leisesprecher

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[–] leisesprecher 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is, that the AfD slowly drifted from very conservative to far right, and for a pretty long time, they managed to seem sufficiently "bürgerlich" not to be legally extremist. It was perfectly clear that they were nazis, even years ago, but not provable.

Add to that the two unsuccessful attempts to ban the even more right and NPD. They were afraid to fail again.

Regarding the current 19%, Germany's political, economic, and media system somehow paint itself into a corner. The politicians are largely out of ideas, they're all fighting about petty conflicts, there's hardly anything being done. Not that bad laws are enacted, nothing happens. The country runs on autopilot into a very obvious wall, and the politicians fight who can sit in the pilot's seat. It's a simulacrum.

The economic system is eroding away. The old German model doesn't work anymore, and the old conglomerates just switched to subsidies and rent seeking, no investment, no changes. Volkswagen wants to scale back EVs in favor of ICEs.

The media are dominated by public access outlets, who are largely afraid to be critical, because someone could call them biased, and private media spreading hate for clicks.

So, Germany is currently in a pretty bad situation and many many people see that, but don't see anyone actually doing anything about it. But because they are bombarded with hate, they choose AfD. Absolutely stupid decision, but these people just lost every bit of trust in the system. And honestly, I blame the system.

[–] leisesprecher 46 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Und die Medien greifen das derzeit quasi noch nicht auf.

Gerade eben hat die Tagesschau noch von "Motive unklar" geredet, dass er aus Saudi Arabien stammt wurde aber sofort genannt.

[–] leisesprecher 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, which is exactly what I wrote above.

[–] leisesprecher 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's absurd, 1km/h is not the correct unit for acceleration.

[–] leisesprecher 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Simple answer: the local police.

[–] leisesprecher 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Und einmal mehr muss man auf die URL gucken, weil es absurd genug ist, um wahr zu sein.

[–] leisesprecher 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be kind of funny if two "once in a century" pandemic happened right during both of Trump's terms.

[–] leisesprecher 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Realistically, it's not gonna happen. There's too much cowardice in our political system for that.

[–] leisesprecher 1 points 2 days ago

The Chinese really had it coming, though. So it's not really racist!

/s, obviously.

[–] leisesprecher 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Have you seen him talking on a stage?

He has the charisma and eloquence of a tub of lard.

[–] leisesprecher -3 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Sure, but can you prove that they were not just incompetent?

You can blame the captain personally for negligence, sure, but unless he has instructions from an intelligence agency open on his desk, you can't prove anything political.

[–] leisesprecher 12 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Considering the cable was likely cut by just dragging the anchor over the seafloor, there's not much to find. It's perfectly plausible that the crew consists of a bunch of idiots.

No matter what the truth actually is, it's impossible to prove.

 

I'm trying to get an old Windows game running for a friend.

It seems to be a 16bit macromedia app and I kind of got it running in a Win 98 VM using Virtualbox. DOSBox seems to get confused by it being a Windows app.

Thing is, the friend is very much not good with tech and I want to set everything up for him to "just work". Installing VBox might be a bit too much.

Apparently, you can install Windows inside DOSBox, but is that really stable and usable for layman? Are there any other approaches?

 

I have a small homelab running a few services, some written by myself for small tasks - so the load is basically just me a few times a day.

Now, I'm a Java developer during the day, so I'm relatively productive with it and used some of these apps as learning opportunities (balls to my own wall overengineering to try out a new framework or something).

Problem is, each app uses something like 200mb of memory while doing next to nothing. That seems excessive. Native images dropped that to ~70mb, but that needs a bunch of resources to build.

So my question is, what is you go-to for such cases?

My current candidates are Python/FastAPI, Rust and Elixir, but I'm open for anything at this point - even if it's just for learning new languages.

 

I asked a while ago, how to build an automatic light switch and finally got around to actually building it.

My board is an ESP8266 mini D, and ignoring all the sensor parts, my problem right now is powering the actual light.

It's just a small LED array and I connected it directly to the 5V and GND pins (controlled via a transistor).

Measuring from the wall (so including the PSU), this whole setup pulls about 3W (so far expected), however, one small component close to the USB connector gets uncomfortably warm, and I'm not sure, whether that's ok.

The hot component is one of the two small thingies circled in the picture. I thought the 5V get pulled directly from the USB plug, so I'm not sure, why there is any circuitry involved.

 

I'm trying to build a very simple, stupid light switch for my grow light. Essentially, I want to turn on the light, if it gets too dark outside, so that my plants can survive the northern winter.

Since I'm a software guy, my first thought was an ESP32, but that seems excessive.

My current approach would be something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/313561010352 In conjunction with a relay, both powered by a USB-PSU.

If the light level is low enough, the logic DO pin should send a signal and that should be enough to trigger a small relay, so that the relay then closes the circuit to switch on the lights.

Is that idea completely stupid? With electronics, I'm usually missing something very obvious.

The lights themselves are already just usb powered and only draw 5W, so that shouldn't be problem.

What I'm concerned with is the actual switching. Is the logic signal "strong" enough to activate a relay? Would simple transistor maybe sufficient?

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