@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-11-11 17:17:44
ChatGPT violated copyright laws, German court rules.
Are we surprised?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/11/chatgpt-violated-copyright-laws-german-court-rules
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-11-11 17:17:44
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-01-09 16:00:03
"German renewable energy shift slowed in 2025"
#Germany #Energy #Renewables
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-12-11 19:09:15
Online Lecture Series “Interdisciplinary Thanatology” (German) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20131233/online-lecture-series-interdisciplinary-thanatology-german
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-01-11 13:35:08
Encouraging to see rising focus on barriers to attractive public EV charging in 🇩🇪, particularly the widespread practice of discriminatory pricing despite 🇪🇺 #AFIR legislation.
Hopefully, this will lead to a healthy, transparent market where EV drivers find it easy and attractive to charge in public.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-11 10:40:44
A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-sides-with-p…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-01-09 00:34:56
German emissions cuts slow, North Sea has warmest year on record #Germany
@rae@bne.social2026-01-09 03:00:54
Some days I'm glad for a little light relief in my news feed. Special mention for the pun headline
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/08/runaway-sheep-storm-german-supermarket
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-10 11:05:58
Rumble agrees to acquire German AI infrastructure company Northern Data in an up to $970M deal, set to close in Q2 2026; both companies are backed by Tether (Billy Gray/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/b…
@hanno@mastodon.social2025-12-10 08:25:24
German ministry renames itself, domain expires, is bought by SEO-spammer, expires again, is bought by domain grabber, then later bought by itsec company who now learns that apparently plenty of internal systems of the ministry still try to connect to the domain...
I don't even know where to start how terrible that is and what it tells us about government IT security practices...
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-12-11 15:00:22
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 397635 nodes and 1031378 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-12-08 21:50:43
De Nederlandse overheid zou van Schleswig-Holstein kunnen leren.
https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-11-10 12:11:31
This article was published literally only 18 days before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/02/female-defence-ministers-tweet-photograph
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-01-08 21:29:01
Content warning: sexual violence mention
As the Red Army was pushing into Berlin, Hitler tried to order the destruction of German Industry. It was not simply to prevent the allies from continuing, but also to punish the German people for failing him. The film Downfall portrays him believing that the German people had shown themselves to be weak and that they deserved to die.
Trump has always had some Hitler energy. It's been reported multiple times that he keeps a collection of Hitler speeches by his bed. As he threatens Greenland, everyone wants to jump to compare that to Poland. The thing is, he doesn't have Hitler 1939 energy. He has Hitler 1945 energy.
Everyone knows he's a pedophile and a rapist. He's a loser and he'll do anything to distract from that. He would literally start WWIII if he thought it would give him a few more days. He's a coward who's afraid to face what he's done. But he's a coward with nuclear weapons.
I just hope the people around him value their life more than they are loyal to him.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2026-01-10 23:47:10
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-12-11 01:34:25
I looked at the photo below and thought "Why are they all carrying lava lamps? And why is that soldier sticking his weapon into his eye?"
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-leaders-warn-us-could-betray-ukraine-in-leaked-call/
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-11 02:31:00
Believe it or not they were worried about German Battleships approaching the New England coast in WWI so they built a huge earth berm at what is now Odiorne Point State Park with two tunnels under it -- that circle you can see once held a turret with two 16 inch battleship guns
#photo #photography
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-01-10 21:34:47
@TobiasFrech@ijug.social2025-12-11 12:11:12
Hohlraumdübel (German), the thing you need if you falsely assumed something was solid, drill a little deeper and discover there is nothing behind it to back it up.
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com2025-11-05 19:31:36
Content warning: uspol
"A US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany published a list of food banks in the area that could help soldiers and staff as part of its “Shutdown Guidance,” the subtext being that soldiers and base employees might need to obtain free food from German government services during the government shutdown."
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-11-05 18:30:59
Amazing.
> US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
https://www.404media.co/army-tells-soldiers-to-go-to-german-food-bank-then-deletes-it/
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-12-08 08:30:56
#Okuvision's #OkuStim transcorneal electrical stimulation awarded the German Design Award 2026 – Gold, in the category Medical, Rehabilitation and Health Care
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-12-09 14:39:27
Nice, BSI (German Government) evaluates passwordmanagers.
https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikationen/DVS-Berichte/passwortmanager.pdf
@ckent@urbanists.social2025-11-10 02:20:54
Incredibly, this is a 1979 design, but looks far more “peak 1985” and importantly has a lot of (exterior) design cues that were imperative in the 1990s. However a few clues about the technical form make it too “old” for the 1990s — not the style though, but the fact that this style technically came from the 1970s was a shock.
