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Could you please elaborate on how freelance software development is being outlawed in Germany?

This photo gallery also provides very nice pictures around Germany and the Alps: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/2025/11/12/0330

https://archive.ph/Js7cD

I understand that .home.arpa is the standard TLD for home networks as per RFC-8375

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8375

The ticket is actually offered by multiple transport companies and organisations which have different forms of payment, but the coverage is the same. Some of them accept VISA also, for example the MVV (Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund).

These are the fields on the certificate that's being presented to me:

emailAddress = root@dns-redirect001.axc.nl, CN = dns-redirect001.axc.nl, OU = SomeOrganizationalUnit, O = SomeOrganization, L = SomeCity, ST = SomeState, C = --

A self-signed certificate that expired on 6/11/19, 4:35:46 PM GMT+2

It's probably been taken down.

I'm using GSConnect on Ubuntu. I have first disabled "Clipboard Sync" to avoid it transferring every clipboard content. Secondly, there are a number of actions for which keyboard shortcuts can be defined for a device [1]. One of them is Clipboard Push. I assigned Shift+Ctrl+Alt+V to that, so whenever I execute that contrived key combination, the clipboard is synced to my mobile. I suppose the Plasma implementation has a similar feature.

[1] https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect...

I was also concerned about having all my clipboard text copied to my mobile, but you can define a keyboard shortcut to do that only deliberately

Thank you for sharing that essay. I found it fascinating.

The google-style interviews are certainly filtering for something though. An unfounded theory of mine is that the unfortunate eagerness of Google to sunset their products [1] might be a side effect of hiring for people that rather want to solve exciting coding problems and furthering their career by using X new language/framework, than maintaining legacy systems and keeping backwards compatibility, which might not sound so exciting.

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

This reminds me of the story about a mysterious outbreak in Mozambique https://www.damninteresting.com/the-curse-of-konzo/, which without giving too much away bears some similarity. It's a pretty good read for a Sunday.

It reminded me of the "Lowered Expectations" skits of MADTv with awkward VHS dating recordings. Pretty funny. I usually think of the intro melody when my expectations have been lowered for any reason

Same here! Really happy with the setup. Got an Odroid HC2 doing daily backups to Backblaze B2. The thing doesn't even sweat scanning around 1TB of data. I find the automated pruning of old snapshots also pretty sleek: restic forget --keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly 5 --keep-monthly 12 --keep-yearly 75

This is the description found on their "About Us" in English [1]:

Stiftung Warentest is a foundation. It was established in 1964 by the German federal parliament with the aim of helping consumers by providing impartial and objective information based on the results of comparative investigations of goods and services.

    We buy products – anonymously from retailers, and make covert use of services.
    We carry out tests – in independent labs that use scientific methods and follow our specifications.
    We give verdicts – ranging from „very good“ to „unsatisfactory“, based solely on objective results.
    We publish our findings – totally free of adverts in our magazines „test“ and „Finanztest“, and online at www.test.de.

[1] https://www.test.de/unternehmen/about-us-5017053-0/

[2] https://www.test.de/unternehmen/zahlen-5017275-0/

As far as I know, businesses have no right in Germany to remove lawful reviews, even if they are negative [1] and I can confirm to see occasional bad reviews on their articles. In any case I'm rather interested in finding trustful positive reviews to guide my purchases and I value having a neutral agency that offers that.

[1] https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/negative-bewertungen-im-in... (German)

In Germany there's Stiftung Warentest [1] which offers reviews without the apparent conflict of interest. They release paid articles with review and comparison all kinds of items. I find their offering a breeze of fresh air compared to the dumpster fire that online reviews have become.

[1] https://www.test.de/unternehmen/ (German)

If you're interested in AWS, you can have a look at their Reference Architectures [1] where you can find many example for different use cases. For most AWS products there are also non-provider specific solutions [2]. I would try to be aware of that too.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/reference-architectures/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23314973

How do you come to 120k as break even point? I'm quite curious as which factors you have considered to get to that number.

newpie is excellent, I switched last year and never looked back. It offers exactly the features, that I as a user want. It made me realize afterwards in how many ways the official app is lacking.

Here's a link to the text only version: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=611609366