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by wink 10mo ago
Ha, Germany is safe. Not because the postal service is/is not/has to be profitable but because our government fucks up everything digital.
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by wink 10mo ago
I have used perl oneliners on and off for 20 years and because I don't need them every day I have to look up stuff every time. Not sure your time-saving thing really works, especially if 99% of problems you have are not solved by a per
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by wink 10mo ago
Several German banks (at least mine, one of the bigger ones) exclusively have you use an app for 2FA, you can still log via the website if you are lucky (as long as you have that one saved) but not do any transactions. So I would call that
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by wink 10mo ago
If I want a bespoke table crafted by a woodworker I need to pay material and labor costs and thus it ends up costing quite a lot more than grabbing one at IKEA. Most people would agree that for many criteria the more expensive one would be
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by wink 10mo ago
Unfortunately this table doesn't show us where the em-dash users are coming from and if they are native speakers. It's not that it doesn't exist in my native language, but I don't remember seeing them very often outside
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by wink 10mo ago
I had a native English coworker who used to pronounce it Ü-Bahn and when corrected he insisted that it sounded exactly the same then when I said U-Bahn. He was perfectly capable of making the same (German) u sound when saying other English
157.
by wink 10mo ago
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I especially find verb tenses to be the least important part of learning and having a conversation. People will get the meaning if it was in the past or the future if you know words like yesterday/last we
158.
by wink 10mo ago
That's so much not a fitting comparison. The most money I have ever had on my PayPal account was 100 bucks from a reversed transaction (like, double booking of a hotel room or wrong item sent), otherwise it's just a gateway. It wo
159.
by wink 10mo ago
I was very confused because this does not seem related to WoltLab Burning Board and it's a Fedi server and not a forum.
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by wink 10mo ago
One of our products had a proper contact page (just a select box box to decide on something, then one outcome was a contact form) and now it's a fuck off contact page. Sometimes (like here) there are even some good reasons (e.g. we hos
161.
by wink 11mo ago
So you're saying we need to speed up the generation of new oil reserves underground? :)
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by wink 11mo ago
Yes, please continue explaining the job I did in the past to me. It doesn't change anything, especially as I did not blatantly argue cloud=good,hardware=bad. That is a completely different question. My point is that given some circumst
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by wink 11mo ago
Every team I have worked on so far, if using AWS you had 50-100% of the developers with the knowledge and credentials (and usually the confidence) to troubleshoot/just fix it/replace it. Every team with dedicated hardware in a da
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by wink 11mo ago
I am not surprised, from memory I only know like 3 people who ever willingly used 8.x. The active user base must be tiny compared to Windows 7 and 10 users (if we just stick to that range). I have personally not used it for more than an hou
165.
by wink 11mo ago
Totally missing the amount of bananas one could buy every month. Oh wait, it was apples and oranges, not bananas.
166.
by wink 11mo ago
Not a fan of his music but I remember this one interview where he (paraphrased) went "People say I just have a talent for music. No, it was hard work - listen to this terrible phone recording of me singing out of tune"
167.
by wink 11mo ago
I faintly remember some service that would only let me add one YubiKey, taking the 2 in 2FA very literal.
168.
by wink 11mo ago
The task bar not being movable is a huge (and also completely silly) example of stuff going worse. I have some things that simply don't work anymore that kinda didn't bother me with easy workarounds on Win 10. I would have to phys
169.
by wink 11mo ago
Forgot the name but at my last job the Linux client was something like "use this exact in-house patched .deb of $software in version X on Ubuntu Y/Z" - and that's all that worked, nothing else. Kinda indistinguishable fr
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by wink 11mo ago
Lacking details, but people don't generally rsync a checkout of a git repo (including a .git folder) to their webspace, so you're right if the hoster did that, I find it more likely the people did that. On the other hand just blac
171.
by wink 11mo ago
My pet peeve for search engines for content I use is that they regularly ignore 2-letter and 3-letter "words" or acronyms. If all I need is a search for "mp3" then stripping exactly that is not useful ;) (was just the fi
172.
by wink 11mo ago
Yes and that's what people are criticizing - it's just an arbitrary and thus very bad rule. Completely unrelated to CloudFlare, I streamed a single TV series from a friend's plex account 1-2y ago, that's less traffic tha
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by wink 11mo ago
There seems to be one odd case where I know zero details, but the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_University_of_Applied_S... - usually knows as "FH München" or "FHM" only rebranded to "HM&
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by wink 11mo ago
It's not exactly the same, but my reasoning for generally not donating money to FLOSS projects is that I kind of see it as a zero-sum game. I maintain some stuff, I report bugs and contribute to several projects (with a varying degree
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by wink 11mo ago
"Just decide for yourself and be self-reliant... no, not like that!"
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by wink 11mo ago
I started looking for Germany at the top and was surprise to find it so low, I suppose the outlier thing means it's higher than expected for non-Germans :D (also Austria is higher but ignored, I'd say the general culture in this r
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by wink 11mo ago
I think it's more like "you drive into my house wall and die, not my fault". The river has been there all along, is not deemed a public hazard to be dismantled and you are supposed to be pay attention.
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by wink 1y ago
Neither do I find most of the mentioned old boxes here unhinged nor do I find this one (last year) to be big corp sterile - https://www.ask-corp.jp/products/images/sapphire/sapphire-pu...
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by wink 1y ago
I wonder where you live though (not exactly, just: how is the climate, how are the winters?, what do you do that they are not generally rusting through after 10y?) -- signed, some continental European without a garage
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by wink 1y ago
I've not seen a lot of research about how allergies develop as you get older. For me, as a kid: very, very allergic to cats, kinda allergic to many food items and a little to horse hair (only noticable when shedding in the spring) As a

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