(German Transport Museum — the “UNI Car”)
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-09 12:57:02
Reading this below on the 36th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and by extension the symbolic end of the GDR, the place I grew up in... with neighbors and parents of classmates belonging to the Stasi (east German secret police), the fear my own parents might be disappeared — years later seeing the thickness of the files of surveillance materials the state/stasi had collected on my family... remembering early autumn 1989, joining friends protesting in the streets every Monday after …
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-12-07 16:00:16
"German startup installs industrial heat pump producing 139 C steam"
#Germany #HeatPumps #Energy
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-05 14:15:57
German parliament backs controversial military service law amid Russian threat (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/german-parliament-backs-controversial-military-service-law-amid-russian-threat-2025-12-05/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p33#a251205p33
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-11-11 18:19:21
🚜 Electrification will change the farm. Swappable batteries, bidirectional charging and on-site solar charging
https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/tractors/agritechnica-2025-160hp-tadus-tractor-gets-swappable-batteries
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-11-05 17:57:15
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It https://www.404media.co/army-tells-soldiers-to-go-to-german-food-bank-then-deletes-it/
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-12-11 16:05:42
Online Lecture Series “Interdisciplinary Thanatology” (German)
https://ift.tt/mnHGw7L
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/EFf…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-01-09 03:00:34
And so the #Crew11 will return prematurely - but not in a hurry as there is no emergency - from the ISS: in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-5-januar-2026/#Jan08 I wrote it up (in German) while the presser was still going on.
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-11 02:34:17
This graffiti covered bunker in on top of a huge earth berm and would have been used to target two pairs of 16 inch guns had German ships approached the coast in WWI or WWII.
#photo #photography #military
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-12-11 18:59:15
Well, duh ... Yeah, when the US puts on a made-for-movie-that-went-direct-to-dvd seizure of one of Russia's "shadow fleet" of oil tankers, yes, one can anticipate a response from Russia.
I seriously doubt that and the the IQ 60 Maga-minds in the Cheato government realize that the US "justification" for the seizure could also justify Pakistan seizing Indian ships or fishing craft, or North Korea taking Japanese ships. It probably would have justified German sink…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2025-12-09 13:07:21
TIL: The German Tech Stack
https://technologie.deutschland-stack.gov.de
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-08 21:37:41
Ex-German ambassador appointed as Ukraine's new business watchdog: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/exgerman-ambassador-appointed-as-ukraines.html
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-02 19:34:13
#Gleichschaltung is a German word that means “coordination” or “synchronization.”
Gleichschaltung refers to a process of #Nazification designed to turn Germany into a single party state under Hitler and the Nazi Party.
Even children were brought into the Nazification process. Participation in t…
@schlauschlau@social.cologne2026-01-05 12:48:21
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-10 00:30:30
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Dvořšk's Violin Concerto and Amy Beach's 'Gaelic' Symphony
Midori performs Dvořšk's Violin Concerto with the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. The programme also features 'Earworms' by Vivian Fung and Amy Beach's 'Gaelic' Symphony.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mx25
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-07 09:17:32
The EU was not called the European Coal And Steel Community for nothing, folks.
We talk a mean human rights and democracy. But we’re still the European Coal and Steel Community.
Go Single Market, amirite?! https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/11550764176416580…
@gevoel@mastodon.green2025-12-08 14:07:15
Deze had ik nog niet gezien. Global Warming At 3 °C By 2050? What's Behind The New German Climate warning…
https://archive.ph/fncAC
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-11-29 11:16:07
SBS German - SBS Deutsch
Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and German-speaking Australians...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sbs-german/
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc2025-10-23 14:29:03
‘Quiet as a whisper’: German firm launches campaign after lift was used in Louvre heist https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/23/german-firm-campaign-lift-louvre-heist-bocker
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-11-11 20:38:13
@johl@mastodon.xyz2025-10-13 20:04:05
Last weekend, Yale University had a “viral German-style pudding event” where students gathered to eat pudding with a fork
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10/09/viral-german-style-pudding-event-set-for-saturday-w…
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2026-01-08 12:00:31
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/german-president-says-us-is-destroying-world-order-2026-01-08/ Presidente de la república alemana dice que EEUU estš destruyendo el orden global.
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.se2025-12-30 12:08:20
UK sugar tax to be extended to more soft drinks and milkshakes https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/nov/25/sterling-volatility-the-budget-rachel-reeves-german-economy-stagnating-…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-04 02:03:34
King Charles decries ‘Russian aggression’ in pledge on defending Europe | Germany | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/03/german-president-state-visit-uk-windsor-king-charles
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-05 21:21:02
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/army-tells-soldiers-to-go-to-german-food-bank-then-deletes-it/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p130#a251105p130
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social2026-01-07 19:12:43
About to write a complex application for a research grant in Africa. It is at least 3 full days of work, apart from the research itself. And it's a very unpredictable outcome. But without these grants from public and private donors, it would not be possible to carry out such documentation or reportages abroad.
I will focus on the support of renewable energies by German ODA and how the diminishing aid is affecting it.
@AprilTeachy@bildung.social2025-12-04 06:49:03
#Stromberg #fritzemerz im Guardian 🫣
‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-11-05 23:08:55
Was recently reminded about the time me and my brothers were studying high school German with the aid of some bilingual story that had each page printed in both languages, and came across the word "Stuhlgang".
