kiney

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Comment · 10 days ago
having access to the docker daemon is equivalent to root
Comment · 1 month ago
I'd recommend AppImage as distro independent package format
Comment · 1 month ago
and Germany
Comment · 1 month ago
I was working on a pretty big proxmox setup back in 2016...
Comment · 2 months ago
firefox container tabs are great for multiple accounts with the same webpage
Comment · 2 months ago
the source is public, you can just compile it
Comment · 3 months ago
based
Comment · 3 months ago
For an article about beer it's horribly misinformed.

The most important part first: bewing water

Theres a lot of talk about "gypsum" and "mineral rich" and what it does to the brewing water. Much of it is not exactly wrong per se, but very imprecise. The natural water in Burton is rich in calcium and VERY rich in sulfate (SO_4) but low on sodium. The ratio of sulfate:sodium is responsible for the perception of hops flavour and bitterness.

BUT: "a lot of the lager brewed here makes greedy use of Burton’s gorgeous natural mineral-rich water"

This is plain bullshit. This kind of water is absolutely unsuitable for lager beer, that's why the local beer style is a pale ale.

The thing is: the by far biggest brewery in town (Molson Coors) demineralizes the brewing water and re-adds a mineral mix for different beer styles. This is also the brewery that makes tons of mass market lager beer there. (this is not uncommon in modern breweries, e.g. Flensburger in germany is publicly know to do the same while most german breweries use well water as-is. This is one of the reasons for the differences in beer styles. The german beer market has very little presence of international brands and customers are very sensitive when it comes to brands trying to close actual breweries just putting their badge on beer brewed by another brewery... exactly the type of thing that happened to Brass and other traditional Burton brands)

also: "Sure, the town is now made up of megacorporate monster-breweries pumping out half of the world’s lager"

This is again very imprecise. There is one "megacorporate monster brewery" in Burton - Molson Coors. That brewery is big but not remarkably so, comparable in size to e.g. the Krombacher Brewery in germany. And there are dozens of breweries of that size in Europe alone.

(source: I'm a hobby brewer and also interested in brewing culture and tech)

Comment · 5 months ago
I run Debian on desktop and laptops. Because I want stable versions with only security backports
Comment · 6 months ago
all his work is slop. No difference here...
Comment · 6 months ago
Does it support XFA forms?
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
There are more accredited inspection providers besides TüV in germany like Dekra etc. This matters because TüV does NOT have data for all cars and there might be self selection effects because drivers can choose where to do the inspection (many get it done by whatever provider their car dealer has a deal with, which might differ greatly by car brand)
Comment · 9 months ago
Reverse engineering the proprietary .TC binary file format from ThinkCar diagnostic devices

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