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Obelix

@ Obelix @feddit.org

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12mo ago

Hills Are NOT Harder Than Cycling On The Flat (Says Science)

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12mo ago

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Obelix @feddit.org 12mo ago
You are totally correct. There are billions of people on this planet who are dreaming of such a life.

DACH - Deutschsprachige Community für Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz @feddit.org

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12mo ago

Kanadischer Rauch trübt Sonnenschein in Europa

www.dwd.de /DE/wetter/thema_des_tages/2025/6/10.html

12mo ago

Google battling ‘fox infestation’ on roof of £1bn London office

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Obelix @feddit.org 12mo ago

They scream like someone is murdering babies.

I'm sure those sociopaths at Google will like that.

12mo ago

UK announces $19 billion investment in first major nuclear plant since the 1990s

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Obelix @feddit.org 12mo ago

That really expensive, will get more expensive and could totally buy a lot of solar & wind

12mo ago

Israel says it is keeping Rima Hassan because hostage taking is only wrong when Hamas does it

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Obelix @feddit.org 12mo ago

As discussed below: She is free to leave. She doesn't want to leave Israel. Now Israel is doing the whole due process to kick her out. So she will not spent her time in jail - this is totally senseless theatre.

12mo ago

Israel says it is keeping Rima Hassan because hostage taking is only wrong when Hamas does it

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Obelix @feddit.org 12mo ago

There are no "Hauptgerichte" in Germany. So whatever you want to say, you seem to have no idea at all about german laws

12mo ago

Israel says it is keeping Rima Hassan because hostage taking is only wrong when Hamas does it

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Obelix @feddit.org 12mo ago

Europe @feddit.org

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12mo ago

Europe's zombie armies. Or how to spend $3.1 trillion and have precious little to show for it.

adamtooze.substack.com /p/chartbook-389-europes-zombie-armies

12mo ago

Germany Opposes Recognizing Palestinian State Now | Sweden Herald

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Obelix @feddit.org 12mo ago

He actually criticized the construction of Israeli settlements and called for more help for Gaza, but you won't learn that when your news source contains of three sentences. And BTW: he didn't deny palestines right to exist. He wants to recognize Palestine after successful negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. You might want to start reading newspapers whose articles contain more than three sentences and maybe take back your racism accusation. It really is not helping

12mo ago

Germany Opposes Recognizing Palestinian State Now | Sweden Herald

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Obelix @feddit.org 12mo ago

What a garbage article. They are giving a whole press conference with the visiting Israeli foreign minister and all we get posted here is from a swedish newpaper and contains three sentences. Three fucking sentences of ragebait - can we please post some more credible articles here?

1y ago

In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

I totally agree. Stuff like Microsoft recall is not great and America under Trump neither, but it is nothing compared to North Korea. That is a hellhole nobody who grew up in a free western society really can even imagine.

1y ago

Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

I guess that there are two issues: First of all, you can find someone who can slap standard Android onto a standard device. Finding someone who can work with a raw AOSP is harder and will be more expensive. Which is exactly what you want to not do when trying to build a really cheap device. And Google has started to move more and more services and security updates to their own platform. Using AOSP is a really bad idea

1y ago

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

We'll, that here is exactly the issue. I do a price comparison on multiple sites before buying something expensive and Amazon is in most cases the cheapest supplier. I suspect that it is due to those illegal price control mechanisms that force sellers to offer the cheapest price there.

And that is kind of a bad situation for everybody: You can post "Don't use Amazon", but it feels really stupid to pay more money for the same product from the same sellers on other platforms.

1y ago

public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird)

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

I know what you are saying, but it is not so bad: First of all, most things people are doing at work is not really related to the OS underneath. So if you are responsible for creating passports, you are using the special government program for passport creation. If you are a policeman, you are using the special police software to do your policework. Yeah, you need additional training, but in the best case your usual software keeps working. Most people are not really interacting with the OS during their work day.

(and let's be honest: Microsofts totally insane UI changes are also requiring lots of training. If you are used to just click on some specific buttons that somebody told you to click on, you're totally lost in Microsofts crazy wonderland of ridiculous UI changes )

1y ago

Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

There is a hint of how he did this here: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/06/12000-comments/

1y ago

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

Google hosting their shit on Microsofts servers and telling you to sideload and not using their own software distribution method for their own OS is kind of crazy if you think about it

1y ago

Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

You can read the post here: https://feddit.org/post/12529640

There is nothing there containing a one state solution and also german law totally doesn't prohibit calling for it.

And BTW: You have a autocorrect error in your post: "leave" vs "live" can lead to people misunderstanding your point.

1y ago

Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

You really should read the original announcement of the feddit.org mods, because what you are saying is absolutely not what the rules there are.

1y ago

Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

Yeah, let's insult other users based on their instance. That is really helpful, will bring peace to the middle east and make the fediverse the dominant social media network in the world.

1y ago

Please, UI designers

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

Please tell us more stories, that sounds entertaining :D

1y ago

French MPs vote to scrap low-emission zones

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

The crit d'air itself is cheap - I recently ordered one and even with postage to Germany it was under 5€. It was also quite easy - go to a website, put in data from your car licence, pay via credit card, that's it.

The big issue here is that they are kind of aggressive in weeding out older cars - you can't get a crit d'air for cars older than 1997. That makes sense - those cars do not have modern emission tech and they are at least 28 years old. Some cities like Paris have even stricter rules and ban cars older than 2005.

1y ago

French MPs vote to scrap low-emission zones

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Obelix @feddit.org 1y ago

What this meant was that your old Peugeot 205, which consume next to nothing as it is really light was forbidden, but a big Mercedes suv measured in liters/km was allowed without issues.

It's really unintuitive, but small older cars are consuming more gasoline than newer, bigger cars. My old Opel Corsa D uses more liters per kilometer than my parents big SUV and has worse emissions. There have been real improvements in fuel economy and exhaust cleaning in the last 30-40 years. The issue with those big SUVs is that they could be even more efficient if there were smaller and lighter. A modern engine in a small car like the Peugeot 205 would really be something.