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New comment by grundrausch3n in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

grundrausch3n — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:35:50 +0000

How is the Estonian system now? I remember when I visited around 2010 our host just had a quite simple smart card reader and could just use it to sign in to government services with their ID and as far as I remember even sign mails and documents. Germany of course could not use normal smart cards but had to use NFC cards with special readers and made the signing feature and additional service you had to pay for on a yearly basis. Of course the Germans system did not went anywhere for years. I do have a reader now and can use it for some governmental services and have very limited appetite to bind the ID to my phone.

New comment by grundrausch3n in "EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say"

grundrausch3n — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:56:55 +0000

You could get the number wrong. The quote stated that 60% of the companies use Suse to power some of the workloads. So if most of these companies would use Suse to host SAP, some have a few teams using Rancher and some (more so in Europe ) are using Sles you still get to these numbers even if most of them use RedHat for most of their workloads.

New comment by grundrausch3n in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"

grundrausch3n — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:26:20 +0000

I actually got a lot of Linux knowledge from the Suse handbooks, but when I was still buying a box in the book store because of slow internet connection in the beginning of the 2000. For Linux content nowadays the Arch wiki is still one of my most used resources although I did not use Arch in years.

New comment by grundrausch3n in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"

grundrausch3n — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:23:21 +0000

I kind of fear the same. At the same time I wonder if structured information will gain usefulness. Something like man pages are already a great resource for humans, but at same time could be used for autocompletion and for LLMs. Maybe not in the current format but in the same vein.

But longer form tutorials or even books with background might suffer more. I wonder how big the market of nice books on IT topics will be in the future. A wiki is probably in the worst place. It will not be changed with the MR like man pages could be and you do not get the same reward compared to publishing a book.

New comment by grundrausch3n in "Cloudflare was down"

grundrausch3n — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:10:16 +0000

I thought they are running classic FreeBSD servers like in ye olde times.

New comment by grundrausch3n in "The German language broke my website"

grundrausch3n — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 06:06:15 +0000

I am originally from north western Germany and they were everywhere, especially in 30km/h zones and play streets. We just called them Huckel and I never thought about an official term. I can not remember seeing any of them in Berlin though. Here they make you break by going left and right instead of up and down.

New comment by grundrausch3n in "Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer"

grundrausch3n — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:16:39 +0000

To be fair, I would personally welcome for these Foundations to move to more neutral countries. RISC V foundation moved to Switzerland because of the shenanigans concerning China. I would trust the Swiss government more to keep the spirit of Open Source/Free Software up than the US one.

Because the code is thought still owned by the devs, I do not know how much difference that would make.

New comment by grundrausch3n in "How I got my laser eye injury"

grundrausch3n — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 07:28:48 +0000

Technically basically all buildings in Germany (residential and commercial) run on 400V 3 phase power. But access to it via sockets is only common in residential homes via sockets in a garage. It gets more common with car charging although they rather use 3 x 230V as far as I am aware of.