I think only one is currently still working in the company - but they do own it via a bunch of "Stiftungen". IIRC that construct was selected back then to make sure that spoiled brats can't fuck it up eventually.
Chefarzt wird eh dazugezogen wenn noetig - und fuer andere Behandlungen ist das nicht zwingend die beste Wahl weil der generell das bessere Wissen hat, aber Standardbehandlungen eher seltener durchfuehrt als die juengeren Aerzte. Wer dafuer bezahlen will dass der sich das immer anschauen will soll das doch gerne tun.
Grob alles was nicht medizinisch noetig ist, aber was Leute eventuell wollen kann man separat anbieten. Zum Beispiel als Sportler - ich kenn da einige die einfach um absolut sicher zu gehen auch bei Kleinzeug gerne ein CT haben wollen.
Zeug wie Sehhilfen, Zahnersatz und aehnliches sehe ich auch so dass die Grundversorgung von der gesetzlichen Krankenkasse getragen werden sollte. Ich bin stark kurzsichtig - ohne Sehhilfe bin ich nutzlos. Wieso das nicht als eine milde Behinderung angesehen wird bei der wenigstens die billigste Methode zur Abhilfe finanziert wird hat sich mir noch nie erschlossen.
Moscow
Just nuke Moscow, and send a message to the Germans and Japanese to surrender, or they'll be next.
Man sollte sie daher eher als zweckgebundene Steuer und nicht als normale Versicherung sehen.
Man sollte das einfach ueber die Steuern machen - dass es jetzt diverse Krankenversicherungen gibt die in einer Wettbewerbssimulation zueinander stehen ist auch einfach nur Resourcenverschwendung. Privatversicherung hat durchaus seinen Platz - aber nur als Zusatzversicherungen, die Grundversicherung sollte fuer alle steuerfinanziert sein, und an den Wohnsitz in Deutschland geknuepft werden.
You're joking, but quite possibly he'd not even want to buy the one.
The owner family is very reclusive after a kidnapping in the 70s - but we know at least that the founders were living relatively frugal.
Ownership of Aldi is by a handful of "stiftungen" - and one of the more recent judicial squabbles in the family were of one side accusing the other trying to pull more money out of Aldi than necessary to live a non frugal livestyle.
Don't get me wrong - they're billonaires, though probably quite limited liquid assets. But based on their behaviour they have a good chance to survive the revolution.
Funny thing is that the only reason I've found *arrs a few years ago was Netflix deciding to be stupid, making me look at how I can manage my local library better nowadays.
Performance of the snapdragons is roughly that of an i7 from a decade ago - so yes, it's a good machine for office tasks and light development, but in no way suitable for gaming. That's not a Windows problem, though, just the hardware is not suitable for that.
I've been using an Arm notebook with Windows for over a year now (not as main system, but development system for a customer project). I'm running a lot of x86 software (like Emacs) as a gcc port for Windows/Arm is being developed only now - with no problems. It integrates nicely into the native stuff - which is one area where you run into issues on the Mac: If you start a shell in rosetta it's annoying to make calls to native arm binaries.
The only issue I ran into were some drivers not available for Arm - emulation layer (unsurprisingly) just is for userland, not kernel drivers. Also x86 emulation isn't working well if Windows is running in a virtual machine on MacOS - but supposedly that'll be fixed in the upcoming Windows release.
All of this only applies to Windows 11 - if for some reason you decide to run Windows 10 on Arm you're in a world of pain.
Dann bist du halt vermutlich nicht arm.
Kann man so sehen - wobei ich eher sagen wuerde das war impliziert. Damit waere der Vorwurf an die Gruene dann dass sie die geistige Leistungsfaehigkeit von CDUlern ueberschaetzt hat - wodurch sich selbe eher geschmeichelt fuehlen sollten.
Ich finde eher dass die Unterstellung von CDU-Seite dass das die Gruene Idee von nem totalitaeren Staat waere sich etwas im Ton vergreift.
Und gerade bei den Konservativen haette ich erwartet dass da genug Bildung da ist um zu wissen dass die (temporaere) "Abschiebung" ungeliebter Politiker dort praktiziert wurde wo wir die Wurzeln der Demokratie sehen - im antiken Athen.
Wo kann ich spenden?
