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For me the light/bright colors are really straining my eyes since they're very sensitive to glare/bright lights as a consequence of cataracts.

Also the switching of the FG and BG colors was just an example I could think of in the moment to get something like "dark mode" with minimal effort. In practice I'd probably go with a somewhat "off-white"(?) FG on a medium-dark grey BG. IMO a less bright white text color in this scenario does well in eliminating the "shrinking" you speak of while the contrast with the muted grey BG isn't too harsh.

Wow, that is certainly one way of making a website color scheme (and alienating potential readers). Either searing the reader's eyes with that gaudy yellow OR making the reader wave around their mouse as a "flashlight" instead of changing or even just switching the BG and FG colors.

I suspect accessability didn't factor that much into the thought process behind designing that website.

> according to their own postwar records

Please actually read the article before making such indiscriminate accusations.

Pertinent part from the article in GP:

"Im letzten Kriegsjahr kehrte Schlör nach Göttingen zurück und wurde hier von der Gestapo verhaftet.

Man warf ihm vor, jüdische Flüchtlinge aus Riga bei sich aufgenommen zu haben. Schlör wurde im Volksgerichtshofgefängnis in Potsdam eingesperrt. Allerdings konnte der Ingenieur nicht verurteilt werden, weil die Haftanstalt am 30. April 1945 von der Roten Armee befreit wurde."

Rough translation:

"In the last of the war Schlör went back to Göttingen was arrested by the Gestapo.

He was accused of sheltering jewish refugees from Riga. He was incarcerated at the peoples' court jail in Potsdam. The engineer couldn't be sentenced since the jail was liberated by the Red Army on the 30th of April 1945."

Since he was actually arrested for this and they were preparing to sentence him, I'm gonna give this guy the benefit of the doubt.

> first examples I am aware of are 2003: Deus-ex Invisible War and 2004: Thief - Deadly Shadows, where the PC port is deliberately gimped due to being developed for console

IIRC the first "Watch Dogs" game had deliberately downgraded graphics on PC compared to the previews and it was later found that changing a value in some config file would not only return the better looks but also lead to a boost in performance.

> you can't pass the 27% (still pay payment processing) savings on to customers

Well yeah... whether you sell your game on Steam or via Steam codes on your website, the soft-, hardware and business infrastructure in the background handling the sale and distribution of your game is the same. So why would they let you use their infrastructure without letting them have their cut? It wouldn't make any sense.

I had cataract surgery when I was 15/16 and since I was underage I was fully knocked out for the procedure (thankfully) but what I find to be a funny aspect about that whole thing is that wheeling me in a bed (having already taken some kind of oral anesthetic in tablet form) from the patient room to the operating room (down 4 floors, across, then up a few floors) took up essentially the same amount of time as the actual procedure.

After the operations (first one eye, wait a month, then the other eye) I had to wait six months to be fitted for glasses with "progressive lenses" (having used store-bought reading glasses inbetween) and I was done.

Over the ~10 years since then I've had to have my eyes lasered two times because that pesky cataract tried to grow back otherwise I just have a rather glare-sensitive pair of eyes[0] with a fixed focus length (due to the artificial lenses) making me both far- and near sighted[1] at the same time. Also the glasses are expensive, to the tune of 180-200€ per lens ie. ~400€ without the frame.

TL;DR: it sucks but it's better than the alternative, going blind before or by 20 years old and having seen the difference [2] in the month between my initial two cataract surgeries it's well worth it.

[0]: outside on sunny days w/o sun glasses has me almost constantly blinded if I look anywhere near the sun's direction or any sun-reflecting surface (non-matte metal, glass, wet roads, water surfaces from puddles to the sea or any sufficiently light-colored surface, think paper or white walls etc.); ALSO software/websites that don't have a dark color theme genuinely become straining to my eyes within minutes if not seconds, so take note software engineers and web-devs, dark themes are not some hipster fad but a genuine accessibility feature

[1]: near-sighted from childhood astigmatism (extent: fine details and separations between objects further than ~50-100m become blurry), far-sightedness (extent: without glasses I can't read normal documents nearer than my fully extended arm, visually becoming just black fog/smudges on the white background) from the IOLs (intraocular lenses), IIRC the IOLs were made to make me more far-sighted with the idea that I would get more near-sighted with age anyway to some extent cancelling each other out.

