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brettermeier··on Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)
No, just don't use Twitter please. It is still a website owned by a world destroying fascist.
brettermeier··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
According to this report (https://www.earnestanalytics.com/insights/temu-growing-faste...), Temu is growing fastest among high income earners. Would be interesting from which countries most customers come from.
brettermeier··on Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)
Doesn't he have Bluesky? I refuse to use twitter.

Edit: whoever downvotes this can rot in hell :D

brettermeier··on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)
Hell no. Typograhy class Lesson 1, never put more than a certain number of words per column (in any case never the whole screen width, on desktops)...
brettermeier··on Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores
Is there a chance of a civil war, or are the royalists in the majority and will win anyway, so no one will dare?
brettermeier··on Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-fede...
brettermeier··on Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?
Hamburg is also full of Fritz Kola. As this article[1] claims, Fritz Kola is the third largest cola brand in Germany. And it is exported in over 20 countries. They also search for bottling plants in Spain to produce drinks over there.

[1]: https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-konsumgueter...

brettermeier··on Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?
Oh yeah, replacing AWS may be easier than replacing O365... or otherway around? My company also went all in for O365. It's about replacing Mail, Teams, Teamwebsites, OneNotes and for sure so much more... We also ship our patches via Teamwebsite, it sounds stupid but well, it works... And talking to costumers when they still have Teams but your company ditched it, how would that work and so on... You have to have a lot of hope to think that all this will or can be replaced in the near future.
brettermeier··on Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?
But in big supermarket chains you overwhelmingly find Coca Cola or the cheap house brand of the chain, at least when it is about big bottles or sixpacks. Sure, supermarkets like Edeka may also have alternatives like Afri Cola or what those are called, but big masses are Coca Cola.
brettermeier··on Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?
But in this case the fight got picked by "the US", as europeans it's about "self defence", so the will to join the boycott may be greater.
brettermeier··on Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?
Getting away from AWS is a big step! I hope the company I work for will think about it too. But maybe the time has come. A few months ago, people thought you were crazy if you talked about moving to another cloud service, but I hope the mood has changed with big impact for the future and which services we trust.
brettermeier··on Germany tightens travel advice to US after three citizens detained
Maybe they should visit you first? But sure, there are still many reasons to visit the US, but it wouldn't be a nice flight if you imagine sitting in an airplane for 12 hours thinking about spending your holiday there as planned or ending up in jail and being tortured...
brettermeier··on Germany tightens travel advice to US after three citizens detained
Why planning a trip to the USA? It's like voluntarily visiting Mordor. I wouldn't be surprised if the next tourists end up in Guantanamo Bay ^^
brettermeier··on Germany tightens travel advice to US after three citizens detained
For the first time those border guards are equally racist :P
brettermeier··on Solarpunk
What happens when we can't cool them down anymore? https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-power-plants-struggling-...
brettermeier··on Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?
>how to remove the latest unwanted crap from my start menu or taskbar => 5 min.

>I don't have to spend time figuring out how to remove the telemetry crap. => Use Rufus writing Win Iso., choose no telemetry option, 0,5 min.

>I don't have to set my default browser back to Firefox after every major update => Just not true, 0 min.

>I don't have to click through popups about new features they want to promote or telling me how I can waste even more money by subscribing to their cloud services. => Use Windows Pro Version, no Popups, 0 min.

In total: 5,5 min.

Learn using Linux: > 3yrs.

brettermeier··on European word translator: an interactive map
Search for Welsh road signs, on most you have Welsh and English, and the differences are night and day, I find it quite amusing => "Drive safely / Gyrrwch yn ddiogel".

Or this village name: "Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch", in it's short form just a smooth "Llanfairpwllgwyngyll" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll).

brettermeier··on Have you ever seen a goth downtown?
True also in northern europe.
brettermeier··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
What exactly is missing? https://imgur.com/a/q0yevdW
brettermeier··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
Salespeople are the cancer at the worlds butt.
brettermeier··on Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat
I don't mind cheaters getting their asses kicked. Let them lose real money. If you accidentally get banned, that's a different story though.

And it's just a game that's not playable anymore, not the whole Steam account, isn't it?

brettermeier··on A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
This is failed design, your wrists will hate you after using this.
brettermeier··on Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
You would or wouldn't be surprised?
brettermeier··on Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
Do you know the name of the movie?
brettermeier··on Robot Jailbreak: Researchers Trick Bots into Dangerous Tasks
Why so downvoted? I think the text isn't stupid or something.
brettermeier··on How Gothic architecture became spooky
Do you have examples where it's good to cut out "how" from the title? I can't believe that it's helpful.
brettermeier··on Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website
It is distracting and annoyed me, I stopped reading because of it.
brettermeier··on PUBG developer Krafton make a life simulation game inzoi
What is this shit? Website doesn't say much. And needs hours to load.
brettermeier··on Show HN: I Made a Website for Problems
Sign up? Why? That's a Problem.
brettermeier··on Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%
What about using rufus with preset settings like not have to use a Microsoft Account and so on? Just drop a Windows iso in it and it will make a nice Windows copy out of it.
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