I just now heard about comaps and read about their origin on the website. Does it have the contributors behind them to supersede Organic Maps? What is happening to Organic Maps? I am at the moment donating to them.

I use Proton Authenticator on an iPhone without an account and I am satisfied

Yes

I am very happy with Navidrome for over a year now. It also reminds me how I listened to whole albums when I was a teenager, what I now started doing again.

Giving money to open source projects on which you rely on for your business is good practice. While I’ve just now heard about DHH and his political views, I think it is important that the overall mission is to make Linux (and open source software) a mainstream alternative to proprietary solutions. As long as this is not hurting the mission I am personally fine with some unusual partnerships. The alternative is a world where Windows and macOS rule the world.

Additionally open source has always been about stepping up, so contributing or throwing money the other way are always an option. I personally donate to many projects I use. I mostly feel that my political views align with them.

I own a Framework laptop and had a dead pixel. I replaced it (within warranty) in about 15min. I could as well buy a new higher resolution display for that same laptop if I wanted to. This is new and is an improvement over my Thinkpad, where I could “only” upgrade/replace RAM, SSD and the battery.

Initially I used systemd to manage my services on my Raspberry Pi 5 (keep it simple), but I moved quickly to Docker and Docker compose (which I already was comfortable with) and it is so much better.

Why not?

We did that for a Plotly dashboard in Python. We copied the database into a read-only in-memory sqlite database (it is quite small, only a couple thousand entries) to prevent any damages outside the dashboard. The data only gets updated every couple of days. You could skip this step. Then with sqlite you can restrict what action a query can use (SELECT, JSON, etc.) and you can restrict the instructions per query to prevent denial of service. It works like a charm and is much simpler than providing a REST API. Also the user might already know SQL.

I am actually planning something similar for a task management web app I am building at the moment (additionally to providing a REST API). No need to learn another query language like in Jira.

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The only viable solutions are e-fuels, which produce fuel from electricity, water and CO2. However these are usually used as distraction, because they cannot be produced at a relevant scale for a reasonable price. The hope is to just burn fossil fuels as long as possible by providing an alternative that will soon solve all the problems. Currently there are only a couple pilot plants working. The price is around 6€ to 8€ per liter and is not expected to go down significantly.

For other industries such as steel (in the form of green hydrogen) or aviation these e-fuels are the only option to decarbonize. They will pay whatever they need. Better not compete with them for this scarce resource.

Combustion engines are not getting banned. Burning fossil fuels is. That is big difference.

Thank you! Have to try that with mine 😊

TIL that you can replace the pads. My AKG headphones pads are worn out and I thought I must buy new ones. Where is the best place to do it?

This is most likely very inaccurate following what the law says. In Germany a full-time employee has the right to (must take) 20 days paid leave, however many people have 30 with just very few having the minimum of 20 (I don’t know anyone in in their 30s have this few). It is mostly for student workers or other in between jobs. The statistic instead should be based on average paid-leave taken.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

Thank you!

It would be interesting which city and which bus brand 🙂

Important to know when talking about relative growth:

This brought the market share of Chinese brands in Europe to a new high of 5.1 percent

Some examples

• You need to pay a lot of lawyers on both sides
• You can get fired for not having kids, being young or not married
• People who are bad at their job are hard to lay off (this can include well payed managers)
• Companies find other creative ways to lay you off (if you charge your phone at work, you are stealing electricity)

Come to Germany and see for yourself :)

That‘s how it is in Germany. You can only get laid off without a negotiated severance package, when the employer is in financial trouble. Even then you need start laying people off the employer needs to do it according to the social contract (e.g. single mothers last). Both is really hard to proof (in court) so usually everyone gets a severance package anyway. This means when you hear about big layoffs in Germany usually all of them get a severance package or agree to something else. These layoffs are not comparable to the USA. This is the shortened and positive descriptions of the process, but of course there are also (justifiable) downsides of doing it this way.