Helsinki is getting out of the "burning stuff to make electricity" business. It used to have coal power plants - last ones closed down in 2023 and 2024. There are some dedicated plants for district heating still, but also there's the trend to move away from burning stuff.

This doesn't have anything to do with user control - modern windows versions need drivers to be WHQL signed to get that kind of access. Alternatively you'll need to enable developer mode on your system, and install your own developer certificate into its keyring for running own code, which has its own drawbacks.

Crowdstrike is implemented as a device driver - but as there is no device Microsoft could've argued that this is abusing the APIs, and refused the WHQL certification. Microsofts own security solution (Defender) also is implemented as a device driver, though, and that's what the EU ruling is about: Microsoft needs to provide the same access they're using in their own products to competitors. Which is a good thing - but if Microsoft didn't have Defender, or they'd have done it without that type of access it'd have been fully legal for them to deny the certification for Crowdstrike.

Both MacOS and Linux have the ability to run the type of thing that requires those privileges on Windows in an unprivileged process - and on newer Linux versions Crowdstrike is using that (older versions got broken by them the same way they now broke Windows). So Microsoft now trying to blame the EU can be seen as an attempt to keep people from questioning why Microsoft didn't implement a low privilege API as well, which would've prevented this whole mess.

Gibt da dummerweise noch mindestens CAS, sowie Hersteller die bei keinem davon mitmachen. Lustigerweise scheint Steinel sowohl bei CAS als auch Power for all dabei zu sein.

Dazu kommt dann noch dass z.B. Bosch mindestens 4 verschiedene Akkusysteme hat - zwei 12V und zwei 18V. Die Heimwerkerversion ("gruen") von beiden Spannungen ist power for all, die Profiversion ("blau") ist separat. Die blauen Akkus sind sauteuer - aber klar darauf ausgelegt dass die notfalls auch in einem aktiven Kriegsgebiet ueberleben.

Seit ich Kinder habe haengt ein Kassettenrecorder am Receiver - Kassetten sind ein erstaunlich brauchbares Medium fuer Hoerbuecher fuer Kinder.

As they just want it temporarily lubed water based lubricants from the sex shop might be a better option. They don't leave much residue, and are tested for compatibility with various rubbers.

The same people who, in my field (software engineering), don’t know the difference between Java and JavaScript

The same people who don't understand that zip codes are not unique to a country, and do a zip code search on recruiting platforms without also setting a country. And then offer you to move to their country (at your expense) when you explain them the concept of zip codes and countries.

That was one of the reasons why I was watching pirated versions of the Amazon shows even when I was paying for prime.

Installing 25 year old binaries on Linux is rather interesting - relevant for stuff like some of the old Loki ports. Problem is mostly that they've been written with kernel 2.2 in mind, which does have different behaviour for quite a few things - you generally can find old libc versions compatible with the binary, but those libc versions don't necessarily play nice with the kernel.

There are some compatibility flags which made things work last time I checked - but not sure if that's the case, and it definitely won't work forever, given that 32bit x86 support is likely to be dropped eventually.

Is Arch really that popular nowadays?

I mainly know it from the colleague who switched to it back in 2006, and then we made fun of him over the next year for all the stuff that was broken on his system, and worked on ours. He only was let off because a new hire went for Gentoo, and had stuff even more broken.

You do the usual network checks first, check if wireguard packages come in, check latest handshake. Depending on your network setup you might want to set a lower MTU than default, or enable PersistentKeepalive.

If none of that shows something useful you can enable debug logging via debugfs:

echo module wireguard +p > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control

You'll then have additional messages in dmesg. You can switch it off by doing -p instead.

Not really much. Now if my wife would get the dump the story might be a bit different.

Pretty much all of the EU, at least - country specific regulations vary, but the basic framework is based on EU regulations.