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jabiko··on ChatGPT: Mayor starts legal bid over false bribery claim
The motivating factor is that the employee simply has a right to a reference when leaving.

Sometimes an employee might ask for an interim report (for example when changing departments, etc.) but that's something that is provided on a voluntarily basis.

jabiko··on ChatGPT: Mayor starts legal bid over false bribery claim
I think the main difference is that the German system revolves around freedom of opinion and not freedom of speech. If you assert a negative fact about someone, you have to be able to proof it. You are however free to express your opinion about anyone and anything.

Section 186 and 187 are probably relevant for that: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...

jabiko··on Ask HN: Best examples of software documentation that you've come across?
I have mixed feelings about Perl. The documentation tends to be in a style that prevents quickly scanning it. Instead you have to read dense text to make sense of things. For example: https://perldoc.perl.org/IPC::Open3

If you want to quickly figure out what the parameters for open3 are doing, you are forced to read through the description. It reads like a casual conversation someone is having with you, lecturing you about the function, dropping some important information here and there without any clear direction.

jabiko··on Img2Prompt – Get prompts from stable diffusion generated images
Maybe it was trained on a image set of politicians. I put in a image Dr. Evil doing air quotes and it came up with "FirstName LastName from FirstName LastName in star trek the next generation ( 2005 ) ( 2 0 1 9 )".

FirstName LastName being the name of a politician.

jabiko··on European parliament VP taken into custody
I think its important to know that there are 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament in total. One of them was taken into custody.
jabiko··on Blender 3.4
I'm wondering if this might be the better submission URL. It might be a bit lower on details but at the same time it conveys a richer overview of what the release is about.
jabiko··on Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms
As a child I had a total blast building and programming things with Fischertechnik: https://www.fischertechnik.de/en/playing/robot-toys

You have microswitches, photoelectric and magnetic sensors, motors and pneumatic actuators to name a few. It all came with a software to program it all in a flowchart like fashion.

I fondly remember unpacking a set at christmas and playing with it. Honestly, I think Fischertechnik had a huge impact on me and put me on the career path that I am now. While my last experience with Fischertechnik is more than a decade ago, the website seems like they haven't lost their spirit

jabiko··on Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade
Isn't this normal? I just tested it in Chrome appears like sessions are across private windows there as well.

So I guess its just an extra feature of Brave.

jabiko··on Java Apache Commons Text vulnerability
> Nobody familiar with Java would interpret it this way

When I read the title in the morning I had a short moment of panic because we make extensive use of for example Apache Commons Collections in our projects. Updating these libraries and delivering the fixes to customers would have resulted in quite some work.

If the title would have been more accurate it would probably have saved me from a mini heart-attack in the morning.

jabiko··on Java Apache Commons Text vulnerability
Its just affecting the Apache Commons Text component.

The title ("CVE-2022-42889: Java Apache Commons vulerability") is overly broad and suggests that somehow the whole Apache Commons project, which consists of over 40 components, has a vulnerability

jabiko··on PostgreSQL 15
Section 13.2. Transaction Isolation" has some additional information regarding the behavior of MERGE. Just CTRL-F and search for "MERGE" on https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/transaction-iso.html#XACT...
jabiko··on Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec
All known software patents that cover Opus are licensed under royalty-free terms.

However, Fraunhofer and Dolby are apparently thinking that they are holding patents that are relevant for Opus. It will be interesting to see what these patents are.

jabiko··on Aer Lingus Seeks Compensation For Data Center Chaos That Cancelled Flights
> A network card used in the carrier's backup systems was not working

It should have been redundant, the problem is that the redundancy didn't work and I guess nobody noticed until it was actually needed.

jabiko··on A pair of Linux kernel modules using Rust
> This is the 5'th SubscriberLink over the last week on HN

Its the first post to gain any meaningful traction

> Please, folks, subscribe, and let Corbet put the subscriber links here himself. The LWN weekly editions are definitely worth every penny.

According to corbet its totally fine if every now and then a subscriber link pops up on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966033

> As long as the posting of subscriber links in places like this is occasional, I believe it serves as good marketing for LWN - indeed, every now and then, I even do it myself. We just hope that people realize that we run nine feature articles every week, all of which are instantly accessible to LWN subscribers.

The LWN FAQ also considers it no problem: https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn#slinks

> Where is it appropriate to post a subscriber link?

> Almost anywhere. Private mail, messages to project mailing lists, and blog entries are all appropriate. As long as people do not use subscriber links as a way to defeat our attempts to gain subscribers, we are happy to see them shared.

