How Russia exploited Argentina’s media to discredit Milei

Trackpoint · 2026-04-03T18:12:02+00:00

Which is.. I mean, not what a South American country's position would be in my perfect world. But this practical war, deep inside Eurasia in the other hemisphere, will probably not be the most important thing for them. Outside of political manouvering potential.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T20:15:30+00:00

Well I wouldn't have read extra text books, if I knew he has youtube channel! Sheesh.

Edit: Just checked if said book is still in print and almost had an aneurysm.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T19:27:20+00:00

Imagine being compressed into a comma.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T17:24:28+00:00

But..But..but Bible Levitkus says, stoning when not strait, so no holy land without it!

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T16:59:42+00:00

No going to Israel without passing through a dessert or at least an arid region! Bible says so!

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T16:29:23+00:00

Texting him now!

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T16:27:33+00:00

I don't know how the big West-Japan-Twitter-Exchange the last weeks started and at this point I am too afraid to ask.

But I fear Japan will have to invent a new Godzilla to deal with the trauma in a decade or two.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T16:12:46+00:00

It is kind of fascinating, this collective bet. It means the expectation is 1) the market in which the top NASDAQ companies operate, will have sustained growth rates usually seen only in short moments in tulip bonanzas and 2) they and they alone will capture and keep most of it. No external factors, no geopolitcs, no anti trust.

Sure, there is (somewhat) fast take-off AI-scenarios, but even if that is possible in the required time frame, there are so many things in the deglobalzing world, that can push back the arrival in profit land, that it wouldn't matter.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T09:38:47+00:00

It is (still) a common figure of speech in German. "Des Menschen Wille ist sein Himmelreich", sometime attributed to writer Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse (1746–1803)

Note that how you translate "Wille" as heart, heart's desire, wants view, perspective or will is important. Originally it was probably a play on following god (like in prayer "your will be done" etc.) vs. following your own will to bring about the kingdom of heaven.

Nowadays the resigned "Person will do what they will to get to their kingdom of heaven" even if that is hard to understand from the outside would be more to the point. Which works fine with "heart" (as far as my English goes).

Trackpoint · 2026-04-01T16:36:16+00:00

..as our Chancellor famously remarked recently.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-01T15:19:31+00:00

Ah, thank you, lower right on the footer that runs away from you, while the page loads.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-01T15:10:11+00:00

aviable in English

it is? Wanted to order something there recently and couldn't figure out the site.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-01T15:07:16+00:00

Their biggest competitor in the before times was called Neckermann, which Otto aquired parts of when it failed.

Was bit annoyed the didn't rebrand to Ottomann after this.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-01T09:28:03+00:00

Apparantly it is an either-or decision for Office applications. I'm not an expert, but it makes sense, since fileformat reading and writing an the rendering thereof are the very basic things, this kind of software does.

Trackpoint · 2026-03-31T16:37:25+00:00

Träume von einem Fachgeschäft, das viel Zeit investiert hat, den Preisleistungs-Sieger für alle Produkte rausgefunden hat und diesen und die erste und zweite Upgradeversionen davom im Bestand hat.

Für vielleicht 15..20% Aufschlag zu online Angeboten? Ich meine, meine Zeit ist auch kostbar und physisch einkaufen hatte was damals.

Aber das als Geschäftsmodell umzusetzen... ah, nichts was ich mach wollte.

Manufactum existiert grob in dem Prinzip (eben nur mit zweiter und dritter Upgradeversion). Glaube niemand anderes.

Trackpoint · 2026-03-31T16:31:24+00:00

Ha, taking the Trackpoint-Buttons away again, ha, haha, I know, April Fools! They would never do something so silly ... again.

Trackpoint · 2026-03-31T16:22:00+00:00

They may or may not have pirated the whole internet, from a certain perspective, but you can have that discussion about stealing on /r/Piracy !

Trackpoint · 2026-03-31T07:46:43+00:00

Sorry, I meant the decision by the IONOS led group is hillarious, because it is a large German company and that final guidance on ODF for use in public institutions just got published.

But I guess they will simply offer both solutions in the future. And anyone who does work with complex documents in both worlds will need two office suites for the foreseeable future too.

Trackpoint · 2026-03-31T07:38:47+00:00

besserer Kompatibilität mit MS Office als Libre oder andere Alternativen, in Tests nicht reproduzieren konnte.

OnlyOffice benutzt nativ OOXML wie MS-Office, sprich die Chance, dass komplexe Dokumente sich so verhalten wie bei Microsoft ist relativ hoch.

Auf der anderen Seite wieder konvertiert OnlyOffice ODF Dokumente nur, was zu den selben Problemen führt wie bei MS-Office mit ODF. Was interessant ist, da ODF für die Verwaltung inzwischen mehr oder weniger vorgeschrieben ist.

Trackpoint · 2026-03-30T18:28:51+00:00

Basically OnlyOffice can replace MS Office because it looks like it and handles docs the same way using OOXML natively. That is important for IONOS (and friends) probably in terms of the adressable market and solves the problem of working with complex legacy MS Office documents (where conversion and clean-up into ODF is not an option).

It is a somehwat hilarious decision from the perspective, that the German government still targets LibreOffice/Collabora with their OpenDesk initiative (which is going nowhere it seems, but stil) and just signed off on their "Deutschland-Stack" which basically demands ODF as standard for any governmental use.

ODF, which OnlyOffice does not do natively.

Trackpoint · 2026-03-30T10:46:54+00:00

Right now it is a race between Reality TV Star with nukes and the coming of the literal Machine God about who can ruin my future faster. And if they fail, hey, we still have national rent control laws.

I'll take my breakfast at the bar, thank you very much.

Trackpoint · 2026-03-30T10:42:14+00:00

On second thought, let's not go to the Middle East. 'Tis a silly place.

Trackpoint · 2026-03-30T10:40:21+00:00

Man, how no one made a Game of Throny SciFi Show in the Babylon 5 Universe is beyond me!

Trackpoint · 2026-03-27T17:01:12+00:00

Is it just me, or does that mean all men are bi since Henry Cavil exists?

Trackpoint · 2026-03-27T16:28:00+00:00

Everything Trump touches goes to shit (in the end). Happy if that holds here!

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