Posts by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #Atkn5IZeMdSzo1kDPU by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-05-04T08:15:48Z
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How does banning a party work in Germany, and why do we even want to ban a party?a simple explanationOne of the German intelligence agencies, specifically the "Bundesverfassungsschutz" (Federal Constitution Protection Agency), has produced a more than 1000 pages long report about the AfD, a party you surely know by now.The report contains a thorough analysis of AfD's ideology and their connection to extremist groups all over the world.In itself, this report and the work the agancy does is something like a warning system. The agency itself can not make any decisions about the legitimacy of a party, and neither can they interfere or disrupt a parties political work. All they are allowed to do is to listen in and collect proof of a parties anti-democratic/unconstitutional tendencies and plans using intelligence gathering techniques like hiring informants, tapping phone lines, analyzing network traffic, etc... This is only allowed, if significant concerns have been raised about a parties or other groups members might be acting against our constitution or are planning serious action against our democratic state. If a preliminary analysis confirms those concerns, the agancy gets the power to use said surveillance against the party or organisation.In the case of the AfD, they have been a suspected extremist party for several years now, allowing the agancy to surveil their communications and inner workings, until they came to the conclusion, that the AfD is indeed fighting our democratic state and are following a right-wing extremist ideology, something that is incompatible with our constitution.Now that a flag has been raised, there are obvious reasons the party needs to be hindered from successfully eroding or even destroying our democracy. In Germany we have multiple paragraphs in our constitution that allow for a ban of all parties, groups, and organisations that are aggressively attacking the foundation of our free democratic state, are planning to remove the constitution, or to significantly alter it by force or with other antidemocratic means. There are specific extra-strict laws about banning parties since making that too easy would also make it easier for oppressive governments to ban democratic parties.How that works: The ONLY way to ban a party here in Germany, is to task our supreme court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) to review a parties incompatibility with our constitutional law and to declare a ban on them and all following organisation's trying to bring back that party. The review process often takes years and is extremely thorough since banning a party is a pretty extreme "ultima ratio" measure.The idea behind banning a party is not to convince them or their voters that they were on the wrong path or to punish them in favor of other parties. The paragraphs for banning a party state explicitly that a ban is only constitutional when it is done to protect the state, it's institutions and citizens from harm coming from said party.The voters will still be there. The members will still be extremist. But the party as an organized way of preparing harmful actions will be destroyed, and all following attempts to bring it back under a new name, with a new image, etc. will be outlawed as well.Last but not least, our German supreme court, which specializes explicitly on dealing with issues related to the constitution and the constitutional rights of the people, will not start the process of banning a party on its own. It needs to be tasked with that by either the parliament (Bundestag), the federal council (Bundesrat), or the acting government (Bundesregierung).After having been tasked with the review, the court will start a long investigation into the organisation, in our case the AfD, and will collect evidence that supports the claim that they are unconstitutional. For that, it also uses the 1100-page report of the "Verfassungsschutz", police reports, other court cases against the party, etc.Should the court decide the AfD is actually unconstitutional, which in my opinion, and the opinion of many experts here, is highly likely, the party will be banned and ordered to seize all its operations, and to disband their headquarters and all other places they've worked in. They will also be forbidden to found a new party trying to replace it. If the party continues to organize action, not as a party any more but as a banned organisation, law enforcement will enforce the ban and disrupt any action taken by members of it, that contribute to the goals of the former party.Now that the report is public, the pressure on our government, parliament and federal council is rising to ask the Supreme Court to review a ban of the AfD. If this actually happens remains to be seen.
(DIR) Post #AuEi6pUUfVzbnuqJTk by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-05-19T00:26:22Z
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@i0null I'm still sad they removed the "this incident will be reported" line
(DIR) Post #AunvibWjrbA1WYg77Y by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-06-05T01:07:56Z
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@futurebird How else would you run python? 😬Installing it and testing with python --version and print('Hello World') is the first thing you do as far as I know...
(DIR) Post #AupAaf8OGEEirjv8IS by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-06-05T01:15:51Z
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@Daojoan It's not a "culture war". It's a conspiracy to distract us all from fighting the big corpos and oppressive governments who are fucking us over.
