Klaus Frank

IT-Specialist with focus on Windows and task automation
- currently studying computer science

Website: https://frank.fyi
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2025-05-08 07:40:12

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Naja, es ist sehr offensichtlich, dass er es nicht getestet hat. Man muss ja wirklich nur die Seite einmal aufmachen und sieht den Fehler.
Würde der Fehler mehr erfordern als das, würde ich dir zustimmen. Aber da ziehe ich die Grenze. Das hat für mich "Vibe Coder"-vibes

2025-05-08 06:00:01

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Bei mir verschwindet nach 0.5-1s nachdem die Seite geladen ist die Scrollbar an der Seite einfach.
Keine Ahnung was die für einen Idioten für die Website angestellt haben, aber wenn du `document.body.style.overflow = 'scroll';` in der WebDeveloper Konsole ausführst geht es wieder...

2025-05-07 14:28:03

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well wouldn't be surprised if someone is just calling them pretending to be from their IT department and instructing them to grant them access.

2025-05-07 13:54:57

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Ehm, they're doing both things. The easiest way to get physical access to most companies is to pretend being an employee of their it service contractor. They often just open all of the doors and show you the way right into the server room or ask you if they should log out before you take over (followed by if you'd like tea or coffee). At most what you as an attacker risk is getting also tasked with fixing the printer or copy machine "now that you're already here"...

2025-04-08 12:07:08

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Ok, aber wieso? Die Definition ist doch Eindeutig.
Verstehe gar nicht was du hast 🙃

2025-04-08 11:28:28

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Naja,
Scheibe, die:
Bedeutung 1a) flacher, meist runder Gegenstand.
Synonyme: Platte
also wo Problem? :D
https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Scheibe_Flaeche

2025-04-08 11:18:12

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Genaugenommen....
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer

2025-04-08 11:17:22

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Und Chips sind nicht Fest?

2025-04-05 11:52:35

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You mean ::ffff:7f00:1?

2025-04-02 03:32:14

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I think if you show a beginner such a setup they'll be scared of the "industrial scale of things required" and just never start...
Edit: I think just saying put it next to your desk or something to watch it while printing and make sure there isn't anything laying right next to it.

2025-03-31 11:06:38

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You forgot to link your Mastodon in that articles "Join our community!" section - just saying.

2025-03-26 13:52:23

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When I select multiple layers and right click, why isn't there an option "merge layers"?
You basically have to select all but the lowest one of the layers you want to merge and use the "Merge Down" option.
That's just counter intuitive and nothing else.

2025-03-26 13:37:26

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Oh why is "Transparency" a color for the "Select by Color" tool, but not for any of these:
* "Fuzzy Select"
* "Color picker tool"
* for the active forground/background color
* Bucket fill set to "Fill similar colors"
To fill a transparent background of one layer you literally have to either use "inverse selection after having selected everything else, or use that "select by Color" (cause of this special handling) + Bucket tool "Fill whole selection" instead of just "Fill similar colors"

2025-03-26 13:16:37

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(Use case for that is quite simple actually, I want to change the color of something or move one feature and then change the color gradient within the area I edited but not within the rest of the image so that it fits in nicely.
Otherwise I won't be able to copy and paste between these images later as it'll have different color tones for what was supposed to be common between all of them.

2025-03-26 13:13:41

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Also in the other case when you'd actually like to have an edge antialiased, why isn't there a way to tell Gimp to not fuck with specific pixels but only with the ones I added?
The only way I found so far is to duplicate the layer, create a mask that has a cutout for the pixels I want to change, apply it, and hope it doesn't look too shitty when the layers are combined again (as it obviously still will change the pixels but that'll be hidden behind the original layer).

2025-03-26 13:11:35

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Oh inconsistencies like why is there a "Paintbrush" and a "Pencil" tool with the only difference being that Antialiasing being enabled for the former one?
Why not also have it as a checkbox like for example it is with the copy/paste tool?
Also most of the time when I have to fix individual pixels it is to reverse the automatically applies Pntialiasing, when I don't notice it immediately. e.g. cut something, temp store it on another layer and try to move it back but it no longer matches

2025-03-26 12:39:38

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And another spoiler, if you now just think you did your cutting wrong and go back to googling "how to cut/crop/scale xyz in Gimp" none of the results will tell you to check if Alpha channels are enabled or that Gimp by default will remove alpha channels from a layer if that feature isn't enabled (why dosn't it just either auto enable or prompt when pasting the image in and the layer for it is created? Or why not at least do it when you paste something into an empty project?)

