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Re:Pass: Unix Password Manager on Sunday September 14, 2025 @01:39AM (#45237707)
I have no practical experience yet, but i evaluated the market for a password sharing solution for a team with similar requirements within an enterprise.

Another option in that area is https://www.passbolt.com/

It uses a public/private key approach, where the plain passwords never leave the local machine and shared passwords are re-encrypted with each users public key.

Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:03AM (#30501367)
I have been using Insomnia for a few years now but was blown away when a colleague told me i could right click the send button and get some additional features... Crazy UI anti pattern. There is no hint that this button has a secondary functionality.
Re:Geizhals – Tech Product Price Comparison and Tracking on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:06AM (#28492545)
I usually do that as well. But sometimes the properties of a product are not maintained correctly and you might miss out on certain manufacturers completely. Last time this happened to me was when looking for a new TV. Sony was completely filtered out although some of their TVs had all the features i was looking for.

TLDR: The (wrong) filter settings might make you blind for the whole range of the market.

Re:Why Russians do not smile (2002) on Saturday May 29, 2021 @06:31AM (#27324283)
I once had a similar situation with the question "Is everything OK?", which is slightly different from "How are you?".

I am a German living in Germany and i once caused a car crash that made another car spin into the ditch on the side of the road. That car was driven by a family of Russian heritage.

After getting out of the car i spoke to the other parties wife first and I asked "Is everything OK?" with what i ment: "Is there something very wrong beyond the things that are obviously wrong. Like, is your child bleeding to death or is it only the car damage."

But the woman did not understand it this way at all and was a little bit furious because to her obviously nothing was OK.

Of course she had every reason to be upset, but the likelihood of a German interpreting my question in a rude way would have been way lower.

Re:PostgreSQL EXPLAIN Output Explained on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:58PM (#27319779)
To get production EXPLAINS for problematic queries you can activate auto_explain on a postgres instance. For my transactional system i have set it up to log EXPLAINS for all queries that take more than 2000 ms.
Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020) on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:35AM (#26711014)
Take a look at this Postgres Extension: http://pghintplan.osdn.jp/pg_hint_plan.html

I am even using this with AWS RDS since it comes in the set of default extensions that can be activated.

Another example for keyword matching: I work on a German/Polish team. We sent money for a birthday present from Germany to Poland. Someone used the colleagues' nickname "Kuba" in the subject line. The Paypal account of the Polish colleague was blocked afterwards. But he could resolve the issue via support afaik.
Re:TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:15PM (#22908691)
Free alternative i have been using for some years now: https://dbeaver.io/

The community edition is updated more often than i would like and sometimes features break but bugs get fixed quickly and they add usefull stuff all the time.

Dont know what i would do if i was stuck with pgAdmin...

At least give a reason for your opinion! Otherwise you are just a troll: On your website you preach long investments in oil and gas.
There is a nice little tool to stop the reboots:

https://www.udse.de/en/windows-10-reboot-blocker

It changes the active hours every hour so that you will never be outside of active hours.

Re:PostgreSQL's Explain Analyze Made Readable on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:02AM (#19217715)
If you still would like a little bit of GUI take a look at https://dbeaver.io/
Re:EU fines Mastercard more than half a billion euros on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:52AM (#18969672)
Good to know. Then i am still wondering why there seems to be wider adoption of CC in Germany. Or maybe we are only reaching the CC adoption that other EU countries have already seen a long time ago...
Re:EU fines Mastercard more than half a billion euros on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:38AM (#18969521)
Nowadays credit and debit card fees are limited by the EU. Around 0.3% per transaction. A 10x reduction to before. Since then adoption of credit card payment has spread widely in German supermarkets.
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:28AM (#18325438)
The /s stands for sarcasm
Re:The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness on Saturday August 18, 2018 @07:25AM (#17788013)
DevOps is the managers dream where the engineer does operations on top of his engineering workload. Less people less cost.
One thing that irritates me about the political terminology in the US is the use of the word 'socialist' which often comes across as an insult.

In my opinion there are big differences between beeing 'social' and beeing "socialistic". [0]

The big german party SPD and even Die Linke rather fall into the category social than socialist.

[0] https://spfaust.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/socialism-vs-social...

As a free alternative to let's say WebStorm i have been using NetBeans for some time. It integrates HTML, JS, Angular and CSS in a usable way and has many plugins (browser js debugging, nodejs). It is worth a try.
Re:Germany's top publisher bows to Google in news licensing row on Thursday November 06, 2014 @06:12AM (#8566544)
Maybe they will take this to the Federal Cartel Office now: "See, Google has such a large impact on our revenue, they are a monopoly." Of course the "Leistungsschutzrecht" has been ridiculous from the start but it might help them to prove their point to take it further.
Re:Mozilla Stumbler 1.0 on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @06:13AM (#8526370)
The NOGAPPS project lists Mozilla Location Service support as an upcoming feature (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1715375).