Lufthansa cancelled our flights a few hours before departure and suggested via automated mail to instead take a train. From Hamburg to Venice.
That got me interested, but it takes about 15 hours to get there. On the other hand it's just 1200 km.
I wish we had a European high-speed train backbone, connecting all the big cities or similar. I would use it, even if the travel times would be twice as long and the prices twice as much as flying.
@vollkorn Amen! I love riding trains and prefer them over flying, but it’s mind-boggling how needlessly frustrating and needlessly expensive it currently is to book long-distance train travel within Europe.
I’m not even just talking about the price of the ticket, but also things like: ending up buying expensive last-minute tickets for connecting trains, because operator Y of leg B will not give a fsck if you miss your connecting train due to delays by operator X on leg A 😔
@lcamtuf “ no other topic caused as much cynicism and angst as the question of performance management” - yes hello, it is me, the reorg, and I would like a word please.
@ct_bergstrom the second one would probably have an interesting effect when hung on a wall to the right of another photo, because the visual element that is the focus point (the bird’s head, with its pointy shape) is guiding the viewer’s gaze outside of the photo. It’s actually mildly disturbing when there’s nothing to the left of the photo 😅
Die Zahl der in der Landwirtschaft tätigen Personen in Deutschland incl. (!) Saisonarbeit ist <1 Million. Wenn die keine Traktoren hätten würde es niemanden interessieren. Praktisch jede andere halbwegs relevante Berufsgruppe ist größer.
@jaybaltz@ct_bergstrom not trying to be confrontational, I’m genuinely curious: how did you determine that none of the reviews you got back were done by grad students?
@dymaxion 🤔 fair point, the context of sex is also acceptable I guess. Although tbh, “appetite” is so tainted to me now that I don’t like hearing it at all anymore.
So, wo will man denn jetzt in #Berlin seinen #Covid#Booster käuflich erwerben? Ich hab keinen Hausarzt und selbst wenn, wäre ja nicht mal klar, wer überhaupt noch impft. Es wird einem ja wirklich schwer gemacht.
Edit/Update: Danke für eure Empfehlungen. Ich habe jetzt einen Termin in der Panorama-Apotheke am Alex bekommen. Für Termin anrufen reicht. Es empfiehlt sich, gleich für 6 Leute zu buchen, weil das eine Vial ist, die sie dann für euch öffnen können, ohne was wegwerfen zu müssen.
I would really like it if I could buy combined train-flight trips that have the same privileges as multi-leg flight trips - that is, if I miss the connecting flight due to a delayed train, I’ll just get booked on the next flight without fuss or having to buy a whole new flight ticket.
I’d like that, because I’d very much like to avoid short-haul flights such as BER-FRA, but as it is, the likelihood of having to buy a new last-minute flight ticket is pretty high.
@promovicz hmmm. Not ideal, but I guess I’d be ok with that option too - if flight-flight became equivalent to train-flight because flight-flight loses privileges.
This is absolutely crazy stuff. Chinese hackers were able to get into a bunch of government email accounts by forging Microsoft access tokens, but how it happened is wild.
Apparently an internal Microsoft system responsible for signing consumer access tokens crashed, then a bug in the crash dump generator caused the secret key to be written to the crash dump. Microsoft's secondary system for detecting sensitive data in crash dumps also failed, allowing the crash dump to be moved from an isolated network to the corporate one. The Chinese hackers compromised a Microsoft engineer's account and were able to get a hold of the crash dump. They were not only able to find the key and figure out that it's responsible for signing consumer access tokens, but were also able to exploit a software bug to use it to sign enterprise access tokens too, basically giving them the keys to the kingdom.
So many security system had to fail for this to happen. Either the hackers were very lucky or extremely patient.
@malwaretech o_O I’ve had vastly more solid attack chains dismissed as “too unlikely”. No more! 😈
But seriously, there has got to be more to this story.
Wildlife am #ArschDerHeide: Polyphylla fullo, Walker oder Türkischer Maikäfer. Er bewohnt sandige Lebensräume, wie etwa den Rand von sonnigen Kiefernwäldern, Weinberge oder Dünen. Well, well, @li5a
Anyone got experience with or can relate to the following?
I’ve lately been itching to go back to uni, to the point where it’s driving me a bit nuts. Since the opportunity cost of a move like that would be quite high, I’ve been trying to figure out what I’m really looking for here.
I think it’s the idea of having learning as a job again for a while, instead of having to get my learning in on the side and always in a rush. Plus, having peers to talk to who also have learning as their main job.
@playinprogress amen on that last point. which leads to certain challenges in the “gainful employment” department.
Soooo… have you found a way to resolve that for yourself? 😬