2025-03-26 12:36:54

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You basically have to start with a generic gimp tutorial and thereby discover what the terminology within gimp is so that you can google for it. Spoiler "Image" is not what you've currently selected but the entire project/file. So what you want to do is "Image > Crop to content" after you've clicked on "Layer > Transparency > Add Alpha Channel" just so that Gimp doesn't replace the shown transparency with a random color for no obvious reason (so a novice at least perceives it).

2025-03-26 12:33:28

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Want to cut parts of a big image away to get parts of it as a smaller one?
Yea, if you just select the part you want and paste it into a new layer, delete the old one and then right click the only layer in existence it only shows "Layers to Image size". And if you don't have alpha channels enabled it will just fill everything that it showed as alpha with the background color but not change the size. You also can't really google for it.

2025-03-26 12:28:47

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Want to change color of something to transparent?
Even though the layer already shows the Transparent color/property grid you still sometimes first have to add "Alpha channel" to the layers. Why do you show it then already if you claim it isn't there yet?

2025-03-26 12:26:27

The usability of #Gimp @npub1jxd…txs3 is even worse these days then when I first used it. Is this just my experience as someone who only uses it occasionally or are #graphics #designers that use it daily also having that impression?
Esp. Trying to get simple things done is very annoying.
Want to change the color of exactly one pixel? => Screw you I'll apply antialiasing and fuck up all surrounding pixels with no obvious way to disable it.

2025-03-13 13:02:00

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Ach bei dir haben die "TEST ALERT" dazu geschrieben?

2025-03-04 14:39:52

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What exactly do you mean with "you can do it over the internet if you have access to any VM".
Do you mean there needs to be an attacker service running on the VM or that just having a service like a webserver running inside such a VM is enough? (As long as said webserver is accessible from external).
Also to what extend would such a service have to be compromised first?

2025-03-04 13:20:38

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Probably won't work. Except for anyone that is already inside.
On that note, as Trump now basically put a price tag onto ending this war by demanding "raw" earth from Ukraine in exchange. This sparks the question of how much money one would have to offer to anyone killing Putin for people in Russia and maybe even very close to him to fall over and claim that bounty?

2025-03-01 15:30:46

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schon klar, aber genau darum ging es ja, den "use case" besser und detailierter herausarbeiten.
Es gibt tausende Wege, nur solange der use case nicht klar verstanden ist, ist es halt schwierig etwas "nicht so großes und komplexes" anzubieten bei dem du dann ggf. 98% der features gar nicht nutzt.
z.B. könnte man syncthing nutzen; manuell hin und her kopieren; ein bash script das es beim anstecken des telefons hin und her schiebt; ...
Ansonsten halt https://alternativeto.net/software/nextcloud/?platform=self-hosted

2025-03-01 15:02:35

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So war das jetzt nicht gemeint. Ich wollte damit eigentlich sagen, dass es ggf. auch andere Wege gibt, je nachdem was genau du damit überhaupt machst und machen willst. Der Rest war als Beispiel gemeint.

2025-03-01 14:56:58

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Naja, was genau willst du damit überhaupt machen? Ich habe für mich festgestellt, dass mir ein Rechner in dem mehrere platten stecken und auf dem archlinux läuft und ein LVM konfiguriert ist mehr als ausreichend ist. Drauf zugreifen tue ich aktuell via sshfs und auf dem telefon brauche ich es nicht.

2025-02-25 08:02:07

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Eh, da bist du dann wesentlich optimistischer als ich was das angeht.

2025-02-25 07:59:01

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Ach komm. Als ob die SPD nicht sowieso bei allem was die CDU machen will mitziehen würde...

2025-02-20 04:36:05

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> Oh, do double-conversion UPSes not provide a ground?
They only provide it if you want them to. Remember we're at enterprise/datacenter size now. Everything is possible. Also remember that you can (and enterprises (especially datacenters) often build their own UPS for the entire building. All you need is a DC-AC converter + some batteries at the end of the day.
If you have the opportunity, take a tour through the backstage areas of a datacenter.

2025-02-20 04:23:21

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you could want to not use the grounding pin in the plug for example. Or if the switch is plugged into a UPS then you need to "source" ground somewhere else too.
Sometimes you want to not ground in the building you are currently in but also have a separate ground wire running along. It's not that common these days as it is just way simpler to run a fiber between buildings...

2025-02-20 02:41:40

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All I wanted to say is it can get complicated and you probably don't know if you're "all good" or missing something without enough electrical engineering background.
Could be that your setup is perfectly fine. It's just very easy to make a small mistake that causes huge problems...

