“Politicians who set standards for others must be measured by them too,” said Marion Rosin, a Christian Democrat in Thuringia and part of the Women’s Union. “If that credibility is gone, resignation is a matter of consequence.”

Naturally. I imagine that if Marion Rosin could be shown to have purchased any product originating in another country with different labor laws than in Germany and operating in accordance with the labor laws of that country rather than German ones, that she would certainly herself resign and end her own political career. As a matter of principle, perhaps Ms. Rosin would care to show us, say, the tags on the items of her wardrobe?

That’s true, and I remember that being a problem in a number of accidents for older drivers, but it sounds like this guy was just trying to drive quickly.

https://www.teslarati.com/ntsb-findings-on-fatal-tesla-crash-tell-a-very-different-story/

The driver, 44-year-old Michael Butler…

Not elderly.

Butler told authorities he had passed out at the wheel. But security camera footage obtained by the NTSB told a different story, and showed the car accelerating through an intersection before leaving the road entirely. Police also found that Butler’s phone had Google searches including the terms “Tesla FSD not aggressive enough 2026” and “Tesla FSD too timid,” raising serious questions about how he was using the system before the crash. Butler has since been charged with manslaughter. The victim’s family has filed a lawsuit against both Butler and Tesla, alleging negligence.

Rule #2.

Rule #3.

Rule #7.

Rule #8.

Like, he literally managed to violate half of the community rules in one post.

My Linux distro already comes with a PDF merger. Let’s get some PDF files to merge.

$ for i in $(seq 1 5); do echo $i >$i.txt; pandoc -o $i.pdf $i.txt; done

Now I’ve got five PDF files to merge.

$ pdfunite *.pdf merged.pdf

And done.

WebM works with image-rs (as long as you don’t exceed your home instance’s upload size limits).

I can’t guarantee that every client can view it properly — that’s on the client’s author — but it’ll show up in the Lemmy Web UI.

$ wget https://gnuplotting.org/figs/bessel.gif
$ ffmpeg -i bessel.gif bessel.webm

Try downloading that and then uploading it in a comment to to your own instance; it should work unless pawb.social limits the size.

True, though they did get into the NASDAQ-100 early and the Russell indices early.

Idaho only has two House seats, so it’s not too hard to cover the whole thing.

I do note with some interest that while Wyoming and North Dakota aren’t on there, Idaho and West Virginia are. Those four states were the four states with the highest percentage share for Trump in 2024, and both Idaho and West Virginia have independents running in all House districts.

Right there with you. The world I grew up in from BBS’s to dial up internet to gaming with friends ( that took serious work to run and connect over phone lines) to innovation after innovation that was for pure excitement and exploration and solving problems and making things easier and simpler is gone.

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

The Telnet BBS Guide focuses Bulletin Board Systems – the original Social Network, serving the BBS community for over 28 years! We list both Dial-Up and Telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems all over the world. We currently list 1010 BBS and related systems with brief and detailed descriptions and a downloadable text-version listing suitable for listing on your BBS or for as a download for others to view and use.

I personally prefer Markdown to BBCode and not having to have a ton of different different accounts, but if you want phpBB forums, they are out there. Search a Web search engine for a string that exists on the website that the forum software displays by default. “Powered by vBulletin”, “Powered by phpBB”, etc.

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https://www.findaforum.net/Home/TopForums/

And I still use social media the way many people originally imagined it: as a way to stay connected. My feeds have always been a mix of far-flung relatives, old friends, and high school band chums (because, let’s be honest, band buddies are the best buddies). Most days, I carve out a little time after work to catch up with the people who matter.

The last thing I’d want is for doing so to be…just more work. And yet, more than half of respondents agreed with the statement “Maintaining an online presence feels like work,” with about a third of those checking the “strongly agree” box. Only 16% disagreed, with the rest remaining neutral.

A full 60% of Gen Z respondents feel the pain of maintaining a social presence. Perhaps they have a niggling hope that they might still be discovered as an influencer?

I don’t really care about the following-people form of social media, the Twitter family. I’m more interested in the forum sort, the Reddit family. There, I don’t need to singlehandedly maintain a flow of content, because people aren’t coming to see @[email protected], but because they’re coming to see what’s going on in some community that I only incidentally participate in.

I mean, it’s still going to have the pants beaten off it by WebM or AVIF for anything originating from a video camera.

GIF was just never intended to be a video format. I have a hard time thinking of something where it’s really competitive. Maybe if you had a recorded lossless video of a small-palette video game, like, NES era or earlier, then GIF might be a solid choice. I’d still think that APNG or MNG would probably outperform it.

GIF animations really only got a boost because there was a period of time when it was all that a decent variety of Web browsers could display.

EDIT: Also, if one is using GIF…I dunno if ffmpeg does this by default, but most video formats have I-frames and then frames that depend on those. When seeking, a player will seek to the nearest prior I-frame and then decode from there.

