Cooking at home. The wife cooks “everyday” meals because somehow she is much faster than I am, I cook for special occasions (e.g. when we have guests),but she became so good over the years she also does that often.

We rarely (like twice a year) use convenience food due to allergies and quality and most of the time cook “from zero”, so that’s a bit more time consuming but still manageable.

Mealie or Tandoor help a lot here, as you can better plan your cooking and build a menu for the week. (E.g. “If I do this on Monday, I have ingredients B and broth left over/can easily do more so I will do something with B on Tuesday and Soup on Wednesday. Oh, when I do noodles for soup I can also do a bit more and make pasta for Thursday”) Additionally it makes it easier to adapt new recipes - we do various European dishes,from Portugal to Romania, some African and Arabian ones, some Indian, some South-East Asian ones and some Japanese and a lot of Korean ones. (We both lived abroad for a long time when we were younger). Especially for these rather “unusual” dishes planning is required as we sometimes need to order things online. (As getting some things is hard in rural central Europe). Grocy helps with that.

Delivery or Take Away is a rare choice,not only because it’s often inferior quality, it’s also fucking expensive. I can literally cook for a workweek for the money greek takeaway costs here. While we would have the financial means it’s simply, well, wasteful. In all aspects.

Eating out is something we rarely do. We both do have probably four times the “eating out” occasions due to our jobs than private ones. But when we do it, we plan it very carefully. It can be everything from a “hole-in-the-wall” in a sketchy backyard to a Michelin three star restaurant,but when we do it, it’s never out of “we are hungry, let’s go” and more a “we are interested in this and this, let’s find a restaurant that serves this.”(E.g. the last time we went out it was a Persian/Iranian restaurant that various Persian/Iranian friends recommended. It was absolutely worth it)

The funny side effect? The kiddo(s) have been to three Michelin star restaurants before they were three. They know how to behave in a restaurant. They only sometimes used to get angry when someone handed them the kids menu. K1 cooks African, Georgian, Romanian, etc. dishes on the same level as my wife and went to shop alone at the African store in town when they cooked for us. Which is run by a few very scary looking (but in reality very nice and very correct - they saved two girls from sexual assault a few years ago) Nigerian dudes that half the town js scared off. They drag their grandparents - which on one side were born behind the iron curtain and rarely eat out- into hole-in-the-wall backalley restaurants in Berlin, etc. This is one of the achievements I am really proud of.

People: Learn to cook. Seriously.

Wait until they hear about nuclear powerplants and similar things still working on PDP-11s.

I have a client who has a very very specialised radiation therapy device that works with a very antique iteration of Unix. Its software has been reviewed thousands of times over the years and so has the operating system. They have plenty of spare parts and both the software and OS have been custom updated to work with 32-bit hardware over a decade ago as a precaution,but no hardware replacement has been needed so far - probably due to the relatively good protection from background radiation and very well done temperature management.

Should they upgrade to a modern OS just for the sake of being “up to date”? Fuck no.

That would mean:

• Getting a new OS that is providing either drivers for the old hardware or getting new hardware. (Replacement costs for new hardware is around 20 million euro +X)

• Additionally it would mean the new hardware or the new OS will be regulated under the new MDR regulation of the EU, so you can easily add another 20 Million (at least) just for that.

• Additionally they would have to redo the complete radiation safety certification to prove that the OS does not accidentally fuck with the therapy. (See Therac-25 for that)

• And the benefit. Minimal. The system is not connected to any network. While in theory an updated hardware could provide some minor advantages, e.g. using the patients data from the hospital information system or storing treatment data in there directly (it’s currently being done with a printer emulator), the therapy planning itself would not change as the very special circumstances this device is used for has only a limited range of treatment options.

So. Is it bad that this is not updated? Fuck no.

Because at the moment we don’t have a “hostile” job market yet - as written in the article, the market is only rapidly cooling down. As the market before was massively undersaturated it just means that people currently have less choices - but they still have their share of opportunities. But tbh, pure anecdotal, it pretty much reflects what I hear from graduates atm. The market for newly graduated has cooled down definitely, unless they have a ITsec background or have a fair share of experience already.

Nope,same story here,just not as extreme: https://www.heise.de/news/Wirtschaftsinstitut-IT-Fachkraefte-sind-in-Deutschland-deutlich-weniger-gefragt-10544518.html

I just leave that here:

https://youtu.be/8EmRCJET5T4

Yeah, to be honest, WG out of the box is really nice for tunneling and static IP road warriors. For larger deployments it’s a bit of a PIA without DHCP.

Sadly.

But things like Netbird make it a bit easier.

To be honest as someone who works alongside these people occasionally: That’s a rather small security detail and I know of people with far far less money that have bigger security details.

20 people is not even a close protection detail, a chase car and an advance party plus medics, even less so if you consider that some people will be off duty, etc.

Well, the obvious choice, Terry A. Davis, isn’t with us anymore.

Fair enough!

For the Mozilla users: There is a shitton of Tampermonkey (an extension) scripts that automatically redirect you to old.reddit.com.

