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[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

What would you sue for? Just move to West Virginia with your sister and be happy. Maybe you could sue 23andme to pay for the moving truck.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I had six so far 🙂:
New Years, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day, Ascension Day, Pentecost.

There are only 4+ ²/₂ official holidays left in the rest of the year though:
German unity day, Reformation day, 2 Christmas Days. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are ½ a holiday each.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or she marries a really bad carpenter: Breaking Bed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I'd love to see a spinoff where she marries a bar keeper who is really shitty at his job. Name of the show: Shaking Bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Every month is wild. Do the electricity prices change based on the season or why can't they just calculate the average over a year?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Recently we also got more and more smart meters here in Germany, as there are a few power companies that calculate your price by the hour. But that's not based on your maximum consumption but on the time of the consumption. If you use the solar and wind power on a windy summer day it's basically free, whereas the price goes up when it's expensive power from gas plants on a windless winter night. So you can lower your price by washing or charging your car at the right time.

That probably would not work that way in Norway as you have a lot of hydroelectric power which is available much more continuously, as far as I understand.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Are there really people in the US driving from house to house reading the meters? In Germany you just get a letter (or an email nowadays) asking you to read the meter and tell them. Unless the values you're providing are obviously wrong, noone questions you.

If you lie there you'll be found out when you move out of your apparent or when the meter is changed after 20 or 30 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No problem, we don't kinkshame here.

masochists welcome

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It was xz, a software most people probably use without even knowing it as it is a library which is included in a lot of other projects. The vulnerability targeted openssh which is one of these users.

That being said: Do you also audit the dependencies of the software you're installing? I usually don't, unless a customer pays me for it. However, before I pull any dependency into one of my own projects I take a look at it's dependencies. If a library for a simple task brings tons of dependencies with it, I rather not use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They were still good windowses for their time, especially when you compare them to DOS and Mac OS 9 which would have been the alternatives. For a fair comparison with professional OSes with full memory protection like UNIX you'd have to look at Windows NT, but there the preimise is true as well (as far as I can tell by googling, I only ever used 2000 Pro): 3.1 was bad, 3.5(1) good, 4.0 bad, 2000 good, 2003 meh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It was a known rule that every second version of Windows was good. 95 was good, 98SE was good, XP was good, 7 was good, but sadly they never released Windows 9, so we're still waiting for the good version to come after 8.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How, do you believe, babies are made in the first place?

 
 

In einem Land, in dem eine Autobahnauffahrt zu Ehren des Grundgesetzes umbenannt wird, ist ein Klick gegen Verbrennungsmotoren natürlich ein Hassverbrechen.

Bildbeschreibung: Screenshot von tagesschau.de, ein Bild von einer Autobahnauffahrt. Darunter der Text «Die Anschlussstelle Bonn-Bad Godesberg der Autobahn 562 wurde anlässlich des Jubiläums in "Platz des Grundgesetzes" umbenannt. Besonderes Merkmal sind die 200 Fahnenmasten, die zur Zeit mit Fahnen zum Thema 75 Jahre Grundgesetz beflaggt sind.»

 

Viele Grüße aus den Niederlanden

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