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4y ago
Now run the same thing on a first gen Celeron.
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4y ago
I remember the times when installing Gentoo was a matter of days. Compiling the kernel was a matter of hours. Sure, rustc is slower than gcc, but if you're not constantly compiling your software over and over and over again, then the t
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4y ago
It’s their content, offered for free. It would be great if they would add subtitles, but it’s asking them to invest extra labor or money to do so - for free again. I mourn the loss of the content, but I understand their decision.
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4y ago
Rules in germany are that you can have video surveillance, but it must not cover public spaces. A ring doorbell monitoring your porch is fine, recoding the sidewalk not. Now, enforcement is another issue, but the rules make sense.
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4y ago
> Positioning the rotating bezel so that it points south, will then allow you to read other approximate compass directions.
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4y ago
Last time I worked with pritunl, it was based on openvpn. So unless that changed, it doesn’t fit the “for WireGuard networks” category.
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4y ago
FOI laws have been created so that the public can gain information about the internal workings of the government - and the scope is deliberately wide. It includes activities that you or me may not consider worthwhile, but that’s our judgmen
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4y ago
There’s absolutely enough to blame the DB for, but the sabotage was a real thing - unless you want to imply that the federal police is lying. Source (in German): https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bahn-sabotage-101.html
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At the moment, about half of France’s nuclear power plants are offline - partially due to lack of cooling water (which should resolve itself as the summer ends), partially due to maintenance issues. Germany had been exporting energy to fran
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4y ago
Rust provides explicit mechanisms to leak memory and its notion of memory safety does not include “never leaks” . A rust program that leaks memory like a sieve is considered safe.
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4y ago
The rules depend on what court you go to. In the first instance, both sides pay their own lawyers, but the court fees are paid by the loosing party (1). The fees are usually not very high, so that‘s not much of a barrier. On an appeal, the
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4y ago
Tagesschau, citing the federal police, reports that two cables at two locations in germany were cut https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bahn-sabotage-101.html The locations are a few hundred kilometers apart.
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4y ago
I believe you’re referring to this article which makes the point https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch... , though with a slightly different conclusion: it says that chemical weapons are
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4y ago
Fedora has been using dnf for at least a few years. I used Fedora as a primary laptop OS before I stopped using Linux for $reasons at around Fedora 32. I can’t remember any particular issues updating as long as you kept within the supported
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4y ago
I doubt you can. If the data collection is illegal under the GDPR (or it’s incarnation under danish law), then it won’t help if you don’t use it in a public facing context. The GDPR doesn’t make any difference between subjects that are empl
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4y ago
But if your constitution is incompatible with the treaties required to be member in the EU, you essentially have two options: change your constitution or not be member of the EU.
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4y ago
It’s true that protecting against processes running under the users account is hard, but exploiting that would require code execution Accessing a secret in a file does not necessarily. It could be stored on a network share, included in a ba
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4y ago
You can do exactly the same with a feature branch on the remote side. This is not a replacement for actually communicating around what work you do.
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Every time you have a local working copy, you essentially have a feature branch. Their local modifications and your local modifications can be incompatible - pushing to the same branch only moves the problem to “who pushed first”. At least
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How does any tool help if your colleagues don’t talk to you? Or you don’t talk to your colleagues?
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So you want to find rules to inconvenience the people working long hours, so you can save a couple of minutes. How about realizing that you just need to plan a few minutes more for your commute and chill out. You‘re sitting comfortably in y
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4y ago
Especially farmers during harvest time work from sunrise to sunset because crops ripen when they do, not according to some nice schedule. Asking the farmes to take the long road when everyone else could is inappropriate. Especially since if
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Same in Germany, but „as close as safely possible“ is around 80-100 centimeters from the right end of the handlebar - more if there are parked cars to avoid being hit by an opening door. The handlebar is usually around 60-70 centimeter wide
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4y ago
Make a proposal, where should the cyclists go? We want to go to a specific place, even when going on recreational rides. Every cyclist I know prefers safe trails over dangerous ones, but it’s just impossible to always avoid a narrow stretch
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4y ago
The farmers are working. They don‘t choose to do that, they have places to be and need their machines to get there. Do you honestly believe they‘re doing that for the lulz? What should they be doing?
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I stuck with an iPhone SE of the first generation until I really needed multi-sim this year. The form factor is great, no other phone is that small. Battery life was ok, too. Why not stick with hardware that does the job? If it works for hi
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Depends on what you define as “very cold”. Comparatively few people live in climates where you consistently have extended periods where the average temperature drops below zero. And there are ways to work with that. For example what’s in Ge
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I agree, but having them is also a huge liability. I’m always happy to have less privileges because it limits the damage I can accidentally cause. If someone competently manages my machine so that I can do my work without requiring root pri
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I can think of a few: * not ready * in technical review * in legal review (can all code be published under an OS license?) * in security review * missing documentation I’m sure there’s plenty of other possible reasons. They seem to have a r
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You said „you can‘t waive it in a contract“, but that‘s also not the case here. The right is waived by entering a collective bargaining agreement, which could be treated differently. There are rights in the German labor law that can‘t be wa
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