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This isn't a project developed for the public sector really. Afaik it's a privately funded, for profit, product that has been licensed by several states in Germany by now. Apart from that the official (indeed publicly funded) Corona-Warn-App did a much better job at this. (They actually did follow all the recent best practices in software-develoment + it's (mostly) run as a free software project, taking community con…
Sounds like a contractor developing something that gets paid with public money.
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Sure. It's made by SAP.
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How would you recommend to indicate sarcasm in the absence of nonverbal cues which a written medium necessarily entails?
My guess would be that they dislike sarcasm in general.
Yeah I just totally hate sarcasm, has nothing to with /s being overused where it's super obvious.
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#164Oh the irony. The LUCA app has been co-initiated and financed by Smudo [0], a famous German rapper. He was a supporter of Metallica suing Napster back in 2000 for copyright violation [1]. [0] https://www.chip.de/news/Kontaktverfolgung-mit-Luca-App-von-... [1] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Smudo-vs-Napster-Da-...
It has been 21 years . Can we let the past go?
> It has been 21 years. Can we let the past go?
Nope.