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When playing codenames in German you usually have the dictionary rule / Google rule.

If you come up with a word and you aren't sure if it exists check if it is in the dictionary or if Google knows it.

So no making up words like

Mixerversicherungsfahrzeug

Sorry for the somewhat late reply, I only check on my comments every so often!

As for whether or not they would want to help you out, it never hurts to try. Even if that particular researcher can't, he might be able to refer you to someone who can or depending on the scope of the research hook you up with a student in need of a thesis / project etc.

Academics often are in need of funding, if your idea has merit then I am sure you will he able to find someone that will research for you fairly quickly.

To be fair, they didn't really understand how ZFS works and failed to set up bitrot detection.

A "clean" setup would include those, as well as either a messaging system or a regular checkup on how your FS is doing.

Seconding paperless-ng, have been using it for a while and I am very happy with it.

Be aware that I haven't done this before, but I imagine it would go like this:

1. Figure out which field of science you are interested in 2. Find a couple of universities that teach this field of science or you think have someone specialising in that on staff 3. Go through their list of researchers 4. Pick one out and send them an email. Or if you cannot find a mail address, send an old school letter to the university

To be fair, they kind of did that to themselves with the GPL. BSD for example has no problems whatsoever with including ZFS.

> probably many other countries as well

Maybe. Enforceability of the GPL outside of the US is flaky, so whether or not this specific case would matter is always up to the courts to decide.

You need to pay 99$/Year for a developer account though. That's very much not "for free"

I would argue that 99.9% of apps on the app store ever get to the point where 99$ a year is even remotely the cost incurred by Apple.

Would be too bad if the developer just doesn't do that right?

Threema is around and well, though it's userbase is relatively small.

Have you had a look at Threema?

Please don't listen to this person. I at least am very happy that Wikipedia does not have ads.

I believe that it would come down to this as well. The problem is both them being located in the US AND being a US company.

Alternatively they could mirror an approach that Microsoft had with ther Office Online for a while, that is find a European company acting as "trustee" for the data, so that even if the NSA came knocking the US based company would not have any data on any of their infrastructure it could give them.

> To everyone: If you wrongly send money to a mistyped IBAN it is gone.

You clearly have no idea how an IBAN works. It has a checksum exactly to avoid mistyping.

And even if you send the money to an valid, but wrong, IBAN then one of two things happens:

* The account doesn't exist -> transaction bounces * The account does exist -> ask for money back, worst case go to court to recover it

But the money is not gone. There are no black holes just swallowing everything up.

> And besides, big banks still have to deal with checksum-passing iban typos on a daily basis. IBANs only have two check digits.

Actually the checksum was designed especially to deal with typos. As such, dealing with typo errors is usually not an issue at all.

What they do have to deal with is maliciously created IBANs though. However, if the account an IBAN should point at doesn't exist then the transaction usually just bounces.

> Also at least with european banking, if you wringly send money to another account, it is also gone forever.

It's not though? The money is still legally yours and can be recovered via the legal system. Only if it is moved out of Europe into less well regulated areas it becomes a problem.

This happens in every case though. If I give you cash and you take it to god knows where it can't be recovered either. If I give you money and let you leave with it then there is only so much any system can do.

You are allowed to add necessary features or port the software as well. Of course, what counts as a "necessary feature" is always up to debate, but if you for example own a software that only runs on Microsoft DOS and you want to port it to Windows 10, that's allowed.

Also, as far as copyright/patents are concerned those aren't a Problem with reverse engineering. If you reverse engineering something and you then discover copyrighted code while fixing a bug that's not a problem. Knowing of that code is not copying it.

If you were to copy that code or use knowledge you gained by reverse engineering to build your own product that would be an issue though.

It only counts as distribution if you give it to them and they start using the software as well.

If you send them the software, they reverse engineer it and fix bugs that's not distribution.

If you send it to them, they fix bugs and then start using it themselves that is distribution.

>> except that Apple doesn't have a package manager > This is false. Homebrew is no different from any other open source package manager.

Just to quote the literal slogan of homebrew:

>The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux)

I think it is fair to say that Apple does in fact not have a package manager. Unless they do bundle homebrew with their OS nowadays?

I think an end user that wants to automate things with a script can be expected to install their interpreters themselves or use an interpreter that builds on the OS's shell.

