rndgermandude

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by rndgermandude 4y ago
I know it's more of a joke, but some people might think this might actually happen. Here is why not: The Schwarz Group (Lidl's parent, as well as Kaufland's parent) is the largest privately held company in Germany and the lar
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
Shit happens, indeed. The question is what recourse there is when shit happens. Usually, one would contact the company and figure things out with a support rep, if the company is any good. In facebook's case, that's virtually impo
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
The average dishwasher uses about the amount of water you'd use for 1-2 minutes of shower time. Newer models use around 9 liters per cycle, older ones and non-eco modes often 15 liters, and really old ones often 25 liters. A typical sh
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
Sure, they have been declining overall[0]. But here in Germany, we still have 2.3M traffic accidents, 321K injuries and 2654 fatalities[1]. While I'd agree that 2.6K fatalities per year for 83M population doesn't reach the level o
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
That's perfectly fine. It however does not matter for the large majority of people who use those top 100 or even top 100,000 websites or even top 1,000,000 websites, and do not have the education, skill or time to learn about all the a
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
Finfisher was bought despite every legal expert they asked, including those they had on permanent payroll, saying it would be illegal to use. They later claimed they didn't use it only paid for the license. They also said they'd o
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
>how EU and other countries are talking nothing about the use of this You mean the customers of such malware (even if not necessarily Pegasus in particular)? E.g. the German government bought FinFisher licenses, the German federal police
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
Yeah, it's not always fun :P There are some projects that try to be partial dependency "package" managers for mingw, but for whatever reason I never really used them, so I cannot comment on how well they work and how up-to-da
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
I use WSL with mingw-w64 to cross compile things for native Windows sometimes... e.g. I keep my own builds of ffmpeg and mpv around, as well as some of my own "legacy" tools that I use both on linux and windows natively. And in th
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
> There is no criminality here. Fraud is a crime. Criminal copyright infringement is a crime. If amazon were to take your money and not deliver, and it can be proven they did so intentionally, never intended to deliver, they would face c
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
I think this law is meant to prevent cases where some company hires sizable amounts of employees in California (25% of payroll as the blogpost states) and then shafts the state with some "loopholes". Think of a company with hundre
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
The 10+ minutes that OP observed where in tortoise (=9) mode tho. That's the slowest mode, comparable to "placebo" mode in x264, and meant as a "test" mode, not as a daily driver. The libjxl default is "squirre
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
Comparing compression ratios is tricky. What you usually want is "file size at same visual quality" or "visual quality as same file size" for comparisons. The problem here is that "visual quality" is in the eye
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
Germany has it, but not for things like parking tickets[0], speeding tickets, etc. But criminal law (Strafgesetzbuch, StGB) makes extensive use of it. Every time you see the StGB talk about a fine, unless explicitly stated otherwise, it wil
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
Another feature that is very interesting to me is bit-exact lossless conversation between jpeg and jpeg-xl, in both directions that is. This essentially allows to take a jpeg, run the vastly improved lossless compression stages of jpeg-xl o
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
>The only thing that matters about cookies is whether they are necessary, not whether they contain identifying information. Incorrect, kinda. The GDPR concerns personal information, and information that can identify people directly (e.g.
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
You could just do "Set-Cookie: visited=true; Max-Age=<interval>". No unique id, but you still can count uniques by checking requests for the lack of that cookie. This cookie is not personal information, and cannot be used to
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
You say "baseless accusations" and "ridiculous statements". I have seen "Christians" do what I can only describe as scamming other people regularly, not just the megachurch guys buying private jets with "d
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
Indeed. At least for now, this is the law in the UK as well... EU directives have to be implemented into national law by member states, and this one is old enough that the UK actually implemented it. Now that the UK left the EU, and given t
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by rndgermandude 4y ago
Except this model is practically "zero price". Yes, you can sell GPL software, but on the customer side, buying such software cannot be justified economically, if all you got to do is to find somebody/some place that will pro
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
I am familiar, and have been on the Autobahn many times. From the speeding journalist's article: >These roads weren’t anywhere near schools or towns, and have lots of curves and very little traffic. This is hardly like the Autobahn
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Generally agree, but I fall prey to the Second System Effect sometimes, tho. I rewrite my "organically grown into spaghetti code over some time" original program, aiming for a proper design, and end up with some overengineered mes
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
>On a friday night no less. Not just any Friday, but Good Friday, which happens to be a legal holiday in many countries, including here in Germany. And since Easter Monday is one too, a lot of people will go on vacation on this "lon
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
>Of course, nothing is forcing you to install silly packages that are wrappers for one-liners. That's the thing... I am effectively forced to install a lot of silly packages, because I need some not-so-silly packages, and these in t
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
>It’s common knowledge, that VW went all in with their diesels and totally ignored petrol engines for a long time. Sorry, but that "common knowledge" is wrong. Source: I know people working in the VW engine research and design
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Or it might be that one is representing the character data as 16-bit wchars in memory, and the other treats them as 8-bit chars.
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
>Eggs are fragile, but maybe they used dried egg, or maybe that wasn't a problem. Or they used chickens.
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
A pedo-criminal hacker's wet dream. If one manages to compromise accounts of some teachers, or worse, some school admin accounts, or is an insider at the school or GoGuardian itself... And before anybody says, that things like these on
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Early naturalization for spouses in Germany can happen after 3 years of legal residence, but they only moved mid-2020 according to wikipedia, so she shouldn't be a citizen just yet. However, extraditing just her (cannot extradite him,
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
It actually might be an excuse to some degree. Diminished capacity is considered in many jurisdictions, and defendants who can demonstrate diminished capacity at the time of the offense can often get lesser sentences.

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