Well actually: “It was originally an initialism used in U.S. Army paperwork for items made of galvanized iron.[2] The earliest known instance in writing is from either 1906[3] or 1907.[2]” Also later on re-interpreted as “government issued” etc. but I guess today it just means US army soldier
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- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK about the GI Rights Hotline17·1 month ago
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoUplifting News@lemmy.world•New vaccine to treat 15 types of cancer now available on NHSEnglish3·3 months ago
It seems to be authorised for usage in the EU since 10 years??? what is this all about? https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/opdivo
Idk man some here might begin to think you have a drug problem and sexual uncertainty on top. No judging tho
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoWorld News@lemmy.world•Anonymous Releases 10TB of Leaked Data: Exposing Kremlin Assets & Russian BusinessesEnglish81·3 months ago
Found this on hacker news, some people there say this data dump is total bs and for the news page itself: It’s an article from an Indian right wing conspiracy news website. Check out their other hard hitting journalism: https://archive.ph/8RGAb"
btw. Metro 2033 Redux also for free on Steam.
Also on a side note, one of the coolest milsim/tactic shooters in recent years is also on sale: Insurgency Sandstorm. It even gets a big map/weapons update next week.
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoWorld News@lemmy.world•Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno HauensteinEnglish25·4 months ago
Yeah that is why “deportation” is the wrong word being used… It is an “opinion” piece from one Berlin based journalist, that obviously lacks some legal details or is trying to use a catchy headline. I especially like it when the article says the used “objects that could have been used as potential weapons”. It was fucking AXES they used and obviously the Uni employees were horrified when it happened. Not saying that is right to restrict EU citizens movement in such cases. I’d prefer a proper trial before that happens but they certainly didn’t behave very well.
In case of the US citizen I guess you could call it a deportation/expulsion.
Some translated legal background for you guys: Strictly speaking, in the case of EU citizens, this is not referred to as expulsion/deportation, but as loss of freedom of movement. ‘EU citizens entitled to freedom of movement can lose their right of residence for reasons of public order, security or health,’ according to the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
Particularly stringent conditions apply to the loss of residence on grounds of public order or security. ‘There must be an actual and sufficiently serious threat to public order or security that affects a fundamental interest of society. This threat must be based on the personal behaviour of the EU citizen,’ writes the Federal Ministry of the Interior on its website.
People who do not come from the EU are referred to as deportees. This is the case here for one person. If a person from a third country jeopardises public safety and order, the free democratic basic order or other significant public interests through their stay, they can be expelled.
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoWorld News@lemmy.world•Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War ProtestersEnglish19·4 months ago
I was also sceptical but it seems to be generally true, however the details of it are way more complicated. Read for yourself if you know German or use a translator, one of the biggest Berlin newspapers picked it up and added details : https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/nach-beteiligung-an-palastina-protesten-in-berlin-drei-eu-burgern-und-einem-studenten-aus-den-usa-droht-ausweisung-13468543.html
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoWorld News@lemmy.world•Germany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for warEnglish3·4 months ago
It’s true, most of your comments seem to have a positive upvote score and therefore more upvotes than downvotes. Your Yale comment seems to have attracted the most downvotes in recent time, currently “-14” “upvotes”/points (seems that some lemmy clients just call them “points”)
So actually it seems that currently Lemmy itself doesnt support showing one users total upvotes/downvotes as this would very much resemble the reddit Karma system and they dont want that.
However as all your comments and the total sum of votes for each comment(I think also the bare numbers of upvotes/downvotes are visible via Api access) are public one could theoretically write a script or build this into a Lemmy client. However the 3 clients I just used to test this don’t support this and probably don’t want to.
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoFediverse@lemmy.world•Summit for Lemmy is now open sourceEnglish15·4 months ago
I love that you link Obtanium. This is the first time I saw an app dev actually linking to Obtanium. Getting your FOSS app update directly from the git repos without the google bs around it just seems logical.
yeah definitely salmon egg would be the wrong kind of egg
This kinda sounds so stupid I had to fact check it.
