SkaveRat @ SkaveRat @discuss.tchncs.de

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Have they considered couples counseling?

Better poke it with a needle to let the excitement out

"handing out food to poor children", would be my bet. He would be extremely embarrassed about that

At least for the 2 years I'm using it

It's a nice gesture and better than nothing, but having been properly taxed, so governments could fund programs for their people would have been even better

Cliff Stoll

He didn't make them, btw. He ordered a giant batch years ago, so the unit price was acceptable.

He also has quite an interesting life story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll

as someone not from the US, when I watched the show, I was very confused about that word, until I looked it up

"It's just my artstyle!!111"

I’m assuming the credit is going to a government program or non profit organization.

Not really. It's complicated.

Basically all of the money is being shuffled between importers/manufacturers, stores and consumers.

Germany has about 95-98% return rate for the bottles (mainly because it's somewhat lucrative to collect them). So very little money is left over.

There's a company called DPG that is responsible to make sure that no part of the system is profiting of it unfairly

Germany wikipedia (annoyingly only available in german) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfand_auf_Einweggetr%C3%A4nkebeh%C3%A4lter_in_Deutschland

All in all, it's a net benefit. I remember the time before this system, and you had drink cans littered around everywhere. Ever since the system is in place, I can count the amount of littered cans (e.g. cans that are too crushed to be returned) on maybe one hand

tiny screw game

how do you know what I call sex?

Time to move those developers to more AI products

edit: y'all are misinterpreting my post.

oh well

Linus and Stallmann

Yes

I'm waiting for the swiss flag. It's a huge plus

Substance Painter now has an official linux release.

Weirdly enough, the only way to get it is through.... steam, of all places

My city has a snitch email, which you can contact and ask if a certain rental place is licensed

Already used it on two apartments my landlord is renting out. Turns out only one of them was properly licensed

the real crown was the XP we collected along the way

I'd feel sorry for the cancer

It is. Just not agi

you realize that they say the exact opposite of what you are saying, right?

Longer passwords are generally more secure and easier for users to remember,” said Dr. Paul Turner, a cybersecurity expert at NIST. “We’re moving away from complex rules that often lead to predictable patterns and towards encouraging unique, lengthy passphrases.