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Comment · 1 year ago

No more dependency problems with mkdocs I ran into before every other month:

  uvx --with mkdocs-material --with mkdocs-material-extensions --with mkdocs-nav-weight mkdocs serve -a localhost:1337

Funnily enough it also feels like it is starting faster.

Comment · 1 year ago

Came here to give a big THANK YOU to everyone making this project possible.

I am using Pi-Hole for about 8 years and can't imagine a world without it.

Another big THANK YOU to all list maintainers out there. You're doing an incredibly useful service to the community.

Comment · 3 years ago

Since there are no tics on x-axis, it is not wrong. But I see your point.

Comment · 3 years ago

Interestingly today there was the PFAS pollution project [0] present in nationwide news [1] in Germany trying to give an extensive map of polluted spots. Many municipalities, and thus also the population, are unaware of the extent of pollution and its consequences.

[0] https://pfasproject.com/

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/pfas-chemikal...

Comment · 4 years ago

> Germany is specially interesting. They have on the forefront of green revolution. I can't even remember the amount of think pieces hailing Germany as this amazing government lead push to green energy. Germany was held up as the global model over and over. The amount of times I have heard talk about German investment in solar is almost mind-blowing.

Unfortunately the last two cabinets (8 years) did a poor job in continuing a most promising change to more renewable energies. The business lobbying that took place at that time is unbearable.

This graphic[1] (in german, but you get the idea) shows the expansion figures for renewable energies and it is clearly visible how photovoltaics in particular have been severely limited since 2013. Absurd rules were created, for example a levy for privately generated photovoltaic electricity. Or artificially created requirements to keep plant sizes small.

After laws were changed in favour of large investors, fossil energy companies now adorn themselves with large projects, although a large part of the expansion is still done by private individuals.

After an entire industry has been destroyed, there are now complaints that there is a lack of skilled workers and that the number of new installations cannot be increased quickly enough. It all makes me want to puke. We could be somewhere completely different today, but greed and lust for power prevent us from doing anything good for the general public.

[1]: https://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/EE/Redaktion/DE/Bilder/G...

Comment · 4 years ago

This! The most valuable information is collected via classic communication! We include basic opt-in tracking (selectable in our installer) to get information about basic usage untangled to certain users. While this is just a statistical overview, it shows to us which parts of our software get used only for the customers who activated this kind of tracking.

The most valuable information we get is through our forum which is open to everyone regardless of whether tracking is activated or not.

Comment · 5 years ago

In Germany the term corruption is not used by the media, it is "scandals" or "lobbying", although it is often crystal clear corruption. Don't forget the latest mask scandal.[1] And this is pursued only because the pressure of the public is so great, because it is incomprehensible that the authorities stuff their pockets while the majority abides by rules. There is no real punishment. In my opinion there is a lot of corruption in Germany disguised as lobbyism. There are superb initiatives like LobbyControl[2] who want to put stricter laws in place to publicize lobbying.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/german-politician-resigns-part...

[2]: https://www.lobbycontrol.de/

EDIT: Added lobbycontrol paragraph

Comment · 5 years ago

In Germany the official application to submit your taxes as a private person to the state has been a windows application for years. Using the app was a 1:1 copy of the official paper forms. Disregarding the complexity of the german tax law, you had a reference to the papers. So it was kind of easy to use the digital counterpart one was accustomed to.

It was disimproved by hauling it into a web app, which breaks with all the usual connections you built with the paper equivalent and is the most UX unfriendly monstrosity one could create. From this year on you HAVE TO USE IT. I deeply disrespect this regression, which forces many people into paying a tax office for their private tax submission.

I wish for a swedish/norwegian system, where the state courts you for YOUR money. I don't know a single person in Germany which states: "I love doing my tax submissions!"

EDIT: Typos plus last paragraph

Comment · 6 years ago

Huge shoutout to all developers of i3, I absolutely love it! Since I started using it, the connection to my machine improved vastly. The precious pixel space of my X230 finally felt utilised fully!

I never had any issues with i3. Cannot recommend it enough!

Comment · 10 years ago

My mistake, they only share some syntax.

Comment · 10 years ago

The possibility of making later (small) adjustments in the tex-file is one huge advantage.

Comment · 10 years ago

Me too. When you start handling huge amounts of data, Gnuplot starts to warm up where other tools break. It is fast as hell.

Comment · 10 years ago

Matlab uses Gnuplot.