I think it was hard because we had to learn all that abstract advanced stuff (Plusquamperfekt Futur II Temporaladverbial Reflexivpronomen, all that shit) that you’ll probably not learn in a language course for non-native speakers and that you don’t need to know to speak the language in normal life.

Important detail that is missing in the article and that some are getting wrong in the comments: This is not about forcing messengers to add backdoors for mass surveillance or weakening the messenger/its encryption in general (although that indeed is the wet dream of some governments/agencies). It’s about infecting the phone/device of a suspect with spyware (either by hacking remotely or with physical access, although in secret of course) and sniffing their communication before it’s encrypted/leaves the devices (or after decryption for incoming messages). Every case must be individually approved by several judges so cops can’t just use this willy-nilly, the crime they’re investigating must be quite serious (punishable by at least 10 years in prison) and it’s limited to 30 cases per year.

For a “privacy-focused” search engine that’s “operating in “no tracking” mode by default” I find “only” 9 trackers 9 too many TBH.

A lot of speculation in the comments here but there’s some context/details missing.

• “Germany” didn’t buy the tanks but the German company Rheinmetall
• While the price isn’t known, another company previously bought 25 of those tanks from RUAG for lousy 500€ a piece and then didn’t even bother to come pick them up, so I assume Rheinmetall got a similar deal
• Lots of countries still use them, Greece even wants to enlarge and upgrade their fleet of Leopard 1, they’re still in demand and with a purchase price of 500€ and a bit of repairs there’s probably a ton of money to be made

So my guess is this has nothing to do with Ukraine, just a company seeing a business opportunity.

Maybe they’d get on steady if you asked them. Many people are very cooperative when there’s money to be made.

tl;dr:

• Hüseyin Dogru and others worked at “redfish”, a russian propaganda outlet owned by russian state propaganda media Ruptly/Russia Today
• When “redfish” was sanctioned for being, well, a russian owned propaganda outlet, Hüseyin Dogru was in charge of liquidating the company
• At the same time he registered a new company called “red”
• He and others from “redfish” seamlessly continued working at “red” (including the managing director of “redfish”)
• Their “redfish” telegram channel was simply renamed and is now the telegram channel of “red”
• “red” is funded with “donations from [undisclosed] organizations and individuals”

Make of that what you want, but it’s the same people as redfish and they couldn’t even be fucked to get a new telegram channel or at least think of a company name that’s just a tiny little bit more different from the last one. If they’re not a continuation of “redfish” then for some reason they tried really hard to make it look like they are. Hüseyin Dogru calling Ukrainians “nazis” and the threat from russia “fictitious” also doesn’t really help distinguishing them from russian propaganda.

For little fun projects I really like uberspace.de. it’s a shared hosting platform, basically you get a user account on one of their Linux servers where you can login and do whatever you want. Price is 10€/month by default but you can go down to 5€ if you’re low on cash. They let you pick your own price, just try to be fair. You can’t register domains directly from them but your account comes with a yourname.uber.space subdomain and setting up domains you bought somewhere else is super easy too, they also take care of SSL certificates automatically. They also have a lot of documentation about how to run practically any service you’d want there. Here’s the page for flask for example: https://lab.uberspace.de/guide_flask/

EDIT: German company run by some nerds that are really helpful if you need something.

Yeah but he’s in a coalition with the SPD and if they really want to, which it seems they do, they can block Taurus or break the coalition. https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/internationale-politik/id_100720802/wird-die-taurus-lieferung-zum-streitfall-miersch-spd-gegen-union-.html

Merz didn’t mention the Taurus missiles by name during his interview, but has suggested that unlike former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, he was not against supplying Kyiv with the missile, which can hit Russian targets deep in the rear or could destroy the Kerch bridge connecting Russia to the Crimean peninsula.

Scholz may be out but his party SPD are still in the coalition and his goons already ruled out sending Taurus. And without Taurus, the entire statement is kinda pointless, as Germany hasn’t sent anything else that could reach far inside Russia, and France and UK never opposed using their already delivered Scalp/Storm Shadow to hit targets inside Russia.

About OTTO prices and shipping: they do have a program similar to Amazon Prime where you pay 10€ a year and all orders that are shipped by OTTO directly (marketplace items not included, just like with Amazon) are shipped for free. The fun/weird thing is that for orders you collect points which you can use for a discount later and by paying the 10€ for one year of free shipping you get points that equal a 10€ which you can immediately use for your first order, so in a way free shipping is indeed completely free.

Not an expert but it looks like it very much detonated in the end.

Probably too easy to confuse with mm.

Interestingly megaton is rather common unit but not teragram.

BSW is politically 99% aligned with the “confirmed” Nazi party AfD, the only difference is that Wagenknecht hasn’t publicly defended Hitler yet (AFAIK).

Why not double it now to put Ukraine in a better position in negotiations?

I don’t want to discourage anyone from helping OSM using StreetComplete or other apps, but you should be aware that this is an open source project and your edits are public. If you walk around in your neighborhood and contribute opening times or whatever, those edits can be seen on a map along with your username and can in many cases be used to narrow down the neighborhood you live in, depending on your behavior. So if you’re concerned about privacy, make sure you use a random generic username that you don’t use anywhere else when signing up, so people googling your username from social media for example can’t locate you just based on that name.

She/her organization bragged about having sent those cards on Instagram, cops got their IPs from Meta which led them to her phone where they found more incriminating stuff:

A search warrant requested data from Meta that revealed IP addresses associated with the IUDC Instagram account. A search of McComish’s phone, which was linked to the account, revealed searches for trustee addresses and a note that nearly matched the language on the holiday cards, according to the affidavit.

https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/05/student-charged-intimidation-for-letters-iu-administrators

Companies tend to outsource jobs to cheaper countries, so unless you got some super special rare skills that can’t be found anywhere in Europe or you want to compete with Indians for a crap hotline job, I’m afraid you’'re out of luck. Also as far as I know (this might be outdated information though) as an US citizen you’re required to pay income tax in the US no matter where in there world you’re working, meaning you’d be paying income tax twice, in the EU and the US.

Alexander Dobrindt

Babbel is pretty good and made in Germany. There’s no free/ad-financed version though, only a free trial period before you gotta pay. There’s not a whole lot of gamification but it has a streak mechanism like Duolingo which is enough to keep me practicing daily.

Now that’s a weird coincidence, I only learned about Tony’s chocolate a few days ago cause there was a big product recall poster in my local supermarket and it kinda stuck in my mind cause I was wondering how TF do stones end up in chocolate. :D