Screen is another thing - but I can live with that, mostly - it's a bit hard to find x86 notebooks with decent resolution (not talking retina style, just better than "1080p on a 14 inch display"). And while the screen itself is nice on the apples I'd prefer a lower resolution one if I can get a matte screen instead.
But fact is that nobody wants to sell you a proper x86 notebook. It's almost impossible to find something with more than 32GB of RAM, and while there are a few with more than 64GB they're all xeon based monsters larger than 16", as far as I can tell can't really be ordered, and have a price tag equal or larger to a full spec 14" mac book pro. And obviously you can't really think about battery life with intels space heaters.
It's especially sad as current mobile Ryzen CPUs could very well compete with Apples ARM CPUs - the one thing Apple is better at is the absolute low power state, as soon as it has too actually do something the power (and TDP) curve is very close to mobile Ryzen. But pretty much every manufacturer fucks up the thermal design, or gimps it in other ways.
Windows 11 has pretty good x86 emulation, both 32 and 64bit - imo better than what macos does with rosetta. Windows 10 for arm is just a pretty broken tech preview, though.
One exception nowadays: Business notebooks - and that's only because the rest of the notebook market went to shit. If you want a somewhat compact notebook with more than 64GB of RAM, decent CPU performance and good battery life Apple currently is the only one offering something.
At least she didn't mix it up with a real gun, like that german police officer.
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.
The problem is - is it just a mass storage device? Or is it maybe also a USB keyboard that will try to enter some payload? Or maybe it even contains a radio, and can communicate with an attacker nearby?
You can't tell from the outside which protocols a USB device implements.
You can fit all of that functionality into the space of a USB-A plug - so if it is a thumbdrive you have way more space to work with than you ever need.
At minimum restrict your computer to only loading mass storage drivers - but as you quite likely habe USB input devices it is just a lot easier to investigate such a device on something like a raspberry pi.
It still is mobile, it can go a bit up and down.
The space used by the smallest solar charger I've seen on Amazon seems to be similar to 6 or more batteries in the format the N900 was taking - so if you look at space, slow charging from solar charger, and reliance on sun conditions taking individual batteries seems to be the better option for a few days hike. It's also easier to stow individual batteries to wherever you still have space left.
Prusa slicer 2.8 UI changes
Screenshots of the UI changes on the Mac - in my opinion it is now just wasting a lot of screen estate for zero benefit.
On non-Macs they're adding an extra usability issue by hiding the top menu bar. I've gove back to 2.7.4 for now - fortunately I had my configuration in git.
Up to 2.7.4:
2.8.4:
Deutschlandwochen in Lidl Finnland
Vor ein paar Tagen gabs hier ein Post zu Deutschlandwochen im Lidl in Italien, wo einer aus Schweden und ich mich ueber das Layout gewundert haben.
Jetzt sind auch hier Deutschlandwochen - und anscheinend wurde generell das Packungslayout geaendert - frueher war das alles "Alpenfest", jetzt "taste of deutschland".
Einige Produkte haben sich auch geaendert - z.b. waren die Apfel/Kirsch/Pflaumenkuchen frueher grosse runde Kuchen, jetzt sinds mehrere Teile.
Und Maultaschen sind wieder nicht dabei.
A futuristic city
This is OpenDalle with img2img to make an existing picture into a futuristic city.
I took this picture at work a while ago, and it reminded me of cities with brutalist architecture we see in movies now and then, so I tried to get it made into one:
Other interesting attempts:
Forcing it to stay closer to the source made things look more like a highschool cardboard model:
IT security EDC bag
I've finally found a bag which nicely fits almost everything I want to carry every day, and alos makes everything easily accessible - it is about the same size as what I used to carry, but now I no longer need to dump everything out to find what I neede, even with some lose parts still in there.
Contents:
Center:
- 4 empty 64 microSD with SD adapter
- one rpi 2040 with USB-A interface
- headphones
- bag of female jumper cables, with male-male adapters
- a collection of the most used NFC keyfobs
Left side:
- USB-C cable with attached USB-A adapter (USB3, missing on picture)
- two USB-C to headphone adapters
- satechi USB-C power meter
- headphone splitter
- USB-C to SATA adapter
- USB-C smartcart reader
- VGA to HDMI
- USB Ninja (USB-C)
- proxmark3 with battery/bt
- collection of NFC magic cards
Right side:
- USB-C hub with charging port
- miniDP to HDMI
- small USB-C dock
- USB-C to whatever adapters (mini, micro, B, HDMI, ..)