I don’t believe that GIF 89a has a formal concept of I-frames, because the format was never intended for real video. But it is possible to create frames in a GIF 89a animation with transparent areas that don’t differ from the prior frame, and this achieves some of the efficiency benefits that a video format would get. I know that there have been GIF 89a conpressors that will do this. The downside is that it kills seekability, since after a seek in a player that just starts drawing from the current frame, you’ll see only some of an image until the next time that a pixel in a frame is non-transparent and gets redrawn. There may not be any frames wirhout transparent areas nearby, and the player has no way to know where to look for one. But for applications where you don’t care about seekability, that may help mitigate some of GIF’s limitations for animations.

In all honesty, though, the right answer for video is almost always “use a newer format than GIF”.

A lot of the wines are out of California. Both the state as a whole and the wine-producing regions in it tend to not be too keen on Trump.

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https://wineamerica.org/policy/by-the-numbers/

California makes 85% of all US wine

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

Wine Country is a region of California, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, known worldwide as a premier wine-growing region.[1]

There are over 1,700 wineries in the North Bay, mostly located in the area’s valleys, including Napa Valley in Napa County, and the Sonoma Valley,

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2024/11/08/an-early-look-at-the-trumpharris-vote-in-sonoma-napa-and-other-bay-area-counties/

Sonoma County voters, with 52% of votes counted as of Friday morning, firmly supported Harris with 72% of the vote, compared to 25% for Trump.

In Napa County, which had counted 32% of votes, Harris had 64%, compared to Trump’s 33%.

But typing stuff like: /*********************************************************/ is pretty common for me and would be annoying without auto-repeat of the respective character…

If you’re coding, your code editor may have some way to input that.

Some people who frequently input something like that use a snippet system.

In emacs, hitting most keys (like “*”) runs self-insert-command. That takes a numeric parameter, so one can just do something like / M-5 M-6 * / (slash, hold Alt, type 56, hit asterisk, slash) to get a slash followed by 56 asterisks followed by a slash.

I’m not really a serious vim person, but I’m sure that vim has similar functionality.

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5054128/repeating-characters-in-vim-insert-mode

Looks like, in insert mode, / Control-o 56 a * Esc a /. Probably not using correct vim terminology for the keystrokes, but you get my drift.

On US English keyboards, there isn’t a universal, standard way to do it at the keyboard level.

I use Linux, and bind my Menu key on my keyboard to Compose. With Compose, I can tap “Compose-backtick-e” and get “è”.

Emacs has its own input methods, as do other environments.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_farm#In_China

Live snakes are supplied to specialty restaurants; dried or preserved in alcohol, they are sold to manufacturers of traditional Chinese medicines; snake-infused wine is made as well.[1][2]

Reducing emissions as swiftly as possible will be essential to prevent AMOC collapse and other catastrophic impacts of climate change.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/europe/russia-fuel-crisis-ukraine-drone-attacks-intl-vis

Almost every Russian region hit by fuel crisis, as Ukraine escalates drone attacks

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/middleeast/hormuz-tanker-iran-attack-intl-hnk

Iran strikes three vessels near Strait of Hormuz as Trump arrives at NATO summit

…

Ukraine is literally using a heart crosshair on their anti-ship weaponry?

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-heart-crosshair-reticle-season-9-how-to-1851256441

How To Get The Heart Crosshair In Overwatch 2

Here’s how to make your shots a little more girlypop

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/08/clacton-byelection-likely-to-be-two-man-race-between-reform-leader-and-binface

Farage has sought to portray the byelection as a “people versus the establishment” contest, prompting Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, to describe Binface as the “people’s candidate”. The prime minister, Keir Starmer, even addressed his candidacy on the sidelines of the Nato summit. “I think it’s actually against Labour party rules to endorse another [candidate],” he said.

For the man himself, or rather the alien, it’s all come as a bit of a shock. The question of whether he might even win is one that he is reluctant to countenance. “It’s earliest days yet and there is a long old road to go, but if in the unlikely event that the humans of Clacton prefer me to old Nige, then I will do my very best to represent them,” he told the Guardian.

Farage is the favourite, but odds on Binface winning have been tumbling. Oddschecker, which provides betting odds from some of the UK’s most popular bookmakers, said odds on the underdog winning had been slashed from 5/1 into 7/2.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/nigel-farage-takes-fight-establishment-160348322.html

Nigel Farage takes his ‘fight with the establishment’ to the voters

Farage said his decision ‌to stand for re-election was part of a strategy of “sticking two fingers up at the establishment”…

It was at this point that Mr. Farage made the fatal decision that the best way to rally support from anti-establishment voters would be a one-on-one popularity contest with a man wearing a garbage bin on his head.

So far, we’ve had several times more domestic assassination attempts on Trump than we have Iranian.