I think posting this on HN does not defeat the purpose of gaining subscribers, but supports them. At least for me it worked. After reading some LWN articles on HN I decided to become a paying subscriber.

Telling people they are not allowed to post such links here actually IMHO hurts LWN.

jabiko··on CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch
It seems like the situation has resolved itself, at least the posting is not grey anymore.

I think that being pro-nuclear actually can make sense until there is enough renewable capacity installed. Its IMHO better than firing coal and generating more CO2. Also we already have nuclear waste, so we are already in a unfavorable situation and producing some more is probably the better tradeoff than ruining our climate. In my opinion, the safety of these power plants is, however, the biggest pain point that is not solved and will likely never be.

We still should work towards renewables so nuclear power can become a thing of the past.

jabiko··on CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch
I'm wondering why OP is accumulating down votes. As far as I understand the situation the posting is correct.
jabiko··on Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
I actually managed to get my account suspended one day due to nonpayment. It was just a personal toy project and it was completely my fault: I was automatically filtering the mails into a folder that I didn't read until it was too late.

If you look at the sheer amount of emails they sent me before suspending the account, Digital Ocean did everything right: https://i.imgur.com/ah13bEA.png

They gave lots of warnings and also sent an email with the date the account was going to be closed a week in advance.

jabiko··on Jetbrains Kindly Asks You to Stop Using the Kotlin Mascot in Its Current Form
Oh, you are referring to the name suggestions in the comments below the blog post? Yeah. Something where "Kot" is a standalone word would definitely be an unfortunate name choice.

I read your post that way that you argued that "Kotlin" is a bad naming choice. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

jabiko··on Jetbrains Kindly Asks You to Stop Using the Kotlin Mascot in Its Current Form
As far as I gather from that post the mascot has no name yet. Also as someone who natively speaks German, I don't see any problem with the name "Kotlin" and I never associated it with "Kot".

Suggesting that they use Google Translate to realize the additional meaning seems especially smug given the fact that they have a German translation of that post available.

jabiko··on One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car
One BMW spokesperson said: "We are currently investigating the exact circumstances. Naturally, we are in close contact with the authorities. One thing is already clear: The BMW vehicle involved was not an autonomous driving vehicle."

Maybe it was a vehicle with additional equipment for collection data/imagery that was still completely driven by a human driver. That would explain the stickers.

jabiko··on To download from Google Drive, you must enable third party cookies?
I'm wondering why the information necessary for downloading the file can't just be encoded as a URL parameter.

When the user clicks a file download link it should be possible to generate a short lived token that authenticates the user against googleusercontent.com.

jabiko··on Europeans will be able to unsubscribe from Prime with two clicks
It depends. If you are in a office environment with access to all the materials needed then yes.

But if not then in the worst case you have to find somewhere to print the letter, sign it, then find or buy an envelope and postage stamps, and finally drop the letter off.

jabiko··on Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’
> I was told so from a credible source a couple years ago

I'm not sure if you have noticed it but there where elections last year and the new coalition that formed has the legalization of cannabis as one of its official goals. Your "credible sources" might have been right a few years ago, but the political landscape has changed.

> This is supported by the fact that "Legalisierung" is not part of the political language wrt topic

Of course it is. The expert consolidation which is part of the creation of new law has just concluded. Now the federal ministry of health will create a draft law and publish it by the end of the year.

jabiko··on Important PostgreSQL 14 update to avoid silent corruption of indexes
Yeah, ORA-00600 comes to mind. At my previous company we had to restore from backups once because of this error.
jabiko··on GitHub Actions was having an outage
GitHub Actions was only launched after the acquisition. It always ran on Azure.
jabiko··on Adminer: Database management in a single PHP file
This post is about Adminer though. If you are going for simplicity then you might actually like Adminer
jabiko··on Java Has a New Website
It seems like java.com is powered by https://www.oracle.com/content-management/

After the page is loaded some JavaScript loads the actual page content via a REST API. While this takes place you are looking at a white screen.

jabiko··on NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
https://github.blog/2022-05-26-npm-security-update-oauth-tok...

> Using their initial foothold of OAuth user tokens for GitHub.com, the actor was able to exfiltrate a set of private npm repositories, some of which included secrets such as AWS access keys.

So NPM was storing AWS secrets in their (private) git repos. IMHO that was an accident waiting to happen.

jabiko··on OpenTelemetry Traces and PostgreSQL
I'm very excited about this! We already have TimescaleDB as our primary datastore so using it to store traces is a very natural approach
jabiko··on OpenSSH 9.0
Can you tell why that is? Did you find the OpenSSH source code especially bad? I am under the belief that OpenSSH is a really high quality, security focused software project.
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