chaoskanzlerin
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Comment · 10 months ago
Archive link (SZ): https://archive.ph/bQ8E4 // Tagesschau link: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/bnd-gesetz-be... // Machine translation: https://www-tagesschau-de.translate.goog/investigativ/ndr-wd...
Comment · 11 months ago
There's a history of German public administrations using Linux and other open-source software. In particular, the City of Munich has pioneered this with their 2006-2019 LiMux [0] project, which was ultimately cancelled in exchange for Microsoft moving their German offices to Munich proper.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux / Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15661372
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd like to caution the reader that Lunduke is a notoriously biased source, having drifted off into right-wing (and particularly anti-trans) activism in recent years.
Comment · 1 year ago
>stellarwind
That sure is a choice of name for your project!
Comment · 1 year ago
I've had the very same experience in Bavaria, even with Munich having a reputation as "million-sized village". (otoh said problem was even worse in Berlin and the Ruhr valley, when I visited)
Comment · 1 year ago
Over 180 million users in fantasy betting. Regular gambling has up to 370 million users during major tournaments. Truly harrowing numbers, considering India has about 1.1 billion adults...
Here in mainland Europe, it's hard to find a street in a city that doesn't have (fantasy) sports gambling establishments. The demographics here are mostly working-class immigrants, some unemployed people too. Pacifying the masses, I suppose.
A few articles for further reading:
https://restofworld.org/2022/fantasy-sports-apps-are-driving... https://www.dw.com/en/india-addicted-to-online-betting-and-f... https://restofworld.org/2024/philippines-gcash-online-gambli...
Comment · 1 year ago
Might not be what you meant, but German uses the same word for "state (federal subdivision)" and "country", known as "Land". In contrast, "Staat" refers chiefly to the administrative apparatus (implicitly of some country).
Comment · 1 year ago
Having had a regular Hibreak since last August, I would like to caution about the build quality: in those 8 months, the display adhesive is progressively getting off and I'm not sure how much longer this'll live...
Comment · 1 year ago
The plane carrying him happens to be on Flightradar24: https://www.flightradar24.com/RPC5219/396fca46
Comment · 1 year ago
Austria does that: 4 seconds of the green light flashing in order to announce the yellow light.
Comment · 1 year ago
a quick internet search reveals this refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising
Comment · 2 years ago
For what it's worth: a friend of mine has extracted the Fuji LUTs from the "official raw converter" and has been using them in darktable happily ever after ;)