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No, I meant m*t.

I think you ment “The c*nt”

A fucking mistake is when you accidentally enter the wrong whole. Or a teenage pregnancy.

Destroying the country for cars was not a fucking mistake, it was malicious intent.

Back in the good old days I used to play kmem-roulette: Write a random value into a random address of /proc/kmem until the system crashed. That was much more fun, as on the way there was also the possibility that the kernel might just start wreaking havoc in some random files. No wonder they removed the kmem file in the end.

Capitalism works when people can participate

OK then, let’s allow all people to participate by giving everyone their fair share of Amazon and other big businesses.

I’m all for communising them. I’m just not sure that capitalism is the right expression for that, but I can’t come up with a better word…

🎶Never gonna look down 🎶 Never gonna show up 🎵 Never gonna get up and hurt you 🎶

There’s only one great season. Sadly it was quite short this year, at least where I live. https://song.link/i/549480694

I had six so far 🙂:
New Years, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day, Ascension Day, Pentecost.

There are only 4+ ²/₂ official holidays left in the rest of the year though:
German unity day, Reformation day, 2 Christmas Days. Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are ½ a holiday each.

Every month is wild. Do the electricity prices change based on the season or why can’t they just calculate the average over a year?

Recently we also got more and more smart meters here in Germany, as there are a few power companies that calculate your price by the hour. But that’s not based on your maximum consumption but on the time of the consumption. If you use the solar and wind power on a windy summer day it’s basically free, whereas the price goes up when it’s expensive power from gas plants on a windless winter night. So you can lower your price by washing or charging your car at the right time.

That probably would not work that way in Norway as you have a lot of hydroelectric power which is available much more continuously, as far as I understand.

Are there really people in the US driving from house to house reading the meters? In Germany you just get a letter (or an email nowadays) asking you to read the meter and tell them. Unless the values you’re providing are obviously wrong, noone questions you.

If you lie there you’ll be found out when you move out of your apparent or when the meter is changed after 20 or 30 years.

It was xz, a software most people probably use without even knowing it as it is a library which is included in a lot of other projects. The vulnerability targeted openssh which is one of these users.

That being said: Do you also audit the dependencies of the software you’re installing? I usually don’t, unless a customer pays me for it. However, before I pull any dependency into one of my own projects I take a look at it’s dependencies. If a library for a simple task brings tons of dependencies with it, I rather not use it.

It’s really great how docker shifted the problem from “works on my machine” to “works with my version of docker”.

cp is short for create packup

o.O I never knew there even was support for Windows 95. At least it was a time before Windows Update, and I don’t know of any Service Packs either. It would have been a pain to download anyway, with my 56k modem and the 20Pfg/min price tag 😬

What has happened on 2001-12-31? My Windows 95 lived beyond that point. I think I still have it installed on my retro gaming laptop that’s lying down in my cellar. Might be time to boot it up once again.

It’s a big difference whether a folder is named PetersHits or PeterShits. So what should I expect when opening a folder called petershits? Pictures of Peter on the potty or some great songs?

You mean right vs. wrong?

I don’t just rethink my programming decision but all my life decisions every night. Seem like Rust is the perfect language for me.

That’s not true. It’s perfectly fine to have fun in Germany, as long as it doesn’t disturb the neighbours and is propperly announced to the local authities two weeks in advance using form SVaF-18/1-42.