The biggest ISP in Germany (Deutsche Telekom / T-Online) isn't openly peering at the biggest national peering point (DE-CIX) but instead is bullying everyone to directly connect to their own network.

If the other party doesn't want to pay up the packets to T-Online often get routed really strangely, often over the atlantic.

Funny thing is that the Telekom is publicly pushing for packets staying within national borders while they are the worst offenders and tech-illeterate politicians are joining up on that BS, they have been called out by tech media and the Chaos Computer Club but it didn't reach the general public (yet)

Hello Mr Sanger !

Do you remember when you felt really satisfied when working around technical limitations while implementing your artistic vision ?

Most scareware is built to only mess around within the users restraints which is more than enough to make the system unusable and getting gullible people to send 100 bucks into the Ukraine.

Someone bash into Microsofts skull that a UI has different demands depending how the main input is. I don't need my start menu spreading over my whole screen with ginournous buttons to pick an application.

Hell you could even diffentiate large table touch vs. portable touch devices, one approach just can't work great for all types.

Maybe the people competing in demo competitions ? Or do they go directly for Assembler, especially in contests with like 2KB or 64KB executable size.

So in an Village the T-Mobile sets up a tower. Suddenly people started complaining and pointed at the tower for the reason. The Telekom guys were baffled, imagining what would happen if they actually powered it up.

From at least least world war 2. Bomb shelters need to account for a lot of body heat on a small space.

If it plays 30-40 years after the original trilogy why not. They can't be that stupid to use them as protagonists.

Unless they set up Thrawn as an antagonist for a whole trilogy I doubt a single movie would do him justice.

Germany isn't Japan or Turkey. We have 2 Generations of teachers that got indoctrinated with "OUR FAULT OUR FAULT"

Actually over the years WoW went from the go-to MMORPG to a cause of massive eye rolling in geek circles.

Tvtropes calls it Viewer friendly interface

Will save us What idiot came up with this label anyway ?

Here in germany it is almost as bad, the products are called Bio-"whateveryoufancy"

I am interested in black background websites because they look prettier on OLED displays (Old Samsung Galaxy here as a reserve phone) . Readability should be driving the decision on the colours, not some % power saving.

On the German Autobahn, you can be fined for driving on the left lane for no reason because overtaking someone at his right is forbidden and a left lane sneaker can block a lot of faster traffic.

understanding tech is still nerdy