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by rostigerpudel 8y ago
No, I don't trust Google either. But at least Google is somewhat open about the fact that they collect the data. I can have a look at it and I have settings to influence and even delete (probably) what is being collected. That is vastl
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by rostigerpudel 8y ago
While I agree that is what they officially say they do, the means employed go beyond that. From the article: > "These are generally data points about the user’s device, such as its operating system, installed fonts, browsers (and ve
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by rostigerpudel 8y ago
>"People can have their own opinions on it but our data is not personally identifiable information (PII)," Err..isn't the point of this exercise to have enough data to identify who bought the game and why? I feel the exact
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Samsung phones are spontaneously texting users’ photos to random contacts(theverge.com)
28 points by rostigerpudel 8y ago|6 comments
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by rostigerpudel 8y ago
That is wrong. The Munich public transport system has been turning a profit for at least 15 years out of the last 17. For the two missing years, I did not find numbers or sources, but it's probably the same. Pretty sure there are other
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by rostigerpudel 8y ago
Would you kindly elaborate on which part of that link is relevant to this kind of letter? The PDF there only relates to what a citizen can do when you don't answer the letter. How does that make the letter irrelevant? Responding to the
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. I was not aware that the content is actually stored on Telegram's servers. The first example picture looked like typical link-sharing in some IM channel and I kind of overlooked the download buttons. St
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
Am I the only one who senses a huge bias in this article? Arab writing, citing Russians, telling "law-abiding" citizens not to download. Everything seems to be designed to scare away the "good American people". Also...ye
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France's Uber ban stands after EU court rules against ride-hailing app(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by rostigerpudel 9y ago|0 comments
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Uber settles with family of woman killed by self-driving car, avoids lawsuit(arstechnica.com)
3 points by rostigerpudel 9y ago|0 comments
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
From the article: Am Abend änderte sich die Auseinandersetzung dann, nachdem ein Nutzer, "BassT87", einen Screenshot als Beleg für eine 25-Euro-Spende an die Krebshilfe postete. "Ich habe den Rummel um Herrn Krebs mal zum An
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
I'm not familiar with the details of copyright law. But I would think that Linus has contributions in all part of the kernel. It should be possible for him to claim copyright ownership on all of these part, effectively making it imposs
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
In a way, yes. You can only assert the GPL is you are the copyright owner of a work. The court first had to test whether McHardy can actually claim copyright as he did (for the whole Linux kernel) and found that he cannot according to copyr
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
When you operate a business somewhere, you have to observe the laws of the place you do business in. It does not matter where you are based. How someone gets a hold of you to enforce any action against you is a different matter. But Emirate
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
You gotta love the "Special Note" saying "This is not a Chromecast".
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
You might want to take a look at http://dreckstool.de/hitlist.do There is a nice ranking there... ("Dreckstool" = sh*tty tool)
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
Not to forget the myriad of different standards for storing and ex-/importing data...it's job security for the programmers, I guess
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
My guess would be that everybody is just happy they have some tool for this other than pen and paper. Since not one product in the sector distinguishes itself by being both mostly correct and somewhat useable, there is no pressure to impr
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
Ok, so this is a slightly different take to all the "apps" out there that are just fancy wrappers of some browser widget. It makes it incredibly easy to get started. Or does it? Instead of the usual paradigms of desktop applicatio
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3 reasons a Microsoft EA acquisition sorta makes sense(venturebeat.com)
1 points by rostigerpudel 9y ago|0 comments
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by rostigerpudel 9y ago
Because X over SSH requires a somewhat low latency and high bandwidth. The guy's requirement is unpredictable latency and low bandwidth (like 3 kbps). X is no fun at all over that kind of connection.
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Radeon's Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Has Nearly Caught Up with Windows' Driver(phoronix.com)
2 points by rostigerpudel 9y ago|0 comments
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by rostigerpudel 10y ago
Erm, no. It is not. Any site describing the German income tax will tell you that what I wrote is perfectly true. You can verify quite easily for yourself by following the conveniently provided Wikipedia link. Maybe you misunderstood your ta
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by rostigerpudel 10y ago
The payscale links you provide in your blog provide some insight into why you seem to think that. In all of your examples (see links below for the lazy), the salary for a Senior Software Engineer is slightly below what payscale _thinks_ is
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by rostigerpudel 10y ago
You do mean the marginal tax rate, right? Not the average tax rate. To be taxed @ 42% (average) in Germany your income would have to be way north of 300k€ [1]. With that kind of income, your social security (health, unemployment, pension)
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by rostigerpudel 10y ago
Well this isn't exactly a fair comparison, still it seems to indicate that overall (not for specific applications eg. graphics acceleration), the performance improvement is not that massive: http://www.cpubenchmark.net&#x2
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by rostigerpudel 10y ago
Another anecdote: Drive Now (carsharing corp) has i3 in its fleet so you see a decent number of them in large German cities (like Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne), definitely more often than Teslas: https://de.drive-now.com&#x2F
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by rostigerpudel 11y ago
Munich has covered most of its inner city beltway: http://www.muenchen.de/sehenswuerdigkeiten/orte/120326.html The article is in german, see before-after visualizations at the bottom of the article under "So
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by rostigerpudel 11y ago
Actually, having traveled a lot I have come to appreciate bavarian cops (and northern/central european cops in general) as being professional and downright civil when compared to some of their southern European counterparts (say from S
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by rostigerpudel 11y ago
Criminal law (StGB in .de) and rules relating to proceedings in crime-related investigations (StPO in.de) are not harmonized in the EU, so no, there is no EU law for this.

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