Dunno if you’re German or Austrian or something, but in Vienna there is a Ziegelmuseum whose curator studies the history of bricks, how they were made and used and whatnot. They have a long list of brick makers in Austria, when they were active and so on.

If you’re in another country, they could maybe help get you in contact with a historian local to you.

Could help you learn more about your mystery brick.

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.

I remember a talk a few years ago where someone engineered controlled detonations to destroy a single server in a rack without damaging any surrounding equipment. Was pretty fun to follow the engineering.

I discovered Tinariwen through one of their live recordings. Pretty amazing stuff.

No worse than all the tech startup names tbh.

All of the USSR was +7 IIRC. Most changed it after independence, notice how the Baltics, Belarus and whatnot have previously unassigned three-character numbers instead of two like most of Europe (except microstates). They only got their numbers in the 90s, and no shorter ones were available. +37 just became available since east Germany didn’t exist anymore.

Same with the former Yugoslavian countries, all of YU used +38, when they split up they had to split up +38 too.

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.

Very often they do. Many of these internal applications are from mainframe computer times when interacting with applications exclusively via the keyboard shortcuts was the norm. In most companies, they never dared to remove those because the Power Users are used to them for decades.

Problem is, few people are trained directly by those power users so they never learn those efficient shortcuts. And they are never well documented.

KeePass autotype is amazing for these situations. Very customizable.

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.

Couldn’t tell you, what am I missing?

Is it legal in the US to store your guns in a nightstand or something? That’s insane.

Even so, that’s just irresponsible. It’s my duty to make sure nobody has access to my guns except if I personally give them access, after making sure they know how to handle them safely. Also, very illegal in my country, they check safe storage and if you don’t stick to it, you’ll lose your gun licence quickly.

Vienna found a weird workaround to make social housing not become slums: Let some influential people live there too. Don’t make it housing only for the poor. Make it housing for everyone.

In Vienna’s social housing, they mix almost all the social classes. Poor immigrants live there, as do young academics. Simple laborers live there, as do local politicians.

A government that doesn’t care can neglect a building full of folks who can’t stand up for themselves. They can not easily neglect a building that also houses outspoken, politically active educated folks. They can not easily neglect a building where some of them live themselves.

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.