Over here in Germany encryption is most definitely illegal. This includes encoded messages only the intended recipient could decode.

The loser of a lawsuit always has to cover the cost of the lawsuit, including the other party’s lawyer fees (except in cases where the state attorney sues and a bunch of other exceptions like when an employee starts a labor dispute). They are very much capped based on the disputed sum though. The higher the dispute, the higher the attorney fees you have to pay when losing.

For example, if the disputed sum is 5000€ the base lawyer fees are ~390€. It can then be multiplied by some factor - I think 2.5 is the maximum but I’m unsure - depending on the length and difficulty of the case.

They aren’t a punishment but rather a consequence of losing a lawsuit.

They are also usually covered by your legal protection insurance which is generally recommended to have.

US awarded “damages” are utterly insane.

How do the judges even come up with those numbers? By rolling a die?

I’m really happy to live in a country where the awarded damages must only cover the damage amount and the damaged party mustn’t profit from them.

They didn’t care at first. The only reason they began destructively scanning books is because they started to care about copyright law:

Anthropic first chose to amass digitized versions of pirated books to avoid what CEO Dario Amodei called “legal/practice/business slog”—the complex licensing negotiations with publishers. But by 2024, Anthropic had become “not so gung ho about” using pirated ebooks “for legal reasons” and needed a safer source.

Copyright law doesn’t allow them to sell the books. It’s almost certainly a violation to scan books for their content and then sell them.

USB-C requires a lot of space for charging, data transfer etc.

Let’s remove it too and make phones rely on wireless charging instead.

I just use RED. The user collages are pretty nice to find new albums.

AI literally produces better answers than 99% of ad supported, SEOptimized websites.

That’s saying not a lot about AI though. It tells you how utterly awful searching the web is thanks to those sites.

which can also be gotten literally anywhere other than work

Can it? For absolutely everyone, regardless of (mental) health? No one benefits from being monetarily pressured to interact with people even if the interaction is only surface level?

Sorry, I meant either confiscation of the domain or the server provider deciding to take everything down. The latter can be mitigated with backups but it will nevertheless result in long downtimes.

There’s generally no legal recourse or protection if any instance involved in hosting the site decides to break contracts. This sort of uncertainty sucks and has to be taken into consideration.

Simultaneously, you lose all rights to the site and risk a hostile takeover with no possible recourse.

It’s also significantly more effort to retain this level of anonymity from a state actor. I don’t even think there’s a single Lemmy instance which follows all those steps.

The thing is, as of right now German censorship doesn’t warrant this. Yes, it sucks you cannot freely speak about Israel. But frankly, since it only requires you to adjust your wording minimally without changing the message (“Israel should be destroyed” => “I support a one state solution where everyone in current-day Israel and Palestine can live freely, similar to how South Africa abolished apartheid.”) it’s really not worth it.

Should Germany turn fascist and ban all opposition, it is too late for feddit.org and their moderators anyways. If Germany doesn’t, feddit will be fine like this and reduce the strictness of these rules as German sentiment towards Israel slowly worsens over the coming years.

Not really.

You can’t become anonymous and retain site ownership. The site would’ve needed to be shut down and a new, somehow completely unrelated site would have to be started.

Besides, even if that were done you bet your ass a random German lawyer would immediately sue the new site for violating Impressumspflicht. That’s one quick way to get the police investigating your site. Your OPSEC better be close to “hosting an illegal streaming site” level.

Even German forums about piracy would rather have an impress and remove illegal content than remain anonymous and evade police - see tarnkappe.info.

Honestly, it does sound a bit like a hardware defect somewhere. Usually everything should work OOTB unless you are doing something really specific.

If you haven’t already done so, try updating the BIOS.

You mentioned the RAM being fine - have you run Memtest86+ for several hours? One pass is usually not enough to rule out memory malfunctions.

If you have a spare drive, try installing Linux Mint on it. If it still crashes, you can rule out Windows (and if it doesn’t, you could install a clean Windows on that same drive and try again).

You could also purchase a cheap AM4 motherboard (they start at like 60 bucks) to check if the issues still occur and refund it within the return window.

I’d argue there exist extremely viscous liquids which would be considered wet when in contact with water.

It seems arbitrary to exclude liquids from being wet.

wenn er die fehlende Fähigkeit des Jugendlichen zur sexuellen Selbstbestimmung ausnutzt

This paragraph is the important one. A court must first rule the teenager was not mature enough to bang an adult. Courts have ruled sexual inexperience alone is not sufficient to convict someone. The inability of a 14 year old to consent must be proven in order to convict an adult for banging a 14 year old.

Nope, not in Germany. A 110 year old can legally bang a 14 year old, as long as they don’t have a position of authority over the teen.

How does that even make sense?

Wouldn’t you lower the sentence if the victim AI says it forgives the killer? Because - you know - it significantly reduces the “revenge” angle the American justice system is based on?

You wouldn’t have a notebook. Any and all stimuli would be banned as the purpose is making your experience horrible.

Also, you get incredibly mundane tasks as well. Maybe you’ll get a couple sheets of random symbols and are tasked to count a certain letter. And if you don’t do this task you can be laid off for underperforming.

Fully agree. Just wanted to provide an argument why having commercial truck drivers have some English proficiency could be beneficial for safety. Requiring a 3 month English course for those unfamiliar with the language as part of getting a CDL would do the trick. But that wouldn’t hand money to private prisons, would it?

But the inconsistency is the problem.

Take a look at the top signs about driving on the shoulder. Who is to say there aren’t twenty more variations?

Maybe a couple of

“Driving on shoulder mandatory”

“Trucks on shoulder only”

“Passing on shoulder permitted”

“$100 fine for driving on shoulder”

“Keep shoulder clear”

“No trucks allowed on shoulder”

There doesn’t seem to be any standard. It’s just text.