[2]: the not-yet-operated eye couldn't even see a large smokestack ~2-3km away, there was just fog starting at around 1km away, the operated eye could see them perfectly fine on the horizon

IIRC correctly Steam has a (yearly?) hardware survey which their users have the option to take part in, collecting information about parts in the computer and about connected periphery devices, i.e. model names, no. of monitors, resolution, amount of RAM, ...

> Investors Spent Millions on `Evolved Apes´ NFTs. ~~Then~~ They Got Scammed.

What the title should be because let's not pretend NFTs are anything other than a thinly disguised vehicle for scams, speculation and ultimately simply wastes of energy.

In any case I can't honestly believe that everyone waxing lyrical about NFTs' supposed upsides or "value" is not someone in it for a quick profit at the expense of gullible people and/or others with the same motives but not as good at scamming. Seeing NFT-peddlers bend themselves over backwards in mock sincerity so someone will buy into their scam is just pathetic.

> Is it illegal to name a child Adolf Hitler in Germany?

Not necessarily (from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorname_(Deutschland)#Rechtlic... , roughly translated into English):

The law on giving names in Germany is not passed through legislation but is instead the result of customary law and legal precedent/judgements. Exceptions are for example in changing of the given name(s) involving adoption or in the application of §1 TSG ("transsexual law").

After the birth of a child its first name is decided by their parents (or the singular legal guardian) although there are certain guidelines for the naming.

The first name...

- ... has to be recognizable as a first name

- ... can be of neutral gender (had to be obviously male or female until 2008)

- ... must not be damaging to the child, for example inviting ridicule or making a connection to "Evil", e.g. "Judas" or "Kain" ("Cain" in English). The first name Adolf despite its tainting through the dictator could potentially be legal depending on the parents' motives

- ... must not be damaging to the religious feelings of other people in society, for example "Christus", in the past also "Jesus" which has since been declared legal by a court

- ... must not be a well known name for a place/town/city or a trademark

- ... must not be a family name, with some exceptions

- ... must not contain a title like "Lord" or "Princess"

- ... must be given within a month of the birth.

A person can have multiple, but has to have at least one first name. The local can also intervene in the giving of too many first names if that would otherwise come to harm the child (one ruling made it so a mother could not give her child twelve but only a maximum of five first names). When given multiple first names the one most often used to address the person is called the "Rufname" (approximate English equivalent "nickname"). The arrangement of the first names is not a ranking. Following a German supreme court decision (1959) a person is free to choose from their official first names by which they'd like to be addressed, the "nickname" is thus not set permanently.

A child's first names have to differ from their siblings', if there are multiple first names, one can be the same as a sibling's. Three first names must not be connected by dashes (e.g. "Jan-Marius-Severin").

- snip, long paragraph on the history of the requirement for an obvious gender of the first name(s), important part to follow - Following a supreme court decision in 2008, there is no such requirement in the law, the earlier "requirement" came from an official directive given to the registrar's offices ("Standesämter"). Thus the name-giving by the parents continues to only be restricted by the "no harm to the child" or if "there is no possible way for the child to identify their sex/gender [1] from the name".

In Germany, exceptions allow for the later change of one's own first name(s). For example immigrants have the option to "Germanize" their names or, if that's impossible, choose new first names. Furthermore there's the option to change one's first name(s) if the person has always been called by a different name or if they can't deal with their "exotic" first name.

In addition trans people have the option to change their first name to fall in line with their gender identity (for which on German identity documents the options are "male", "female" or "diverse").

