If you were born on the Google campus, would you expect them to give you citizenship? A job?

…Vatican City is not a state like any other, it’s a pet protectorate of Italy. Don’t compare a tiny speck of land with one of the biggest countries in the world, a country whose economy is reliant on the immigrants it wants to expel now. All that does is create a situation where employers can extort workers by saying “what’s the phone number of ICE, again”?

Vatican City is literally an office complex with a garden and a plaza with a whopping 764 residents in attached worker housing. They could enforce the same thing even if they were not sovereign.

Escape next to 1 is also underappreciated. It’s how vi was meant to be used.

Categorise Xeer then, please.

Nah. The usual Stirner pictures (google exists, btw) are simply pictures of other people. No asking ChatGPT involved, just grab them.

The way you described it, “imagery of real people” is straight-up misleading: No likeness of any real person was generated. There’s no photos of him, how could his likeness possibly be generated if noone knows what he actually looks like.

Noone knows what Max Stirner looked like, either, yet we’re somehow using portraits of him. That’s the kind of thing we’re looking at here, and RetroBytes is being very transparent about it. Certainly more so than random publishing houses printing purported Stirner portraits on books.

“I couldn’t find a photo, here’s what ChatGPT thinks he looks like”. ChatGPT then generates a Danish-looking guy presumably on the basis of a Danish-sounding name. You make it sound like RetroBytes faked video footage or something.

The main shortfall in the EU is protein crops, not just soy but most of our lentils are from Canada, we’re more of a pea continent and not really growing that many of them. It’s unlikely that imports from the Americas will be cut off, though, and if they are then we still won’t be anywhere close to famine but meat and milk products will become a lot more expensive.

The only reason the regulation happened is because Apple ignored the “industry, agree on a standard or we’ll set one for you” memo: By the time the EU passed the act all other manufacturers had already shaped up.

That is: For other companies, the looming threat sufficed. Apple needed to be forced.

The DSA contains provisions for combatting disinformation and as a very large online platform google is required to implement suitable practices. The DSA is a regulation, that is, immediately applicable law in all of the EU. As is usual for laws it’s written pretty generically and abstract, though, so the commission is also publishing more detailed documents that companies can use as check-lists.

In essence, the difference between the tax code and the finance ministry publishing a paper on accounting best practices. You’re free to ignore the latter but that will likely make your life harder than it needs to be.

Well, define “long after”. The earliest surviving non-Christian source is Tacitus who is generally considered to be a reliable histographer and had access to records that are now lost, he wrote, in about 116 CE, in the context of Nero’s burning of Rome (64 CE):

Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular.

116 CE should be about 80 years after crucifixion, not that long. If the Romans had not done it they would have considered themselves slandered and mentioned it in their justifications as to why Christianity should be persecuted, it would have been part of the contemporary political consciousness.

Germany had these kinds of laws since before the internet, that is, “are you 18?” questions simply weren’t judged adequate to fulfil the pre-existing requirements.

Net result is that there’s no German porn sites, and the big search engines filter their results. Which doesn’t mean that you can’t get porn everywhere, it just means that kids are learning a particular subset of the English lexicon quite early once they seek it out which is perfectly fine under German law as with anything youth protection it’s not supposed to stop determined kids, once they’re determined they’re individually old enough, it’s supposed to limit casual exposure.

The distinction Germany makes is “targeted at a German market/audience”. So if your domain isn’t on .de, if your payment options aren’t Germany-specific, ideally if you don’t even have a German UI translation, none of that stuff applies to you. Authorities will just ignore you.

Unless the UK is going down the Saudi route of blocking foreign sites, the exact same thing will happen. There’s always going to be some jurisdiction with lax youth protection laws where porn sites can set up their legal headquarters.

Even if you can (e.g. change your projection matrix in a custom shader) you don’t want to mess with it because a lot of things assume the standard is used. The proper, unconfusing, way to deal with it is to import/export to a format that itself has a defined coordinate system, like gltf.

It’s pretty well-established within the field of history that there was a Jewish mendicant preacher named Jesus of Nazareth who got baptised by John and nailed to a cross by order of Pilates. That’s just as well (or badly) attested as anything else about notable people in Galilee at the time.

It’s the rest that ranges from unattested to either allegorical or certainly made up.

The vehicle also has a landing compartment that can accommodate up to six fully equipped infantrymen. However, as the publication notes, the name “command support vehicle” may indicate that these combat vehicles will not be used as an infantry fighting vehicle, but can be used to protect the RCH 155 self-propelled howitzers from drones.

Given that the RCH 155 is a self-propelled artillery that can shoot and manoeuvre like a tank, just in 155mm, and Skyshield turrets don’t mind shooting horizontally either, no you don’t want to get close to an angry bunch of them.

The Heeresflugabwehrtruppe won’t be reconstituted before 2028 that’s when those new Skyshield-based systems will arrive in series, from what I understand anything before that will go to Ukraine. If you’re not putting infantry into those bellies I guess they could carry munitions for the RCH 155s? Those want to shoot and scoot you gotta keep up and even loading and unloading troops will only slow them down. Having a system that does air defence, ground defence against everything that’s not heavily armored (and even that if there’s a manpad launcher somewhere), and also cargo does sound sensible, it can flexibly support artillery, infantry, logistics, everything.

Oh. Drone operators. You can taxi those around there’s no place in the RCH 155s.

The army division doing air defence was completely dismantled in 2012, with the missile-based systems (Ozelot) going to the air force, those shoot stingers. The Gepards are now Ukraine and are eating drones for breakfast on the cheap, but, well, they’re not in Germany. Rebuilding of that capability won’t happen before 2028. But yes the answer is air-burst munitions, I don’t think lasers are quite there yet. EW makes sense for commercial drones but military ones probably won’t be impressed.

I’d like to interject here for a second and point out that “Billionaire-proofing XYZ” is both a praxis and narrative we should be doing way more often. Forget about socialising healthcare, just billionaire-proof it.

I’m still waiting for someone to do an x-up coordinate system just to mess with people.

He does have darn good shoe ducking reflexes, though.

Intel and overheating.