As I indirectly pointed out with my first paragraph, even if we don’t dispute the choice of this specific overgeneralistic segmentation of people to talk about violence, it’s still intellectually dishonest: men aren’t specifically more violent towards women than towards other men.

In fact the statistics show that men are the main victims of violence committed by men.

Further, to me this whole “advice”, especially coming from an important police official, has a stink of “don’t dress slutty to avoid getting raped”.

It should be about reducing criminality, not about telling potential victims to be less free with their own behaviors (how typical of the German authorities) so that they’re less likelly to be victims, and guess what’s important in reducing criminality: narrowing your scope to the most likely criminal element so as to focus more resources on them.

That’s what’s behind the main point of my post.

What a wonderful murder meme!

It’s called Oligarchy and it predates Tech “Overlords” in America.

Per the statistics of violent behavior men should not be around other men.

Men are statistically more likely to be violent than all other groups defined by gender.

However, there are far better groupings of humans to use when it comes to predisposition for violence than “gender” (for example, “people espousing rightwing ideologies” display a higher tendency for violent behavior) and the thing that needs questioning here is why the German police association chief purposefully chose to use a grouping of humans with a lower correlation to violent behavior rather than one whose members are far more likely to engage in violent behavior, and the same questioning applies to the “journalist” that wrote the article.

This shit stinks of “stirring identitarianism to avoid pointing finger at certain specific groups”, kinda like how the same shit is relentlessly used in Neoliberal politics to distract people from the size, scope and effects of Wealth Inequality.

Not long ago their Bundeskanzler openly said that Germany unaveringly supports a state activelly commiting a Genocide along ethnic lines because of the dominant ethnicity of that country - in other words, Race is the most important of all things, to the point that even Genocide is fine as long as the right race is doing it.

There’s also plenty of videos of the abuse of force of the German police towards anti-Genocide demonstrators.

Both in terms of Racism and Authoritarianism - which are fundational elements - German views (certainly those of their political mainstream) and even practices are not tha different from those in their “good old days”.

It looks a lot like the seeds of NAZIsm are alive and well in Germany, ready to sprout once again.

Not the previous poster.

A simple ESP8266 module from AliExpress is less than $4 (an ESP12F module - which is the FCC certified one with most I/O ports available - is $2), can be programmed with Arduino, has WiFi and that is more than enough for wireless home automation peripherals that are not supposed to do lots of processing (it will still easilly fit a REST interface for automated control and even a web interface for user control alongside it).

That said, in order to power it unless you can somehow draw 3.3v from the device it’s attached to, you actually need more parts and that’ll add up to more than $4 unless you’re doing it with batteries (and design and assemble your own voltage regulator circuit which is not that hard and is cheap, or maybe get a slightly more expensive ESP module that comes with voltage regulation) - this works fine if your device sleeps most of the time and just wakes up once in a while to check some data from a server holding instructions for it. For an always one device, best IMHO to use a 3.3V wall power adaptor, which will cost at least $6 from AliExpress.

The power considerations apply exactly the same for ESP32s.

Exactly.

My first personal e-mail way back in the 90s was with my ISP. Then I changed ISPs and saw the problem with that. So I moved to Yahoo.

Some years later, in the 00s I just decided to get my own, paid for, Internet domain and have my e-mail there, even though I could’ve carried on using Yahoo or get Google Mail (very popular amongst techies back then) for free. The main reason was that I realized I must made sure the e-mail address was MINE, not actually owned by somebody else with me allowed to use it under their conditions.

Twenty years later and guess it was pretty wise to not have my e-mail in the claws of “Definitelly Do Evil” Google.

Experience using and living with Tech, mainly once your understanding of it reaches the level of understanding systemic elements, naturally informs ones choices in Tech, and that often means chosing something else than the mass marketed “popular” stuff that’s designed to lock you in, sell you stuff or sell your attention to others and eavesdrop on you and sell your data.

Try doing that with a passport and the typical access to Education from, say Burkina Faso.

Time for Europe to get its own payment processor and stop being dependent on companies from Gilead.