The assumption of pride for Germany is unlikely to be accurate.

With the recent rise of right-wing populism in the most recent European elections, xenophobia is most likely the culprit of suppression of pro-human-rights posts. Xenophobia is driven by nationalism. I wouldn’t put too much effort into separating the two. They go hand-in-hand.

At least name the mod.

Look at the modlog. No names. If it matters to you, feel free to ask around and report back. You’re looking in the wrong place for answers. I don’t know which mod lacks respect for human rights or who has the anti-immigrant positioning. Find out which mod hates immigrants and you’ll likely have your answer.

Do you hate Germans, KBin or Lemmy?

Try not to look for hate. Any emotion you think you’ve worked out is probably wrong based on what you’ve said so far and also irrelevant. Focus on the actions. E.g.

1. mod of a privacy forum censors report of German police stopping Shengen border crossers to demand ID.
2. someone in another forum claims Lemmy is free from Reddit shenanigans.
3. comment about suppression in ① is given in response. (some ppl speculate German police demanding papers is somehow irrelevant to privacy)
4. mod of [email protected] censors ③ to cover up the act of censorship.

Item ④ could be driven by excessive pride for Germany, policing thereof, xenophobia (immigrant hate), or Lemmy, hard to know, but abuse of power is the result nonetheless. If someone wants to test it, I would say make a pro-immigration post in !germany@feddit.org and also make a post about some Lemmy shortcomings (but relevant to Germany) and see which gets suppressed.

Fuck lemmy.ca I guess, another instance to boycott

They are boycott-worthy anyway, as they are centralised in Cloudflare’s empire. I have them on my blocklist since they are Cloudflare.

Good tip. I get the impression they only want service manuals and exclude user manuals. I do have some service manuals to contribute so I’ll be considering ifixit for those for sure.

I guess they wouldn’t want the user manual I just scanned. A search of their docs db doesn’t show any user manuals so I suppose a user manual would pollute their archives.

well, shit… it looked good for a moment but then I discovered it’s a Cloudflare site. CF is harmful to digital freedom and netneutrality. OTOH, I can see that they at least whitelisted Tor and the registration requires no information. But I see no upload mechanism, so it’s apparently not a way to contribute manuals.

i’m not sure what an MC is, but I don’t see how to search for manuals on that site. After I upload a manual, how do people find it?

you didn’t read the post. IA is not hassle free when it requires registration and they also periodically delete accounts.

Not sure why I would need a photo for what has become a common practice in Germany. Taking pics of cops just risks triggering aggression so I would need good reason to do it.

Bro, I am full on privacy but if you are crossing borders, it is very normal to get checked for ID and all,

No it is not normal to arbitrarily check ID at a Schengen border crossing.

I am seriously baffled… that 2 people would think an unwarranted general demand for ID papers without probable cause and then recording the data in a centralised tracking database is not relevant to privacy. How on earth do you arrive at that?

Is it that you don’t care about being physically tracked yourself, and from there conclude it’s not a privacy issue? Do you have something like Snapchat broadcasting your realtime physical location anyway?

I must say it’s alarming how the basic concepts of privacy has gotten lost on the younger generations to such extent. The modern day global concept of privacy is to a very large extent driven by papers being demanded in Germany in the 1940s. If it were not for 1940s Germany, privacy communities in Lemmy very well might not even exist today.

How could this possibly be unrelated to privacy?

They were not just looking at IDs to look for Turks (which IIRC is the reason they are doing it)… they were scanning everyone’s ID into a centralised system to generally track people’s movement – even IDs issued by neighboring countries.

Privacy is about control. In this case, the privacy invasion reduces freedom of movement (control over your own travel).

Removed by mod

I am the source. My bus was pulled over, which never happens when entering other Schengen nations. But if you think I am lying and the bus driver is lying, you can easily search for sources you trust. But you seem confused. You struggle to believe it while at the same time claiming the police are doing their job. Feels like cognitive dissonance. Or is it that you are in disbelief that the police would do their job (as you see it)? A search will help you sort that out. It’s no secret that Germany decided to flip the middle finger to Shengen ~6 months ago.

one of the job of the police supposed to actually check people’s ID?

Please read about Shengen.

