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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://level1techs.com/video/level1-news-june-27th-2017-ether-stuff-make-your-pocketbook-grow
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://level1techs.com/video/level1-news-june-27th-2017-ether-stuff-make-your-pocketbook-grow
The Youtube comments are hilarious. Ryan is ripped now.
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Funny story about the traffic surveillance in our country. In one of our Cities that's near me the major decided to put surveillance cameras everywhere and those things where ridiculous monitoring speed, distance from another car, red lights, crossing to another lane... People where so angry they've gone to the streets and destroyed i think more than 3/4. Ofc after that they had to give up and shut down the rest of the working ones. And not a single ticket had to be paid.
That's how people are strong together one goal and in masses.
Due to Germany history with the austrian guy, hate speech especially refering to the austrian guy as "good", promoting his actions in public, etc. or hate speech against ethnic minorities is forbidden by law. IIRC correctly from history class, the US played a major role in getting that specific law in place.
Politically, this is not interesting (except when it is NPD related which I doubt at that would have been on every news channel for weeks here).
To be honest, raiding homes is a necesarry step. Wakup call to all the people! Internet = Real Life. It is the same thing by now!
PS (quote of YouTube comment I find quite fitting):
PPS: http://www.worldfreedomindex.com Well, would you look at that!
On the subject of "Let us just scan your face". Until recently, having dashboard cameras in your car was critical under privacy rules in germany.
To be honest i do not think we can really judge the raids unless we see what the statements actually were. Casual racist comments and direct threat of violence or sexual attack against a group are not the same thing. If the police reacted to the former is a blatant violation of civil liberties. If they reacted to the latter then it might be warranted.
BTW I would not say that the left dominates the political climate in Germany. The dominant party is a christian democratic party (a.k. conservatives) that even though they have been in power for a while now they keep their popularity intact. There are Social-democrats in the government coalition but with less influence and at this point they are so twisted in their behaviour that pretty much act like a center-right party.
Hahaha yeah that was my first thought when I put on the video! "Damn, Ryan, been hitting the gym?" 
Regarding Zuckerberg and Jobs:
Psychopaths tend to be very charming and charismatic. They tell people what they want to hear; whether or not they mean it. People tend to judge them by what they see; and when it's a successful business person, the predatory behavior is more often than not overlooked. "If there was some type of issue present, they wouldn't be so successful" right? Lying, cheating and stealing are not necessarily illegal. It's all about the method; and psychopaths and sociopaths are both very good at exploiting methods.
about 22:20-ish
"They've been doing it for a long time with foreign nationals [...]"
OK well... here's the thing. Who actually believes that? I mean they need to scan you to identify you as non-american in the first place. That's the one thing, the other is that if the means are already there who seriously believes it's not being used?
howdy guys posting from the socialist republic of Germany, you got German politics kinda wrong.
a)
current Government is lead by a conservative center-right party probably comparable to the moderate parts of the republicans in the US.
b)
I look through the German press to find some quote of the Facebook messages in question but none were reported. But the press reports the laws under which the arrests where made.
§ 86a publication or production of symbols associated with groups deemed a danger to the German constitution.
Who is seen as such? Groups that have as their goals to undermine or abolish the liberal and democratic organization of the German society. (Liberal is meant in the European context: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Assembly, Equality of Humans. Democratic should be clear)
An historic example of those groups are:
All(?) subsequent Nazi parties but also the communist party
More recent examples are:
groups like Blood and Honor (right wing terrorist group)
So if you are in Germany and you post a swastika you are in violation of this law (which is kinda also illegal but not that strict in the US see: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/4000/are-there-any-laws-in-the-us-that-ban-the-display-of-offensive-symbols)
the second section under which peoples homes where searched and arrests made is § 130. This one has two aspects to it, both of which I will simplify
- You are in violation of the law if you call for violence against a certain group (racial, religious, ethnic, etc.) of people.
- You are in violation of the law if you use a derogatory term against a group (racial, religious, ethnic, etc.) of people because they are part of this group in a way that deprives them of their humanity.
an example here is and I'm translating roughly: " I'm all for opening the gas chambers again and putting them all in there" (the person who uttered this had to pay a 4800 Euros fine)
I'm quite sure stuff that is described here under § 130 is also not legal in the US.
Hope this clears things up a little bit.
edit:
I also have to say something about the scihub bit
You are mixing the pay to publish open access part and the closed access journals here.
First scihub gives you access to closed access papers. Papers that where published in journals like Nature and Science and so on. The scandal here is that a scientist who is most of the time paid by the public publishes their findings in these journals. These journals in turn take large amounts of money from libraries for access to these papers. People argue that journals don't do that much work that would justify the price and the scientist only gets like pennies from it (if any). Also the scientist was already paid for their work so the results of that work should be available to the public.
