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One of the first things I learned during my electronics apprenticeship was that changes in a value are much more intuitive to read with an analog pointer (or a digital replication …

The colors in my pics are a bit more intense than they were to the eyes, but not by that much. They were all clearly visible, including all the structures, glowing. It is pretty da…

Mid-west, in an area called Hunsrück.

Here are some phone pics from my home village in Germany: https://www.nowhereinparticular.xyz/polarlichter.html This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. My brother, who is a hobby…

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A lot of people around me in Germany from all ages and bubbles use this feature in WhatsApp as if it were some kind of Instagram. I see multiple status updates every day.

I just found out that if you block all cookies for google.com in your browser, they will never ask you for your consent. Very helpful if you clear your cookies regularly. You can a…

I recently started my journey with "Crash Course Philosophy" [0] by PBS. They give you a very accessible, high level overview on many topics with practical examples and thought exp…

Those formats exists. For example, I am subscribed to Krautreporter [1] from Germany. They started with a Kickstarter campaign in 2014 and are now organized as a "Genossenschaft" a…

https://daily.jstor.org JSTOR Daily is an online publication that contextualizes current events with scholarship. Drawing on the richness of JSTOR’s digital library of more than 2,…

Sync works fine, at least for bookmarks and history, but I cannot choose what to sync, the check boxes are greyed out: https://i.imgur.com/atDU75z.png

I've been using https://tt-rss.org/ for many years now. I'm hosting the backend on a small VPS just for myself. The web client and the Android app are great and the whole stack is …

Oh, good to know! I'll keep that in mind and keep a bookmark of your book and your implementation. Actually, I wanted to start writing an OS by following the BrokenThorn tutorial a…

This is what I'm planning to read as soon as I've learned assembly: http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html

How reliable is Signal these days? I basically moved all my friends to Text Secure shortly after WhatsApp had been acquired by FB , but after some time we got constant problems of …