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I'm Hans-Werner Hilse and live in Göttingen, Germany.

Majored in law studies (yep, that), I am programmer and systems administrator in the IT department of the (rather large) university library, switching over to IT project engineering at the moment.

Hobbyist software and hardware hacker, application developer, Open Source proponent, yaddayadda. Too many projects and programming languages and stuff to remember it all, sorry.

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Comment · 1 month ago
The article seems to confuse the MCU and some sort of undisclosed SBC for the MCU. Well, it’s starting to do this in the headline.
Comment · 4 months ago
I started OpenOven in my free time of which I had a lot when I was still studying law. Ovens were always something I was interested in and I created FunkyPizzaHeater, as it was named when I started it, only to play around with the tech. I published it on the Italian Oven forums and it really hit a nerve, there were immediately 2 people who took the design a bit further. People tried building them and posted photos, there was a lot of discussion and eventually we agreed on a new name and moved the OpenOven project to github. It was still a project for oven enthusiasts who liked lots of buttons, until it was miraculously featured by a slightly weird but lovable YouTuber with 2 million subscribers who suggested OpenOven to anyone to finally get rid of corporate big oven.
Comment · 5 months ago
I would be very surprised if the ebook license they bought does entail using it for training machines. In fact I'm pretty sure it didn't and I thus do not think they did such a thing in the first place as I credit them with enough legal prowess to know about this.
Comment · 11 months ago
it is, but the threshold for mandated debate is high. So high in fact that this doesn't really happen at all. Usually, petitions like this are mostly a PR vehicle. A lot of them is also a bit underspecific in what exactly they are requesting of what political entity.
Comment · 3 years ago
takedown DCMA requests are US law. Very different rules might apply, much more restrictive/punitive in a lot of countries. Also, you mentioning that it is about different countries is also an odd thing: TV services usually have distribution rights for third-party material only for some countries. And last but not least, "TV channels" in a lot of countries will make broadcasting laws apply. You will need to cover for a lot of legal questions. Maybe you do already, but frankly it does not really sound like it from your answer...
Comment · 4 years ago
An MCU is a chip in a package that just cannot interface with anything your consumer PC or notebook comes with. You'll need an adapter in any case.

That said, lots of current MCUs come with UART, I2C and/or USB bootloaders allowing to erase/program (if not disabled). This bootloader is typically included in factory ROM, not to be programmed by you or a third party.

Comment · 4 years ago
That is not true. See https://github.com/littlefs-project/littlefs/blob/master/DES...

Sorry, as a commenter on this pointed out, the comment I was replying to was probably talking about eMMC. For which indeed no wear levelling is specified by the JEDEC standard - it is a standard that defines the communication protocol between a device and a host system. Newer JEDEC standards define the interface to access vendor specific "health reports", the actual method of wear levelling isn't regularly disclosed by vendors.

Comment · 6 years ago
No, it wouldn't. Your examples are mostly hints that it's actually your terminal emulator (which might also serve as your "SSH program" in cases like PuTTY) which might need a slap to behave correctly - and then your TERM environment variable and possibly LANG (UTF-8 support) should be set up correctly. tmux will work then.
Comment · 6 years ago
Here in Germany, the last mentioned tier will also have looked fondly upon getting the money wired in from Ireland and may have lived with the assumption that they don't have to think about taxes at all. At least some of the "owners" of those basic, Ikea-equipped flats did not really strike me as being quite up to it. There has also grown a job market for "room service" agencies, cleaning and equipping AirBnB rental objects for many "owners". I've seen their actual check lists (think restroom cleaning checklist) pinned to the object's door.
Comment · 6 years ago
On the grounds of article 7, referencing article 2, of the Treaty on European Union (this is basically the constitution of the EU).
Comment · 6 years ago
For me it's just easier to get my head around having a new network interface presented rather than this pile of security associations and transform configurations. I can just re-use my firewalling and routing knowledge and do not have to put my mind into IPsec mode to manage this. That aside, I think it's still quite a lot easier to use IPsec tooling when you want something that plays along with certificate based multi-level trust models.
Comment · 6 years ago
Can you please elaborate? As far as I see it, IPsec is encrypting traffic. IKE is for setup of security associations. What part of IPsec would do routing, and in this case: potentially multi-hop mesh routing?
Comment · 6 years ago
Actually they are writing them during that time and use their staff (paid by public money), too. Whether it's copywriting, news checking for the next edition or, in fact, writing passages.
Comment · 7 years ago
Actually this is default law in the EU if you are a "customer" and the other party is not. All "surprising" clauses within a T&C document are void.

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