[-] bloor@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

adding to this very good answer: especially in Europe legal, cultural and language borders can differ quite a bit due to history and geography. I'm from South Tyrol, an italian province at the Austrian border. The majority of people there speak a german dialect, we have german schools, public administration and everything, but are a language minority in Italy. The historic explanation is that after WW1 this region became part of Italy, taken fron Austria-Hungary.

Further there is a third official language in South Tyrol, basically only spoken in two valleys anymore, the "Ladin". It's a very old language, related to similar language island in adjacent italian provinces and Switzerland. Those languages basically just preserved themselves for geographic reasons (hard accessible valleys and mountains). for this reason those languages tend to differ already between to neighbouring valleys. I was tought, that most of South Tyrol spoke Ladin at some point, but after the Swiss turned Calvinistic, the catholic (and austrian) bishop of the region forced the south-tyroleans to speak german to distance them from the heretic Swiss.^^

During WW2 the fascists in Italy forced South Tyrol to speak italian and forbade everything german, including local, personal and family names; one reson certainly was to enforce this ideology of "one nation, one culture, one people".

Returning to OPs question: In South Tyrol there are german schools, where you learn italian and english as mandatory second languages, analogously for italian schools. Both languages are valid for any official entity (in theory). In the valleys mentiined above, they also have ladin schools.

[-] bloor@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

genau dieses ist mir letzte Woche passiert, ich dachte das ist inzwischen eine Sache der dunklen Vergangenheit, aber ja... PSA wenn ihr mal ein Führungszeugnis online beantragt auf www.fuehrungszeugnis.bund.de kein Passwort länger als 16-20 Zeichen eingeben.

Warum sie nicht eine zentrales Benutzerkonto einbinden wie, sagen wir mal, die Bund ID, z.B., oder die eID als Login, weil man sie ja eh schon braucht dafür, keine Ahnung. IT des Bundes oder so...

[-] bloor@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

besonders bitter, wenn das Samstag abends passiert.

[-] bloor@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

The reason for the dark storied in the original fairy tales is to teach a lesson, to stand as a warning for children intimidated by them. There is so much educational content in them which Disney cut out, stripping the tales from their original purpose. That's (one of the reasons) why I hate Disney.

[-] bloor@feddit.org 15 points 3 months ago

Don't you have a student council in America you can complain to about such stuff? From my experience studying in Germany (and even more so in Austria) the student council (oder student union) has very good connections to the administrative and scientific staff to pass feedback along and also get invited to (mandatory for the Uni) semesterly quality-assessment-circles to assess the "studibility" of the program, which also includes evaluating such processes.

[-] bloor@feddit.org 13 points 4 months ago

DAVx⁵ ist eine freie, quelloffene Anwendung, die das CalDav, CardDav und WebDav Protokoll sprechen kann. Das sind Protokolle um Kontakte, Kalender und andere Dinge (z.B. generische Dateien) über HTTP zu synchronisieren.

Z.B. kann man eine Nextcloud und dessen Kalender und Kontakte Funktionalität gut über dieses Protokoll verwenden.

[-] bloor@feddit.org 63 points 5 months ago

The problem with live traffic awareness is, that it needs a lot of data to be collected all the time, something only Google or Apple with their monopolistic and privacy invasive ppwer can do. How it works (simplified) is that Google can detect if a lot of phones are on the same street and therefore assumes traffic. This data is, however, proprietary to Google. A FOSS App has the following problems:

  • Too small of a userbase, to reliably track something
  • Privacy conscious userbase, not wanting to be tracked
  • If it had auch a feature, it would be opt-in, as FOSS does (usually) not try to be as evil as Google&Co.
  • Usually limited server capacity to calculate if an aggregation is traffic

Solutions would be:

  • Google is forced to make the data publicly available per API as part of some anti-monopolistic ruling
  • A thrid party (e.g. cities) have their own monitoring of traffic and give public access to it.

So sadly similar dunctionality will not come in the near future in any FOSS app.

bloor

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