Not sure if this is obscure or not: I have F12 bound to cycle through the low- to high-contrast versions of my color scheme so I can keep working when the sun hits my shitty laptop screen.

Sitting in front of a mirror like this will get you banned from any chess competition. Ask me how I know.

Should’ve seen that coming I guess.

“Yup, definitely a cat.”

Presidential offices and ministries are both part of the executive branch of governments, though. Ministries are primarily there to organize the executive’s work, so while removing ministries will affect that, it won’t affect the separation of powers (like, say, the removal of responsibilities from a court or a chamber of parliament would).

European here, wtf am I looking at?

An elite 1.5 million.

For a few years, I had hope that Microsoft would become a respectable, user-oriented, even FOSS-friendly company, but they finally seem to have settled on AI enshitification as their main business model.

Linus Neumann (CCC) hat vor einiger Zeit etwas in diese Richtung gesagt, was hier gut passt. Sinngemäß: Es ist eine Sache, dass gefälschte Bilder und Videos in Zukunft schwer zu erkennen sein könnten. Das weit größere Problem ist aber schon jetzt, dass weite Teile der Bevölkerung selbst solchen Informationen nicht glauben, die nachweislich stimmen.

Was ist eigentlich mit den Themen, die die SPD links liegen lässt?