(DIR) Post #Av8MebdJVQfORCzhgm by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-06-12T01:28:23Z
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They did WHAT?!I only heard of this just now, and I have to ask, Wikimedia, ARE YOU STUPID?!Not only would you instantly harm Wikipedias' fairly good reputation, you'd also degrade your quality massively and spit on the hard work of editors who are tirelessly weeding out AI generated slop from otherwise good material.Sorry for all this cursing, but I have to say, I am livid... I trusted you to not jump onto the enshittification slop train, but apparently, you just couldn't resist... Shame on you.I hope the editors outrage was enough to put this dumb idea 6 feet below ground... https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/@wikipedia
(DIR) Post #Av8MfHRO4A5A6Njlvk by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-06-12T22:47:25Z
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Honestly... if Wikimedia pushes forward with the AI slop, I'll stop donating until they roll it back. I won't stand for more enshittification of open knowledge, and I sure as hell won't support it with my money.
(DIR) Post #Av8MfIlz749WEYNjfs by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-06-12T23:03:17Z
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@hal8999 The disclaimer basically sais: "Yeah, it goes against our whole identity of being fact-checked and neutral. We implemented it anyways."
(DIR) Post #AwiTd1qHQG7xOGQiK8 by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-08-01T05:43:22Z
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@Haikyoneko The Schwartzschild radius of this 36cm black hole is impressive 👌🏽
(DIR) Post #AyKsM9ZJVqKLK7OEkq by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-09-15T12:24:13Z
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#biohacking #trans#LGBTQ
(DIR) Post #AykQnH7Ubh5PMx6g7c by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-10-01T00:05:39Z
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@tomasino No clothes at all ;P
(DIR) Post #AylFgFwveh55NHZmUa by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-10-01T09:33:09Z
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@kaia 😳 If this would have caught fire...I dont even wanna imagine.The paramedic side of me tho... Interesting case at least 🤷🏻♀️ I could tell stories for ages 💀
(DIR) Post #Aym3SC7c5LNR9o3u88 by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-10-01T18:49:46Z
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@nightingale @kaia Eeexactly :neocat_3c:
(DIR) Post #Aym3SCo9XBP9HjxsR6 by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-10-01T18:52:29Z
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@nightingale @kaia You can also try and wrap some surgical nylon string around the ring, which makes it glide much better.You can also wrap some string around the finger to compress it. That works as a last resort before cutting it.Otherwise, you can also cut in a cold oil bath, but that's a very niche and risky thing to do.
(DIR) Post #AzPs0Yr0e9viNXJVE8 by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-10-20T23:53:46Z
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@futurebird Wow, I C what you did there!
(DIR) Post #AzdMfekJGUpFKqKBhA by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-10-27T12:08:39Z
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@bastetandptah Stop glorifying "work ethic" and "demure appearance" and start glorifying whatever the hell this is!
(DIR) Post #B0AgHCKy0IyJKKLAGW by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-11-11T10:41:08Z
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@Tutanota Hey, let's open this guys mail, read all about his private life, and post it openly on the internet. Then let's ruin his relationship, his job, and the entire rest of his private life with that information.Maybe then he understands what his totally erroneous ideas actually mean 🤮
(DIR) Post #B0wtXLeLUIneq4Y3aC by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-12-05T20:08:32Z
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@Nonilex That's why political and economical independence matter. As long as we allow ourselves to be blackmailed by a wannabe Nazis and other despots, our democracy is threatened.Also, we need to hold the line against neo-fascist parties like the German AfD, and use all possible legal ways to stop them from dismantling our states.Those people are preparing for a takeover. We should be up in arms (metaphorically), defending our democracies and the rule of law against the rising extremist cells.
(DIR) Post #B1hBXQRGgYmUbeWsz3 by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-12-28T04:03:57Z
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@N33R Meep. I CERTed the congress. Just left tho.
(DIR) Post #B1hBhiWIJbtFZzmuOW by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-12-28T04:08:47Z
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@futurebird That's the shit my nightmares are made of... for years by now.
(DIR) Post #B29yeJsAViaJVBDsKe by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2026-01-11T01:29:08Z
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@futurebird I have no PERSONAL google account. I need to have one for work tho, because auth0 and stuff.