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New comment by computatrum in "Germany Forces Lexus to Remotely Kill Car Heating in Dead of Winter"

computatrum — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:26:55 +0000

Preheating is not in general forbidden in Germany, but you need a proper stationary heating system (can be even combustion based). Lexus probably has implemented it with the main combustion engine as remote start, which is a poor-man solution and considered inefficient and illegal.

New comment by computatrum in "A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it"

computatrum — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 05:28:10 +0000

The mentioned periodic clean up of tmp files is not enabled out-of-the-box in case of a upgrade from previous Debian versions, see https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.... .

New comment by computatrum in "Edit is now open source"

computatrum — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:31:45 +0000

It not only written in Rust, but they avoid basically any dependencies to third-party crates (beside the obligatory windows-sys/libc), optimizing probably for binary size. To achieve this, they seem to re-implement considerable parts of the rust ecosystem (own TUI library implementation, own unicode handling, own arena implementation, ...).

New comment by computatrum in "Boost your development environment with Ubuntu Multipass"

computatrum — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 05:33:38 +0000

It is used for building snap packages since some years and it worked most times but was not fully stable yet. Few times I had issues where I needed to restart the multipass daemon or even the host system.

New comment by computatrum in "Show HN: Magic-cli – A copilot for your command line"

computatrum — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 05:58:12 +0000

There is also https://github.com/TNG/please-cli

New comment by computatrum in "Largest Study of Its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices Are Widespread"

computatrum — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:37:02 +0000

The real security depends not only on the length and complexity of the password but also strongly on the used hashing algorithm and other measures like rate limits. Strongly focussing only on the password requirements is a bit short-eyed. Other factors like usability needs to be considered, too. I hope the still to published article consider this.

If modern algorithms like from the argon2 family are used with high workload settings, even shorter passwords could be safe if done properly.

Nevertheless, it is probably true that only very few follows current best practices.

New comment by computatrum in ".ga domain names soon to return to Gabonese management (from Freenom) [pdf]"

computatrum — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:20:19 +0000

Is there anything to do if you "own" a .GA domain? I registered once a free .GA domain via freenom and would like to keep it.

New comment by computatrum in "Germany will start one of the most affordable public transit offers in the world"

computatrum — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 19:35:10 +0000

Besides the mentioned possibilities, it also includes regional trains. It allows therefore to travel through whole Germany (of course usually slower than with the intercity trains that have less stops).

New comment by computatrum in "Ubuntu Bug 255161: Openoffice can’t print on Tuesdays"

computatrum — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:50:12 +0000

This reminds me to a a bug in pdftk that appeared only between April and December when Austria's localization is used: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pdftk/+bug/779908/...