2025-02-20 02:32:12

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True, but even with these assurances you'd still need to know what you're doing (from an electrical engineering side) or you'd still face the risk of fucking it up quite easily and maybe even cause a fire (in some cases at least).

2025-02-20 02:29:24

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Well you could always just go with common ground, coils, capacitors. power filters, voltage and power regulators, ...
Or buy PSUs that have a dedicated "sync" pin that you just need to connect and it'll handle all of the rest (more expensive though).

2025-02-20 02:26:14

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> which the HBA of another machine connects to
So you have two power supplies? Should be fine as long as either you've perfect DC current and common ground but without proper handling you could quite easily end up with backfeeding or potential differences and thereby fry one of the systems.
That's what I meant with you should have electrical engineering knowledge. This is where it gets complicated and where you'd have a lot of unexpected edge cases.

2025-02-20 02:17:46

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Also for10 drives you're still at a point where a single computer PSU is enough. You don't need to deal with using a 12V PSU that isn't designed for computers, cut and splice cables, care about the diameter (or better the amps going through it).Or having to consider potential backfeeding and potential differences when the PC and the separate power supply for the drives are connected to different outlets
Tl;Dr: If you go further you should know electrical engineering

2025-02-20 02:13:04

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Yea, 10 is still a low enough number of disks that you can get away without having to use a sas expander at all.
All you need is three sas ports + the splitter cable and you'll even end up with two spare sata ports.

2025-02-20 02:11:29

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Exactly. That's why a raid isn't a backup as I said.
And syncthing will just do the same a raid would do in these cases.

2025-02-20 02:07:37

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Ok, probably should have asked that earlier, but about how many drives are we talking right now? My diy storage was intended to house up to around 40 drives, just like an off the shelve one.
If you only want 5 drives or 10 drives ok, but as soon as you need to chain sas expanders to connect everything together it becomes a shit show.
Esp. if you can't literally buy any usable sas expander for less than a used disk array...

2025-02-20 02:04:24

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Just add another mirror same assurances as a raid at the end of a day. A raid isn't a backup...

2025-02-20 02:01:47

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LVM has integrity https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/lvmraid.7.html#DATA_INTEGRITY

2025-02-20 02:00:16

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until there is an update that breaks it...
Also having seen a lot of different kinds of administrators I'd say it's just way too complicated for any production deployment.
Because of that I'd even prefer a syncthing mirroring the data onto multiple disks with standalone filesystems...
You really don't want to have someone that doesn't fully know how to handle btrfs even look at it when data is at risk...

2025-02-20 01:55:32

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Well having tried it and having seen the issues I had (including the issues of just buying a SAS expander that doesn't have a proprietary connector towards the drives from here in Germany) I'd say building your own storage is almost always way worse. I had to buy the SAS expanders from the US as there were literally none available here in Europe, but there were a lot of disk arrays and such...

2025-02-20 01:50:14

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Also btrfs raids are still way too buggy. When you already have LVM, why not just setup a raid using LVM directly?

2025-02-20 01:48:55

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Cause a simple configuration of GlusterFS isn't that much more complicated than getting into all of the LVM details (if you start out without knowledge of either I'd encourage you to go with GlusterFS almost every time).
GlusterFS just scales way better to multiple nodes without having to re-learn from scratch an entirely new product and without having to double your storage just to be able to migrate from LVM to GlusterFS in a sane manner.

2025-02-20 01:45:49

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Well I didn't say you can't do it. I at some point just realized that it isn't worth the effort esp. considering that buying the sas expanders and all of the wiring + all of the time I put into it were way exceeding the price for a used enterprise disk array...

2025-02-20 01:42:59

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True, and once it happens there will be a flood of startups trying to claim the empty spot in the market but up until that point I'm not that optimistic anyone would do it as their core business and put enough focus on it for the experience to not be shit once enough users hit the service.
Maybe it would be possible to use the EU sovereign tech fund but I haven't looked into it until now. And dealing with government money is usually pain and a full time job itself

2025-02-20 01:38:56

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Also you can always go with LVM but a simple GlusterFS also isn't that hard to setup and maintain at that point...

2025-02-20 01:37:06

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Oh no, bad idea, building a storage from expanders sucks. Tried it recently, still have a unfinished project on the table next to me.
The main issue isn't even the sata cables but routing all of the power lanes and controlling the spin-up power draw sucks.
Edit: For a hand full of disks, sure. but anything comparable to the amount in a disk array forget it (or better get very good at electrical engineering too...

