ohlookabird

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by ohlookabird 6y ago
I am using Signal 50% on the phone and 50% on the desktop and they complement each other well, I don't run into problems. The histories are in sync and the only thing I found annoying so far is the start-up time for the desktop version
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
I have their not-eReader (a tablet sized e-ink display) and it's really nice. I usually have it connected as secondary monitor to my laptop and placed in a small arm/stand next to it. Often, I read docs like man pages or API docs
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
I have been using i3 now for many years now and like it a lot. Thank you developers! It's easy to configure and well documented, plus there are many nice extensions (like status bars). With tiling window managers, for me it really is t
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Have used it for many talks. Fantastic software. Especially the presenter mode in a separate window is nice.
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Oh okay, so that's basically what I do manually anyway then. Thanks.
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
> tmux to give me a single horizontal split so that I can browse and compose at the same time Do you mind sharing how you do this? Browsing plus composing has been the one thing that keeps annoying me for not being streamlined and typica
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
But how does this work in practice? I don't think I ever had to bribe someone. Is it like "Here these $5 are for you!" or you just forget $5 on the dashboard? I can't really picture these situations.
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
This seems to be the current list of rules for non EU countries and US states to transfer the driver's license to the German one after six months (linked by ADAC): https://res.cloudinary.com/adacde/image/uploa
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Why not use "primary" then? In database terminology primary and replica are quite common for instance.
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
> URL as the 'global state' Are there still (browser) limits on how long such a URL can be? Would it e.g. be possible to store a text of 50.000 words in the URL alone?
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Yep, works very well for me, too.
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
It doesn't look like they are open source, does it? https://threema.ch/en/faq/source_code
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
I need to correct myself, this seems to happen also in Germany, but I have never seen the use of grenades so far. In another reply someone posted this video with typical spray canisters and other incidents: https://www.youtube.co
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Thanks for the video. Sure and that's terrible and there is a lot to improve, no doubt. But how often does this happen, even in a single protest? Can you find a video where the German police shoots rubber bullets into people's fac
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Exactly.
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Maybe commonly, but a) we have a pandemic right now and making people cough feels like an absolutely stupid idea and b) what about people with respiratory illnesses, e.g. asthma? You don't think that could play out badly?
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Well, then look at how other countries are doing it. The US is really bad with policing.
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Not on purpose. I didn't mean to provide a full list, but only a few examples that I feel I can speak about. To be fair, there is a stereotype about French police being more violent than others. But still, I wouldn't expect that t
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Maybe that changed recently? I was at many protests in Germany and I have never encountered tear gas.
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
There are so many countries around the world that do fine without the violence, brutality and military gear the US forces use. I could not imagine images like the ones I see now in the US in countries like Germany, Denmark, Austria, Sweden,
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
I really like my self-hosted Wallabag for this. There are browser extensions for Firefox and Chromium (and possibly other) and works well on my Android phone and online. It's a nice layout and most websites work well with it. I use it
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Wow, thanks so much, that's really helpful!
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
The former should however follow recommendations of the latter I think. If you agree, then policy isn't independent of epidemiology.
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Thanks, will definitely read it, but on a first glance I couldn't see any information on your background or experience in the field of epidemiology or a related science. It would definitely help to put your thoughts into context and if
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by ohlookabird 7y ago
What score do you see? Germany is marked as "No data" for me.
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by ohlookabird 7y ago
Why not use ZFS on Linux?
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by ohlookabird 7y ago
It is a really useful service! I used their email service to get updates on potential travel destinations in the past months when Covid-19 started to be a thing.
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by ohlookabird 7y ago
But there are for instance modern embedded systems which might be very resource constrained and knowledge like this would be useful there.
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by ohlookabird 7y ago
There was an additional interesting cultural correlation I heard: there are more cases in the south and south-west of Germany plus a slightly outlier in Hamburg layer. This matches apparently when there are winter holidays in schools (diffe
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by ohlookabird 7y ago
That's surprising. A family member of mine (mid 20ies) in Germany went on a one-week vacation to the north of Germany (he lives somewhere else in Germany) two weeks ago and one of them wasn't feeling well. So they called the respe

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