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Ich habe versucht den elf Jahre alten Fenstersauger (Kärcher WV50) zu reparieren, leider ist der Motor das Problem und ich weiß nicht, wie ich den ersetzen kann. Die Turbine(?) scheint aufgeklebt und der Aufdruck auf dem Motor nicht mehr lesbar. Meh.
Zumindest war er einfach zu öffnen. 11 Torx T10. Allerdings geht es nicht mit Bits, weil die Schrauben zu tief sitzen. Mit einem dünnen Schraubendreher geht es.

Character Mixing for Video Generation
Tingting Liao, Chongjian Ge, Guangyi Liu, Hao Li, Yi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05093 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Character Mixing for Video Generation
Imagine Mr. Bean stepping into Tom and Jerry--can we generate videos where characters interact naturally across different worlds? We study inter-character interaction in text-to-video generation, where the key challenge is to preserve each character's identity and behaviors while enabling coherent cross-context interaction. This is difficult because characters may never have coexisted and because mixing styles often causes style delusion, where realistic characters appear cartoonish or vice ver…

Michael Stipe, ex líder y vocalista de una de mis bandas de rock favoritas de la vida: R.E.M., hoy estš cumpliendo 66 años. ¡Gracias por tanto, querido Michael!
#MichaelStipe #CumpleañosRockero #REM

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

It's Christmas eve and we showed my father Mario Kart again, but he's drinking alcohol as always, and he keeps getting better at it?? He never liked video games and he always sucked at Mario Kart when we played it in the past, but now that he's drunk he's even beating me and my sister at it?

Oh! The video games I played in October all begin with 'B':
The Biggleboss INCident; Blackwell Unbound; The Blackwell Convergence; The Blackwell Deception; Backpack Battles.
Yep, #pointandclick
I've started the last in the Blackwell series - I'm not finished yet. I know they're older, but maybe I'll write a review of the series when I'm done.
I also played #SteamNextFest Demos: Goblin Sushi (many hours' worth); Nighthawks; Atomic Age; Moon Garden Optimizer; Mystery of Silence; Servant of the Lake; Uncle Lee's Cookbook
There were 5 other demos I played, but I uninstalled them after 10 minutes' play - they weren't for me

Press Engine: 1,200 video game journalists left the industry in the past two years; including amateur, part-time, and freelance writers, 4,000 left since 2023 (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/m

More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years
According to Press Engine data, the global pool of games journalists has shrunk by 25%

I finally decided the series-or-single-video question for the PIC12F683 project.
It's getting *way* too long, so I'm going to make it a series. There will be a bunch of components and I'm going to try and release the segments I've already filmed and edited in the next day or two as soon as I get intros and conclusions made for each.
Then move on to circuit analysis of the flash and EEPROM.

*discussion of house finances between 13yo and his mom*
13yo: "Um, this is a lot of Life Stuff. I'm going to sleep, I've got Pokemon [video games] to play in the morning."