EU petition to stop publishers from intentionally destroying games with kill switches.

Das Bundesarbeitsministerium unter Ministerin Bärbel Bas lehnt Ausnahmen vom Mindestlohn für Saisonarbeiter ab. "Eine Herabsetzung des Mindestlohns (nur) für kurzfristig beschäftigte Saisonarbeitskräfte würde sowohl nach nationalem als auch nach europäischem Recht eine unzulässige Diskriminierung darstellen, für die es keinen sachlichen Grund gibt", sagte ein Sprecher des SPD-geführten Ministeriums dem Tagesspiegel. "Der Koalitionsvertrag sieht die Schaffung einer Ausnahme vom Mindestlohn für Saisonarbeitskräfte nicht vor."

Der Sprecher des Bundesarbeitsministeriums verwies auch auf die allgemeine Funktion des Mindestlohns: "Der allgemeine gesetzliche Mindestlohn ist als absolute Lohnuntergrenze ausgestaltet, die branchenübergreifend in jedem Arbeitsverhältnis gilt und ein Mindestmaß an Arbeitnehmerschutz und Austauschgerechtigkeit sichern soll." Ausnahmen in einzelnen Branchen seien mit diesem Ziel nicht vereinbar. Allein der Umstand, dass eine bestimmte Tätigkeit nicht sozialversicherungspflichtig sei, rechtfertige eine niedrigere Bezahlung nicht.

Da sticht die Zuständigkeit des Bundesarbeitsministeriums hoffentlich die Klientelpolitik des Agrarministers.

On June 20, Belgorod volunteer Nadezhda Rossinskaya, 30, also known as Nadine Geisler, was sentenced to 22 years in prison on charges of treason and aiding terrorism. At the start of the full-scale war, the volunteer group she founded, Army of Beauties, actively helped Ukrainian refugees. Later, Geisler left for Georgia, but then returned to Russia and was detained in February 2024. The grounds for her arrest under the article on “public calls for activities against state security” was an Instagram post calling for donations to the Ukrainian Azov battalion. The activist denied any involvement with this account. She was subsequently charged with “treason” and “aiding terrorism.”

Geisler’s case was heard by the 2nd Western District Military Court in part behind closed doors. Two Mediazona sources claim that before the trial began, FSB officers strongly discouraged Belgorod journalists from covering it. Many details are still unknown, but the activist’s closing statement, in which she refutes the investigation’s version point by point, sheds some light on the indictment.

In particular, she mentions accusations of directing drones in the Kharkiv region, although her passport did not contain any marks about crossing the Ukrainian border. As well as testimony against her given by her sister, who was brought to court from a psychoneurological hospital, accompanied by a nurse.

Just after 05:00 GMT on Tuesday, Trump announced that the ceasefire had taken effect.

"Please do not violate it!" he urged both sides in a post on his Truth Social platform.

I mean, he said please?

Look, I don't want this war to continue and for more innocent people to die... But I do feel a slight tinge of joy when this big baby bitch looks like the big baby bitch he is. Art of the deal, amiright?

Edit: just learned how to properly format quotes

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fan/post/28564

He likes big balls and he did not lie this time.

Google’s Gemini team is apparently sending out emails about an upcoming change to how Gemini interacts with apps on Android devices. The email informs users that, come July 7, 2025, Gemini will be able to “help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.” Naturally, this has raised some privacy concerns among those who’ve received the email and those using the AI assistant on their Android devices.

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Harper is an English grammar checker designed to be just right. I created it after years of dealing with the shortcomings of the competition.

Grammarly was too expensive and too overbearing. Its suggestions lacked context, and were often just plain wrong. Not to mention: it's a privacy nightmare. Everything you write with Grammarly is sent to their servers. Their privacy policy claims they don't sell the data, but that doesn't mean they don't use it to train large language models and god knows what else. Not only that, but the round-trip-time of the network request makes revising your work all the more tedious.

LanguageTool is great, if you have gigabytes of RAM to spare and are willing to download the ~16GB n-gram dataset. Besides the memory requirements, I found LanguageTool too slow: it would take several seconds to lint even a moderate-size document.

That's why I created Harper: it is the grammar checker that fits my needs. Not only does it take milliseconds to lint a document, take less than 1/50th of LanguageTool's memory footprint, but it is also completely private.

the chapter on the history of Western philosophy's view on women was particularly disturbing - in summary, women aren't people.

e.g. Aristotle thought women were naturally mutilated, deformed versions of men. Hegel compared women to plants.

The idea of women being worthy of literacy and education, let alone being a professional like a lawyer, are all shockingly recent changes.

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is on track to secure the Democratic nomination for mayor, after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded to him Tuesday night following the first round of ranked-choice primary votes.

With 95% of precincts reporting two hours after polls closed at 9 p.m., 44% ranked Mamdani as their first choice while 36% chose Cuomo first and 11% had city Comptroller Brad Lander.

Mamdani emerged to raucus applause at his election party on a brewery rooftop in Long Island City, about 20 minutes after midnight.

San José (AFP) – A court on Tuesday ordered Costa Rican authorities to release foreign migrants locked up in a shelter after being deported by the United States, according to a resolution issued on the eve of a visit by the US secretary of homeland security.

Some 200 migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, Russia as well as from Africa and some other Asian countries, including 80 children, were brought to the Central American nation in February under an agreement with the US administration of President Donald Trump, a move criticized by human rights organizations.

By partially accepting an appeal filed in March on behalf of the migrants, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice gave immigration 15 days to process the "determination of the immigration status of the deportees" and their release, according to the resolution seen by AFP.

The migrants were detained in February at the Temporary Migrant Care Center (CATEM), 360 kilometers (220 miles) south of San Jose, on the border with Panama.

However, in the face of criticism, the government allowed them to move freely outside the center in April.

Some accepted voluntary repatriation but about 28 of them remain at CATEM, 13 of them minors, according to official data.

The habeas corpus petition continued until it was resolved Tuesday, and would serve as a precedent to prevent a similar agreement.

The court also ordered Costa Rican authorities to "determine what type of health, education, housing, and general social assistance they require from the State."

The resolution was published one day before a visit by US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who will meet with President Rodrigo Chaves and tour the Los Lagos temporary immigration detention center.

In March, an Afghan woman behind bars at CATEM told AFP she had fled her country because she wanted to study and work and not be forced to live with a man.

She said if she was forced to return to Afghanistan, "the Taliban will kill her."

The Taliban authorities' crackdown on women's rights has led to the arbitrary arrest and detention of many women and girls in Afghanistan.

In addition to Costa Rica, Trump sent 300 deportees, mostly Asians, to Panama and 252 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, accused without evidence of being members of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang.

They were imprisoned in a Salvadoran mega-prison for gang members.

So, long story short: I've been a musician for pretty much all my life. After a massive hearing loss, I picked up drums about a year ago and I've had so many great teachers myself. Now the local music school asked me if I could teach drums to their kids. They lost their former teacher due to old age.

I have rarely dealt with children. Sure, I was a tutor for some when it comes down to languages, but teaching music? That is so new to me and I'm actually afraid.

I am all gauntles right now negotiating the deal here: I want espescially girls to learn a new intrument. They must be bored out of themselves just playing the flute, organ and piano.

So, my approach is probably this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL5oBbriJuQ

:D

Any hints or tips you can give me? Please?

I'm a 38 years old lesbian with basically no clue whatsoever when it comes down to dealing with kids... ^^

EDIT: I'm afraid the girls want me to play pop music on the drums, and I get easily bored by that.

Watch one of my drumming teachers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHl_gsd0OR0

XD