XMPP Entwickler und die Standards Foundation (XSF) haben auch kürzlich Drohbriefe von russischen Behörden bekommen, aber das ist ein ziemlicher Papiertiger 🤷

The argument about possible threats is good, but why this means we need to increase defense spending is completely unexplained.

Europe already vastly outspends Russia on defense, and for example Spain buying more Leopard 2 tanks just to have them rot in their baracks is not helping at all.

We need to get more efficient in defense spending and we need to invest in defensive weapons that can be easily moved where they are actually needed. Better locally produced anti-air defense, especially ones cheap enough to work against drone swarms are probably also needed.

But none of that needs 5% of GDP. We could probably significantly reduce current defense spending and still end up with an more effective deterrent against Russia.

Our infrastructure and social services are already massively underfunded. More than doubling defense spending will come at a cost to those services, especially with right wing governments in power everywhere. And the result of that is just as much if not more of a threat to our values and the cohesion of the EU than Russia.

Arn’t there several addons for that?

Says the person who felt a childish need to write such a comment 🤷

Mining on earth is extremely destructive, but if human civilisation is to survive the coming challenges, it will still need a source of high value raw materials.

Getting them from the astroid belt and refining it in space all via robotic probes seems not so far fetched.

But once such an industry is established the economies of space travel change dramatically.

Sure, overall I agree with the article, but there will be most likely a few that will leverage the economies of scale mentioned above for some human exploration beyond the belt.

Because if you are at a certain age and healthy enough, you can plan a nice multi-year trip without “return ticket” pretty easily and neither low gravity or radiation are a serious issue either.

stelle ich in yt die Tonspur um auf Original

Also vieleicht bin ich nur zu blöd das zu finden, aber geht das überhaupt wenn man nicht eingeloggt ist und keinen yt Account hat?

Russia outspends the whole of EU in military built-up

This is blatantly false and it takes a lot of massaging the numbers to reach even parity in spending like the OP article claims (but it uses pre-war PPP figures, which is completely laughable).

Is military spending efficient in the EU? No. Do we spend too much on unreliable US made weapons? Yes!

But Russia is spending a tiny fraction of what the EU+UK does, and its troups are exhausted from a protracted war with Ukraine.

Maybe they will try to poke a sleeping bear to divide us further as a form of asymetric warfare, but in no way (other that nuclear) is Russia an existential threat to Europe right now.

This is just the age old cold war fearmongering back in action. Lots of profits to be made from that…

Before SpaceX, Ariane Space was pretty dominant in the commercial sattelite launch market. But they completely botched the Ariane 6 design and are now likely still decade away from having a reusable first stage, which is required to remain competitive.

They can be lucky that SpaceX is wasting their resources on a reusable second stage, which will likely never be economical.

Offensichtlich ist von Meck-Pomm die Rede, aber für manche ignorante Berliner ist das halt alles JWD 🤷

Judging by the screenshots there are better looking IRC apps, but fine 🤷

Maybe just a hint to get you thinking out of the box, but cat doors really don’t need to be at ground level. They will happily climb somewhere to get in and out.

The one in the OP afaik in Canada the imperial core 😏

If I remember correctly this was a scam anyways as it needed a lot of natural gas to pre-heat the central tower in the morning or so. So on less sunny days it was net-negative energy wise. But I might remember wrong.

This is an interesting theory, but I think it is wrong that it assumes that there is some sort of evenly distributed universal qbit substrate.

The vital question is IMHO how can this theory fit in time dilation (= gravity lensing? ), which is an obversable fact near gravity wells or at high speeds.

I find it more likely that it will turn out that even time is somehow a function of this extended concept of entropy. Like as if mass, movement (~heat) and time are three facets of the same entropic force that has an upper limit that we currently only know for movement, i.e. the speed of light.

So something moving at the speed of light must have no mass and time stands practically still for it (as the case for photons), and the more mass something has the more time slows down around it (which can be observed) and gravity is the result of entropic movement being restricted.

