And another country with the same plans to drive down costs and invest in science by actively rejecting cheap energy and science…

I wish all those morons burning down our planet and damaging societies with the sole goal of enriching themselves and their budies would have more than that one page of always the same playbook for once. It gets really boring after a while…

I really love all my various Pis but at the moment there are so many refurbished servers available (thank Windows 11) as well as several small form factor x86 PCs that a Raspberry Pi 5 sadly is on the lower end of performance/cost.

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what is going to happen to the bases on German soil

Last time we publically heard about them, the US had stopped paying the people there and suggested that they go and ask Germany for social support instead…

Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

Certbot’s default timer checks twice a day if it’s old enough to be be due for a renewal… So a change from 90 to 1 day will in practice make no difference already…

You are actually not wrong. I indeed have an axe to grind with a morally bankrupt shit stain of a media company that not only is a major source of desinformation and right to far-right propaganda for decades but also managed to buy enough formerly reputable publications to pretend that their agenda pushing is actual journalism.

If you think that a media company known to lie and deceive (for a personal agenda, for the agenda of their investor or just directly for money) is not that big of a deal and we still need to take everything they publish at face value in case it is true for once or contains some traces of truth, that is very much your problem.

Maybe you have time for this. The vast majority doesn’t have the time to fact check every single thing they read. And so they should indeed know when a publisher is generally trash, barely does anything without an explicit agenda, and rarely actually reports the truth (and only if it can be framed to fit their agenda).

PS: Calling documented violations of basic journalistic code in a huge amount of different cases⁽*⁾ "vague nothingness also is a definitive “you”-problem.

⁽*⁾ For reference: There is a German Press Council reprimanding severe violations in journalistic and ethical standards. Most publications manage to get 1 to a few over many decades of business, the worst examples of yellow press even get low double digits. And then there is just BILD (Axel Springer’s flagship rag in Germany) with ~300 or 30% of all reprimands ever published (more than 30 just in 2024). And their other publication run the exact same narratives, just dressed slightly more professionally looking for other audiences.

You are missing the point if you still pretend they are stupid (or in this case: brain-damaged). They know very well what they are doing: Screwing you over to increase the profit for their buddies.

No, why would it bother me.

Some people need to voice their opinions loudly, some don’t. Doesn’t matter much for me.

The number of “I’m switching to Linux” comments or the change in frequency however is a reasonable indicator for public opinion (under the assumption that there is no sudden global increase in extroverts needing to voice their opinion loudly…).

You listed just about anyone you can think of to be involved in your conspiracy.

No, I listed a few of those Axel Springer SE is well documented to have already pushed propaganda for. In fact as I live in Germany I can read their lies in big red letters every morning on that rag displayed everywhere. So I sadly know how bad it really is…

PS:

“[…] claimed that Axel Springer SE, along with its subsidiaries, exhibits a pro-American stance, often omitting criticism of US foreign policy. This observation is then backed by allegations made by two former CIA officers in an interview with The Nation, claiming that Axel Springer received $7 million from the CIA”

" As of 2001, the Axel Springer SE names “solidarity with the libertarian values of the United States of America” as one of its core principles on its website. This explicit stance has led to critiques from scholars and independent observers"

“Foreign Policy has critiqued Axel Springer SE for a history of compromising journalistic ethics to support right-wing causes.”

All quotes from the Wiki link you refused to click to imply conspiracy theories on my side instead.

Finally.

No, that’s not happening.

You are listening to lying propagandists here. The only actual question with Axel Springer SE always is are they lying for some of their own hateful agendas, for their fossil fuel promoting co-owners KKR (unlikely in this special case), getting paid again by the US, or just doing it out of their unwavering “solidarity with the libertarian values of the United States of America” (one of their core principle directly from their website…) because some of their MAGA supporting friends asked them nicely to create a distraction.

(reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_SE)

Those “some” you mention are a miniscule minority.

That official US government account posting from Israel while a big political delegation is there right now? Sure.

Bigger numbers of very active MAGA influencers consistently posting from Russia or Nigeria? All those proud Irish “Celtic Warriors” posting from the US? Eastern European far-right politicians pushing Russian narratives and using Twitter through Russian apps? No, that’s a very obvious pattern.

So while your first about a global society is technically correct, it is definitely not the defining portion in this. And stressing “that can happen and is totally normal” when it’s an exception has the sour aftertaste of a diversion.

Also… to add some international facts:

We have also seen such things as Slovakian right-wing politicians with apps downloaded in Russia or Irish nationalists in reality operating from the US.

So totally not surprisingly -for people with more than 2 working brain cells at least- this is not just about MAGA. This is nationalist and far-right narratives and policies being pushed by foreign actors everywhere.

Nectcloud has always been incredible slow for me. (And that’s beside other issues like updates failing more often than succeeding…)

And as I was using it mostly for basic filesharing between my machines and as a CalDAV/CardDAV server I replaced it with Syncthing and Radicale now.