I am not to familiar with MacOS, but I imagine it comes with a bash/sh terminal? If so, then that is something that should be first choice for automation.

Everything else, be it python, perl, ruby or whatever should be installed by a user as needed.

Did you talk to your bank? Getting police involved is nice and all but often times the banks themselves are a lot more helpful!

Also, depending on how it was possible for the scammer to "steal the bank account" in the first place you might be entitled to damages or something, though that heavily depends on your legislation and where your bank is located of course.

Just to add to this: offering managed SQLite services isn't really all that much of a thing because essential, as it is just a file, there isn't much to manage.

With databases like postgres you have daemons, config files and more that need an experienced DB-Admin to configure and run. All of that complexity grows exponentially when you include scaling on multiple machines.

With SQLite you essentially need backups. That's about it. A managed SQLite service would essentially just be something along the lines of:

"Tell us which file is your database, we backup it and if you need it restored press this button."

There is a difference between freelancers/one person companies and big cooperations though.

Honestly, the question you need to ask in regards to cloud is a relatively simple one: Can I hire a sysadmin for cheaper than using the cloud?

The answer to that, once you start using enough resources, is more often than not yes.

Sure, it takes a while to get to that point, but eventually you will reach break even and it would be cheaper to do it yourself/have your employee do it.

You could build one yourself by grabbing some hardware that includes a modem and grabbing a sim card from a local provider with "unlimited" text messages.

Might violate ToS though

Depends on how you define stalker honestly. They probably wouldn't be sitting in trees with binoculars or stuff like that, but they might slip airtags into people's stuff.

Usually sending them the following helps them be less stubborn:

> Gemäß Artikel 25 eIDAS-Verordnung hat eine qualifizierte elektronische Signatur die gleiche Rechtswirkung wie eine handschriftliche Unterschriftund wird in allen Mitgliedstaaten anerkannt.

Doesn't work always, but the times it doesn't I usually find a competitor that does prove to be more cooperative pretty easily!

Same over here! Only difference is that with our IDs/certs you usually have a visible cert block on the PDFs. You can get it to be invisible somehow, but that's a bit of a hassle.

But yes, anything that's not a proper digital signature might as well just be a random png pasted into a pdf. No legal binding power whatsoever.

Not exactly, but you are close enough. Greece may or may not have fudged the numbers in reports to the EU institutions so they could adopt the euro in the first place and then it backfired spectacularly.

That aside, I fully agree with you. Don't use currencies for your economy if you can't exert at least some control on them. *Especially* not crypto currencies that are essentially controlled by noone.

Using another states currency at least gives you some set of guarantees because they don't want to blow their own economy, but with crypto that isn't really the case.

Are they though? Assuming that they and their loved ones are vaccinated, the risk of death is relatively small, to the point where one could expect that they die of other causes first.

That said, they are correct. Assuming that at some point lockdowns just stop, everyone will be either recovered or dead.

Vaccinated people will be almost completely recovered, with unvaccinated numbering the most death.

This is not sarcasm, it's not selfish, it's a simple fact. Vaccinations are available to the general public and there are very few that are not capable of receiving the vaccine, many that choose not to.

Those that choose not to will have a higher risk of death, due to a decision they made.

Not gonna lie, sending out data via inaudible sounds is pretty fly!

The "imprint" doesn't necessarily need to show your private address though, only an address of "someone responsible for the contents of these website."

Do note that "someone responsible" can be a legal entity! Not only cooperations but also a "Verein" or a similar legal construct.

Also, note that you do not need to list your address, only a "Anschrift", which often times is the same thing as an address, but really just means "If I write this on a letter it has to be delivered to you." So a postal box for example works just fine.

If you are a startup you will have all of these things anyways, I don't know a single startup that isn't also a legal entity. Indie makers is a bit more tricky, but as mentioned before it is pretty easy to get around this requirement via a "Verein" or something similar.

As for free tools not being usable, I honestly don't think it is that big a problem. Google Analytics doesn't work for you? There are other offers out there. Or you could selfhost matomo. Or if you want then you can just go ahead and run an awk script on your Webserver log.

As for not finding information and on the sites of famous European indie makers, I am going to let you on on a secret. The "Impressum" was always intended so that consumers could have a look at who they are dealing with over the internet.

To this day it is still handled like that. If you aren't selling anything or doing anything else that "a classic" company would do it is highly unlikely anyone is going to care whether or not you have an Impressum.