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I am affacted by this as well: the rear knuckle uniball bearing was broken after 3 years (Achsschenkel). Many MY here in Europe have this issue, due to bad parts or too hard suspen…

I like Thunderbird, it’s a great tool for private use. One killer feature I always missed (not sure if it exists today by default in Thunderbird), is the great calendar integration…

I can recommend watching the excellent movie War Games, quite entertaining and still relevant. NORAD plays an important role in it.

I work on business software. I think one very important aspect is requirements collection and definition. This includes communicating with the business users, trying to understand …

This is what the DOGE guys don’t understand: even if it seems you can easily replace something, you will find out that the devil is in the detail.

This is a map of the affected area in Germany. It seems to miss Berlin, but many large cities in the Ruhr valley are affected. https://www.bbk.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Krise…

I am using X1s since 10 years, different generations. The only one I really disliked was the one with the F1-F12 function keys were no real buttons, more like a touchbar. That was …

Seems so, the official owners manual foresees some maintenance, but there is no regular service schedule. https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-E95DAAD... Edit: inte…

Similar issue, different solution: https://airlive.net/news/2023/09/05/delta-flight-dl194-retur...

Why didn’t you just ask the kid what it is doing and where it is living?

My Ampler electric bicycle: https://amplerbikes.com/ It’s such a great vehicle, I smile every time I can ride it. It also helped me to use the car less. Im also pretty happy with m…

I love VBA, it’s so easy and powerful. My first job was being a developer/consultant at a big 4 firm, developing a disclosure management software with VB6. It even had a ORM to map…

One of the reasons might be, that the SEC mandated all filers to submit the reports in XBRL Format starting in 2009 (foreign private issuers using IFRS followed 2017). It’s called …

How bad must their IT system be, when they are not even able to write and publish articles?

I don’t agree. Never touch a running system! I think you have no idea in how many software implementations XML plays an important role. Just because it’s not hot and fancy it does …

Is it an attack vector? Can you elaborate further?

I’m wondering which security risks they mean. I don’t see any security risk in XML itself, maybe it’s related to some XPath or XQuery functions?

The European Securities and Exchange Commission (ESMA) has just now mandated all listed companies in the EU to publish their annual financial statements in XHTML instead of PDF or …