[1]: don't know which is meant here, "Geschlecht" is (colloquially) used for both words in German

From a quick search on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Environmental_issues :

> Environmental issues

> The manufacturing processes of lithium, including the solvent and mining waste, presents significant environmental and health hazards.[134][135][136] Lithium extraction can be fatal to aquatic life due to water pollution.[137] It is known to cause surface water contamination, drinking water contamination, respiratory problems, ecosystem degradation and landscape damage.[134] It also leads to unsustainable water consumption in arid regions (1.9 million liters per ton of lithium).[134] Massive byproduct generation of lithium extraction also presents unsolved problems, such as large amounts of magnesium and lime waste.[138]

> In the United States, there is active competition between environmentally catastrophic open-pit mining, mountaintop removal mining and less damaging brine extraction mining in an effort to drastically expand domestic lithium mining capacity.[139] Environmental concerns include wildlife habitat degradation, potable water pollution including arsenic and antimony contamination, unsustainable water table reduction, and massive mining waste, including radioactive uranium byproduct and sulfuric acid discharge.

Also from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Precautions :

> Lithium metal is corrosive and requires special handling to avoid skin contact. Breathing lithium dust or lithium compounds (which are often alkaline) initially irritate the nose and throat, while higher exposure can cause a buildup of fluid in the lungs, leading to pulmonary edema. The metal itself is a handling hazard because contact with moisture produces the caustic lithium hydroxide. Lithium is safely stored in non-reactive compounds such as naphtha.

- water filtration/desalination

- Maybe in the future they could use fusion reactors for power, synthesizing Deuterium and/or Tritium to enhance their endurance (maybe indefinitely?)

- make the carrier (with minimal crew) and the planes into drones (AFAIK already in research/testing) since even if the material could be at sea forever the people could not endure and also many probably wouldn't sign up for such a job

And if so, could it be replaced by orgnano-catalysts which were in the news recently? I only had chemistry in school but maybe it's even as simple as using parts from the chemistry involved in photosynthesis?

> Hamburg for example

Even in another much smaller German city of only ~50k inhabitants, my school commute for years was ~40-50 minutes (dependent on season etc.; EDIT: 40-50 minutes per direction, also on mondays and another weekday my schooldays started at 07:05 not at 08:00) when the trip by bicycle to the same school would only take me ~20-25 minutes. Add to that the rapid aging of the population combined with the old people having the absolutely stellar idea to go by bus during the 07:15 morning school rush. Not like they have the whole day free to schedule their appointments... oh, wait And after years of having to deal with these fossils (most with that creepy perpetual half-smile-half-smirk) who think they're entitled to demand that people of all pre-pension ages (sometimes even heavily pregnant women) vacate their seats for them instead of literally just walking one or two steps further to the next seat, thereby not only clogging up the bus corridor while everyone has to shuffle around but also being a general nuisance I've got enough and for years haved avoided riding busses in this city like the plague.

I've seen public transport done differently and better in other cities, one key feature for working better AFAICT being tram lines with low intervals, not like in the above example relatively short busses every ~15-20 minutes per line.

Truth is... the game was rigged from the start...

> Ethically scalping feels wrong, but I think ethics aside, scalping does provide a service to the market.

Yeah fuck ethics, there's profit to be made.

/s

My mother told me about some new anti-scalper scheme she encountered recently when she was looking at ordering concert tickets for herself and my father. It went something like this:

- basket size limited to IIRC a maximum of five tickets for the same concert,

- name of the buyer is linked to (idk, maybe even printed on) the tickets AND

- the named buyer would have to be there with the group to enter the venue.

I think this would probably be pretty effective in countering that bottom-feeding scum called scalper.

A Jimquisition video from today about how microtransactions in video games etc. can also be understood as specifically preying on those with ADHD and other conditions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH2SjNeYq8k

That usecase could just as easily be solved through this novel concept called "manual override".

It's not just forums, recently I looked around for information on an incremental game only to be told that there is no wiki or anything like that but to "join the discord".

