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by skrause 3y ago
Even last December there weren't any regulations in Germany that would have prevented the congress. It was a weird time last December: After the cancellation of the congress was announced, there was a large congress of intensive care w
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by skrause 3y ago
This change is completely separate from nogil, not it’s first step.
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by skrause 3y ago
Renewable energy is super easy when you’re a hot, sunny country with a lot of water. High energy demand for AC has a big overlap with the time of the day when the sun is shining. It’s the opposite when you’re at a high latitude. Now you nee
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by skrause 3y ago
GPL forbids you from using this library in a commercial product (any product that doesn’t use a compatible FOSS license) without buying a commercial license from Oracle. The PostgreSQL JDBC driver doesn’t present this problem to you.
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by skrause 3y ago
The article specifically talks about lamb being commonly available while mutton is not.
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by skrause 3y ago
However it seems that they are now building an island wide fiber network owned by the government and not by an ISP, and will end the current monopoly as soon as this network is ready: https://openfalklands.com/st-helena-plan
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by skrause 3y ago
Pumping my savings into a struggling company so that when it eventually fails I'm not only unemployed but also out of savings? That's a concentration risk I wouldn't want to have if I were a MariaDB employee.
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by skrause 3y ago
Usenet works differently. Moderated groups are their own category and quite rare. Every post to them has to be pre-approved. The large majority of groups (including comp.lang.c) are unmoderated. "Moderator inaction" isn't a t
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by skrause 3y ago
In Germany there are basically only two kinds McDonald's: - Those in the city centers which mostly offer no parking space at all. - Those which are so far outside the urban area that parking is no problem anyway.
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by skrause 3y ago
Current law is that Germany has to stop burning (not just mining) coal by 2038. The current government wants to push this date up to 2030 and is evaluating if and how that's even possible ( https://www.tagesschau.de/inla
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by skrause 3y ago
> I'm referring to the maximum length of detention under the German law being used (if I'm reading things right). It's not a German law but a state law. Some states only allow 4 days, Berlin only 2 days: https:/&#x
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by skrause 3y ago
In Germany basically all ISPs never provided the binary groups, so piracy was never an issue. There also was no conspiracy to shut down the servers because of that. And yet the German groups started a slow but steady decline after their pea
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by skrause 3y ago
The nice thing about per-GB pricing is that you're not subsidizing people who backup 3 TB of data. My most important data is around 50 GB and I pay Backblaze B2 about 80 cents per month for a year of retention. I use restic, too.
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by skrause 3y ago
You can just ship a copy of Python with Excel, no need to ask anybody to maintain their own installation.
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by skrause 3y ago
Is is really so hard to remember the addresses fd::1, fd::2 etc. for your local network?
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by skrause 3y ago
Seattle has 156 rainy days per year, Vancouver has 168. Honestly doesn't sound like that much to me. >150 is typical for most cities here in Germany. Munic has 193 rainy days per year. So it just seems like the people living in the
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by skrause 3y ago
My employer is a prime example for this case: We use Microsoft 365 because we need Microsoft Office and use their email hosting. And then we use Teams simply because it's already included in the package anyway, even though many employe
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by skrause 3y ago
No problem, if that happens the EU commission will just introduce the same law under a different name for the fourth time. Rinse and repeat...
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by skrause 3y ago
Or just Debian if you don't want to learn a new package manager. debfoster ( https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/debfoster ) is my favorite tool to keep my Debian installations as small as possible.
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by skrause 3y ago
And so bad privacy that they chose to not even launch in GDPR countries. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-no-eu-launch/
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by skrause 3y ago
I don't see Germany to be morally arrogant here, they're fully aware that there are problems with the transition to renewables.
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by skrause 3y ago
On this map Germany always looks bad until you zoom out enough to see the USA.
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by skrause 3y ago
The date filter is not going away, only sorting by date is. I also often use the date filter so find older news about some topic. But I have never sorted by date to do that, I use the filter instead.
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by skrause 3y ago
I recently discovered Vaultwarden ( https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden ) and love it. It's basically single Rust binary (self-compiled: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wi
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by skrause 3y ago
HN has a lot more powerful and strict moderation than Usenet ever had.
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by skrause 3y ago
I also point my browser to www.reddit.com, but have I have the old interface enabled in my user settings. The domain old.reddit.com is not required to use "old reddit".
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by skrause 3y ago
You can subscribe to the "top" page of the last week, on average this feed will only have 3-4 new entries per day. Example RSS feed: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/top/.rss?sort=top&t=week
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by skrause 3y ago
Probably nowhere to export to because other countries don't need the energy either. Electricity prices flipped deep into the negative in Germany as well because there is just so much renewable energy during these sunny days: https:&#x
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by skrause 3y ago
> If it ever becomes the primary method of piracy (granted, unlikely), it won't be any problem to simply ban the protocol/implementation. Many Usenet providers offer their NNTP protocol through TLS on port 443. If you "s
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by skrause 3y ago
A mirror is still online: https://funroll-loops.probablymalware.lol/Gentoo-is-Rice.htm...

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