Under such a theory, the observable effect of mass, i.e. gravity, is basically atoms being restricted in movement and thus over time sticking together similar to particles moving around in a liquid by diffusion but some part of it is more viscous and that over time accumulates all the particles due to the sticky effect.

A star would be then a place where mass and heat/movement is high, but time is slow, and a back hole would be an extreme case that is almost entirely mass, with no movement or time possible (hence nothing can escape from it).

Nice picture, but without context it doesn’t tell us much.

Ok, sorry, didn’t get around writing something on the weekend, and I will need to keep it short now as well.

The issue was primarily caused by a recent change in IP assignment by our ISP in addition to what looks like an very recent bug in our firewall software (IPfire) in combination with some odd errors in the fallbacks that I can’t fully explain.

So basically our ISP is not assigning a completely fixed IP (it would cost 20 euro a month extra and we would need to switch to a business contract for it), but during the first 3 years of operation the IP they assigned only changed 3 times or so. Recently however they started to reassign a new IP more often, and annoyingly they assign a temporary IP first and a few weeks later apparently switch it again to a more permanent one in a different subnet.

We had this issue a few times in the last months, but the dynamic DNS of IPfire always caught it within a few minutes and thus is wasn’t a major issue. But before I left on the work trip I updated the Firewall software, which caused the IP to switch to the temporarily assigned one, but again the dynDNS updated everthing within minutes, so I assumed everything was working fine.

However when the ISP randomly switched the subnet again, some still unkown bug caused the dynDNS to fail and the few failsaves I had in place to inform me about IP changes also didn’t work, which led me to assume there was a hardware failure in the firewall and thus no way to fix it remotely.

But a few days after, I recieved an automated email from one of the services we host, which made it clear that outgoing connections were still working and thus we started to investigate how to find an alternative way to get the true IP of the server. Ultimatly my friend resorted to port-scan approximately 500k IPs in the subnet we knew the new IP should be at and we found 20 or so IPs that had ports open for a XMPP server and thus were potential candidates for our server. Luckily it was among them and thus we were able to manually update the DNS entries and restore service.

There are some lessons lerned from that, especially that the dynDNS of IPfire seems unreliable and I already have some plans to switch to another software for that, as well as add additional out of band notifications on IP change.

In addition we will try to find a cheap KVM to install on the main firewall that is connected on a seperate IP to be able to connect to it directly and reboot / troubleshoot it more easily even if the main connection is lost.

Last but not least we are experimenting with a Wireguard tunnel on a rented VPS which might allow more stable connection and the same VPS could be used to host some vital services like the XMPP server that thus would remain accessible even if the main server goes down (however since accounts are linked to the Lemmy database, this is a bit tricky and likely needs some partial database replication on the VPS or so, as otherwise there is no way to log in when the main server is down).

Most of these improvements will only happen once I have physical access to the server again end of July, but for now the service seems stable and hopefully we will not run into other issues until then.

It is still planned for later this year, but there are some potential blockers on the Piefed side with password hashing and now it seems less urgent to be honest.

Well, that is a funny read, but it clearly describes upper and lower middle-management and not the actual bosses / company owners. Those have their own issues i.e. mostly being almost entirely isolated from reality by generational wealth.

I am not a fan of having arbitrary and highly fluid definitions of pathological conditions as they lose all meaning that way. If you can massage the numbers to cover 50% of the population, then nothing stops you to go even further, and then we are in the territory of claiming that human nature is inherently egoistic (with some rare exceptions maybe).

And I don’t see much point in having such pessimistic world views and they also don’t fit to my personal experience 🤷

It is still worthwhile to look out for toxic behaviour pattern, but I don’t think we should be chasing shadows and expecting bad intentions behind what most people do. Because that then just becomes a self fulfilling prophesy as others are quite sensitive to even unspoken accusations of bad faith.

I would rather say that it is a middle management issue in larger firms. Sure, the absentee owners might also be narcissists in some cases, but regardless of that it is very convenient for them to have an ethically challenged middle management and narcistisst are often exceptionally good at sucking up to the bosses.