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stat command gets the detail of when the OS was installed on the machine. uptime doesn't give that. I wanted to say that I have been using the same development machine at work for …

Current work machine. Running fine for 4.5 years. $ stat / | grep "Birth" | sed 's/Birth: //g' | cut -b 2-11 2020-06-20 $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources # Modernized fr…

If you configure apt sources to use testing or unstable upstream of Debian you can get latest kernel. This way, you can also have a rolling distro. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTe…

This is quite possible, right? For eg: if you work for a Swiss or US employer and make more than 69k(?), say 100k, as a freelancer, and have a family, you have to pay around 14%(up…

Thank you for taking the effort, and for the wishes. Hopefully she find something soon.

Bayern. 4 years bachelor's degree in civil engineering, hydro science and engineering Master's.

Well I have acquaintances employed here too. And my wife's case is not a single one. I have a friend who migrated from India and his wife used to work for a pharma/biotech firm bac…

"TU9 German Universities of Technology e. V. is the alliance of nine leading Technical Universities in Germany" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TU9 And I have a remote job and we a…

Can confirm this. My wife has a master's degree in engineering from a TU9(top 9 universities in Germany).And a B2 language certificate. She has not found a job so far. Been more th…

There is https://www.dns0.eu and https://nextdns.io . I like the 300K requests per month free tier that nextdns.io has. Comes with plenty of filters.

You got sources for this claim? If he has done anything wrong, why is he not in jail for that?

Interesting, because Indian Government recently jailed an independent fact checker for a tweet he made 4 years ago. This new body seems to be a tool to suppress dissent and promote…

So how would fraud prevention be interpreted? For eg: denying service from a German retailer depending on the ML prediction result of the transaction being classified as fraud prob…

If I choose their DNS, the website shows a text at the bottom that says "You are using dns0.eu" How does the website know I'm using their DNS? I couldn't find anything in the HTTP …

I can understand if it was a small subset of companies that made it difficult for the user. I can show multiple government websites where the UX is broken. There is no profit motiv…

The websites make it so hard to reject cookies or selectively accept to make the website work for your benefit. Quick google search about the effects of the law shows various studi…

I fail to understand why politicians thought the cookie dialogue was a good idea. Adds almost nothing to benefit user and huge annoyance from the UX perspective.

Fun fact. DHL owns an electric vehicle company, StreetScooter, that produces DHL last kilometer delivery vehicles. https://www.dpdhl.com/en/media-relations/specials/electro-mo...

I was concerned with the power draw. But as per the article, it looks like the difference is negligible. I assumed being ARM, pi was supposed to draw lower power. Looks like not th…

There are privately held companies that has 100B+ revenue per year. Cargill to Ikea

Live in a cold country. Hesitant to touch an aluminium laptop. Static electricity and cold metal.

The problem I have with tools like this is the latency. Even the git helper info packaged with Oh My ZSH is slow. It is useful. But I really don't like waiting for cursor to appear…

I fondly remember the days in 2010 in Zurich, and cablecom had good functional internet, don't remember the speed. Then I moved to Germany in 2013, and it surprised me that I can't…