@DCR spannend!
@ThatCrazyDude @Sophistifunk great, now i'm hungry for fried stuff xD
@ThatCrazyDude @Sophistifunk fries could be pretty good, but probably not worth the price yeah
> Wir sollten uns daran erinnern, dass in vermeintlich gesichtslosen Behörden auch Menschen sitzen: Menschen, die ihren eigenen Kopf haben, die sich, ebenso wie wir, ihre Gedanken machen, und für uns alle eine bessere Zukunft wollen: Frei von Totalitarismus, politischer Bevormundung und der systematischen Verletzung körperlicher Selbstbestimmungsrechte.
lol, sicherdoch xD
@ThatCrazyDude @Sophistifunk wait, a rotating cage is pretty cool!
@dcc @theorytoe @djsumdog have we seen the hole in the ear in footage? i'd be interested in that.
@mangeurdenuage
oh, absolutely. spooks and military are a giant money transfer machinery!
@mangeurdenuage
> That's not how it work everywhere here in france for example in education the licenses are a "gifts" which MS gets taxes deductions on it.
yeah in education the licenses are "free" as well here.
i think the other licenses for the bureaucracy aren't free but the usual volume licensing.
> taxation
may help short term, but it's an arms race ;)
> That's a big part of it but it's also because they're tech illiterates.
then they should ask people who know what they are talking about. they actively choose to believe salespeople instead of doing their job.
i maintain that without corruption it would be no problem to go free software in most places. for example: munich had done LiMux for years, then some friend of MS got elected and they killed the LiMux project going back to MS again.
@mangeurdenuage ah, it's 1.2 billion for all kinds of software licenses, 198 million went to MS. most of the other licensing costs were by things like the defense ministry and ministry of interior so it was spend for spook software.
@mangeurdenuage 1.2 billion in 2023 going to MS from germany alone
@mangeurdenuage
> the proprietary stuff is as big because states buy it.
iirc something german gov recently renewed microsoft software for millions.
@mangeurdenuage
the proprietary stuff is as big because states buy it. i think all these monopolies we have are due to governmental spending (very likely due to "lobbying"/corruption). taxation wouldn't help, they'd tax MS and then just puchase it back with as much in price added as they added taxes in the first place.
all the bullshit they are spending money on. most of which isn't even helping their own population, only enriching their friends (like the pfizer deals). they really need to get _that_ side in order before even thinking about taxing some more or creating more inflation by making more money backed by nothing.
Something big happened this weekend. Everyone is talking about it, wondering what the implications will be.
That's right: I finished writing my new book "What is Entropy?" It's just 120 pages long. It has lots of short sections, mostly one page each, each based on a tweet. This is just a draft, and I'm still fixing lots of typos and other mistakes. So grab a copy - and if you catch errors, please let me know, either here or on my blog!
It is not a pop book: it's an introduction that assumes you know calculus. But it's about a lot of big, bold concepts, and I try to really get to the bottom of them:
• information
• Shannon entropy and Gibbs entropy
• the principle of maximum entropy
• the Boltzmann distribution
• temperature and coolness
• the relation between entropy, expected energy and temperature
• the equipartition theorem
• the partition function
• the relation between entropy, free energy and expected energy
• the entropy of a classical harmonic oscillator
• the entropy of a classical particle in a box
• the entropy of a classical ideal gas
I learned a lot by trying to explain in words what people often say only in equations.
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/what-is-entropy/
@CapitalB yet people accept paying taxes
@begsby probier mal die flora incognita app!
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