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gglnxon A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow

»they just bought all privately operated power plants for billions«

No, Berlin brought only the previously privatized district heating (Fernwärme) back (https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2024/05/berlin-fernwae...). Because that is a monopoly and Berliners got ripped off by a private company.

gglnxon A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow

No, ads and toilets are separate in Berlin since 2019 [1]. Wall won the contract for the new Toilettenvertrag [2] by the city. The city says now what and where to build. Before that, toilets were only built where it was profitable for a billboard. Now the city can make the toilets even free [3] and the toilets are ad-free.

[1] https://taz.de/Toilettenvertrag-sorgt-fuer-Wirbel/!5431891/ [2] https://www.berlin.de/rbmskzl/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2... [3] https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2024/07/107-oeffentlic...

gglnxon Postzegelcode

Germany has this too: #PORTO and the code. https://www.deutschepost.de/de/m/mobile-briefmarke.html (and valid for 3 years after you bought it)

gglnxon Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account

More likely that the request for more information on this case from the EU commission to Apple triggered the walk back. At least the EU Commissioner for the internal market is happy about the reverse: https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1766167580497117464

gglnxon Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?

Some podcast clients support rfc5005: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5005

gglnxon German environmental groups file objection against Tesla gigafactory permit

The news is a little bit short, but the objection to the first tests of their machines is, that in a case of emergency the current safety concept lacks measures to prevent the escaping of hydrogen fluoride (see the open letter in German by the Grüne Liga Brandenburg here: https://www.grueneliga-brandenburg.de/index.php?cat=2&pageID...). They claim that changes to this safety concept will require changes to the factory itself and this changes need to be implemented first, before Tesla can start with it's tests.

gglnxon Show HN: Tell YouTube ads to fuck off

In the European Union TV ads are limited to 20% in one clock hour: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

gglnxon Swiss Covid Certificate – Technical documentation of the swiss Covid certificate

This will be same for the European Union Green Certificate (DGC): https://ec.europa.eu/health/ehealth/covid-19_en

The German app and implentation will be on GitHub too: https://github.com/Digitaler-Impfnachweis

gglnxon Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board

I don't know why you claim that smaller companies in the automotive sector in Germany don't have ununionzed workforces, but the IG Metall has a »Organisationsgrad« in this sector (how many of the workers are union members) above 90 percent (see https://www.wiwo.de/politik/deutschland/gewerkschaften-die-u...).

gglnxon German digital bank N26 is facing outcry from its staff over management

That's a little bit complicated. Yes, the law behind German works councils (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) only applies to workers employed in Germany (Territorial principle), but the Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht) has ruled that international employees could also be govererned by the German works councils, if international employees are integrated into the German part of the company and are really depended on management in Germany (»„Ausstrahlung“ des Inlandsbetriebs« [1]). But it's a narrow definition.

But the law doesn't forbid applying agreements between the management and the works council (Betriebsvereinbarungen) to employees outside of Germany.

[1] https://www.vahlekuehnelbecker.de/2018/10/19/wann-ist-der-be...

gglnxon Web Dark Ages

Are sitemaps really dead? Still a good way to fulfill the WCAG requirement of providing multiple ways to locate a page [1].

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G63.html

gglnxon German man living at Delhi airport since March 18

As a German, I don't know any law that would prohibit that he could return to Germany. The embassies organized the return flights and I read about many complications and fuck-ups, maybe that's what happened. Maybe also he wasn't registered in the "Deutschenliste" (online tool that you register as a German if you travel abroad, so you can be contacted in emergencies). The German embassy in Delhi says on their website (see: https://india.diplo.de/in-de) that no more German flights are planned, but KLM has some flights, but that must be booked by yourself.

gglnxon Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors

In German this is called Plenken [1] and if you're writing spaces before such double-characters, many people will think that you're not the smartest person. Angry comments under news articles often using this. Something this is called "Deppenleerzeichen" (idiot's space), but this is yet another thing in the German language [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenken [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leerzeichen_in_Komposita

gglnxon I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (2015)

Back in school (around 2006) I asked the PR department of German BP for a small sample of crude oil, that I need for my final assignment. A few weeks later I've got large glass bottle (I think maybe over a liter) of crude oil. The package needed the signature of my mom because it was a dangerous goods transport. I think the shipment was for BP more expensive than the Russian oil itself...

gglnxon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, Vue, Node.js, Typescript, Next.js, Craft CMS, WordPress, Design Systems

Résumé/CV: https://www.dennismorhardt.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/202...

GitHub: https://github.com/gglnx

Email: info@dennismorhardt.de

Worked as project/team frontend lead before, currently freelancing. Looking for jobs with opportunities for greenfield projects or/and team management.

gglnxon Cash registers in Poland fail due to new year bug (PL)

Trains in Hamburg: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/Software-Fehler-legt-...

gglnxon The Best Podcasting Equipment for a New Podcaster

If use Reaper, try Ultraschall.fm (https://github.com/Ultraschall/REAPER). It's an open source extension for Reaper for podcasting. It's extrem popular in the German podcasting scence (you know that one obsessed with chapter marks).

gglnxon Piwik shows Tibet as independent country and Chinese users aren't happy about it

And one Piwik fork with Tibet part of China has already over 900 stars: https://github.com/kinosang/piwik

gglnxon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript/ES6+, NodeJS, VueJS, PHP (Frameworks, TYPO3, WordPress), Docker

Résumé/CV: https://www.dennismorhardt.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/201...

Email: info@dennismorhardt.de

Hey, I'm Dennis (https://www.dennismorhardt.de/) from Berlin. Currently working for an agency with mostly public clients mostly as a frontend developer, but also some backend and DevOps. In my frontend position I introduced workflows and tools for the whole department (like Styleguides, Atomic Design, Merge Requests & Review Apps and more). So I'm open for frontend and backend positions, but mixed is also fine :)

gglnxon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2016)

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Frontend, JavaScript [ES2015], CSS [SCSS, SASS], vuejs, SVG, Jade, node.js, PHP, Symfony, Laravel, WordPress, TYPO3, DevOps

Résumé/CV: https://www.xing.com/profile/Dennis_Morhardt2?sc_o=mxb_p

Email: info@dennismorhardt.de

GitHub: https://github.com/gglnx

Website: https://www.dennismorhardt.de/

gglnxon Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle#gp/Microsoft-I...

As Vista is still supported, the IE9 lives on.

gglnxon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2015)

  Location: Berlin, Germany
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: PHP 5.3+ (Symfony + Composer), WordPress, MongoDB, Docker, Rails, HTML & CSS (mostly Bootstrap), JavaScript (mostly jQuery)
  Résumé/CV: Mail me please
  Email: info [at] dennismorhardt.de
  GitHub: http://github.com/gglnx
  Website: www.dennismorhardt.de
  Personal blog: dennis.so