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luoc··on F-Droid 2.0
According to the post they only start to roll this out now, gradually...
luoc··on F-Droid 2.0
mhm, that's just loading v1 for me
luoc··on Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout
Your uranium grows on trees, mh?
luoc··on Odoo: Open-Source ERP
Last time I worked with Odoo (v15/v16, enterprise, self hosted) we had to send a dump of the production database over to you to be migrated to the new version and then it was sent back. The upgrade path for third-party and custom addons was not defined. And since it is Odoo, everything is in that database: from employee's time tracking to customer support chats, from stock info to accounting data, from e-mail addresses to password hashes. I found this inacceptable but at that point we had no choice.

What's the state here?

luoc··on Bad UX World Cup 2025
Too lazy to build it: Physically accurate bird view of the solar system at year zero of <INSTERT CALENDAR>. Grab whatever object with your mouse and move until reaching the desired point in time. Like grab Pluto to get somewhat near today, finetune with our Moon.
luoc··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
Can you elaborate a bit? Why would that make my attention more valuable than other's?
luoc··on Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers
Well then support an option to enable that kind behaviour? Make it an explicit decision by the devs. I think running in a type error and then adding an exception to your config is safer than silently pass and only learn about the mixed types in a production bug
luoc··on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
Somehow I end up watching this about twice a year
luoc··on Bitwarden is no longer free software
Meanwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895718

While there seems to be an alternative, the root cause of Google's hostility to foss apps does not make me optimistic about this being a stable solution in the long run :(

luoc··on Restic: Backups done right
Browsing without dependencies is a bit tricky due to a) deduplication, b) encryption and c) compression of restic's backups.
luoc··on What happens if someone votes by absentee/mail-in and dies before Election Day?
Mhm, I noticed the issue is not 100% clear from my description: I eventually got two votes in the same election
luoc··on What happens if someone votes by absentee/mail-in and dies before Election Day?
I voted in the 2021 election for the current German government. Later, I moved to Berlin, where they had to repeat the election this spring due to some screw-ups back then (turns out running a marathon on election day is not a good idea). So I was asked to vote again and I did. I checked with the authorities and everything is fine.

I suppose there's some noise in any voting system, and it's fine if the magnitude is small and its distribution random. Looking at the US, I'd be more worried about gerrymandering than a few votes from the dead.

luoc··on Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design
Disappointing! Expected a redirect to booking.com
luoc··on Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world
Turns out more than one opinion exist here ;)
luoc··on Volkswagen Group brings electric car for EUR 20k
Sure, but when you don't want it in bright orange and with Ac it's like 35k€
luoc··on German public broadcasters open source their streaming platforms
But there's a difference:

A Beitrag is bound to a well defined objective which means it is determined what the money will be used for at the moment it is collected whereas a Steuer contributes to the household as such.

Also, public TV is not controlled by the government but by a council that is more or less democratic. Still far from perfect, sure

luoc··on Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years
Better don't try it on mobile then ;)
luoc··on Liquid logistics: The fine art of wine transport
Well, designing a blog in alignment with DHL's corporate design that's pleasant to ones eyes is certainly not the easiest task but boy, what happened with this header bar (in dark mode)?
luoc··on Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features
My podman installations (Mac, Fedora) both ship the compose subcommand which works as expected. See https://podman-desktop.io/docs/compose
luoc··on Paperless-Ngx v2.0.0
The x was rather the transition away from a single maintainer to the org. Iirc that guy still sticks around
luoc··on Berlin's indoor pools
In East Germany, nudism is a big thing. Of course, I checked this out after moving there and I must say I was not at all surprised to see the Ordnungsamt (public oder office?) at the nudist beach enforcing nudity.
luoc··on Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256
Duplicated myself, sry
luoc··on Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256
I thing CDC is what you're looking for. Some backup tools like restic use it. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_hash
luoc··on Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256
You mean something like a CDC algorithm? I know that some Backup tools like Restic use this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_hash

luoc··on F*** Paywalls
I like that!

Another thing that bothers me is that I have to subscribe to all pages separately and that the price of the individual venues is just too high. News are too important to lock in with one or maybe two providers, sorry.

Take, for instance, Urban Sports Club where I have a number of plans and for amount X I get, let's say, unlimited gym, 2x sauna and a yoga session per month at their partners. Why not having this for news and other media? Like paying 50€ and you get 25 articles at partnering news sites, 10 hours Spotify and 5 hours Youtube premium.

The flaw with all this is that it is lacking the lock-in effect and let's be honest, competition is only cool if you're not exposed to it ;)

luoc··on How I run my servers (2022)
Here's the guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Hostin...
luoc··on How I run my servers (2022)
But why would one need any backend logic to fulfill that? Just upload your static files to S3, enable static website hosting and youre done. Takes you a few minutes. Haven't worked with one of the other vendors but I'd assume it's equally trivial ;)
luoc··on uBlock Origin 1.49.2 Available as Thunderbird Add-On
This may be an use case although I havent verified that. Also, TB comes with a web view used for SSO logins for instance but which can be used just like a browser. There, UB definitely makes sense
luoc··on PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
That's great and how many hacker careers have started!
luoc··on Proposed dam to protect NL, DE, DK, SE from rising sea levels
Particularly, it hinders the migration of pipeline hungry diver populations!
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