Telemachus93

Sorry, haven't seen your reply earlier.

Well and Germans calling Barcelona "Bazelona".

Huh? You must have heard someone having no idea what they're talking about. :D

We write it the same as in Spanish... So we have an r sound in there, but typically we don't roll the r and instead pronounce it like the French. And we'll pronounce Spanish "c" like a sharp S, but there's plenty of Spanish and Latin American people doing the same. I have lived in Bogotá, I'm allowed to do this. :D

Yeah, but that's not unique to Americans or even the English language. In German we write it the same (Parmesan) and pronounce a soft s in that place.

No, that time's gone. The climate crisis will make sure that that sweet home you bought from your union wages won't survive until you're old... If you don't die early to starvation thanks to the collapse of agriculture.

What the actual fuck? This idiot may have his braindead opinions and do to his OSS project whatever he wants (so sag I wasn't on the list), but that is just such a fucked up thing to do.

I have found no indication that FreeBSD won't accept LLM-assisted contributions... On their wiki there is a small section about rules for a summer of code event, where they forbid it being used for coding, but just because that event is intended to be about learning... That doesn't sound like a clear "no" to all LLM contributions.

It's not ethnic essentialism to acknowledge that there are cultures that long knew of the dangers of exploiting the land too much and put more emphasis on sustainability in their usage of the land. Extractivism, colonialism and infinite growth are parts of our culture and culture can change as a result of conscious decisions. Indigenous cultures can be part of the motivation to do so at all and be inspiration for where to go instead.

Man, I despise Vassiliadis and his union. He's the worst the DGB has to offer, even though all of them (at the top) are bootlickers selling out the workers all the time.

Mh, I have an academic background in electrical engineering with focus on energy storage (primary), power electronics (and grids). I must say, in terms of academic knowledge the distinction made in that explanation is nonsense. MPPT devices also use pulse width modulation as an underlying technique but have another layer of feedback control on top. I also don't think that you can say that the power electronic circuits are generally different between the two. But of course that additional control layer probably means there's additional microelectronic circuitry.

HOWEVER, I know marketing people and maybe the distinction presented there makes sense when talking about actual products on the market and under which product categories they're sold...

It really depends on what you actually need, how much setup the IT department can manage and how well the change is communicated and managed, I guess.

We use it (i.e. the Element client) mostly for chatting and another open source solution (BigBlueButton) for online meetings, but voice and video calls are possible directly with Element. Matrix lacks the out of the box office product integration for collaborating on presentations, spreadsheets or text files that Teams has. It can be extended via widgets though, which includes at least etherpad and afaik there are options for nextcloud (which has collabora) integration as well, so with a bit of setup, even that could be emulated.

So that would of course require some setup and maintenance and if the company used Teams before, some training and help for the users as well.

I'm trying not to dox myself, but it's a university in Germany. :D

9-10 billion wouldn't be a problem if our food was mostly vegan... We'd even still have space left that we could rewild.

I'm so glad we use Matrix at work. Our IT department even tells us explicitly not to use Teams if we can avoid it.