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Should be, but I'm not so sure about Outlook, which is usually involved in all such reply-all-storms. Replies and threads in Outlook are very weird.

A pedestrian with headphones needs to ensure that he can hear any relevant traffic noise, e.g. my bell or an approaching car. Noise-blocking headphones or loud music impeding the h…

Leaving your computer unlocked usually also breaks policy (except if the policy is very much useless). The non-embarassing way would be to report the user leaving the computer unlo…

in postfix.conf, set header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/header_checks and in /etc/postfix/header_checks add: /In-Reply-To:.*msgid-2948573294867@example.com/ REJECT reply-storm Howev…

Yes, but the parent post specifically referred to Germany. And due to taxes, renewable subsidies in the range of 3 to 10ct/kWh (which every household pays (but not all industries))…

Quite impossible, except if you run a steel mill or something. End-user prices for electricity have been >0.20Eur/kWh for around 10 years now, currently approaching >0.40Eur/kWh (s…

There are easy, non-offensive, non-interrupting methods of communicating while another person is talking. Signal yes/no, dissent, agreement? Thumbs up or down, Nod or shake head. A…

The translation is accurate. "Bei Level-2-Fahrzeugen bleibt die Fahrerin oder der Fahrer grundsätzlich immer in der Verantwortung." can be translated this way. The only nit I would…

If you read carefully, they are talking about the difference in responsiblity between level 2 and level 3 autonomous driving, with the explicit remark that the driver is fully resp…

> a hash of an ip address could still be 'personal data' under the eyes of gdpr. We did something similar for a project, which got approved by the relevant data protection officer:…

As a user, I've yet to see the user-facing benefits of analytics. I suspect there might be some which I don't know about. But mostly what I see is "we cancelled feature X you care …

I guess the stigma is too established to get rid of. Maybe you can sway some users by transparency, i.e. a very thorough but user-friendly explanation about what your software is d…

Analytics is generally (in detail this might or might not apply for this project) seen as an invasion of privacy, wasting bandwidth, increasing load time and lowering performance. …

RedHat licenses are just too expensive by sticker price. Beancounters haunt us for deploying RedHat because "the Windows license for that box would have been cheaper in our licensi…

'sz' for 'ß' is sometimes used to make things roundtrip-proof in capslock, e.g. on military stencils. HTML calls it 'szlig'. Also, some use "Esszet" as the name of the character. B…

That is correct and solves the roundtrip-problem (in this case and language). But uppercase 'ẞ' is just an additional option at the discretion of the writer, the recommended varian…

Forget towns. Talk about the fucking name of the country. Actually, the name is "Deutschland" (if you leave out the political decorations declaring it a federal republic). One shou…

Vereinigtes Königreich von Grossbritannien und Nordirland bitte. Also, even more weirdness about the channel islands and the "British" overseas territories (which are isles, but no…

.ToUpper() is locale-dependent, so can only be used if the locale of the text in question is known. E.g. German ß capitalizes to SS, and .ToUpper().ToLower() should give you either…

I do think computers are a huge net positive. And for what we need computers to do, there is a necessary, irreducible complexity involved, so there is a limit to how simple things …

Yes and no. I think at least a part of that problem is that the usual support ticketing process infantilizes users. If you call in and the first question is along the lines of "is …

It isn't FUD if it is still true for a majority of deployments, even new ones. One popular example: EV chargers still rely on easily cloneable Mifare Classic for access and billing…

Around here, I as a support guy could theoretically open a ticket. But I'm shielded by policy, so users cannot call me directly. Instead they will reach a call center (same for ema…

Back in the day, if your pencil was dull, you sharpened it with your own personal workplace sharpener. You could replace your pencil or maybe even typewriter by just going to the s…

Many superconductors are insulators at room temperature. The interesting part here is that it seems to depend on the angle between overlayed graphene sheets.