Georg Sebastian Voelker, German climate scientist. Views are my own.

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  • I’m rarely ever going below 21 kmh average (!) on my 16km commute. Of course I am going slow where it’s necessary and dangerous and try to be as responsible as possible. Nobody wants to get hurt. But using 20 km/h speed limits beyond local hot spots would be very unrealistic given a road bike easily reaches 40+ kmh on flat terrain without a mandatory speed gauge. And the latter is also a crucial obstacle. How should speed limits be enforced when people are not forced to mow their speed? And if they are not, what’s a number on a sign worth? I am guessing not much.




  • gsv@programming.devtoEurope@feddit.org•Petition to ban Israel from Eurovision
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    5 months ago

    I’m so tired of this. The idea is to unite in music and not to unite through not seeing someone there. Did Israel, the USA, the Hamas, etc. commit war crimes? Most likely (leaving it to the courts to rule that). And what do we gain by excluding Israeli artist from a music competition? Nothing but moving back into the comfort zone. The artist wouldn’t even be given a chance to criticize the own government.


  • I wanna give a shoutout to Manjaro, an arch based distro with a cascading testing cycle for better stability. That being said, I am using Arch and Manjaro for about a decade now and never really had any stability issues (in contrast to my tries with Ubuntu). The arch wiki stays one of the absolute best resources for Linux users on the internet, the rolling release ensures cutting edge Software, the AUR makes it very easy to provide community built packages. And then there’s Debian. Definitely my choice for servers.