It’s kind of weird to see a luxury car from the 1990s next to a modern car. That Mercedes was considered a really big car at its time.

@schmittlauch Yes. Modern ones work driverless. And again, I am specifically talking about b/w laser printers. Not MFC (Multi-Function) devices.

PSA: buy a cheap brother b/w laser printer (a printer, not a multifunction thing) and a canon selphy photo printer instead of whatever Spyware from HP etc that also prints stuff. You get the most beautiful colour pictures in a standard format and a very reliable always-working workhorse to print pages fast and easy without all the Spyware and hardware weirdness that ink printers have devolved into.

UPDATE: clarified that I am NOT talking about a multifunction device. Just a printer.

@clacke Having worked behind closed doors many times, the Chatham House rule has proven its worth over and over. It works. It forces cooperation and responsibility. @Identitywoman @evan @J12t

Yay! After all these years I finally managed to learn and configure my postfix for multiple domains. 22 domains now happily being served from one machine :)

Stop saying things like "Talibanization of the US". Stop blaming muslims all over the world for YOUR failure to contain the growth of *christian* extremism in your courts and your political system.

Funny thing: my Toot got crossposted to Twitter, so it seems to be a specific block for mastodon.social (and maybe other instances too?)

#Mastodon considered harmful by #Twitter. Wow. So much for being open and inclusive, Twitter?

@kgerloff Does it come as a bundle with COBOL? Is the install script in TCL ? :)

@mobaer They are positive now and shared that with the CWA. So they know on which days in the past they were infectious. I got the warning and do what is needed. But I specifically asked today and both denied they were positive. I’ll accept that. But I don’t trust them. That’s all.

@mobaer Of course the CWA doesn’t care about my vaccination status. Because that has nothing to do with my exposure risk. It’s task is to tell me if I had exposure so I can act accordingly. Which I’m doing right now.

@j_r I am not blaming them. But I asked them (today) and both denied (today). So either I spent more than 15 minutes with an unknown person or they decided to not be honest. Simple.

@j_r But they know now and shared that information with the corona warn App which led to the warning on my phone. Which is a damn good thing.

@clacke no.

@clacke The algorithm is quite straightforward. It collects derivative keys with signal strength for the last 14 days. If someone gets tested positive, the daily keys that allow the derivation are shared. Should this result in a match, it check for risk factor based on time of infection and signal strength to determine risk that possibly leads to a warning.

Le sigh. On that day I had recording in the studio with 2 external guests who both say they were negative. My tests (last Thursday, Saturday, will do another one today) are negative. You just can’t trust people anymore :(

Underestimated tools on Linux. Screen. Watch. The Pipe. #justsayin. Running mysqldump -u MYSQL_USERNAME -p YOUR_DATABASE | gzip -c | ssh USERNAME@YOUR_TO_HOST 'cat > ~/dump.sql.gz' in a detached screen session as we speak :)

@tagomago Yes. They take that into account. Also impact of rising inflation and possible drop in demand etc.

@tagomago @michel_slm Which is why I have embraced patience and stubbornness as my personal superpower ;) Compared to 20 years ago, many things have already changed towards the better side. This will continue. Temporary setbacks won’t change the direction we’re collectively taking.

Correction: pandemic drop was 4.9%. Source for the 3% calculation: DIW Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Model calculation/explanation in German at: https://www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.837973.de/publikationen/diw_aktuell/2022_0080/stopp_russischer_energieeinfuhren_wuerde_deutsche_wirtschaft_spuerbar_treffen__fiskalpolitik_waere_in_der_verantwortung.html 2/2