It's going to be up to 30 °C over here tomorrow. That's like summer temps, two-three months early.
There is this MEP, Nico Semsrott, a comedian, got elected to the European Parliament for a satire party. Anyway he's depressed and quitting, and promoting his book (which he didn't write or read apparently, based on his notes), so there's a bunch of recent interviews.
That guy is such a fucking lib. He describes how utterly pointless and soul-crushing this whole system is, and how it's 100% totally impossible to change literally anything as an MEP, and yet, he still sounds so very lib. Like how is that even possible? Zeit interview (in German)
UOS is based on Deepin (originally Hiweed, lol) is based on Debian, btw.
Loongson is originally based on MIPS. CPUs seem fast enough for office type stuff.
Couldn't find out what sort of graphics chips are in these things.
They gave a bunch of genocidal bureaucrats a machine that prints out an endless list of names and locations, just so they can pretend they're dotting their i's and not doing indiscriminate bombings. It's just there to make it easier psychologically for the people pressing the murder button, so they can mash that button as fast as possible.
This is a glimpse into the mind of the death camp pencil pusher. They got forms, numbers, computer algorithms! Definitely not a hate mob on a murder spree.
SZ is reporting about Ukrainian efforts to build fortified lines (in German)
The gist is: It's not going so well, Ukraine failed to construct defensive lines in the past two years, and now, they do not have the equipment and manpower to this quickly. Quote (machine translation):
Instead of a continuous line, Synjehubov's men are building "resistance positions" on strategic heights from which advancing Russians can best be taken under fire.
So far, the military governor admits, there has only been "actual construction work" on "30 percent" of the positions selected by the Ministry of Defense for the second line of defence. The work on the inspected position will also take several more weeks, and there is still no sign of dragon's teeth against advancing tanks, let alone guns or other weapons.
Perhaps worth mentioning: Some unknown person added malware to their tarball releases, specifically to backdoor ssh, which on most Linux distros was patched to load some systemd library, which in turn loads liblzma.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202403/1309489.shtml
Bayrischer Ministerpräsident (Bavarian head of state, CSU) Markus Söder visited China. Looks like it went well.
I mean he praises EFI as being a modern BIOS replacement thingy with "features", but I recall a bunch of complaints about EFI from Linux dev Matthew Garrett, which I don't exactly remember in any detail, but it was extremely buggy shit when Linux first tried to support this and is definitely overengineered as fuck.
Probably the correct thing to replace the BIOS with would have been something actually way more minimal. On many ARM devices, for example, the built-in ROM basically just initializes the CPU (maybe not even fully?), serial interface (for debug logs) and whatever storage it needs to boot from. No USB, graphics, keyboard support or whatever. There it hopes to find a bootloader that is also just minimal enough to get Linux into RAM.
This way there's only really one driver for almost all the hardware, the one inside your OS. EFI has it's own drivers for all sorts of shit. These drivers are separate from the actual drivers your OS is going to use, which is duplicate effort and it causes problems and bugs.
If you really really want to have networking, keyboard, mouse, graphics or whatever before booting into your final OS, which I guess people might want to do, you could just use a stripped down version of (say) Linux, and have that act as a sort of BIOS replacement, and use that to chainload your real OS. That way you can just use the drivers inside Linux and people wouldn't have to write special shitty EFI drivers which will just run for one second during boot. Which I think is the idea behind LinuxBIOS but I haven't looked at that to closely.
If you take one antihistamine pill and your symptoms go away in ~1 hour, it's allergies. In case you want to find out and don't want to visit a doctor for some reason. Sorry for the unsolicited advice and in case I'm telling you something you already know.
Pollen allergy?
It's my best translation for "Standortpatriotismus". Literally it is "location patriotism". "Der Standort Deutschland" is a common phrase used when talking about how attractive (or not) of a location Germany is for businesses. It's also the title of good comedy set by Gerhard Polt.
Robert Habeck (German economy minister, Greens) about the DFB (German Football Association) ditching Adidas and signing a sponsorship deal with Nike:
I can barely imagine the German football jersey without the three stripes. For me, Adidas and black-red-gold have always belonged together. A piece of German identity. I would have hoped for a bit more economic patriotism.
Sabotage by lemmygrad to steal users.