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by schlowmo 4y ago
> “We have flexible working hours”, they say. Sure, but there’s also a stand-up meeting at exactly 8:30 AM to ensure everyone will be online early. This is the thing about daily stand-ups which I hate the most. I work as a freelancer whi
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by schlowmo 5y ago
There's a newer post on medium by her which mentions the AirTag [0]. Sorry I didn't spot that myself when I linked to the older medium post in an earlier comment. [0] https://lilithwittmann.medium.com/bundesservice
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by schlowmo 5y ago
A longer article by Lilith Wittmann (the "German woman") herself can be found here [0] or you could listen to the detailed and entertaining interview on the podcast Logbuch:Netzpolitik [1], unfortunately both only in German langua
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by schlowmo 5y ago
I don't think that the timing of this has much to do with the following, but I find it an amusing coincidence: Just a month ago the German activist Lilith Wittmann used an airtag to corroborate the suspicion that a branch of the German
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German woman uses an AirTag to find a government arm that doesn't exist(imore.com)
42 points by schlowmo 5y ago|15 comments
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by schlowmo 5y ago
Afer a scheduled datacenter migration enom has still issues with their DNS services. It's now more than 3 days and counting. It took them more than 2 days to even acknowledge the issues. For those two days DNS wasn't resolving for
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Enom still has DNS issues(enomstatus.com)
1 points by schlowmo 5y ago|1 comments
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Zoom's New Attendance Tool Will Snitch on Attendees Who Are Late to a Meeting(gizmodo.com)
7 points by schlowmo 5y ago|1 comments
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by schlowmo 5y ago
> It's worse when working with vendors Well this works the other way around too. I found this especially true when delivering software which is considered an interim solution. More than once I got root privileges on customer machine
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by schlowmo 5y ago
For everyone using MariaDB instead of PostgreSQL, a similiar feature called "System-Versioned Tables" exists since MariaDB 10.3 [0]. We're using this feature in production as part of a financial forecast application. This mak
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by schlowmo 5y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm coming from MariaDBs temporal table feature but this is basically the same in PostgreSQL) Temporal tables adding an additional "time axis" to SQL databases. A "valid from" and "valid to" f
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by schlowmo 6y ago
You're right. I didn't meant to say that Audacity isn't for professionals. But in my experience most audio professional (like audio engineers) pick (or get picked by their educational institution) a tool early in their career
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by schlowmo 6y ago
Very pleased that Audacity is still actively developed. I said it before but I think this can't be overstated: Audacity may had some quirks over the years but it's still one of the most (if not the most) accessible tool for audio
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by schlowmo 6y ago
> Voice messages are easier for the producer, but are always more work for the consumer. This is so true especially for long voice messages. I really don't like listening to people thinking aloud about what they want to tell me. I m
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by schlowmo 6y ago
I was commenting on a specific point made by the parent comment. It's pretty far fetched I'm in denial of the root issue when I even mentioned the real solution which you're agreeing with. So while I get your sentiment you&#x
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by schlowmo 6y ago
> The problem is you can´t easily opt back into the public system once you´re out (especially once you´re old), so there are tens of thousands (if not hundreds), that get stuck in the private system without being able to pay the fees bec
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by schlowmo 7y ago
Unfortunately this is already illegal in some other western countries for quite some time. In Germany for example since 1985 (one year late though). It's often used as legitimation when the police is using violence against otherwise pe
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by schlowmo 7y ago
I really wanted to like Metabase but unfortunately it's way behind its promise. I made an attempt to use it in a customer project for creating very basic customizable dashboard-like statistics, with little to no success. Just to name a
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by schlowmo 7y ago
> "At least here in Germany, the apartment owner is allowed to enter your apartment using his key in emergency situations." I am not a lawyer but I know that this is a common misunderstanding in Germany. The landlord is not all
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by schlowmo 7y ago
> (It's actually only sending computer that must not be compromised during installation, but in other respects you're right.) Thanks for clarification, it slipped my attention that plaintext extraction isn't possible even
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by schlowmo 7y ago
The part of the design which piqued my curiosity and distinguish Tinfoil Chat from other messengers is the endpoint-security aspect. Besides the software it uses a very simple made data-diode[0] circuit especially to prevent key- and plaint
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Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system(github.com)
144 points by schlowmo 7y ago|30 comments
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by schlowmo 7y ago
> is currently eating something big You mean: was eating something big 55 million years ago ;)
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by schlowmo 8y ago
Yes, I also had the same issue with Chrome 72 on Android. Probably saved myself some shame though.
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by schlowmo 9y ago
> "Illegal content means any information which is not in compliance with Union law or the law of a Member State [...]" The "law of a Member State" part is very concerning. If it's enough that content is illegal i
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by schlowmo 9y ago
> Is a hum not more or less expected in the vicinity of busy harbors, even more so than in general industrial areas? You're absolutely right, but there are different types of hums and many of them you can directly be linked to a sou
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by schlowmo 9y ago
We can put Hamburg (Germany) on the list of "humming cities" too. When I moved close to the harbour I started hearing a humming sound, espececially at night, almost exclusively indoors. None of my flatmates heard that sound, so I
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by schlowmo 9y ago
Thanks for sharing your concerns. But regarding your last two sentences, I'm sorry that I've to tell you that I think we are already fucked. I don't think it's a good idea to speed up the process of being fucked even mor
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by schlowmo 9y ago
While I agree with the author about the undervalued risks of autonomous vehicles in the light of careless security practices his proposed solution is just insane. In my opinion the demand for a government controlled kill switch in every pie
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by schlowmo 9y ago
You poor one. My mother also gave me "onion juice" when I got a cold, but there was one big difference: The onions were cooked with tons of rocked candy. I have to admit that it was my favorite medicine. Maybe you should try that

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