BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 4y ago
I find it amusing when pro-wrestling gets compared with MMA - or any other combat / fighting sport, for that matter. I appreciate both, but they're entirely different beasts and should be judged based on their own merits. I by the
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> Could it maybe work the other way, start to make the WWE more real? They actually tried that in the 90s. Turns out, having performers compete who are used to making a fight with a scripted outcome look real - rather than win an open-en
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> Scripted but very real in most ways. Different era, but back in the 90s, guys like Ric Flair or Mick Foley were almost superhuman in terms of stamina or the bumps they were able to take and still continue.
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> Degrowth is about structuring the economy to meet the needs of humans instead of the needs of spreadsheets. What does that mean exactly? How is the economy to be structured to meet human needs according to Degrowth and who gets to defi
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
"Degrowth" aka "Malthusianism 2.0" is a synonym for depopulation and / or decreased standard of living. Even the current number of humans alive - let alone people yet to be born - can't be maintained without co
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
The most immediate - yet mostly overlooked - positive impact software and software engineering has on combating climate change is anything that enables remote work or that does away with pointless busywork through automation. It never cease
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
This still is a common exchange in German shops (in German, of course): "Will you pay cash or with credit card?" "Why, cash of course!" "Thanks. Do you have a Payback card?" "Certainly."
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
More often than not, "privacy" is merely used as an argument to avoid change and slow down progress, though. During the pandemic, for example, remote work tools were routinely criticised or even banned in Germany due to their supp
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
Germans in general are also highly reluctant towards digital payments, commonly citing "privacy" as a reason. However, the same people often have no qualms about using the - hilariously named - Payback loyalty programme, which kee
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
Unfortunately, governmental organizations and public authorities in general for the most part are exempt from obligations under GDPR, the most easily applicable loophole being that they can always argue legitimate interest or that they&#x27
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
That it's true - or rather - the current state of affairs, doesn't make it right. Restricting the (relative) access to opportunities and resources to a select group of people by means of artificial barriers has never worked in the
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
So, people should be anti-WFH to maintain this artificial moat that so far has kept other smart and hungry people from making a decent living and improving their standard of living, simply because they're at the wrong geographical loca
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
Yes, I've been observing that development, too. A lot of it indeed is political, but from my point of view the sentiment extends beyond mere political opinion in the narrow sense of the word. I'd rather describe the phenomenon as
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> > The Muslim explains why Islamic law is a perfect recipe for peace. > I can't even fathom how someone could convincingly argue that. And honestly that makes this whole post kind of ridiculous to me This might depend on thei
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
No, in Germany specifically they don't, at least not reliably, because records are scattered across healthcare providers and generally not readily shared between providers (because "data protection"). If it happens at all, ex
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
A workout of 5-10 minutes each day, using follow-along style videos such as these: full body (depending on how fit you are you can do multiple rounds of these) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_AHHQj7eaM https://
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> Laundromats look like rented parking space to me [...] In some areas laundromat are basically cost/revenue neutral and inly make sense as a service to the community and keeping the light on. Which is why laundromats / launder
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
Yes, that's basically the rationale behind not closing borders in case of a pandemic: You can't close all the holes. Someone, and inevitably the pathogen with them, will pass through. However, and very much absurdly, the same peop
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
React neither is a framework, nor is it opinionated. When you're using React the time-honoured Perl motto TIMTOWTDI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to... ) applies. If you'd like a
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> See, even China did those measures that helped but ultimately they had to give up. No, they didn't. They implemented precisely those authoritarian measures that seem to be working at first (like lockdowns) but are neither sustaina
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
It's precisely the unwillingness and inability of authorities to implement measures that actually would have worked (such as restricting flights at the beginning of the pandemic for a limited period of time), which gave us prolonged, r
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
You specifically mentioned TLS being enforced in mobile apps. For non-mobile apps such an enforcement either happens through an app store vetting process or the operating system restricting access to non-secure API calls. I also didn't
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> Do you have any examples of apps not doing TLS validation? Potentially, any desktop app not downloaded via an app store might do this.
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> While public Wifi providers may try to MITM, TLS effectively prevents that from happening unless you are prone to accept "insecure certificate/connection" warnings. For connections happening via a browser that's tru
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> Commercial VPNs are not as useful and secure as you think. That's highly contingent on the "as you think" part. For example, I use ExpressVPN on public WiFi networks because I trust them a whole lot more than random publ
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
In a nutshell: Emergence. Like an anthill, the Internet very much is a coordinated system. The thing is, the constituents of such a system wouldn't necessarily recognise the higher-order system they're part of. An ant doesn't
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
So, here's a question to really keep you up at night: How do we know the global Internet as a whole hasn't developed intelligence already? It might have already, but pretty much like ants aren't aware they make up a system th
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
Anyone providing professional services should have liability insurance. Furthermore, unless a service provider has been acting negligently or has given some sort of guarantee like "With my services, your WordPress instance won't b
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
There's ElephantSQL, which offers a free tier: https://www.elephantsql.com/

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