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Despite being a German signal, DCF77 can be received all over Europe, except the northernmost parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland and for some reason, Crete. There's a map here: ht…

Isn't that what (liability) insurance is for? (if there's anything Germans like as much as bureaucracy it's insurance)

Propanorofl

Every kWh your panels make from sunlight that you use immediately (or store "behind the meter"), you don't have to buy from the grid. And not buying something tends to be cheaper t…

Seconds per token is just fractional tokens per second ;)

Traceroute goes through `.ftth.glasoperator.nl` routers though.

Is it fully custom, or are they using a flavor of OpenStack or similar?

240 = 2 x 120, or 4 x 60 (or 8 x 30)

Wouldn't that leave ways to do "phone phreaking" style attacks, because it's an in-band signal?

I've seen people brag about it in their resumes, so I assume it helps them find (better paying?) work.

This kind of id mapping works as a mount option (it can also be used on bind mounts). You give it a mapping of "id in filesystem on disk" to "id to return to filesystem APIs" and i…

It's called us-east-1?

Llamas are hot again.

printf("Got here, x=%u"\n", x);

> the trains fail with current amount of public funding, I wonder if less funding will improve the situation" is not good logic Tell that to the current government (and most of the…

Minecraft ships it I think?

Tell that to the right-wing nutjobs who all want their " XIT"

Familiarity, convenience and habit. Familiarity: "I've used MS Word/Excel/Teams before so I can use it here" Convenience: "We have MS Entra, might as well go all-in" Habit: "We nev…

IBM PS2?

To the end user, this looks exactly the same as "updating". If replacing a "regular" program that's just an executable and then restarting it is "updating", why isn't it the same f…

In the Netherlands, bike lights _must not_ flash. The law very explicitly states that they need to be "always on" (in the dark). The main reason seems to be that it's hard for othe…

This probably explains why paying for street parking in Cologne by phone/web didn't work (eternal spinner) then

Motherboard audio started to become more common with the AC'97 spec/standard. So that makes sense.

This is getting a lot better with Flatpaks and Wayland (and its "portal" system to access resources).