From that point forth, any time we came across a stool of the sort you sit on (as opposed to the kind you flush down the toilet) we'd refer to it as a Stuhlgang.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-01 06:10:58
Vodafone agrees to acquire Skaylink, a German company specializing in managing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure and AWS, for €175M from PE firm Waterland (Yamini Kalia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/vodafone-buy-german-clo…
@compfu@mograph.social2026-01-07 22:26:50
#BerndDasBrot spotted in the latest #Kurzgesagt video :-)
#BerndTheBread
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-01-04 21:51:13
"Spying among friends is unacceptable." Angela Merkel.
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) wiretapped then-US President Barack Obama for years.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2026-01/bnd-barack-obama-air-force-one-angela…
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2025-11-18 16:06:22
I recently researched the etymology of two interesting German words:
- "nonchalant" (informal, relaxed, casual, carefree, easy-going): I found that interesting because it's obviously a negation and I never read the non-negated form "chalant". Turns out that the non-negated form goes back to latin "calēre" (warm, to be hot, to be alarmed, to be fired up)
- "verschollen" (lost, missing, nothing has been known about the whereabouts of sth. or sb. for a long time). I found it weird because I couldn't make any sense of "schollen". This might be related to "verschallen" (stop making noise) and might go back to old high German "skellan" (which is also related to German "Schelle", a small bell). So, "verschollen" can be seen as a euphemistic expression because stop making noise is used to refer to being lost (and maybe dead).
#etymology #linguistics #German
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-28 18:28:39
Russian drone strikes German newspaper Die Welt team in eastern Ukraine, 3 wounded: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/russian-drone-strikes-german-newspaper.html
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-12-14 19:29:49
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2025-12-02 12:14:46
Es ist nun wieder Anfang des Monats und das heißt neue Rechnungen für die Server! Wir haben diverse Ausgaben und Moderationsarbeit nimmt leider viel Zeit, weswegen wir uns über eine kleine Unterstützung sehr freuen würden! :boost_requested:
:liberapay: LiberaPay
:paypal:
@pgcd@mastodon.online2025-10-18 11:15:52
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds
Now that proper researchers say what we've been repeating for at least a decade, wi…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-07 23:00:03
edit_wiktionary: Wiktionary edits (2010)
Three bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wiktionary, for French, German, and English. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 142 nodes and 156 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-26 20:18:47
In 1140, a German king captured a castle, and made a deal with the castle wives.
He let them leave with whatever they could carry on their backs.
Leaving everything else, the women carried their men out
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-11-07 09:01:06
Again the parallels with a certain German speaking country, mid C20th, hardly need stating.
Gaza organ theft: even in death, they're not free from occupation
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-anal
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-11-09 14:09:11
Misinformation and populism also appear to be finite fuels, like fossil gas. In a generally sluggish German heating market, gas boilers are now losing out to heat pumps.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/energie/waermepumpen-heizung-energie-100.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-27 11:40:50
Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/share-online-oper…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-07 17:00:07
wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-06 11:40:38
German car parts supplier Bosch plans to invest €2.5B in AI by the end of 2027 and unveils AI-based driver-assist systems with features like automatic parking (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-15 00:44:06
Markus Frohnmaier was among some 20 state, federal and EU lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany party to attend the annual black-tie gala hosted by the New York Young Republican Club.
Buoyed by the new U.S. security strategy that praises Europe's far-right parties,
the senior German lawmaker called for an alliance between U.S. and German nationalist parties
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-07 23:30:06
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Matt Carmichael and the WDR Big Band in concert
This Friday night, Soweto presents concert highlights from gifted Glasgow based saxophonist Matt Carmichael and Grammy-award winning German public broadcast ensemble, the WDR Big Band.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lcs8
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-25 23:18:18
A German in the Legion: “I have known about this war since 2014 and couldn’t stay on the sidelines.”: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/25/a-german-in-the-legion.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-27 09:43:14
Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/share-online-oper…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-01 16:35:52
Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities (Ludwig Burger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/s
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-05 19:00:39
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 541355 nodes and 2424962 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-12-07 17:35:11
“The key reason, the ECIU says, lies in how British households use smart meters and flexible electricity tariffs. While petrol prices are broadly similar in both countries, UK electric car drivers can charge their cars overnight using cheap, surplus electricity at rates as low as 7p per kWh.”
https://www.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-11-28 15:26:07
The German love for combustion is a perpetuum mobile.
68.5% of Germans believe that their car makers are not fully committed to electric mobility.
Furthermore, 47.8% believe that politicians do not view electric mobility as the technology of the future.
https://…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-04 23:00:04
edit_wiktionary: Wiktionary edits (2010)
Three bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wiktionary, for French, German, and English. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 1878 nodes and 10969 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-11-07 09:05:11
#V2G, and the rise of dynamic grid signals – in the form of prices – as a major lever for guiding the charging and discharging of electric vehicles.
https://www.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-10-27 17:10:05
Finally, a German opposition to a ban that I can support!
Germany wants to keep the names 'veggie burger' and 'vegetarian sausage'. The latter was invented by the 'greatest German of all time', Konrad Adenauer, so it should be considered part of German cultural heritage.
https://www.