- Chameleon ultra
- MPP pen
- Ninja USB remote
- USB-C to serial, connected via jumper cables
Import environment variables into Emacs from a shell or similar 'source of truth'
Import variables into emacs from the system environment - GitHub - bwachter/system-environment: Import variables into emacs from the system environment
I recently had to add a Mac to my zoo of hardware I'm trying to do productive work on - which prompted me to clean up and document my environment variable importer, which had grown to platform specific functions with lots of code duplication.
On both Windows and MacOS I have properly configured shells with all relevant variables - so it makes sense to query them, instead of duplicating the logic how they create that configuration into Emacs.
On Linux that'd have worked too, but I also have the relevant variables in the systemd user session, and querying that is a tiny bit faster than launching a shell.
What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?
I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it's pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that'd be rather time consuming.
Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can't ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.
edit: the high number of replies mentioning "swimming" made me realize that I had that filed as a basic skill pretty much everybody has - probably due to swimming lessons being a mandatory part of school education here.
Cover for old beam central vacuum sockets
My kids broke the flap on one of our sockets, so I had to look into getting them replaced.
Initially I tried to make them clip on to avoid having to remove the complete socket for future replacements, but that ended up either weakening the hinges too much, or making it impossible to attach it with the spring in the right position.
The gasket and O-ring are donated from the original flap:
The original flap and the first test prints to check if I got the dimensions right:
The whole thing is over on printables
Emacs keybindings addon for Firefox
I'm currently in the process of taking over as maintainer for the emacs-keybindings addon for Firefox.
I've just published the first update in years, with changes including:
- tested on Windows and Linux now
- some functionality is now configurable: debug logging, custom new tab page, experimental features, modifier-less high level bindings
- all keybindings are listed in the options settings page
- M- keybindings are now also reachable via ESC
- M-< and M-> was added for scrolling to top/bottom
- introducing prefix key, currently only used for opening/closing of windows (C-u C-x C-f or C-u C-k)
- search is introduced as experimental feature - currently it just highlights all matches
- the extension now registers as browser action in preparation for additional features
Unfortunately a lot of things that used to work with the old XUL plugins few years back just don't work with the new APIs - and Firefox developers have been sitting on relevant bugs for 8 years or more without anything happening now - so this is probably close to the best we can have for now. In combination with setting editing keybindings either via Gnome settings or AHK it makes browsing almost bearable again.
Heidelbeerkuchen
Die Kinder waren vorher im Wald und haben Heidelbeeren mitgebracht. Daher musste ich jetzt ungeplant schnell einen Kuchen machen.
Falls ihr das nachbauen wollt sollten eure Kinder so 250-300g Beeren aus dem Wald holen.
Boden: Normaler Muerbteig (200g Mehl, 75g Puderzucker, 75g Butter, 1TL Backpulver, 1 Ei)
Fuellung: 250g Quark, 50g Puderzucker, 2 Eier
Fuellung aufschlagen, ggf. etwas Vanillezucker dazu. Ich hatte nur 200g Quark, aber dafuer noch etwa 50g Vanillesosse uebrig, das tuts dann auch.
Beeren unterheben, Fuellung auf den ausgerollten und an den Seiten hochgezogenen Teig geben, im vorgeheizten Backofen bei 180 Grad etwa 45 Minuten backen. Aus der Form nehmen und auf einem Gitter abkuehlen lassen.
Excluding elements from search results when using find.find
On the off chance somebody here is familiar with this API: I've spent some time trying to make using browsers somewhat bearable, and tried - with limited success - to re-implement search using find.find, with the search input in a HTML dialog.
The problem with this approach is that the search query itself is treated as part of the results:
So far I haven't seen a way to have that excluded. Does anybody have ideas outside of "throw this away and reimplement with JavaScript"?
The code is here
Nuernberger vom Grill, auf der Terasse...
... mit Nudeln, Krautsalat und Ketchup.
Unklar ob das gegen Regeln 1, 2 und 3 verstoesst.
Pizza
This is a backup of this imgur album
First cheese only pizza in...
... and out.
