Modeling a full #embargo on #Russian gas for Germany, worst case scenario, with 5 industry sectors coming to a full stop over night, results in a reduction of GDP of around 3%. Tough, but manageable. We had a pandemic drop of 4% and are still here. Source: various research. 1/2

@aral good luck with trying to convince the useless Irish data protection agency to take swift action :(

@aral so from a legal perspective everything is "fine". Your WLAN was added to the database with the consent of whatever person who happened to be close to it at some point in time. It's a weird world out there :(

@aral Details and opt-out are here: https://location.services.mozilla.com

@aral It just needs someone who picks up the WLAN beacon signal (not even having to connect) on an (android) phone with consent to share location and it'll add your router/WLAN with its GPS coordinates to the database. So it's not even possible to really opt-out.

@mihira No. Other services that coillect geolocation data will ignore the _nomap. There is no defined way to *really* opt-out. It's a huge market. Similar to how "they" subverted the do-not-track option in HTTP to do exact opposite. @humanetech @aral

@aral Does your WLAN still have the same name? Geolocation based on WLAN/Router is quite common.

@FailForward Please don’t confuse my dutch pragmatism with fear. I prefer to clearly point out the problems I see and offer solutions too. A fact based assessment of the current situation might look like doom and gloom, but I am an optimist. My hope is that we come out of this with a stronger Europe. But we need to do the work for that.

@FailForward Yes. A point I have made over and over again. IMHO it became really clear with Brexit and moved forward into the pandemic and the first weeks of the war. But the pendulum might have reached a maximum and could swing back - that’s my fear.

And now, after 10+ years of rampant right-wing nationalism in many EU countries, instead of working towards a unified European answer, we‘re back to fingerpointing at countries. Not helpful. It’s destructive, IMHO.

Germany definitely is on the wrong side of history with its dependence on Russian gas. There’s no doubt about that from my side.

I am not sure how this will play out mid to long term. But my hope for a strong and united Europe is moving a bit farther away in the darkness. Damn.

But simply cutting it off, as many demand, would result in negative consequences that will go far beyond German economy. That’s not defending Germany. That’s a factual assessment of a really bad situation.

Sure, we, Europe at large, could have invested in a true shift towards renewable energy in the past 30 years. We decided not to.

The European balance of power is challenged from many sides. Putins plan to destabilise the European Union is in full force. France will vote today. Open hate against Germany and Germans is popping up everywhere. European solidarity and unity is shrinking.

@clacke It would be an architecture with "dumb" proxies that help in managing the load in a store and forward way but where these proxies cannot in any way influence the content. @Gargron @erosdiscordia @rysiek @RyunoKi @homegrown

„We all had corona. We refused vaccination. We had just a light cold. Vaccination and masks were never needed. We are proof. You are just panicking.“ hearing that so many times. I’m exhausted. And happy that my loved ones ignore that shit and got their shots.

@RyunoKi @homegrown @rysiek @erosdiscordia @Gargron the scale is self-owned/peer to peer - decentralised - federated - centralised IMHO.

Es gibt seltene Ausnahmen. Ausstieg aus der Kernkraft war eine. Aber sonst? Rentenreform? Stillstand. Fahrradwege? LOL. Schulen? Erbärmlich. Das ist alles schon krass.

Vor 40 Jahren bin ich nach Deutschland gezogen. Eine Konstante in mein Leben hier war die abstrus sinnlose „Diskussion“ um das Tempolimit. Sie zeigt mir aber eins: Seit Jahrzehnten regiert in Deutschland der Stillstand. Ritualisierte Streitereien. Kein Fortschritt.