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Couple of things: * Crawl apartment listings and get notified a lot faster than the official notification channels take. * Monitor the inventory/promotions of some vendors, e.g. fo…

Someone is building an FOSS, selfhosted Roam-Clone here: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

Purely anecdotal, but a lot of people also invested in hair cutting machines and realized that doing their hair themselves isn't too difficult, especially when buzzing the hair qui…

You're forgetting that there are some businesses that have a special strategic importance for a country, for example airlines or defence-related stuff. The rules of capitalism don'…

That sounds pretty standard for jobs in Germany, though. I get 30 days of vacation a year (!= sick days) that I'm required to take, otherwise my boss sends me angry mails.

I once interviewed at a major German elevator manufacturer in the department that works on those traffic algorithms and from what I can tell, it is quite a complex problem for larg…

Check out uberspace.de. They are great and use qmail.

How do you run huginn? I've been thinking about setting it up on a raspberry pi 4 but I'm not sure whether that's a good fit performance-wise.

Maybe also checkout beancount. It's a more opinionated and slightly simpler (h)ledger alternative, but it features an excellent web interface called fava.

My girlfriend is currently struggling with some courses that require a basic understanding of how to write code. It's not so much that she can't learn the syntax of whatever langua…

> EU means the 28 EU countries [...] as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. It's in the next paragraph.