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shasts | 1 year ago | on: I'm Done with Ubuntu

stat command gets the detail of when the OS was installed on the machine. uptime doesn't give that. I wanted to say that I have been using the same development machine at work for 4.5 years. "running" was not the right word for it, obviously.

shasts | 1 year ago | on: I'm Done with Ubuntu

Current work machine. Running fine for 4.5 years.

  $ stat / | grep "Birth" | sed 's/Birth: //g' | cut -b 2-11
  2020-06-20



  $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources
  # Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
  Types: deb deb-src
  URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
  Suites: unstable
  Components: main non-free contrib
  Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

  # Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
  Types: deb
  URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
  Suites: testing
  Components: main non-free non-free-firmware contrib
  Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
You may also want `apt-listbugs` package to see the serious bugs before running upgrade.

shasts | 2 years ago | on: German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation

This is quite possible, right?

For eg: if you work for a Swiss or US employer and make more than 69k(?), say 100k, as a freelancer, and have a family, you have to pay around 14%(upper limit somewhere around 1000) of the income as health insurance contribution.

I think it is costly. It is difficult to digest for me that the health insurance costs more than housing.

shasts | 2 years ago | on: Germany explores 4-day workweek amid labor shortage

Well I have acquaintances employed here too. And my wife's case is not a single one.

I have a friend who migrated from India and his wife used to work for a pharma/biotech firm back in India and had some temporary work here in Germany, when peak COVID happened, when pharma companies were hiring a lot.

She already has a master's degree from India and she has been undergoing further trainings supported by Job center, and still no luck.

shasts | 2 years ago | on: Germany explores 4-day workweek amid labor shortage

Can confirm this.

My wife has a master's degree in engineering from a TU9(top 9 universities in Germany).And a B2 language certificate. She has not found a job so far. Been more than a year and half since she started actively applying. At times she ticks all the requirements in the job description, and still no luck.

She is planning to go to a bakery starting next week. The guy at the bakery was so surprised to see someone with master's degree in engineering ready to work at a bakery. So the perception and reality is different.

Unless you are in IT/software development, it is hard to get a job. Traditional engineering disciplines are hard to break into.

shasts | 3 years ago | on: Automated data analysis for the prevention of criminal acts is unconstitutional

So how would fraud prevention be interpreted?

For eg: denying service from a German retailer depending on the ML prediction result of the transaction being classified as fraud probable(Germany has pay by invoice), would also be constitutional or not?

Or credit score/risk rating using ML, trained on a feature extracted from parameters like Zip code, ethnicity could also classified as automated data analysis for prevention of criminal acts, right?

Or this is only applicable to police?

shasts | 3 years ago | on: France fines Microsoft €60M for imposing advertising cookies

The websites make it so hard to reject cookies or selectively accept to make the website work for your benefit.

Quick google search about the effects of the law shows various studies done so far to assess the positive impact it brought.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/10/most-eu-cookie-consent-not...

I think the USB-C mandate also going to result in a similar implementation by companies.

Apple already setting the trend by going to have only wireless charging for phones.

https://youtu.be/jO83ARJiOfQ

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