For Germany, there’s also https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/index.html which lists the laws in their current version, similar to dejure, but well, the webpage is actually hosted by our government. It’s as official as you’re gonna get on the internet.

Hmm, well, no idea then. Maybe you do just not like the taste then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, like YAML, which’s name originally meant "Yet Another Markup Language*.

Then they redubbed it to mean “YAML Ain’t Markup Language”, because well, it isn’t actually a markup language. 🫠

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML#History_and_name

Same here in Germany, but only for the German word “Ingenieur”. You can call yourself “engineer”, no problem. 🥴

As I understand, there’s some genetic invariant, which makes them taste like literal shit to some folks. I think, the same is then true for broccoli and presumably other brassica cultivars…

A few years ago, a colleague had the title “software craftsman”, because he thought it was utter bullcrap to call our profession “software engineer”.
And yeah, now that I’m part of a project for a few years, I’m definitely feeling “software mechanic”. I might install half a spoiler every so often, but aside from that, it’s mostly just repairs…

Add computer science and you have a programmer.

I mean, while this definitely does happen in reality, in particular if you count data scientists towards programmers, I feel like I need to point out that neither knowing computer science, nor maths, makes you a good programmer.

In fact, if you tell me someone is a computer science professor, I will assume that they are a bad programmer, because programming takes practice, which is not something they’ll have time for.

Yeah, although it doesn’t mean that, say, the top 10 pop songs aren’t blander today than they were 50 years ago.

I’ve heard it argued that Spotify pushes songs to be blander, for example, because:

• they don’t typically get played back as part of an album anymore, so they’re more samey in that they all have to work as a single,
• you don’t want to be the song that stands out, where the user presses Skip, because Spotify will rank those lower, and
• lots of folks now consume music as background noise, so the intricacies of a guitar solo, which would’ve hit like a truck for active listeners, are often just drowned out by traffic noise or may just be too much to take in while you’re learning for school or whatever.

Having said all that, there is the flipside that the top 10 pop songs are less relevant than ever. You’ve got practically an infinite supply of songs to choose from, so you kind of just have to find the good stuff.
That is work, I admit, so I can understand a certain level of frustration, but yeah, it is also something to be excited about, that there is such a huge selection to choose from.

I always just do ss -ltnp | grep <port-number>, which filters well enough for my purposes and is a bit easier to remember…

I’m on NixOS for my personal laptop, too. I just tried it and well, #!/bin/bash apparently does not work, but #!/bin/sh does.

The file /bin/sh does also exist as a symlink for me:

> ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 73 14. Dez 19:50 /bin/sh -> /nix/store/35yc81pz0q5yba14lxhn5r3jx5yg6c3l-bash-interactive-5.3p3/bin/sh*

Does that point into the bash package for you, too?

Edit: And for #!/bin/bash, the output was:

> ./test
exec: Failed to execute process './test': The file specified the interpreter '/bin/bash', which is not an executable command.

Well, it won’t work for Kate, because Kate is implemented using the Qt framework, so will preferentially use the Qt theme on your system. You would have to try it on e.g. Inkscape, which uses the GTK framework. (I did just try it on Inkscape to confirm that.)

We’re getting into the technical details of how these applications are implemented, so I can’t make this any less confusing.
But basically, KDE generally uses Qt, but it also generates a GTK theme, so that Inkscape et al don’t look out of place.
Applications not specifically developed for Linux are likely to refer to that GTK theme for their own theming, even if they aren’t implemented in GTK themselves. Firefox also does this, for example.

UnityModManager seems to be implemented using neither Qt, nor GTK, but rather Microsoft’s .NET Framework. So, yeah, kind of no idea what it’s gonna do here.

You could try telling KDE to generate a specific GTK theme and see if that does anything: (There’s a button in the top-right of the screenshot.)

You may also want to see, if it’s maybe this issue: https://github.com/newman55/unity-mod-manager/issues/88

It wasn’t the menu item, but rather you’re order #67 in the waitlist to receive your food…

Neat. Makes it look like there’s four seals there.

I think, my brain broke from reading “fun science fact” followed up by “the North Pole elves”…

To give a quick highlight, because this case is often politicized and misrepresented:

The plaintiff, Stella Liebeck (1912–2004), a 79-year-old woman, purchased hot coffee from a McDonald’s restaurant, accidentally spilled it in her lap, and suffered third-degree burns in her pelvic region. She was hospitalized for eight days while undergoing skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment. […]

Liebeck’s attorneys argued that, at 180–190 °F (82–88 °C), McDonald’s coffee was defective, and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment.

So, the lawsuit never demanded McDonald’s to put a warning that you’re not supposed to spill hot coffee on yourself. It argued that it’s an unnecessary safety hazard, because the coffee was served at hazardous temperatures.
No matter how many warnings you put down, it can happen that someone spills coffee on themselves and they shouldn’t need to be hospitalized from that.

I think, it was a thing around the 50s, that women driving a car was seen as progressive?

Ah, found a source, which also says basically that: https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/1950s-women-with-automobiles.html

Fun fact: “Zweihänder” is just German for “two-hand-er”. 😅

I enjoy how “turd” rhymes with “bird”…

Kann mir gut vorstellen, dass ihn sein hirnbefreites Wettern gegen die Grünen einholt. Gibt viele CDU/CSU-Wähler*innen, die politisch einfach nur den Status Quo erhalten wollen und denen als Kinder eingetrichtert wurde, dass sie verdammt nochmal wählen gehen sollen, um die Nazis draußen zu halten.

Wenn dann aber Söder ernsthaft weiterhin auf der Unvereinbarkeit mit den Grünen beharrt, obwohl die Kooperation nötig wird, um die Nazis draußen zu halten, dann ist das genau dem Ziel widerläufig. Die werden das bestimmt nicht alle sofort kapieren, weil sie sich politisch nur bedingt informieren, aber es eröffnet eben das Spielfeld, so dass jemand Söder öffentlich bei diesem Punkt angreifen kann und dann bei den Langzeitwählern auch Gehör findet.

Runtimes/“VMs” like the JVM also allow nice things like stack traces. I don’t know about the author but I much prefer looking at a stack trace over “segmentation fault (core dumped)”. Having a runtime opens new possibilities for concurrency and parallelism too.

Rust has stacktraces without needing a runtime. Don’t ask me what exactly is going on behind the scenes, but there is a way to request a stacktrace for a given point in the program. And unless you’re doing embedded stuff, a stacktrace is automatically generated for errors.

And as for concurrency/parallelism, it’s correct what you wrote, but I just wanted to point out that it doesn’t have to be a language runtime. Using Rust as an example again, you typically spawn the Tokio async runtime on program start, if you’re gonna do async/await stuff.