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It’s not a matter of mechanism. It’s a matter of mindset. Until today the mindset wasn’t there. Maybe this will change.

I'm not convinced. If a company owner can get rich by selling their company to the devil himself, they will rationalise it so well that the employees will think it's helping humanity.

And the EU governments will be advertising it.. already happened in Greece… few companies with strong core tech were bought by Microsoft and the gov was “so happy” for the “success story”.

Everybody and their mother is using Gmail anyway


> Everybody and their mother is using Gmail anyway

Though that's one of the easy ones. Get your own domain and you're free to use whatever you want forever.


That's not as simple as it may seem. I've been running my own mailserver on an alternate domain for decades now and it is one thing to be receiving mail there but to send it is a nightmare. Google, Microsoft etc have made it all but impossible to get through their anti-spam measures to the point that they reject tons of perfectly good mail.

I have used Fastmail for years, and now Migadu for years as well. Never lost a single email?

That's not comparable at all.

In theory yes, in practice the messages from your random domain way too often end up in spam for Gmail and Outlook users, if they get delivered at all.

Friend of mine develops and runs eshops. Through word of mouth he runs like 60-70 right now. Big and small. He sells setup, etc and takes care of hosting and patching and developing new features.

The most money and the easiest ones come from hosting ;-) it’s like X amount per year so that they don’t have to worry about it. He runs two huge servers, and makes pretty good money at are going to increase over time.

But he had patience and will to do the dirty work early on. Now he is riding the wave.


Through commit messages. I can’t show our repo but most of the important decision made by the two top contributors have commit messages that look like ADRs. Sometimes five paragraphs long explain what was, why and what is.

Now with AI it’s a lot easier to ask the bot to put together the reason behind this or that by sharing commit history.


Great job :-)

Two years ago a woman in Greece phoned the police, begging for a patrol car because her ex was about to “kill her.” The officer mockingly replied, “Police cars aren’t taxis”. Seconds later she screamed, “He’s here! He’s going to kill me” (screams). She was murdered outside the police department moments later.

https://www.ertnews.gr/eidiseis/ellada/ag-anargyroi-plirofor...


Let me guess, dispatcher was NOT publicly prosecuted and jailed for life as accessory to murder?

Being bad at your job isn't the same as being an accessory.

But then again, doctors can be arrested for being bad at their job. As well as lawyers losing their license to practice. Maybe that's a standard we should hold to our supposed "public servants".


>Being bad at your job isn't the same as being an accessory.

Deliberately refusing to intervene when you have a duty to do so kind of is though, at least in a moral sense.

Although, reading the transcript in that article through a translator, it does not seem all that bad. The taxi comment is very early in the conversation, and the operator does immediately offer to send a patrol car to her home.

The operator also stays on the line, keeps collecting more information and does really not seem to do anything obviously wrong.

Even if they'd immediately acquiesced to her request to send a patrol car to drive her home, the car probably wouldn't have been there on time anyway.



IMO this is half-measures. You wanna a strong EU? Merge the salaries and living standards from the north the south and west to east. Germans workers shouldn't blackmailed by auto-motive companies leaving for Poland unless they accept smaller salaries and vice-versa polish workers shouldn't emigrate to Germany to find a decent salary, pension, etc.

Flat out these social differences and you'll have the social support you need to fight and/or collaborate as equal with everyone else. It's very simple.

ps. I'm not saying everybody should stay "put". But ppl shouldn't be migrating within the EU for these reasons. That was the initial goal anyway, then they started celebrating things that no one in the EU cares about as if it's something that matters (i.e. Apple vs EU dispute over the charger...)


> It's very simple.

Is it? I doubt it. There isn't a large country on earth where the salaries don't differ across regions.


It's probably the most complex and impossible to solve take, it's not even true in the US or any other place in the world.

It doesn't even work in a single country for the simple reason that governments have very different ideas how to redistribute taxes. If one country can't do it well, how could the EU?


This is the least simple thing. Countries aren't even flattened out within themselves, in the EU or US.

You wanna a strong US? Merge the salaries and living standards from New York to Flint Michigan.

Didn't think so.


Ah yes. The simple thing of fixing all societal issues.

I haven't come across a single list of problem from business orgs that lists EU or local taxes, even if particularly high (California, Canada?), as a problem.

Usually, high taxes go hand in hand with high quality welfare state. Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of business ppl are educated and understand the added value of an accessible publicly funded healthcare, pension and education system.

Commonly listed (and perennial business problems) are: unstable political environment (in the sense that tax law changes every four years, complex legal system, so long term planning is impossible), corruption (meaning you have to know who to bribe to get the job done), crime rates and lack of infrastructure.


Every list of problems I see from economists of all brands explaining why e.g. the UK has such poor economic performance and such a severe cost of living crisis mention the complexity and scale of taxation in the country first as a barrier to economic growth and cause of inflation.

Once a month is fine ("/etc/cron.monthly/zfs-scrub"):

    #!/bin/bash
    #
    # ZFS scrub script for monthly maintenance
    # Place in /etc/cron.monthly/zfs-scrub
    
    POOL="storage"
    TAG="zfs-scrub"
    
    # Log start
    logger -t "$TAG" -p user.notice "Starting ZFS scrub on pool: $POOL"
    
    # Run the scrub
    if /sbin/zpool scrub "$POOL"; then
        logger -t "$TAG" -p user.notice "ZFS scrub initiated successfully on pool: $POOL"
    else
        logger -t "$TAG" -p user.err "Failed to start ZFS scrub on pool: $POOL"
        exit 1
    fi
    
    exit 0

Didn't know about the logger script, looks nice. Can it wrap the launch of the scrub itself so that it logs like logger too, or do you separately track its stdout/stderr when something happens?

update: figured how you can improve that call to add logs to logger


The status of the pool is tracked by Prometheus though an ZFS exporter and faults are reported via alert manager & pushover.

Scrub doesn't log anything by default, you run it and it returns quickly... you have to get the results out of zpool status or through zed.

That script might do with the "-w" parameter passed to scrub. Then "zpool scrub" won't return until the scrub is finished.

Will try this one soon, ty!

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