If you want to work with the original project, you have to push to the server that controls the original project.

For each project there is one authoritative instance, one “server” that everyone pushes to. Otherwise you get chaos.

I’ll use the cliche meme of “I was today years old when I learned where the name comes from”. Just made the connection when I read this article, and I love Pulp Fiction.

But I too am not a native English speaker. Just always accepted the clunky acronym as the reason for the name.

In the railway context an engineer was the person who worked the engine.

In German the word comes from Latin roughly meaning inventor. Presumably the general usage of the word engineer in English has the same etymology.

So? The majority of the rest of the Christian world follows the Pope.

Cybersecurity costs would also likely go down due to most malware being exploited isn’t targeting desktop Linux.

Which is going to change once any sort of widespread adoption happens.

But at least in my circles, malware really isn’t that big of a deal in security. Phishing is where the danger is these days, where the costs occur.

If the traffic plummets, YouTube wins. Serving content to ad-blocking users only costs them money. They don’t want those users.

I would be bowled over if any el stations had them.

I like that expression, I’m going to steal that.

These train displays haven’t changed in probably 30 years here. Vienna also has a bunch ofthese public clocks on big intersections and squares.

Really? Where are you located? I walk past three clocks on the way from my office to the metro station alone.

But that’s the thing. When that Video was made, almost all of the advertising was focused on the same BS the article is disagreeing with.

I remember lots of NordVPN ads by uninformed nontechnical creators just reading the provided script. Saying that Balaklava wearing hackers will steal your credit card data just by being in the same cafe as you, and only an expensive VPN subscription can protect you from that. Or that only using a VPN will protect you from malware.

This sort of advertising is what Tom Scott critizied back then. IIRC he even said that there are real use cases, but that you shouldn’t believe the fearmongering. Same as the article.

The fearmongering advertising was the problem, not advertising the service itself.

Normal seats on night trains suck, that’s the first thing that comes to mind. If you ever take a night train on your interrail journeys, pay extra for a bed.

I’ve been exclusively travelling by train for many years, it’s pretty great. Europe has a lot of places to see.

You should come to terms with the fact that not everyone is an anarchist and believes that any form of the concept of a state is by itself evil.

Learn Austrian German instead, all you need is the dialect version of Alter: Oida

I feel you. When I go to Hungary, my brain breaks. In most surrounding countries, I can sort of guess common words. “Exit” is more or less the same word (vychod) in all nearby Slavic languages for example. And then there’s Hungarian where it’s probably szönözökémül or something.

Sounds like the relationship between German and Dutch. To me as an Austrian, Dutch sounds like a drunk northern German speaking half English.

No JavaScript or ads. (…) Prevents Wikipedia getting your IP address.

Wikipedia is light on JavaScript and has never had ads. You prevent Wikipedia from getting your IP address but instead reveal it to some random third party, combined with letting them know everything you look up.

What the hell is the point of this. All this does it confuse people and decrease privacy.

What lights do you use?

We need a badwomensanatomy community for that title.

Chill mate I’m not even from the US. There still is no practical use for this.

Concorde wasn’t profitable in the long run. Nowadays with video conferencing, even less people need to show up to a transatlantic business meeting.

Unlikely this makes financial sense.