2025-02-20 01:28:01

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Nah, the market doesn't exist. At the end not enough care about not just putting it onto youtube. That tide however could slowly be turning because of their DMCA handling.
However if you'd offer such hosting as a business that's also something you'd have to handle too...

2025-02-20 01:25:20

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If you go down the road of building your own storage buy a disk array and a sas controller + used enterprise sas drives. Set redundancy to 3 copies and use something like glusterfs on it.
However that's way more effort than just using a S3 API of backblaze or contabo. And both are still reasonably cheap for the start at least. Also you'd need to consider your upload speed and potentially expose yourself to getting DDOSed (both intentionally and unintentionally)

2025-02-20 01:22:47

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Well, if you rawdog torrents then I'd suggest rolling with BiglyBT or aria2c. First one is more beginner friendly and even supports seeding on i2p and tor anonymous networks with just a few clicks.
And the issue why peertube can't support conventional torrents is because the webbrowser sandbox doesn't allow for that. Users would have to install a client in order to use it. So it wouldn't be the same experience as twitch or youtube....

2025-02-20 01:17:54

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Well then either hire someone that knows how to do it or learn how to do it.
But you already know that these are the only two options that exist right now. I can't provide you with something that doesn't exist.
For someone that knows how to work the linux command line it shouldn't take more than one or two weekends. For everyone else one month or two - I guess?

2025-02-20 01:14:08

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this also makes scaling up quite easy, you basically have two things to care about:
a) the website of your peertube itself => At worst just throw cloudflare at it if you grow too big too fast and get overwhelmed
b) The streaming of the videos, just have another instance that is part of the swarm (aka it would be enough to just pull a laptop out of the closet and open that stream to improve that)

2025-02-20 01:11:53

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Well that's how peertube works under the hood. It already does the torrent part for you in the background. WebTorrent and such.
Storage can be affordable, as long as you're reasonable with what you're storing, e.g. do you really need 17375 different formats for your content with 385889694 copies world wide?
E.g. roll with Backblaze S3 or Contabo for the beginning.
You're not amazon nor twitch, such setups are enough for almost everyone.

2025-02-20 00:50:09

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Depends on what you mean with viable. It works, you can use it. If you can direct users there it's also quite usable.
It just doesn't have any significant "side traffic" (aka users discovering your content through it).
If you'd like users to find your VOD content first instead of e.g. being forwarded from you in your streams (like @npub195a…pdhv does with his own archiving website gronkh.tv) then you need to stick with youtube...

2025-01-30 11:12:34

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Und dieses "früher" habe ich zumindest nicht miterlebt. Da war ich entweder noch nicht geboren oder noch ein Kind und nicht Wahlberechtigt...

2025-01-30 11:11:59

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Und jetzt vergleiche deren Frühere Parteiprogramme mal mit dem was dann am Ende im Koalitionsvertrag gelandet ist, umgesetzt wurde, oder auch nur als Antrag im Bundestag eingereicht wurde...

2025-01-30 11:09:58

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Stimmt, und dadurch fühlen sich alle die mit der AFD sympatisieren dann bestärkt. Beliebtes Argument "Das hat die AFD doch schon lange gesagt. Jetzt erst kommen die anderen auch auf den Trichter. Wow ist die AFD fortschrittlich und wenn die dabei 'recht gehabt' haben, dann wohl auch in allem anderen was sie sagen. Da kann man die dann auch gleich wählen und das lange ermüdende und nervige 'BlaBla' überspringen, denn am Ende passiert es dann ja eh."
Wie hält man da auf Dauer dagegen?

2025-01-30 11:07:30

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Die Grünen waren doch noch nie wirklich links. Zumindest nicht seit dem ich das politische Geschehen aktiv verfolge, sprich wann waren die Grünen seit ca. 2000 wirklich links und nicht entweder Mitte oder dann bei entscheidenden Abstimmungen mit einer "Enthaltung" eingeknickt und quasi Mitläufer bei den anderen Parteien)?
Ok, maximal beim Thema Umweltschutz 1-2 mal, aber das zähle ich jetzt nicht als "linkes Thema"...

2025-01-30 11:05:00

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Stimmt, aber was ein einzelner Politiker da macht ist am Ende des Tages halt maximal für verhetzung und populismus zu gebrauchen.
Was wirklich nötig wäre, dass sich mehr Abgeordnete, Parteivorsitzende, lokal/regional Politiker, ... auf "seine Seite" bzw. die Seite der Sachlichen und vor allem Faktenbasierten Diskussion und Problemlösung stellen und das damit mit Nachdruck in die Berichterstattung befördern, damit den Populistischen (und leider gut ankommenden clickbait dreck) verdrängen.

