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When ridiculing the dystopian mess that is the “social credit score” system in China it is good to always remember that it is called like that because it was based of the “credit score” system used in many libertarian countries, where it is regularly used to deny access to essentials of societal life, like housing, energy, and communication.

Good pirates firewall their loot anyway.

Im Verlauf der Zeit wurde das dann immer mehr ad absurdum geführt, indem die Geldpolitik dahin gehend geändert wurde, dass die Banken mehr Geld verleihen dürfen als sie an Rücklagen haben. Dazu kam dann, dass durch Niedrigzinspolitik die Banken Geld “umsonst” bekommen konnten.

Es sei angemerkt das ich auch kein Experte bin, aber das ist nach meinem Verständnis sogar noch perverser: Durch Vergabe eines Kredits “erschafft” die Bank neues Geld das vorher gar nicht existiert hat. Die leiht sich das nicht irgendwo zu Zinsen, die zieht sich eine Zahl aus dem Arsch, schreibt die doppelt in ein Buch, und verlangt dann darauf selber Zinsen.

Das Resultat ist, dass man heutzutage quasi gezwungen ist ein Konto zu haben, während Banken es eigentlich in Zeiten moderner EDV einfacher den je haben die Konten zu verwalten. Trotzdem wird jetzt angefangen mehr und mehr Geld für die Konten zu nehmen, nicht weil sie es brauchen, sondern weil sie es können.

Das müssen die ganzen Pascal- und Cobol-Programmierer sein welche den langsam vergammelnden Onion-Code der Banken warten, und dank des Selektionsdrucks am Markt Freudenhauspreise aufrufen können. /s

So it’s either a Chrome thing or a Mac and Chrome thing.

Neither really, it’s a font thing. I see a wooden wheel in the page title, a car wheel in my tab bar, and it’s missing in the window title.

liveuamap.com reports there was a second plane owned by Prigozhin in the air, so my conspiracy theory is he got wind of the impending assassination, swapped the passenger lists, and will be announcing his “March of Justice” 2.0 shortly.

Actually you are both wrong, since the Balkenkreuz and the Eiserne Kreuz are but two of hundreds of variations of the same symbol, the black cross of the German Order of knights, dating back to the 12th century. It’s the same symbol.

And not only that, the particular variation you are going on about, the Balkenkreuz, black cross with a thick white and small black outline except for the endings of the cross, isn’t a Nazi symbol. It was used in the first world war already.

Which is all completely ignoring that it’s a simple cross with a single outline, one of the most basic shapes there is, used by a medical company.

All to say, I see how it’s easy to mistake, but you are wrong on the facts and you are airing your grievances on the wrong venue. Write to the company, maybe they will even agree with you and change it.

Healthcare could definitely be better, but 67% of Americans are satisfied with their insurance.

No offense, but this sounds a bit like asking the congenitally blind if they miss seeing.

Well as one of today’s lucky 10,000, let me tell you it’s not dependent on the KDE/Android combo. There are versions for Windows, macOS, and iOS (although some functionality is missing).

1. What would be the advantage of running Nextcloud as a docker, instead of within a VM?

   • No idea really beyond the usual VM/container trade-offs, I guess it would allow you to use orchestration tools and similar for Docker.

2. What would be a sensible way to have an incremental/differential backup of the VM/Docker?

   • If you use Proxmox as your hypervisor it comes with a sophisticated backup solution, probably the same for ESXi or whatever. Not sure about Docker.

3. The storage usage of my Nextcloud instance exceeds 1TB. If I run it within a VM, I will have to connect it to a 2TB SSD. Does it make sense to add the external storage space to the VM? […]

   • That’s what I would do at least. Connecting external storage space to a VM/container is relatively trivial and Nextcloud recommends to separate binaries and data directory anyway. Plus this allows you to use different backup strategies for data versus binaries+metadata.

In case you haven’t yet, I’d also recommend taking a look at this: https://github.com/nextcloud/vm

It’s basically a collection of three shell scripts to install, manage, and update Nextcloud. Last time I tried it also worked on LXC/LXD, not only VMs. It would probably work on Docker as well and has some files related to that in the migrate/docker directory.