Franz Reichelt, the Flying Tailor, seemed to be pretty sure he could fly when, in 1912, he tried testing a wingsuit he designed himself. By jumping from the Eiffel Tower. He could not fly.

Dazu sei auch noch spaceweather.com erwähnt. Verwendet die gleiche Datenbasis, aber ordnet zusätzlich noch alle größeren Ereignisse verständlich ein.

Es sollte aber auch gesagt sein, dass beide Seiten nicht alle Polarlichter vorhersagen können. Die Aurora Forecast hatte beispielsweise für den 19.01. keine Polarlichter für Deutschland angekündigt, obwohl sie ja praktisch im ganzen Land sichtbar waren (ich nehme an, dass das an der ungewöhnlich hohen Geschwindigkeit des CMEs lag). Also wenn man hört, dass die Sonne etwas in unsere Richtung gespuckt hat, kann es sich trotz schlechter Vorhersage lohnen, mal nach draußen zu gehen und in den Himmel zu schauen.

I see what you mean, but your belief that making chocolate from cocoa is „extremely trivial“ is simply wrong. For example, conching was invented in Europe and without it, chocolate would taste and feel totally different. The process is so important and difficult to get right, it often makes the biggest difference in chocolate quality to this day.

I‘d like to add Zotter to the list. Really good chocolate plus they only use ingredients from organic cultivation and pay their suppliers well.

Your point being? This community isn‘t about exclusively promoting products that don’t have any ingredients from outside of Europe.

I can‘t find the specific video where it came up, but I remember Chet Faliszek, who worked at Valve from 2005 to 2017, mentioning, that Gaben‘s death is something that has been planned for and won‘t be as much of an issue for Valve as people might think.

It‘s of course in no way guaranteed to work out in the end, I don‘t know the specifics of the plans or if everyone‘s going to go along with them. But seeing how well Valve is doing and also how little Gaben actually seems to steer the company, I‘m somewhat optimistic that it‘ll be fine after his passing. Not optimistic enough not to have my most beloved Steam games backed up somewhere, of course, but still somewhat optimistic.

I think this really depends on the company’s culture and size. From my experience, having only worked in smaller teams, I’d say trying to partake in management duties proactively has probably been most successful for colleagues who wanted to lead.

So when your boss or supervisor has a meeting about your product, ask if you can join. If you have a well thought-out idea on how to improve things, like introducing better processes, fixing recurring issues, introducing better tools or something like that, talk about it. Being visible as someone who genuinely cares about the success of your team, product and company is, in my experience, probably the most important thing.

Just make sure this is actually what you want. Depending on the company, you might end up doing very little programming and lots of spreadsheets and misery instead. Find out what’s keeping your current team lead busy and ask yourself if that’s really what you want to do.

Mich haben bei diesem Thema zwei Dinge positiv überrascht.

Erstens zeigt das Gift-und-Galle-Spucken der US-Lobbyisten, dass das in Europa wachsende Verlangen nach digitaler Unabhängigkeit inzwischen wirklich ein ernstzunehmendes Problem für die Big-Tech-Konzerne ist. Zweitens lässt sich die Schweiz von diesen aggressiven Lobbyisten offenbar größtenteils nicht beirren und arbeitet weiter auf allen Ebenen an tatsächlicher digitaler Souveränität.

Es ist wahrscheinlich einer der wenigen Verdienste der aktuellen US-Politik, dass im Rest der Welt endlich eine Sensibilisierung für problematische technologische Abhängigkeiten geschaffen wird, wenn auch komplett unbeabsichtigt.

I believe it‘s even more strict than that (insert obligatory I am not a lawyer here).

For military commands, German soldiers must not obey orders that would constitute a criminal offense (§11(2) SG). Outside of that, the respective laws for civil servants are applicable (§11(3) SG). These laws, specifically §63 BBG, contain an obligation to object to illegal orders (Remonstrationspflicht). If a civil servant doesn‘t object, they are personally responsible for their actions.

So it‘s not just an option to object to unlawful orders, it‘s an obligation.

I wonder where this 15% figure comes from. All the research I can find estimates the probability for these disorders at around 2-4% for first degree cousins. This is about the same as becoming a mother at 40 with a non-related man.

The article only talks about some NHS training documents and is very opinionated in style. Smells like a snappy headline about a controversial topic was more important than proper research.

Gut, dass Heise das Thema aufgreift. Wäre schön, wenn das in den Medien grundsätzlich auch entsprechend benannt werden würde. Etwa so:

„Wir brauchen mehr Stopp-Schilder gegen Kindesmissbrauch im Internet!!“, schrieb Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen auf der für Deepfake- und Kinderpornografie bekannten Plattform X.

Ist natürlich sehr plakativ formuliert, aber es sollte doch medial nicht einfach wegignoriert werden, dass Politiker eine Plattform mit ihrer Präsenz fördern, die eindeutig und mit voller Absicht schwerste Gesetzesbrüche begeht.