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  • And a 80k$ salary in France amounts to around 125k$ cost for the employer. So 170k$ isn’t that much - I actually know French developers and network engineers that make similar money. The French ITsec architect I interviewed last year would have cost me (converted) around 150k$.

    So 170k$ is absolutely not out of the normal range here.

    Talking about France: The French government could start to properly support matrix.org as they use it for tChap. The same goes for Germany with the “Behördenmessenger”






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    8 days ago

    I am a paramedic for more than 2 decades now,but work in an office most days now. I have cared for (and in 2 cases declared death on scene) more people than I have fingers who fell off these. Besides two, neither of them was responsible for the fall.

    2 cases of a hydraulic rupture (which leads to the platform going down fast and uneven. The harness is also meant to keep you close to the platform so you don’t fall in between the elements.) 1 being raised stupidly,pushing a load onto their coworker(that was DOA) 1 fall due to being hit by a coworker with a part (DOA after 7m faceplant) And a fair share of units being hit by forklifts, trucks or similar things.

    … OSHA rules are written in blood. And often the victims are not the ones who caused it.



  • Easiest way is to use a tasmota based power plug. They need to calibrated once,but then are pretty reliable and can be found for 15 bucks.

    Nous A1T (or similar nous,but watch out for the T at the end, Z is zigbee) is popular in central europe. They are well built and cheap as fuck. But again,they need to be calibrated once which you need a steady user (e.g an old incandescent light bulb ) and a multimeter for… It’s easy and only needs to be done once.

    Another option are the Inter-Tech PDUs, they costs around a 100 Bucks, are fully IP, can switch channels but only measure the consumption of the whole strip. If you have a more advanced USV they often have a total power consumption measurement.

    If you want to go all in you need to look for “switched and metered” PDUs, but they are fucking expensive. The Cyberpower PDU81005 is the cheapest “good” one and is over 400 bucks here . So… Most people won’t do that,even in a professional setting.


  • The admin basically ran it as a one man show with only one other admin who had very limited privileges. He then went on a “business trip” or workaction or longterm vacation - there were different stories. Anyway, the database went belly up, the other admin couldn’t do a thing and none could contact the admin. There are some rumours that he wasn’t who he claimed he was and actually was a Chinese national who simply returned home, but who knows that. As a matter of fact none had any meaningful contact with him for months then and it appears he did not return. (But is alive)

    A Austrian NGO who amongst others does host some mastodon instances,etc. took over and now feddit.org is on a very productive, professional and transparent level.


  • I “broke into” a room I officially had been given a key to by the headmaster.

    I was the new head of our student newspaper at the time and as such had been given a key to the room. The former head didn’t go out in good graces and hated my guts. And claimed I came in before I officially was the head and stole something from him. In reality I had cleaned up the crazy mess he left -partially with the help of a teacher.

    …well, the former head was well connected, I wasn’t as I was a troublemaker and the administration loved to have a cause to kick me out.

    Funnily enough I did enough other shit to warrant that…but they didn’t catch me with that…



  • Healthcare professional with some experience in mental health and emergency medicine here: This is the way to go . Your problem is NOT the noise. The noise is a nuisance but not dangerous. The fixation on your brother is. Because there is a high risk here,that once “noise” doesn’t cut it from the point of view of the patient, he will resolve to other means.

    As said before:

    • Document everything, make a detailed protocol about everything he does or says towards you.

    • Call the police, especially when he threatens you or your brother or claims he is intruding. Make sure that every member of your household is as polite as possible to the officers. If they refuse to do something accept this but kindly ask for their names or collar numbers and the name of their chief constable. Then write a very polite letter to the CC making it clear that you understand the difficulties the officers face but how you feel threatened and miserable and ask for help and advice to resolve this. (Why being polite? Because then it is nearly impossible for any copper to frame this as a *neighbours dispute" or anything - and coppers in the UK are far more inclined to help “members of the public” they see as pure victims themselves)

    • Depending on where in the UK you live contact your “Single Point of Access” mental health team. They are, well, the single point of access for mental health and by definition also are the contact points for friends,family,etc. of mental health patients.There is a good chance of them already knowing him, so that might help. Also,if your mom gets sicker from the whole ordeal, call her an ambulance - more freely than normal, to get that on the file. (And yes,I know this is a moral grey zone)

    • Call your council both in terms of mental health and nuisance laws. Be nice,but pressure them to do something.

    • Find out who the landlord of the neighbour is (if he doesn’t own) and contact him as well as your own landlord.

    Again,let me repeat: The noise is not your problem. The noise is just a symptom of your problem and when the noise goes away and the problem is not resolved something else will come up - very likely something worse.









  • Tbh, the current ones are pretty fantastic - and I find 100€ for the B/W verso and 140€ for the colour one still “reasonably cheap”.

    So far they have eaten anything I gave them to read, work with calibre web (sadly only for download,not sync, but that’s not PBs fault), support the German Onleihe (public library ebooks… fantastic system getting you hundred thousand of books,often for less than 20€/year or even free) and the battery is rock solid.

    So,I don’t really understand the point of the discussion. I am an absolute early adopter with E-readers and can’t remember any cheaper offers on readers that weren’t Amazon’s “bait” ads to sell you kindle unlimited,etc.