Mushrooms, tuna and scallions
First of two cheese pizzas to finish
Workstation (after cleaning), oven and final pizza
Final cheese pizza for the day.
Pentax 645N in a Manfrotto Active Sling I
This post mirrors my old imgur post on transporting my 645N.
My old Rowi bag. While it fits it's not an ideal bag for such a big camera.
I've been looking for a while for a better bag now - but many quite obviously can't handle the 645, or are too expensive and not locally available to just give it a try. About a week ago I discovered the Active Sling I. Manfrotto seems to be phasing the Active Sling I out - I've seen it available in multiple places quite cheap, and got a new one for under 30 EUR. Cheap enough to just order it to see if it's usable with the 645 - worst case I'll have a fancy bag for my 35mm cameras.
I can just fit the 75mm lens.
It does have side pockets in just the right size for an 645 film holder, though.
Length of the Manfrotto bag pretty much exactly fits a 645z with the 45-85 FA lens. The compartment on the left is pretty much gone, and just usable for something like a thin filter or papers.
This configuration requires that the camera is in the bag with the grip facing downwards. While not ideal it's still easy to remove it on the lens, and provides some additional storage space.
The space is enough for the 2x teleconverter and the 75mm FA lens. Pretty much what I'd like to carry with me as 'reduced' gear. The 75mm lens weighs next to nothing, but is very useful in low light situations.
Having a small opening on the bottom half of the side would make accessing the lenses a bit easier. I think the new model of this bag does have this, though I'm not sure if it's on the right side for this kind of configuration.
The 645N has a bit more space, both to the front and the side.
The bag doesn't have big external compartments, but there's enough space near the lens for one film insert. I might stick some velcro to the insert cover to keep it in place - that should be a solution I can live with.
It's not the perfect bag for this use case - but a step up from my old one. I'll still play around to see if I can find a better compartment configuration, but with the limited space there aren't that many options. If you're looking for a bag now and can get one of them for cheap I'd recommend giving it a try.
Just after initially publishing this album I noticed the product photo with a smaller format camera standing on its lens - something that never occurred to me as it doesn't fit with any of the bags I own.
I just tried it, and to my big surprise it just barely fits. The camera is a tiny bit higher, but the bag is flexible enough to still mostly close. That'll make the space in the bag much more useful.
Here's the bag closed. It's visible that the zipper is hardly closing, and needs some force to fully close. The red padding can't lie on top of the camera anymore - but does support the side quite nicely.
The 645N in upright position. The eye piece sticks out more than on the 645z, while the rest is a tiny bit smaller. I couldn't close the bag with the viewfinder on the left, like I put the 645z in.
I assume with the regular eye piece this would be a bit easier.
Bonus picture: The 'living dangerous' no padding bag for just quickly taking the camera only.
Using original 645 focusing screens in 645N/D/Z
This post mirrors my old imgur post on how to use original 645 focusing screens in the newer cameras.
Left the 645Z default focusing screen, right the 645 focusing screen with split screen and micro prism ring (UC-21). Focusing screens for 645N/D/Z are compatible (though the screen mounting frame on the 645Z is easier to handle than on the N), the original 645 screen has the same size and thickness as the later screens, but only one tab instead of the later two - and that one tab at a different location.
There is a microprism focusing screen for the 645N (AA-82) as well as a split screen focusing screen (AB-82), but both of them are almost impossible to find, and if they're available, ridiculously expensive - easily over EUR 200. The UC-21 on the other hand can be had for around 30 EUR, including shipping.
From this angle the tabs are easier to see.
To make the original screen 645N/D/Z compatible the notch needs to come off. I've found using an X-Acto knife to prepare the breaking point, and then just breaking it off with my multitool worked very well. It may be necessary to scrape a bit off the edge with the knife after breaking it off, though it doesn't need to be fully smooth to fit.
Important is to fit the screen with the right side up, otherwise focusing will not be accurate. In both old and new screens the notch is on the right side.
With the notch gone it's not easily possible to use the included tweezers to handle the screen - though even with the notch there they're not ideal. I recommend simply wearing cotton lab gloves, and using your fingers.
A crappy through the viewfinder image with the screen installed. The viewfinder seems to be slightly darker, but manual focusing with both microprism ring and the split screen works perfectly. Both the picture on the matte screen and the autofocus agree with those focusing aids, as does the final picture.
