Xylakant

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by Xylakant 4y ago
Go after your clients or the money the clients send you.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
That is not true - donations are not usually considered profit, at least in Germany. They occupy a bit a weird middle ground. They may count as income, but for example donations we receive for the open source projects that our company runs
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Then they‘re no longer working for free. That‘s exactly the issues this article is discussing - but that‘s not the point the parent poster was alluding to. They specifically mentioned „for free.“ However, if you build security critical soft
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Developers working for free are explicitly exempt. The article lays out that the carve-out has issues and those should get resolved, but fundamentally it‘s there.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
As long as you‘re not financially profiting from the project, the legislation does not affect you. The moment you do financially profit of it (for example, if you have a business around it, or the software is developed by a business), then
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I know someone who changed school from Rheinland-Pfalz across the river to Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg) and got their Abitur essentially for free - at a private school well known for making everyone pass. So what does that tell us?
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by Xylakant 4y ago
You can get the Abitur in Berlin without having a written or oral final exam in a foreign language in Berlin, that’s true as far as I know. You still need to take classes in at least one foreign language in the time up to the exam and the g
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by Xylakant 4y ago
There’s no requirement for English in the Bavarian Abitur. You must pick one language up to the exams, but you can totally pick Latin. I’m fairly confident that you have to have at least 4 years of English in school everywhere in Germany if
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I tried multiple companies, and I’m a pretty normal German resident. They all said they’re not allowed to talk about insurance matters with people not residing in the UK. So we basically ended up having a UK person relay all communication,
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The register is electronic and it’s common that people monitor it, especially if you have large sums outstanding. I have done so in the past. I know of multiple other cases where people monitored the register. If they don’t have money and o
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by Xylakant 4y ago
That’s not true - you can have a contract in any language in Germany. But the first thing that a court adjucating any dispute would do is have a certified translator translate it into German - at your cost. And that translation will be out
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by Xylakant 4y ago
You can entirely start a UG without ever seeing a lawyer and the fees are low, as long as you stick to the standard contracts available. You have to see a notary, though. A lawyer is important if you want to have complicated arrangements be
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Funny how the Americans don’t even realize how absurd that looks for the rest of the world. The reason for this is that the company must pay any outstanding debt before it can shut down - and you need to give creditors a window to write the
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Why do you believe the maintainer is disingenuous? They are very open about their reasons to pick GPL as their license. We don’t have to like it but it’s their code and their right to choose. They’re not pulling some weird kind of bait and
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by Xylakant 4y ago
That may be true in the US, but for example in Berlin, cycling directions are still unavailable and POI search is still behind google maps. I would prefer to use Apple Maps, but it’s lacking. There’s also no way to share a route with someon
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by Xylakant 4y ago
This guy did not get sued. Someone reported him to the relevant authority which gave him notice and time to correct the issue - no court of law was involved. There are lawyers that threaten to sue you in court, treating this as a business m
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by Xylakant 4y ago
That statement is dangerous. ToS often gets thrown out in business to consumer transactions where the business has a significantly better negotiation position (legal counsel,…) It’s a consumer protection mechanism. In business to business i
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The new SE (2nd and 3rd gen) have the form factor of the iPhone 8 and no longer the small form factor of the iPhone 5. They’re bigger than the iPhone 13 mini.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It’s definitely more than just hosting code - GitHub offers issue/PR management, light weight project management, an online IDE for collaborative editing and CI services at least. Arguing that GitHub provides services that aim to impro
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The small SE never was upgraded to anything resembling recent hardware. It‘s pretty much iPhone 6 level tech - no surprise demand was falling.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
How would you resolve the local name part? Do I get to claim xylakant@mail.europa.eu or is there a dispute process? hans.mueller@mail.europa.eu is going to be contentious.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Try scrolling down. Once you barely touch the bottom of the thread you’ll see an overlay that you can’t get rid of. Or at least I did.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
> I think it makes more sense to put the heat pump between the "battery" and the building it's heating, so you draw less heat from the battery to supply a large amount of heat to the building. That’s not how heat pumps wor
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Good providers have a deliberately slow and onerous process in place - send proof of identity, multiple notices to the account owner, sometimes even documents mailed to a physical address. It needs to be possible to recover high value accou
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by Xylakant 4y ago
There’s enough places where I would hold off on patching critical vulnerabilities as well. Practically all vulnerabilities require some specific to be in place to be exploitable. It’s up to the engineers to determine whether they are affect
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by Xylakant 4y ago
But then you should only get the users account as shell, so while this is a neat trick, being able to gain persistent root if you are already root is not that hard.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The analysis of visual art does not depend on the authors intent any more than for written work. But changing the orientation of a piece would better be compared to changing the order of the words than analyzing the work. Hanging it upside
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by Xylakant 4y ago
As someone living in germany, that’s just wrong.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
No, the value is what you can do with it. Now, if you want to sell the data, then having a competitor that offers it for free is reducing the value, but if you want to use the data, the value is independent of the cost.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Celeron was about the affordable option when Gentoo was released. It was just that: compiling things took time. But even when you ran redhat or suse, you sometimes needed to recompile the kernel to support the features you needed. And that

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