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> as the citizens have no realistic way to influence decisions on that level.

They could stop voting for parties/MEPs that have mass surveillance and weakening of civil rights as part of their election programs and core identities. Alas a majority of European citizens doesn't seem to care.

The app was recently evaluated for effectiveness.[1] 110-230k people were tested positive as a result of a warning and therefore isolated. They found that it had about the same effect as the tracing efforts by all public health authorities combined.

[1] article in German about it https://www.heise.de/news/RKI-Schaetzung-Warn-App-hat-mehr-a...

No need for another version, Julia supports custom indices by default. Check out https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/offset-arrays/ and https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl

The tracing app itself will only tell you that but you can receive the BLE signals with other bluetooth sniffer apps.

Sounds interesting but your privacy policy and website lacks all information on who's actually running it and processing the data, which unfortunately makes it a non-starter for me (and is a violation of the GDPR).

Maybe give startpage a shot. They use Google results but it adds a privacy layer inbetween, and have the added privacy benefit of not being US-based compared to DDG.

It has ~15k reviews, but 1M+ downloads.

Privacy report of NINA: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/de.materna....

Sure looks like they take data protection seriously by including advertising trackers...

Even if you had heard of it, it's not reliable due to being a normal app. It's affected by energy saving settings, DND etc. I've had it installed for a while but the time when you actually get notified varies a lot between people, depending on their phone's behaviour.

Cell Broadcast/EU-Alert is the way to go for this and I have no idea why they thought an app would be better.

Kurzgesagt make high quality animated videos and seem to be doing quite well. 13 million subscribers on the English channel alone. All of that despite only releasing about one video a month.

If you want to compare it throughout the years, here's a video of it in 1993: https://youtu.be/4_8u7t5q3m4

And in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgfRq4kEFro

Doesn't always work well if the bin is too far away from the door.

> 1. Because the app stores don't serve a single country.

There are country-specific Apple app stores and apps that are only available in some countries

> And we can't rely on the competence of legislators because their answer is always more popups.

The European ePrivacy regulation was meant to make DNT legally binding and enabled by default but it has been stuck in the European Council for about 3 (?) years now due to massive pressure from publishers. It's a real shame because it would improve the situation a lot.

julialang.org also lacks a privacy policy and loads trackers like Google Analytics without user consent. The core devs don't seem to care about the GDPR.

For context, this is the official page explaining what data is collected: https://julialang.org/legal/data/ (the link is a bit hard to find between all the other links in the Discourse thread)

Here's a good explanation: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/news/why-viral-l...

The short answer is that there are certain protections that ensure interoperability, and that linking to software does not make it a derivative work.

Neither does the GPL or any other licence under European laws.

There are several options the 'server' admins can choose from. Some let you do everything without account, some only let you read, and others require an account for everything.

I'm speculating, but they might find it more convenient to use a separate device for the video chat? Especially if you're using your laptop a lot during the video call, it's quite convenient to have the chat open elsewhere.

You can respond to issues by email. The formatting is already not consistent.

It actually is that way to some extent in Germany already. There were a number of court cases against them where the court forced FB to undo a ban or restore a deleted post.

> Unless you're paying attention he gets you every time

That's exactly why I dislike them. Ads should be clearly separated from the actual content, visually and audibly, imo.

I was refering to the kind of books that the parent comment also refered to:

> There has been at least one book about how "Germany/Germans are getting dumber", "The Big Crash is Coming" or something similar on the Spiegel Bestseller list at all times.

Not all books on the list are like that but there is indeed at least one of them at any given time. And those particular books never require the reader to change.

These books also have in common that they cover topics that everyone has an opinion on, and that you can get really upset and angry over while not being in a position to really do anything about the "issues" they describe. As you say it's about how "something needs to change" but it's never the reader who has to change.

> Add some fears about the before-mentioned topics and there's your new book every few months, same content, different cover.

Talkshows and other media make these books even more profitable and popular. Publishing such a book almost guarantees that you'll be able to tour talkshows for a few weeks, give interviews to newspapers etc. as free marketing for your books.

> Even very close to big cities like Frankfurt, having an uninterrupted phone call is a difficult thing to have.

The German Minister for Economic Affairs has stopped taking calls with foreign colleagues during car trips because he was too embarassed by the constant interruptions...

There's a playground/sandbox mode.

You can also do it in the normal BR mode. It takes a few minutes until the circle starts shrinking and it shrinks in multiple phases, so you have 5-10min (more if you're lucky) to just mess around before it gets too small.

> I kind of wish Gitlab would implement Mercurial support. I bet it would help Mercurial gain more adoption within teams working on closed source projects. I know Bitbucket does, but to be honest that doesn’t really appeal to me much.

There is some work being done on it, including a prototype: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/31600#note_15...

Typical apartment door locks are very easy to change yourself, at least the kind that's most common here. Requires some relatively simple measurements and screwing in/out a few screws. Hiring someone to do it costs ~150-200€ (130-175£), lock excluded.

This guide has an illustration: https://www.obi.de/magazin/bauen/tuerschloss-wechseln (text is German but the pictures show everything)

Perhaps in the UK different kinds of locks that are harder to change are more common?

> the ability to immediately remove previous tenants access to the home

This doesn't really require a smart lock. In Germany it's common to replace the lock immediately once you rent a place and put the original lock back in when you move out. This prevents the landlord, previous tenants and whoever else might still have keys from entering without your permission.