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How bad is Scottish English in reality? Did you understand anything at all when first moving there?

Probably all the dark red ones on the RSF index, and for me personally also all of the dark orange ones (yeah, I guess I am a coward… but there are reasons l am not a journalist…): rsf.org/en/index

I’m not entirely sure l want to know the story behind this… ;-)

Have been thinking the same at first. But France and Austria did work. Only Germany was blocked. Only thing that is unique to Germany I can think of is the hate speech laws that are very specific towards Nazi symbolism and Holocaust treatment. Maybe they had some article (or comments form users…) once that collided with that and decided to just block Germany to make their life less stressful.

😆 It’s blocked on the server side, though… (nginx message). Maybe some German “Neuland” shenanigans the page owner doesn’t want to be exposed to …

Just tried it - still 403 for me.

50s sci fi movie, actually. Part of that groundbreaking film stuff starting in that decade, kicking off our modern understanding of the genre. Twilight Zone also comes to mind. Currently watching season 2 of it. Totally great stuff, so many “firsts” in there!

Na, I go full in and make clear that this someone is not alone. I mean, on a Karma-free platform I don’t have to do anything to conform to the mainstream. Sometimes it even triggers a honest discussion.

Funny, I often have the opposite impression of many of the more recent games.

Link to the recent Al Explained video mainly covering ARC-AGI-3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4tptozUJ8Y

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Then better use burgerbrained (which doesn't seem like a portmanteau to me btw), avoids possible confusion with the existing word. "Normalbürger" in German-based languages just means "average citizen" in a completely neutral way. So not what you have been going for.

I am not an American. The word "Normalbürger" is a very common expression in my own language, but that's clearly not how you used it in your post, hence my question. So, what does it mean?

Side topic: ls "normalburger" a word commonly used in English? If so, what does it mean (I assume it does not refer to grilled beef patties?) My English dictionary draws a blank here...

Cute question to ask here :-)

Living in Germany, recoiling in mortified terror and someday telling my grand kids this astounding tale that happened to me once.

Grumpy walkers for the win!

Well, happened to me once already. Auto-pop-up to a hijacked page. Anti-Virus found the trojan later after next update. About 15 years ago and I was running Windows, but still…

What is Drive By Download? A drive-by download is a cyber-attack that unintentionally downloads malicious code onto a computer or mobile device that exposes the users to different threats […] The user doesn’t have to click on anything, press download, or open a malicious email attachment to become infected. These types of attacks can take advantage of an app, operating system, or web browser that contains security flaws due to a lack of updates or unsuccessful updates. So, the question is: Do I trust an Addon to be bug-free enough to let it intentionally run loose on high-risk content? And is it worth the potential additional risk (that I try to minimize in the first place by using Ad- and Script-Blockers)? Besides that there seem to be other reasons not to use AdNauseam, a major one being that it generates profit for e.g. google.

Nope, legit question. Asking when not getting something is good practice. You’re good :-)

But Picard is a Frenchman speaking with a British accent. Following the definition, that sounds pretty teaboo to me ;-)

I know that, but decided against. Prime argument against it is that a major reason I use ublock is security. Ad links lead sometimes to trojan distributing sites, and I really don’t want to catch a drive-by virus…

New vocabulary dropped! Teaboo… :-D

Wait, if this is the shotgun seat, it would mean the federation adopted left-hand-traffic… 😯

Won’t they be charged extra when you click on it?

I am also an engineer, so my kids have had contact with advanced IT equipment since early childhood and are quite proficient by now. :-) We also have a Chromebook with touchscreen at home, mainly so they can comfortably use some Android apps in a controlled environment (the 9 yo doesn't yet have a smartphone of her own). Chromebooks in school are not really a thing here in Germany afaik. Both kids have an account on our Linux desktop in our work/office room. This is set up with a special German DNS that provides age-group appropriate filtered hostlists ("jusprog"). To integrate that I used dnsmasq, which lets me easily modify the filters if needed. It's not perfect, as it could be easily circumvented, but we talk openly about it and I try to minimize severe restrictions, so they feel no need to tamper with it. The kids are sometimes a little annoyed when something new doesn't work directly, but know that this is the way that allows them to use the PC relative freely, so they are quite happy with the arrangement for now. We also have a Linux Laptop and a tiny Mini-PC with Linux Mint attached to the TV, both of which they are only allowed to use with some supervision. Edit: They have some games that can be used with their accounts (the usual, Luanti, Supertux, Tuxracer). The more complex Games are on a special account for which they don't have the password themselves, but have to ask for access. Older kid just got really involved in playing Oblivion, so proud! ;-)

Nope, neither a joke, nor Boomer. GenX with late GenZ and early GenAlpha kids. So no humor, just empiric observation. Just this week my GenZ son told me to my astonishment, that out of his class of 30, only 3 still have a printer at home. For my daughter in elementary school it is even worse. Mobile phones and tablets essentially have completely replaced PCs and Laptops at home. First time the kids come in contact with a text processing program is sometime during secondary school in class if they are lucky.

Meanwhile Gen Alpha: "What is Word??"

And in Jerboa they are almost as tiny as optical wavelength physics permits. Didn't even realize they exist until I took a very thorough look because of this post...

But it would be the other way around: Established players would have to completely break their existant transport layer in the whole world, just to be able to also cover the EU. (Or leave.) While potential new competitors would be able to design it to comply right from the start.

Big Tech has no interest in chat control, though. They vehemently opposed it from the start. How the Danish are acting just doesn’t make sense…

What the hell is happening in Denmark at the moment?? First forcing chat control upon Europe, now this? I looked up their government, would have expected far right or so, but it is liberal social democrat… So what happens here?

l know the picture, but I also sit while peeing. Trying not to be an asshole to my SO…

No, Heinrich Hoffmann, a German psychiatrist in the mid 19th century. Loved the Struwelpeter as a child btw. :-)

Not this time, though. Picture is out of the “Struwelpeter”, which is not part of Grimm’s collections.