

So he's now selling lego and he's selling stuff from the competition. But he has no more access to the partner exclusive stuff (like lego bags). The only thing you can actually say is that he went all-in on bashing the stuff lego does wrong. I mean, he's living from PR and selling stuff.

Why invest into something that will only last 100 years in fuel, take 30k years to deconstruct and may blow into your face at every point in time. Sounds insane.

How about

- Germany trying to find a nuclear waste deposit since ages (that doesn't have to be evacuated due to ground water later on)*

- Failed nuclear plants we're deconstructing since ages and are paying millions every year to do so

- Nuclear fuel expected to be depleted in the next 100 years

- State and taxpayers always having to pay for the disasters of nuclear plants, while the gains are going to the companies

- French nuclear plants that had some interesting failures in the last years, while we can just watch and hope they're treated correctly. Meanwhile you're told "nono, everything is fine".

Theoretically nuclear power can be effective. Practically we're using corporations that want to profit and have a human factor. So no wonder it's not safe to operate in reality. The next fukushima could be at your door, with your government then also claiming the radiation to be safe, because they can't afford to keep people out of their work and houses for so long.

No nuclear company is insured for the real amount of money they'd have to pay for the next fukushima or Tschernobyl. Because there is no insurance for that amount of money.

* And USA still pouring money into a final solution for a underground storage

Also I don't give much about USA and their regulations. It's the country with stories like these: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-... And oh wonder: https://truthout.org/articles/evidence-of-fracking-chemicals...

I could even suspect USA influence to prevent more solar money to china or gas/oil money to russia.