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Bringing machine 'default' up with 'libvirt' provider...
[fog][WARNING] Unrecognized arguments: libvirt_ip_command
==> default: Box 'generic/freebsd15' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
default: Box Provider: libvirt
default: Box Version: >= 0
The box 'generic/freebsd15' could not be found or could not be accessed in the remote catalog.
Anyone knows if there are plans to provide more images for …

TIL: There are drastic differences in the sugar content of internationally sold drinks like Fanta. Acc. to Spiegel UK 4.5g vs. Germany 7.6g. This map comments indicate that upper end (US, 12g) to lower end is factor of three (4.1g some eastern baltic states) https…

Zehn europäische Länder im Vergleich: Deutsche trinken am meisten Zucker
Gut acht Zuckerwürfel nehmen Menschen hierzulande als Brause, Limo oder Saft zu sich – jeden Tag. Das ist mehr als doppelt so viel wie in Italien. Auch weil in deutschen Getränken teils deutlich mehr Zucker steckt.

Sources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0ef79775-eadf-4cc9-b32c-e97b0eff816f

I should really get a new external hard drive that comes with a cable with faster transfer speeds by default:

I get a steady stream in my replies of meant-to-be-helpful advice of the form “You should use [complex F/OSS tech] to [do complex thing] that [solves a problem you don’t have but renders the process unusable for the people doing it]”
…when the real tech problems we’re facing on the ground here, both with Signal and other tools, are 99% just ground-level UX stuff:
- basic, basic usability glitches
- workflow friction
- problematic default settings
- reliability

ROFL I hope this never happens in real life!
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116071095499551495

Kleiner Tipp für alle, die bei der Halbierungsinitiative JA stimmen wollen: Deine Stimme zählt doppelt, wenn Du auf dem Abstimmungszettel direkt hinschreibst, welche Sendung der SRG Du blöd findest.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents deployed to Minnesota
are pulling many #nonwhite residents aside and asking them to prove their #citizenship,
according to several reports and multiple videos posted to social media this week amid the Trump administration’s surge of immigrat…

‘Where were you born?’ ICE conducting show-me-your-papers stops in Minnesota neighborhoods
“I was scared. I was devastated,” said a Somali-American citizen who was accosted by ICE as part of what the agent called a “citizen check.” No such thing exists in American law.

Barack Obama:
"It is important for us to recognize the unprecedented nature of what ICE was doing in Minneapolis, St. Paul,
the way that federal agents
— ICE agents
— were being deployed, without any clear guidelines, training, pulling people out of their homes …
tear-gassing crowds simply who were standing there,
not breaking any laws,” Obama said.
He added that American citizens should be commended for engaging in “peaceful protests and shinin…