Is it though? As long as one is relatively reasonable. There’s even gun communities here, even if they’re pretty dead at the moment. Time for me to come up with some memes maybe.

A group of american settlers got stuck there in winter and did some cannibalism to survive. I watched a YouTube “documentary” once.

Ahmet has English subtitles on many videos, so check out one of his recipes. Turkish man living in Germany, an absolute dad. Makes good food and cracks corny jokes while doing it.

bigclive, the most famous bear from the Isle of Man.

Money. Lots and lots of it.

Hosting video on a significant scale is very expensive. Stupendously expensive.

Convincing people to join is also going to cost a lot of money. Consumers are on YT because creators are there, and they are already used to the platform. Creators are there because the consumers are there. And there is a robust infrastructure to make a living from content creation.

Financing is especially difficult for such a project, because companies are willing to pay way more for targeted ads. For which you need some data about your users. The more data you collect, the better the and targeting can be, the more companies are willing to pay.
Assuming there are enough users for companies to pay for advertising at all.

If you want to work with the original project, you have to push to the server that controls the original project.

For each project there is one authoritative instance, one “server” that everyone pushes to. Otherwise you get chaos.

Ja dann halt nicht. Eh klar dass solche Kommentare kommen wenn man versucht Feedback zu geben. Back to lurking.

Bitte um Himmels Willen keine communities die nur von Nachrichten-bots bewohnt sind, mit denen eh niemand interagiert. Sowas zählt bei mir als Spam.

Dass eine DACH Community sehr Deutschland-lastig wird ist unvermeidbar, weil die Deutschen halt den Großteil des deutschsprachigen Internets stellen. Finds aber schade wenn eine explizit für DACH gemeinte Community fast nur als “Deutschland-community” verwendet wird. Auf r/de geh ich als Österreicher garnicht zum Beispiel.

Keine Ahnung was man dagegen tun kann, just my two cents.

Dunno if you’re German or Austrian or something, but in Vienna there is a Ziegelmuseum whose curator studies the history of bricks, how they were made and used and whatnot. They have a long list of brick makers in Austria, when they were active and so on.

If you’re in another country, they could maybe help get you in contact with a historian local to you.

Could help you learn more about your mystery brick.

Fellow Viennese person detected, must post song Workers Of Vienna https://youtu.be/A95Gu39oBrI

I’ll use the cliche meme of “I was today years old when I learned where the name comes from”. Just made the connection when I read this article, and I love Pulp Fiction.

But I too am not a native English speaker. Just always accepted the clunky acronym as the reason for the name.

I remember a talk a few years ago where someone engineered controlled detonations to destroy a single server in a rack without damaging any surrounding equipment. Was pretty fun to follow the engineering.

In the railway context an engineer was the person who worked the engine.

In German the word comes from Latin roughly meaning inventor. Presumably the general usage of the word engineer in English has the same etymology.

Please share more of your collection. I’m enjoying these.

Very often they do. Many of these internal applications are from mainframe computer times when interacting with applications exclusively via the keyboard shortcuts was the norm. In most companies, they never dared to remove those because the Power Users are used to them for decades.

Problem is, few people are trained directly by those power users so they never learn those efficient shortcuts. And they are never well documented.

KeePass autotype is amazing for these situations. Very customizable.

Cybersecurity costs would also likely go down due to most malware being exploited isn’t targeting desktop Linux.

Which is going to change once any sort of widespread adoption happens.

But at least in my circles, malware really isn’t that big of a deal in security. Phishing is where the danger is these days, where the costs occur.