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by skrause 7y ago
I think the biggest pain in hosting your own mail server is getting your outbound mail delivered into the mailboxes of the large providers without being marked as spam. Especially if you don't actually send a lot of mail, so you can ne
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by skrause 7y ago
I still use Gnus for mailing lists and Thunderbird for all direct email. Almost 20 years ago I spent more than 2 whole days to configure every detail of Gnus to my liking and still use the same configuration mostly unchanged.
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by skrause 7y ago
> A hacker could try to reset my password for an online account by answering security questions like “What is your mother’s maiden name?” or “Which of the previous addresses did you live at?” That's why you don't answer those
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by skrause 7y ago
No, it's the other way round if you read the actual law: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stpo/__70.html (1) Ordnungshaft is what you get if you fail to pay the fine (Ordnungsgeld) for refusing to testify. (2) E
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by skrause 7y ago
> None of this would be possible in a civilized country. I think the same concept exists in many civilized countries. In Germany it's called Erzwingungshaft ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzwingungshaft ) and
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by skrause 7y ago
> They did a comparison to cloth bags here. you have to use a colored clothbag about 30.000 times before you break even with a plastic bag. That study ( https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/
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by skrause 7y ago
And most of them are either (A)GPL or so prohibitively expensive for the commercial version that you can't really use them in small commercial projects at all.
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by skrause 7y ago
This has been discontinued: https://news.microsoft.com/europe/2018/08/31/microsoft-to-de...
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by skrause 7y ago
Is this the same JOE editor I was using when I first started using Linux around 1999?
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by skrause 7y ago
> Well, no. I don't want to use a browser that is developed by an advertising company ... on an operating system developed by the exact same advertising company?
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by skrause 7y ago
Because it's about realiability, they just can't get the butterfly mechanism to work without failing eventually and don't want to replace keyboards constantly. It's irrelavant that some people like the feel of the butter
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by skrause 7y ago
> You would probably have to rewrite the html so it no longer uses tables This reminds me: What happened to the markup rewrite that was announced almost 5 years ago together with the Firebase API? https://blog.ycombinator.co
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by skrause 7y ago
The problem isn't the feel for most people, it's that it breaks quite easily.
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by skrause 7y ago
> but my disappointment is that we have the chance to be free from widespread traffic noise No, we don't have this chance unless you implement a 20 mph speed limit everywhere . Above that speed it matters less and less that you h
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by skrause 7y ago
N26 is also known to not help you when you're a fraud victim ( https://heise.de/-4355970 ). And they're currently on a watchlist because they usually fail to prevent money laundering ( https://heise.de&#x2
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by skrause 7y ago
IPv6 doesn't prevent you from using memorizable addresses. You can configure your hosts with the ULA addresses fd::1, fd::2, fd::3 etc.
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by skrause 7y ago
Yes: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/22/spania...
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by skrause 7y ago
> People on the late side of sunset across U.S. time zones were 11 percent more likely, on average, to be overweight and 21 percent more likely to be obese. Diabetes was more prevalent, and the risk of heart attack increased by 19 perce
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by skrause 7y ago
My ISP rotates IP addresses between users, so you can't match IPs to addresses. Quite often GeoIP doesn't even get my city right.
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by skrause 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20090193
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by skrause 7y ago
... and Trader Joe's is owned by Aldi.
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by skrause 7y ago
Cheap medium-quality food is not really just an Aldi/Lidl thing, it's culturally a German thing. Germans just don't care about food quality as much as e.g. French people, so competition values price over quality. I'm Ger
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by skrause 7y ago
> Perhaps it's different in Germany. It's not.
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by skrause 7y ago
> At least here in Germany, the apartment owner is allowed to enter your apartment using his key in emergency situations. This is completely wrong. In Germany the apartment owner is not even allowed to keep a copy of the key unless you
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by skrause 8y ago
Home schooling is not legal in Germany.
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Why Operators Are Useful(mail.python.org)
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by skrause 8y ago
When I hear "visa" I think of mailing something to a consulate or going there personally for an application, paying a good chunk of money and waiting weeks to hopefully get approval.
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by skrause 8y ago
> Anyway, it's so weird to me that daylight savings is such a new concept, it didn't exist where I was born when I was born, but it feels like a thing that ought to have existed for a hundred years at least. It is a more th
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by skrause 8y ago
But those new German regions will be controlled by Microsoft, so they fall under the Cloud Act.
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by skrause 8y ago
Microsoft has already scrapped the trustee model in Germany again: https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-is-discontinuing-the-germa...

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