To combat this problem the idea was to create open access journals. Here the scientist pays all the cost of the publication which is in the most journals around 3000$ give or take and in turn the paper is open access and available to everyone forever*.
This model get also abused. The abuse here are "vanity journals" i.e. you pay and get your paper released in a "peer reviewed" journal (see the story around the conceptual penis which never was released in a real scientific journal). The peer review process in these journals is fundamentally broken. Because they lack good peer reviewers and they just review a paper until it gets okayed by the reviewers. Thus everybody can publish something in a vanity journal if they want to spend the money.
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The NSA's GitHub account a Trojan horse?
Doesn't GitHub only host open source code? So, if there is a trojan horse, you should be able to see it, right?
@2:30 "buggy 1st gen socket 2011 virtualization"
Any further info on this? I haven't heard about this and am quite curious.
Search for Xeon E5 stepping vt-d
I went to update OpenVPN and found AzireVPN wrote their own GUI for it. They assure me it has the latest version of OpenVPN, but there is no way to check. It is very simplified and easier to use. Just not very deep or granular control.
I doubt this is a good thing, but I'm a VPN n00b and needed forum help with the initial setup script. I've only had it 2 months.
A comment on the German hate speech news
@Ryan and @wendell, I agree with what you say and conclude.
However I wanted to criticize a couple of arguments I personally believe to be lacking each time I hear them, and I may have just heard them again 
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I would like to add to the thoughts on freedom here:
Hating a political opinion is not the same as hating people who carry that opinion. I wish to point out that it is a very weak argument, that "unless one has the freedom to abolish freedom, then one does not have the freedom at all". This is a fallacy. Because, yes, then that one may not have the freedom, but the majority will still have their freedom to keep their freedom. And that is why we have the freedom, in fact, and contrary to this fallacy. Please do not swallow this "fallacy" whole, without first considering the concepts such as freedom and justice as the political abstracts they are - often reinterpreted, seldom agreed on. We have a democracy today, and a society which is still and in spite of all the bullshit still delivering better lives to us, than to the people living under autocrats, or various extremist and saboteur movements who would have us doubt that we have a democracy and a great freedom, and who would have us cynically burn down our own houses so that our houses become as shit as theirs are, in order to "even the odds a bit" in their favor. A damn subterfuge.
...and I would also like to add to the thoughts on hate speech here:
Hate towards a person is not the same as the hate towards a political opinion. Hate towards a person, or a group of people is implicitly a call to hostility, ultimately a call to removal/annihilation of the said person(s), and not a call to removal/annihilation of the "lousy" idea they carry on their person. It is not often explicated in hate speech whether such a removal is by taking a life, or maybe just displacing a person. It is often intentionally left out, to play on imagination, to "let you fill in the blanks", and create a resemblance of mutual agreement, shared secret, and implied bonding where there is none, if you just explicitly say what you mean. Interestingly, when hate speech is directed towards an ethnic group, then we are talking holocaust, or just ethnic cleansing. Hate speech concept is about open hostility towards people. It is about such speech that calls to removal of their freedom of existence.
...and for anyone interested, I would like to introduce the alternative to hate speech, the concept of:
rage free from ressentiment
You (whoever is still reading this post) don't really need to read the whole book ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_and_Time ) to "get it". You can probably also read an article or two presenting the book. This guy repeatedly finds interesting and highly relevant ideas to share. While I don't have to agree with everything he's got, it is very educational, and mind blowing. Similarly to that author I believe rage free from ressentiment to be healthy and necessary. And that this is where we can draw the line, and why I on my end find it perfectly fine to outlaw hate speech.
...and let's face it:
You see, our freedom (in the EU, and especially Scandinavia and the old EU) really, really, isn't that shit. Sure, we can do better. Sure we must contribute to improving it. Sure it is always in danger of getting worse. But it really, really, isn't that shit. Especially so compared to the countries where hate speech is legal, or every-day normal. You kind of don't walk out in front of a speeding train, and you kind of don't hate speech. Is that too much to ask of a citizen of age, to not be that fucking stupid?
I'd even go so far as to say that hate speech being illegal is a statement of an entire country that we don't shit on our productive citizens, even when they are only potentially productive. Because shitting on a person because of their sexuality, skin color, religious conviction, or ethnicity, usually only makes them too busy being defensive to focus on being productive. It is a sabotage of a perfectly good community resource.
Like many others I surely agree that there may have been many other laws which could have been applied in the German hate speech case, if it wasn't a hate speech case. Exactly what made this specifically a hate speech crime and not another crime is the nagging unanswered question.
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It took until 55 minutes.. but I was finally triggered.
Much appreciated, thank you