The amazing thing is that there is often a translation layer involved and it still runs faster. And as it was pointed out, this can also be achieved with a “normal” Linux system.

Yeah…I honestly didn’t look where this was posted. The text alone didn’t quite make the privacy focus obvious.

We use Zoom at work and that is quite good. I used Teams, Jitsi, BigBlueButton and Citrix and so far Zoom has had the least problems (Citrix being a close second place). It also has clients for all major platforms and OS.

Their latest update greatly improved the chat functionality (in my opinion) and it is slowly replacing all other internal communication channels (mail/phone).

Nazi imagery? What? What the hell are you talking about?

The name comes from the French spelling of Ariadne, a Greek mythical character.

“Software, or generally computation, can be categorised as a type of building material rather than a type of product in itself.”

I just don’t get why that would be a novel or helpful way of looking at it. If anything software is the tool you use to create something. Usually software is used to change and manipulate data in some way. So data could be your material (like marbel) and software could be your tool (like hammer and chisel). And heck…software development would be your blacksmith making your hammer and chisel and a compiler could be the blacksmiths furnace. That all makes more sense to me.

But I’m just some random Internet guy. Don’t take it personal. I guess it just ‘clicked’ in your mind and hasn’t in mine (yet).

This…is a weird analogy. A more fitting metaphor would be that software is a tool and data is the material. Depending on what you want to do/build with the material you have, you have to choose the proper tools.

And of course it can also be a product. Because of it is sold, then it is a product. I can go to the hardware store and buy a hammer. It is a tool for me, but a product for the store.

Thanks for the clarification. I would even say that I mostly agree with the sentiment. Immigration has been a pointless discussion for years now and I think no party (except the AFD) actually profited from it. SPD and die Grünen have both failed to disspell the AFD narrative.

Well…I think you lost me. The really sudden loss of your job sucks, no matter what. I agree that a lot of people get laid off every day, but I feel sorry for them too. Employee protections in the US are also terrible compared to a lot of other countries. This situation is different, because it is so random, so far reaching and connected with a lot more insecurity. An ailing company may fire people…that is something you can see coming, but what is happening right now is just senseless and not very smart. A lot of things will break and in the end people will die, many people will leave the country and the economy will tank.

While I can only guess, I think he/she meant that all the stupid things the government has done so far should not have come as a surprise to anyone. They announced most of it and even the things they kept “quiet” were pretty obvious. So government employees could have searched for alternative jobs beforehand and kind of “brace for impact” and unions could have planned a coordinated response to bullshit firings. Lawsuits could have (and actually have) been prepared so that it would not take months to react to all the stupid stuff that’s happening now.

Or maybe I am completely wrong :)

Bold statement. Do you have any examples? I would disagree, but maybe I just don’t quite understand what you meant.

I hate typing on my phone and English is not my first language, so I guess the point I was trying to make didn’t quite make its way through. Sorry.

The more conservative party left the coalition because they value their “sovereignty” and “independence” and thus don’t want to play by the rules of the EU. To me they basically just trade one Dependance for another. They want to still be able to sell their oil to the EU, so they depend on EU’s demand for oil, but they don’t want to give up some freedoms even though that in turn would bolster their independence in the energy sector (even more local renewable electricity production, improved infrastructure that would be less susceptible to failure, and so on).

It just makes no sense to me. The EU directives are actually quite in line (or could easily be spun into line) with the ideals of traditionally conservative parties. Yet everywhere (not just Norway), those parties HATE renewable energy. And I think it is pretty clear that money is the big factor here…

Also…maybe I’m blind, but nowhere in the article it’s mentioned that Norway produces its energy with hydro?

I’m always surprised at what their argument is. “Don’t make us invest in cheap renewable energy that will make us independent from other countries”. Sure, they export quite a bit, but that makes your economy dependant on external demand. In all other areas the right leaning parties want to sever themselves from outside influence, except when it involves money…

But he hates being made fun of. He wants people to be angry with him, because that shows him he has some form of power over them (withholding funding makes “the left” angry -> for him that’s good). And he loves to see himself as smart and strong. But if you ridicule him…that hits him.

If the patients hadn’t been transgender, this would not have been dropped. It is illegal to share that data no matter what…

I would love to join, but the whole registration process fails at every turn. Mails aren’t sent, login pages just do refresh…please…just let me iiiiinn

I think this is true for computers that are in danger of being stolen. Laptops or PCs in dorms or other shared living spaces. But I live in a relatively secure area, burglaries are very rare and my PC never leaves the building. So the benefits of encryption are pretty much negligible.

All of which cost more than a 100000 dollars but were still somehow bought on a whim for that one experiment that one time…

I had no cancer, but know people that did and one thing that came up often is that people tend to distance themselves from them. Not in a mean way, but dealing with special needs is tedious and that is often just a cause to not do certain things. Spending time together (no matter what you end up doing) gives a sense of normalcy and can really push someone to keep fighting. Cancer is a marathon with additional sprints (chemo) on top. Not being alone through all of this is a huge help

They have to list their legal contact. Write them an e-mail there and quote the GDPR. Request a confirmation.

He’s not just being polite but he made the conscious decision that this store is the one he wants to support because they were willing to lose revenue in order to help the customer.