Björn Tantau

Reminds me of the time a jet’s computer kept crashing on landing approach to the Dead Sea because it’s below sea level and the computer couldn’t handle negative altitudes.

I just ate peas. Take that!

The joke is that the German word for children is Kinder. So if you want to be Kinder to yourself you have to become your own parent.

Funny thing is that KDE actually takes up remarkably little resources. You don’t have to install all the apps that come with it and the memory footprint is surprisingly small.

I use Easy Effects to normalise volume so that I don’t have to adjust the volume so often when watching YouTube videos and stuff. Just google for a preset.

Only downside is you’ll have to make exceptions for real time communication apps like Discord because they crackle. But everything else is perfect without any noticeable lag.

There’s a reason why I post under my real name and never delete anything. Because your scenario has a high probability of really happening one way or another. That way I’m more conscious of the stuff I post.

A woman I know had an anonymous blog where she posted stuff about her kids without mentioning any names or showing any photos in an effort to protect them. My wife, who only knows her from her un-anonymised blog found that other blog and recognised her really quickly.

Become your own grandpa

Works only for Germans.

Long Covid and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis have noticeably lowered my IQ. It’s a terrible feeling to be more stupid and know that I normally could do better.

So give me intelligence every day. Physical attractiveness can only go so far.

I don’t like sand.

Ugh, there are talks of reintroducing mandatory military service in Germany because of Russia (and a little bit for social services as one can do them as an alternative). Although I see that it might be necessary I hope that my kids won’t have to serve.

The USB-C mandate is a direct result of it being actively ignored by Apple. The way to universal chargers, first through micro USB and then USB C was also championed by the EU but only as a loose industry agreement or so. Definitely not enough to reign in Apple which is why it was now made mandatory.

The main motivation was to reduce electronic waste due to every device having a different charger and often not even standardising in the same company.

Germans? Germans talk about the Nazi crimes every other year in history class. They’ll read at least two books in lit handling the Nazis and the fallout. They have holocaust memorials big and small in every city. German government is up Israel’s ass because they’re jews. Every video game that could even have a slight chance of glorifying Nazis is banned. When Coca Cola wanted to bring back Fanta like it was made “in the good old days” they conjured a huge shit storm, had to pull everything and issue an apology. Nazis are still being prosecuted and sentenced today. Every so often a new big book or movie is released to big media fanfare that deals with Nazi history.

Maybe you’re talking about other colonisation efforts and genocides. They are also actively being acknowledged by government and media alike. They do get lost in this little war that completely shaped the whole world for the next 100 and probably more years.

No, I’m Harald Lesch.

I bet at least 50 years after autonomous driving works correctly manual driving will be outlawed and only be done by enthusiasts on dedicated race tracks.

Or maybe not outlawed but most people won’t have a license. Seeing a normal car might be a similar novelty as seeing a horse carriage.

And then you pull out a ruler and measure how far apart the middles of the bubbles are. Look up the frequency of your microwave and then use that to calculate the speed of light with nothing but fucking cheese, a microwave and a ruler.

Probably because LTT isn’t loved very much. They give more pop tech tips than real ones. Maybe except when Emily is in front of the camera. Although she still seems to be pulling some strings in the background.

Cannelloni

They are the absolute worst. Shitty to cook and shitty to eat.

There is no such thing* as a UTF-8 file. It’s just text encoded in some way. It’s only a UTF-8 file if everything is encoded as UTF-8 which it’s evidently not.

You can even tell MySQL to export perfectly valid UTF-8 text encoded as ISO 8859-1 to import into a UTF-8 table without any troubles (maybe apart from stuff that could not be encoded in ISO 8859-1).

*Yes, technically there could be a BOM at the beginning but almost no tool uses that and most get confused by it. And it would still not force any data written to it to be UTF-8.