You didn’t get my point: On Open Source people know. People know that Xorg is using arcane concepts and as a client you can pay someone to get through the code. Or a governmental institution can. (And yes, mine does with public reports)

This is not the case with closed sources. You will only know when someone has exploited it. And while closed source applications like Windows,Office,etc. are having enough public weight that a lot of people with good intentions see them as a “challenge” and test for exploits. This is already not the case for smaller,but often critical applications. And no,most commercial closed source applications don’t give a fuck about security - even in critical infrastructure. I worked as a PM for these applications in the past and my company now consults for critical infrastructure. The status of security in niche applications is abhorrent. The longest running major exploit I stumbled upon was 22 years old. And left around 65% of all water treatment plants of a smaller nation at risk. (It’s fixed now. Not because they wanted to, but because someone forced them to)

From what I understand,yes, but she said “they showed us a guy they beat to pulp, he said he is sorry. But the guy wore a ski mask when he robbed my aunt. How should we know if it was him or if that was just some homeless person?”

I know someone whose family founded a small retail chain (with like 5 shops or something, each operated by another relative) in an east European country shortly after the fall of the iron wall that is, well, pretty much associated with mafia-like structures.

According to her after the initial mayhem they did have a group establish themselves that was more “mafia” like. Think black suits,old Mercedes Benz cars,etc. They actually had a “emergency number” they were supposed to call and where someone picked up 24/7. And according to her someone actually came - unlike the police back then (who also wanted money). They responded fairly fast - and to them it seemed like they actually at least tried to find perpetrators. But they were never quite sure if some of the people who robbed them were actually sent by these groups themselves to prove how much the shops needed protection. Over the times things got more extreme and the “group” only wanted money to protect people from themselves - possibly because drugs got involved and the “thugs” got younger. But at least then the police stepped up their game and did more.

One thing people tend to overlook is: Development costs money. Fixing bugs and exploits costs money.

In a closed source application none will see that your software is still working with arcane concepts that weren’t even state-of-the-art when written 25 years ago. The bug that could easily be used as an exploit? Sure, the developer responsible for it did inform his manager around 50 times he needs time and someone from the database team to fix it. And got turned down 50 times as it costs time and “we have to keep deadlines! And none noticed this bug so far,so why should now notice now?”

Just saw that my way of doing this isn’t actually needed anymore, there is an integration now:

https://github.com/Amateur-God/home-assistant-technitiumdns

I absolutely second Technitium as well. That thing is rock solid, can be used for basically everything, has blocking with a multitude of options and does provide a nice graphical GUI.

I have it running in a dual DNS setup (main server+a Zimablade nowadays) and that shit just works - it’s the container that has caused the least amount of problems in the last 3 years.

The API is fairly handy and quite easy - I have it integrated into HomeAssistant so I have a “Disable DNS Blocking” button in my “Network control” tab in the app.

The only downside is the fact that initially it can be quite overwhelming, especially if you are not an DNS guru and just did the step from AdGuard/PiHole - but soon you realise that you actually only need a few fields for basic operations.

Yeah. For an “eingetragener Verein”. For a Vereinsgründung of a non registered association two members are enough. So if you want to be a Klugscheißerle, read your BGB first. Micdrop

To give a more serious answer:

• Germans are a bit more privacy focused than most other nations (if you want to know how much read up on the google street view controversy). Germans tend to be much more aware how Meta/Google,etc. abuse their data (and while the average German won’t care there are enough of them that you actually note it)

• There is a very strong “antiITestablishment” subculture that is very active since the 80ies. The Chaos Computer Club and its congresses,etc. but also the recent trend toward digital sovereignty has increased the amount of people who see Reddit and (to a much much larger extent) Twitter in a critical light - and due to the close links of Mastodon to Lemmy that helps both.

• German speaking people, especially in the,on Lemmy, overrepresented Tech field tend to understand English fairly well (but underestimate their ability to speak it themselves often). That enables them to consume English speaking content as well, not forcing them into other media formats that do cater more for smaller languages.

• And let’s face it: There are a freaking lot of German speaking people. Around 100 Million people speak German in Europe - and while that of course is nothing compared to other India or China it’s the largest non-english language block in Europe. That gives one a large enough “crowd” to actually find an audience for a sub - while it’s rather hard to get enough people for an Italian speaking niche sub it’s far easier to do so if it’s German speaking.

• There are also some cultural issues at play - to quote an old German saying that says: “Three Germans meet - they found an association (Verein)”. Germans tend to self-organise extremely proactively. Which is often tiresome, believe me. Additionally some Germans tend to find the Americocentrism on Reddit, but also to a lesser degree, on Lemmy, boring and at times nerve wrecking.

• There is a big IT industry that is focused on mid size companies - some with a strong open source mindset.

• Lastly the German main instance, Fediverse.org is operated by a pretty robust foundation who knows what it is doing. Which of course keeps the community more stable and hosts a lot of European (non German) subs as well.

Source: Am German, lived abroad for quite some time.

Yes, I am fully aware this question wasn’t totally serious.

No, contrary to common believe we don’t have to go to the basement to laugh. Germans go to the basement for sauerkraut and to watch German dungeon porn, Swiss to clean their bunkers and Austrians,well, I’d rather not talk about that.

Und nun iss dein Schnitzel sonst gibt es keinen Nachtisch!