I suspect all the manual wardens are actually harvesting archive.org then focusing their effort on getting a high search rank. Notice if you expand archive.org’s filters, there is a subject preset for manualzilla and manualzz. So when liberating a manual, it also feeds the baddies. But nothing we can do on that.

I’ll probably change my habits to search archive.org first, before using a web search.

I drempt of applying for a job at Beko just to get the training and info at their expense, then quitting on the first day. I think that would be the right level of therapy for me.

Thanks! That helps. This msg brought me to a rar file for a similar machine with the same text as you found. So I was able to see the error code, but clearing it does not work.

Thank you! That is very useful. That document mafia page looks vaguely familiar. I wonder if I saw that at some point and gave up, because I got this just now:

“Cannot contact reCAPTCHA. Check your connection and try again.”

I have little tolerance for any CAPTCHA. Since it seemed relevant and you already confirmed there was a gem in there, I made more effort… enabled more and more layers of nested JavaScript, turned on images, and got past it.

It’s progress for sure. Holding the 1st auxillary button revealed the error code, which I have attached. Looks like this for anyone else with images disabled (black=unlit):

Ⓞ⚫Ⓞ⚫⚫ Ⓞ⚫⚫⚫

There is still a secret decoding ring missing, but if I can assume that the top row of LEDs are 1’s and 0’s from left to right, I apparently have error code 101 (in binary, which is “5” in decimal):

H5 : PUMP OPEN OR SHORT CIRCUIT

That’S not what I was expecting. I was expecting a tacho failure. The pump spun fine when I hotwired it and the tacho was clearly visibly broken.

The wiring diagram shows that the resistence across the pump should be 75.6 Ω. I measured 141.1 Ω using a crappy pocket multimeter on the PCB side of the wire (so long cable included). That difference seems huge. I’m not sure what to think of this. I don’t think the PCB would be sophisticated enough to measure resistence. So I wonder if I am misinterpreting the error code.

I cannot clear the error code. After displaying the error code, I hold Start/Pause for a few seconds and it gives a quick flash as if to acknowledge that the error should be cleared or that it took an action. But it returns to the same error state anyway.

WMD 26125 T

I managed to get the (useless) user manual (which is not easy for someone who refuses CAPTCHAs and other shenanigans by the user manual mafia cartels). But I could not find any trace of a service manual. The leading “WMD” seems to be significant. It marks the time period. There are many models with that prefix but any service manual for a WMD-prefixed machine might be useful.

Beko’s parent company is “Bionaire”, though I don’t think I’ve seen washing machines branded as Bionaire. I’ve heard Beko rebadges other machines, but I don’t know if my machine has any other underlying or parent brand.

Note from my other thread I spoke to a Beko tech support person who was willing to help. He asked what was wrong and started to speculate on the issue. Then I ran out of phone credit credit and we got cut off. I think he was guessing that the motor was bad, but it actually turned out to be a broken tacho, which I later fixed.

When I called back after fixing the tacho and buying more GSM time, I was hoping to reach the same person but got a useless lazy fucker instead, who could not be bothered to look anything up.

The person I spoke to on my first call put me on hold to go collaborate with a colleague. He was also surprised to be getting a call over a 15 y/o machine, but he did not use that as an excuse for shitty service. He made an effort.

I could keep calling back until I get an answer. But it’s costly in Belgium (15 €c/min). The shitty call I posted the transcript on probably cost me €4-5 and probably ½ of that is the cost of the initial phone navigation and hold time waiting for someone.

Need a website to show good repairability of all machines. Eg iFixit or something to consult before buying any new machine.

I want my money to feed a supplier who supports repair. When a washing machine salesperson is asked: “please show me a machine that comes with a service manual (not just a user manual), wiring diagrams, and please demonstrate for me diagnostic mode on one of these showroom floor models”. Completely fucking stumps them. They cannot handle it. Not a single machine. They look at me like I am crazy for asking. Thus I will not buy a single new machine. From where I sit it’s crazy that they can still sell disposable washing machines in 2025 – while the EU’s Right-To-Repair law has been tied up in discussion for over 10 years.

Maybe I would buy a 2nd hand machine, if I can verify that leaked repair literature exists first. Which is a problem because the pop-up street market I would buy one from is there for just 1 day. Then next week that day might have different sellers and different models.

I would be interested in trying. Would the serial port that I describe here be the way to dump the f/w?

My laptop docking station has a DB-9 port.