vocworker

Well not directly from taxes, but still public money. It's great to see it that not all of it is spent on entertainment for old people ("Musikantenstadl") and sports.

Kind of validates how well public funding works for art and culture.

dpkg-reconfigure is really important and maybe a bit outdated, but definitely something users should know? I think it's also responsible for turning 'apt upgrade' into a little text adventure, e.g. by showing lots of prompts like "Do you want to replace/skip your sshd config"?

Isn't bsd grep very slow? I remember reading "why gnu grep is fast": https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...

System Ruby basically breaks "gem install", right? However once you install your own Ruby as a user, it's easy to use.

Interestingly, Ruby was the first language to improve on Perl's CPAN. Maven 2 was inspired by it.

For their age, bundler/gem do quite well.

Yes, the website (media.ccc.de) is https://github.com/voc/voctoweb/, but live streaming is actually a differennt project: https://github.com/voc/streaming-website

They do interact a bit, to make it seem more seamless.

Sure, extremely motivated individuals or governments might do that. But I'd still rate a distribution by it's default security settings. Being secure by default is important if you are shipping to thousands of users.

You probably got a bad mirror. Sadly we have no more mirrors in th US.