WHY?! would I ever use a chat software to look up static information on a game? I know that information may or may change between releases but the release isn't daily or even close to that, so using a platform where I might have to read through or at least skim over hundreds of messages in conversation/support channels to find the right crumb of information is just insane to me. Also having to get an account and/or installing additional software for serving information which could just as well have been done with a fandom/wikia page and no unnecessary barriers is just utterly stupid.

The only "Grand Design" I've ever seen and liked was Clarkson's "Grand Design Citroen" during their "Self-built Campervan Challenge":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7g08nwEmyY

From my recollection of a documentary I watched a few years ago: You can cut power to the burning building if the fire hasn't already destroyed the circuit(s) itself, solar panels though are not bound to the utilities thus can't be shut off remotely and could give electric shocks to the firefighters/left-over occupants. IIRC there were some nasty accidents that happened like this.

> Nice overview(s) for Germany and most other countries with comparisons where appropriate.

Forgot to insert the following link after the above sentence and can't edit anymore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legal_entity_types_by_...

> It could be different in Germany.

Nice overview(s) for Germany and most other countries with comparisons where appropriate.

Regarding the AG in Germany and required regular external auditing, in my university course where I learned about the charasteristics of the most common German legal entities [0], there was no such requirement listed or talked about, maybe that's only for Switzerland?

The GmbH on the other hand requires a minimum capital of 25.000€ and is expensive to form (from the course mentioned above >1.000€ in fees for notarizations etc.) which is one reason why the "UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" (essentially "baby's first GmbH") was established a while ago. A UG only has to have a minimum of 1€ in starting capital but has to

> "enlarge its capital by at least 25% of its annual net profit (with some adjustments), until the general minimum of €25,000 is reached (at which point the company may change its name for the more prestigious GmbH)."

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurial_company_(Germa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_mit_beschr%C3%A4n...

[0]: as part of the subject "Finanzwirtschaft"/"Managerial finance?"

Or as Bill Burr said [0]:

> (imitating a woman defending ridiculous divorce settlements): "That's what the law says!"

> (himself): "A hundred years ago I could beat you with a mop handle, that's what the law said! Doesn't make it right!"

[0]: https://youtu.be/x0gaYyNk7QA?t=603

> need to see that you use it for an average of 4 hours per night or whatever

That could just as easily be achieved by the method of locally recording on the SD card GP mentioned above without uploading who-knows-what about the device, your body, maybe even the surrounding area and other people to who-the-fuck-knows-where.

> quotas [...] at your big name ISP it's actually costing them more than you pay for the service

Apart from one-off costs for building the line and associated repeaters and curb boxes, the only real running costs should be occasional maintenance on those boxes, some electricity costs and most likely some out-sourced phone support ("Have you tried turning it off and on again?").

I'm pretty sure the oh-so-convenient-to-ISPs tale of ever-rising costs if customers go past some arbitrary monthly limit (which is a tiny fraction of the possible monthly usage with the advertised bandwidth) is a MYTH and has been known as such for years.

A little napkin-math:

10⁹ x (1/8 B x 1/2 x 3600s x 8h x 8d) = 10.8 x 10¹² B = 10.8 TB/m = 500Mb/s [1] @ 8h per day for 8 days per month

which is much more than the oh-so-magnanimous 5 TB/month budget I read as an example in a comment further up.

[1]: half of the advertised bandwidth

Pretty sure Firefox did no such thing, instead IIRC the developer (gorhill) of both addons (uMatrix and uBO) realized that uMatrix was pretty much redundant given the options available in uBO and thus archived uMatrix.

> If 3000 soldiers can keep a whole country from going Taliban

Probably more like the expectation that in response to any substantial Taliban coup and thus danger to NATO soldiers, (tens of) thousands more soldiers with vehicles, tanks, aircrafts could be there in a matter of days.

AFAIK you already don't have to use that addon anymore since at least 78 or even earlier. Eg. my only addon in Thunderbird is "Provider for Google Calendar" so that I can sync my calendar with my Android phone other than that I've not used Lightning in forever.

Can't you use Message Filters for that usecase? "Move to" and "Copy to" are available actions there or do you just explicitly want an "Archive" option for the filters?