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letztes Jahrdiscuss

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 4.5 years. "running" was not the right word for it, obviously.

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letztes Jahrdiscuss

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 from /etc/apt/sources.list
  Types: deb deb-src
  URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
  Suites: unstable
  Components: main non-free contrib
  Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

  # Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
  Types: deb
  URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
  Suites: testing
  Components: main non-free non-free-firmware contrib
  Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

You may also want `apt-listbugs` package to see the serious bugs before running upgrade.

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letztes Jahrdiscuss

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/DebianTesting

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

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%(upper limit somewhere around 1000) of the income as health insurance contribution.

I think it is costly. It is difficult to digest for me that the health insurance costs more than housing.

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

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

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

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

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

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 back in India and had some temporary work here in Germany, when peak COVID happened, when pharma companies were hiring a lot.

She already has a master's degree from India and she has been undergoing further trainings supported by Job center, and still no luck.

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

"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 almost have no location restrictions.

If there is no demand, how could she see the job advertisements and apply for them?

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

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 than a year and half since she started actively applying. At times she ticks all the requirements in the job description, and still no luck.

She is planning to go to a bakery starting next week. The guy at the bakery was so surprised to see someone with master's degree in engineering ready to work at a bakery. So the perception and reality is different.

Unless you are in IT/software development, it is hard to get a job. Traditional engineering disciplines are hard to break into.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

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.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

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

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

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 the fake news machinery Government and the ruling party is notorious for.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/india/alt-news-pratik-sinha-mohamma...

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

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 probable(Germany has pay by invoice), would also be constitutional or not?

Or credit score/risk rating using ML, trained on a feature extracted from parameters like Zip code, ethnicity could also classified as automated data analysis for prevention of criminal acts, right?

Or this is only applicable to police?

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

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 header that would help them with this.

https://imgur.com/fMZwxYz

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

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 motive there. But if you live in the EU, you probably have seen it already.

It is so worse that chrome has an add-on that has 800k downloads.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-...

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

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 studies done so far to assess the positive impact it brought.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/10/most-eu-cookie-consent-not...

I think the USB-C mandate also going to result in a similar implementation by companies.

Apple already setting the trend by going to have only wireless charging for phones.

https://youtu.be/jO83ARJiOfQ

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

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.

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

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...

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

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 the case.

Found another study confirming the same.

https://uni.hi.is/helmut/2021/06/07/power-consumption-of-ras...

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

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

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