is unlawful for any person to send, post, or transmit, or procure the sending, posting, or transmission of, a writing or other record, including an electronic record, in any manner in which it may be viewed by another person […]

Intent does not seem to be relevant…? It may lessen the punishment but the letter of the law is clearly violated. Whether it’s in the spirit of the law is another thing.

Tbh I couldn’t set up Netbird in a way that I’m happy with. I’d like to use it with an external Caddy and Authelia but the setup is so terribly documented and has various bugs I have given up.

It very much does. Else there would be no need for the EU to create legislation allowing/mandating it.

Right now member states are not allowed to unilaterally mandate chat control I believe.

Only non-printable spaces from what I can tell.

The BOM character does not fall into this category and is still invisible. Try pasting it into Kate. It’s between those arrows:

---><---

It has a few quirks I utterly despise :(

Like it cannot print invisible characters. Had a script create some broken folders with a BOM character at the beginning. I couldn’t access the files in any way except that they appeared in dolphin and ls. Had to delete them via the fucking inode.

I was forced to use VSCode (an open source fork at least) to find out what the fuck was wrong with the input file the script used to generate the folder name.

Why would you be heating at night?

Like seriously, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t turn their heating significantly down before going to bed. You only need to heat the bedrooms which are also generally colder.

Same with air conditioning. It’s primarily needed when it’s actually hot, which - as it turns out - is when the sun is shining and energy prices are low.

Besides: It completely ignores decentralized energy storage. Households with batteries can just let them charge when energy prices are low and discharge when prices are high.

There’s a reason smart meters are starting to be mandated. People will need to adjust their habits slightly¹ but that’s just the price to pay for sustainable energy.

¹Like very slightly. As in checking the energy price forecast before doing laundry.

Edit: A couple basic introductions to the topic to read up on if you’re interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter (also read up on AMI)

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

Supply controlled energy grid.

Money is extremely good at influencing energy demand. If your power bill increases tenfold per kwh at night then you will do your laundry during the day when it’s cheap. It only requires smart electric meters which are starting to be the norm.

Electric cars can further function as home batteries if they support bidirectional charging.

If this were actually done to children/teens surely their brains would not form any associations between being restrained and horny, right?

How do you install kindness and affection? They’re not on the AUR:

[yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ~]$ paru -S kindness affection
:: Resolving dependencies...
error: could not find all required packages:
    kindness (target)
    affection (target)

I have, somehow, found love packaged though. But it’s not true love. It’s LÖVE (a 2d game engine) spelled with an ASCII typeset so I’m pretty sure I have installed the wrong dependency.