- Obviously they are just asking around everywhere if any country has even capacity of surplus eggs. So the department of agriculture send out letters to several countries. Also Sweden and Netherlands seem to be among them. Probably many more.
- Also I asked myself why they would even ask such small countries. It turns out at least Netherlands and Denmark are #4 and 8 of Egg producers in EU. #7 is Ukraine interestingly, maybe this will be part of the ceasefire negotiations xD Anyway here the full list of top egg producers in EU, interestingly Norway is #1: https://essfeed.com/cracking-open-the-european-egg-industry-unveiling-the-top-producers/
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.world•immich v1.127.0 released with manual face tagging featureEnglish2·5 months ago
Haven’t heard about this project before. I was using a self hosted Nextcloud instance so far. What would be the benefit of switching to immich? I guess immich does have some advances features, like the tagging was mentioned, specifically for picture management.
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.world•Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.English12·8 months ago
I just learned that before their fundraising round Bluesky called themselves a “public benefit LLC” and I thought thats nice of them to benefit the public 😅 , then I found out about US corporate law and what it actually means…
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.world•Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabledEnglish4·1 year ago
At least link the full article and not just the headline… smh. Here is also the follow-up article with comments from Firefox’s CTO. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Firefox-defends-itself-Everything-done-right-just-poorly-communicated-9802546.html
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.world•WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer WeeklyEnglish7·1 year ago
Honestly mentioning Enchrochat together with other mainstream message clients is kind of misleading. The Enchrochat message client was also E2EE. However Enchrochat was also a company that sold their own mobile phones with a prorietary OS on it together with own sim cards and only those phones were able to connect to each other. And law enforcment had enough evidence that they sold those hardware in shady untracable ways similar to drugs. At that point there was no western government that didn’t want to help seizing their infrastructure and taking over their update services for example.
The bigger problem however for the general public is that certain politicians want to break encryption all together by forcing companies to implement backdoors on client side. This has been an ongoing discussion for 2 years in EU parliament and it has to stop: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/now-eu-council-should-finally-understand-no-one-wants-chat-control
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL kobolds in Japan are dog-people because of a mistranslation in a copy of AD&D in the 80sEnglish2·1 year ago
I guess with some imagination you could say the muzzle does indeed look dog like but the rest? I mean even if you morph some reptiles into humans you’d get such kind of muzzle. It’s not really that “distict” imo, but I get why some would say otherwise.
“Kobolds were first described as hairless humanoids with small horns by Gygax in the Monster Manual (1977)”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobold_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)?wprov=sfla1
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL kobolds in Japan are dog-people because of a mistranslation in a copy of AD&D in the 80sEnglish11·1 year ago
Found a really good source including a picture of the first edition. It looks like that they were mentioned indeed in the 2nd edition to be more dog like in a sense of voice “yappin like a dog” and smelling like damp dog. Their visuals however were not really dog like. So I assume it was maybe both a mistranlation and an over interpretation of some texts from 2nd edition or just pure free choice from the author of this anime. https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2022/01/dd-monster-spotlight-kobolds.html
- pwalker@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.world•WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer WeeklyEnglish3·1 year ago
Well just recently researchers discovered a campaign installing backdoors on iPhones using a chain of several 0-day expoits or in this case using also 0-click exploits, where no interaction from a user is needed. However those attack chain are so advanced that practically normal law enforcement would never be able to do it. But theoretically yes some well equiped state actors are able to infect you without noticing. If you are really intrested to see how advanced these attack are search for “project triangulation” or watch the recording from last years chaos computer conference: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11859-operation_triangulation_what_you_get_when_attack_iphones_of_researchers#t=373
thank you for stepping up, I tried to connect with @[email protected] earlier this year to talk about community topics but I think they are inactive
luckily u didn’t suggest to cut the cheese 😅 cheese is life, I can eat less beef but not my cheeeeeese 🙃