2025-01-30 11:02:08

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Stimmt, ich gehe auch davon aus, dass es eine CDU+AFD Koalition werden wird falls die CDU damit die Mehrheit bekommen sollte.
Aber man wird doch wohl noch etwas hoffen dürfen, dass genau das nicht passiert, oder?

2025-01-30 10:54:44

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Und Habeck treibt den Diskurs sicherlich selbst zumindest nicht weiter nach rechts. Das musst selbst du zugeben ist schon etwas zu übertrieben. Er positioniert sich halt aktuell nur nicht wie die Linke diametral dagegen, weil die halt auch nun mal auch nicht die Linke sind, sondern eher Mitte (siehe Voratsdatenspeicherung und ähnliche Schwachsinnige Forderungen).

2025-01-30 10:53:24

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Ja, aber wo siehst du von den Protesten mehr als eine Fußnote in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung?

2025-01-30 10:52:48

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Ich bin ja generell völlig auf deiner Seite.
Ich sehe das aktuell aber eher so, dass es sehr Unwahrscheinlich ist, dass die Linke genügend Stimmen bekommt um irgendwas reißen zu können.
Und deshalb dann etwas CDU+AFD-like in die Regierung kommt.
Einzig und alleine die Grünen haben aktuell aus meiner Sicht die realistische Change Stärkste oder zumindest Regierungspartei zu werden und eine Kopie des AFD Parteiprogramms ins "Koalitionsprogramm" zu verhindern...

2025-01-30 10:49:44

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Und wo finden die Linken aktuell Raum in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung? Da hat selbst die FDP noch wesentlich mehr.
Ich würde mir zwar auch wünschen, dass die mehr Raum hätten, aber am Ende des Tages ist alles was die Liken bekommen "das ist Vorgänger Partei der BSW"...

2025-01-30 10:44:00

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Und jetzt mal etwas "Devils Advocat" für Habeck, glaubst du wirklich, er könnte alleine diese Diskursverschiebung beheben?
Alles was daraus kommen würde ist mehr verhetzungspotential ala "Der geht die aktuellen Themen und Probleme nicht mal an" und das würde dann erst recht bei einigen verfangen.
Ich glaube er macht da aktuell schon das bestmögliche was er machen kann. Es ist halt nur bei weitem nicht gut genug und andere sollten eigentlich mithelfen anstatt auf AFD-Sprech einzusteigen

2025-01-30 10:40:56

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Nochmal meine Aussage lesen. Ich habe nicht gesagt, dass er kein Teil des Problems ist. Nur, dass er der einzige Politiker ist, der aktuell in der öffentlichen Debatte Raum findet, der am wenigsten das Problem ist
Würde ich mir eine andere Politik und anderes in der Debatte wünschen? Ja
Kann ich/wir das ändern? Nein, also müssen wir uns mit dem was da ist halt nun mal abfinden
Für die nächste Wahl heißt es halt (aus meiner Sicht) nun mal entweder Grüne absolute Mehrheit oder CDU+AFD

2025-01-30 10:37:34

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SPD+Grün würde ich dieser Tage eigentlich schon als Konservativ und "Mitte" betrachten.
CDU, FDP, AFD, ... als rechts bis rechts-extrem (ja eh scheinbar alle voneinander abgeschrieben)
Viel mehr hat aktuell in öffentlichen Debatten gar keinen Raum.
(Und von den genannten Parteien ist Robert Habeck der einzige, der zumindest (versucht) ordentliche Politische Arbeit ohne (bzw. mit wenig) Populismus abzuliefern)

2025-01-30 10:36:03

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Naja, SPD+Grüne haben sich vor allem was die öffentliche Meinung angeht viel zu lange und viel zu sehr von der FDP und vom gerade populären Schlagzeilen beeinflussen lassen. Irgend eine eigene Idee, oder nicht dem aktuellen Axel Springer Titelthema hinterherlaufenden Meinung tuen die sich ja auch schwer.

2025-01-30 10:29:36

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Ich weiß zwar, was du meinst. Aber wenn wir einfach mal das Aufdrößeln, was von rechter Seite damit gemeint ist, dann gibt es halt schon ein Problem.
Nur ist das Problem, dass Rechte Parteien alles Blockieren, was eine Sinnvolle Regelung von Migration, Asyl, EU-Zusammenarbeit, ... angeht und anschließend sich über die dadurch entstandenen Versäumnisse beschweren UND zusätzlich immer wieder viel zu leicht diesen Schwarzen Peter dann den anderen vor allem "SPD und Grünen" zuschieben können