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  • The EU is shipping not just individual drone parts, but whole assemblies to Ukraine, which Ukraine basically has to only screw together, and then the strike missions inside Russia are likely based on US/NATO intelligence and planning.

    This was one of Russia's red lines, they are under pressure to reestablish deterrence.

  • APT has a fancy constraint solver included, it tries to satisfy all packages being compatible with each other. Packages have metadata. Example snippet from apt show sudo:

     
            Depends: libapparmor1 (>= 2.7.0~beta1+bzr1772), [...]
        Conflicts: sudo-ldap
        Replaces: sudo-ldap
    
    
      

    It needs all the stuff that's in listed as a dependency, with the correct version, and it says you can't have sudo-ldap at the same time. If I were to try and install sudo-ldap, it would yeet sudo. It does show you this and asks if you want to continue though.

    In this case, this is by design, the sudo packagers made it so you can choose between the LDAP-enabled version of sudo and the regular version (most people don't use LDAP).

    But if you mix-and-match packages from various distros or versions of distros, it will have a hard time satisfying all the "Depends:" stuff, due to differences in versions and sometimes package names, and often it finds the "solution" is to uninstall a whole bunch of stuff.

    I suspect you didn't switch just the mirror, but to a different repository with different packages. Possibly a different version of Ubuntu.

  • Nice

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  • Oh ok, carry on then.

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  • What's that got do with trains?

  • I now listened to both of these. I'm not convinced by the thesis of either really, and I have again realized I hate hearing from Israelis, or about Israelis, and what their fucking problems are.

    I will say about the GDF video: Yes, Israel's image is suffering in the US. He talks lots about the Dems and how they now have to be critical of Israel to appease their voters. Does this matter? The average liberal is both ignorant and racist, they will easily be appeased by a little bit of rhetoric and no follow through.

    That Kavernacle video is talking about poverty, inequality and internal divisions in Israeli society. None of that stuff he brings up makes me think that society is about to collapse.

  • The drive-through is the ultimate luxury experience if you have car-brain.

  • Look I understand all your other examples, KIA vs MIA, "accidents" and all that. That makes sense.

    Moving people to Germany (or pretending they are/were deployed there) does not hide them from being casualties, you'd need to make up excuses of why they are dead or injured. Announcing a permanent reduction in troops deployed to Germany, while actively moving people there, seems like a contradiction. If they announce that number go down, but number go up, that would be weird. Also why bother? They don't have to do any of this shit, they could just move them through Germany without announcing some withdrawal, like just pretend they were in Germany the whole time and are just being rotated out or something.

  • It used to be FTTB (DSL from there), only installed a couple of years ago, but recently they ran fiber into all the apartments. There's a new thin plastic cabinet, about 40x40 cm, in the bike cellar (server room lol) with a laser warning sign on it. All done in cooperation with the ISP it seems. In fact the landlord seemed utterly uninvolved.

    Also why would it be called a modem in one situation, but not the other? Like what's the difference here.

  • Very interesting, thanks.

    My ISP here in Germany gave me a separate ONT, to connect via ethernet to the router (they also gave me new router, with integrated DSL modem (lol), but I'm pretty sure the old one would have worked fine). I hooked up my own OpenWrt router instead. I'm happy they gave me a separate ONT, means I don't have to buy my own ONT or router that can do fiber to keep using the OpenWrt router. It in fact connects exactly the same as when it was hooked up to the DSL modem. Same PPPoE configuration, same VLAN even.

    Which is why I was wondering if technically it's a modem, whether calling it a modem is incorrect. I'd say an integrated modem is still a modem, so I'm not fussed about the modem-vs-router distinction.

    I don't think I have a way to see all this info you're talking about, but that would be interesting. Maybe I'll look into if you can connect to the ONT via HTTP or something and see that stuff.

    There used to be a DSL router in the apartment building basement, but that stuff wasn't old, they only put in FTTB a couple of years ago. Recently they ran fiber into all the apartments and got rid of the DSL. Since you explain with the PON being easier/cheaper, I imagine that's what they did since they were able to build the whole thing throughout the city in last two decades, so they would have planned for that.

    Anyway, I guess you didn't call the ONT a modem, but is it wrong to call it that? It modulates the laser on the fiber optic line, and it literally replaced a DSL modem which everyone agrees should be called a modem.

  • Apart from cable modems and wireless modems, DSL modems are also called modems, and they don't do AT. Pretty sure that modems, and the word modem, are much older than the AT commands. I do grant you "modem" at one point was almost synonymous with a dial-up modem that understood AT.

  • technology @hexbear.net

    Is a optical network terminal (ONT) a modem?

  • How would removing 5k troops from Germany help cover up casualties? This makes no sense.

  • The so-called antisemitism commissioner of Brandenburg had his shed firebombed (complete with red triangle and public letter) by ... drumroll please ... two 25 year old friends / business partners of his. He denies any involvement or knowledge himself.

    According to this newspaper’s investigation, there is no evidence of tension or discord between the two men and Büttner, who are said to have a friendly relationship. They are also said to have met after the arson attack, in Potsdam and Berlin. In early February—just one month after the arson attack—they are said to have attended a performance at the Leipzig Opera together.

    Source: tagesspiegel (archive)

  • Springer has made their (German: Bild, Welt) employees sign a pledge to Israel for a long time. They bought Politico a couple of years ago, so they're just enforcing company policy on their acquired subsidiary.

    Axel Springer probably got secret funding from the US after WW2 to start up his media empire.

  • Seriously, I will never rename a thing just because it has a little cum on it.

  • I'll defend this. No amount of funny connotations would get me to rename an otherwise perfectly good function name. And not out of a childish desire for mischief like you lot, just out of general principle.

  • Waitrose to suspend mackerel sales due to overfishing concerns (BBC, 27 Feb 2026)

    The supermarket said it would stop sourcing fresh, chilled and frozen mackerel by 29 April, as well as tinned mackerel once their current stocks have been sold.

    Marine groups have recommended a cut in the amount of North East Atlantic mackerel being caught to prevent a collapse in population numbers.

    In December, the UK, Norway, the Faroe Islands and Iceland agreed to cut mackerel catches by 48%, but Waitrose said this did not go far enough.

    I noticed the lack of tinned mackerel at my local store here in Germany a couple of months ago, but it has now spread to other stores as well. Apparently herring is also badly overfished, but you can still get that.

  • Do they have two sets of doors or how can you have both street level tram access and raised platforms on the same train?

  • I cannot comprehend this either. It looks like a tram, but it clearly needs a raised platform unlike a tram. So it's more like a Metro in that way, but really narrow. I also worry about the power of the thing compared to a Metro, since it looks to be tram tech and I have never seen one go fast.

    I also looked it up writing this, apparently they gradually replaced their trams with this thing, which explains why it's that way, but also why would you replace your tram.

  • news @hexbear.net

    Ukraine: The Algorithm of War

    www.jungewelt.de /artikel/517070.ukraine-krieg-der-algorithmus-des-krieges.html
  • news @hexbear.net

    German Pseudo-Leftists spreading Azov-Propaganda: Sympathy for Fascist

    www.jungewelt.de /artikel/516792.kriegspropaganda-verst%C3%A4ndnis-f%C3%BCr-faschisten.html