Up until recently I used dynamic DNS and it worked well for a small website and calender server (radicale).
For hosting an email server a static IP is all but required, so I got the free tier VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro VPS at Oracle Cloud. It has a static IP and I forward stuff to my rpi3 with dyndns. All you need for this is a credit card.
I am currently a physics student (in Germany) and have to tell you that people "throwing away their studies" is not something STEM-students are exempt from. In fact most physics students (at least in Germany) will go on and do something totally unrelated very soon after graduating. We graduate a lot more people than what are actually used in science and physics related industries. Of course some fraction of the aquired skills may also be useful in other jobs, but that applies to a lot of studies in the humanities as well.
The EU could probably spare a dime on Firefox and MDN, the US and other big nations too. I find public infrastructure of the internet is something I wouldn't mind my taxes being spent on.
Of course this opens another bag of problems of how to decide on which projects to finance how much or unwanted govermental influence on the projects. But I would still say it is a realistic alternative to corporate sponsors and patreon style funding.
"The alternative to the Works Council should have a representation of employees who are not only based in Germany, but also all other countries, including Brazil and the United States" and
"That said, if the N26 team feels that they want to organize the feedback culture in Germany differently via a works council, N26 will of course respect and support this, as well as any step in the formation of an electoral board."
The article says the initial dissent from the management was due to Covid19 concerns and inclusion of international employees. It may well be that N26 is just trying to safe face, but if we take the statements as honest, they at least give the impression that the management is not in principle against a worker's council.
That's a very carefully worded statement to avoid giving evidence on a silver platter of the crime in § 119 Abs. 1 Nr. 1 BetrVG
The following offences shall be punishable by a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine, or both:
1. interfering with an election to the works council, the youth and trainee delegation, the ship’s committee, the fleet works council or the representative bodies of the employees referred to in section 3 (1), clause 1 to 3 or 5, or influencing such elections by inflicting or threatening reprisals or granting or promising incentives
The elected body stood "against almost all values we believe in at N26", it [the e-mail] says. And: "Drive: It makes us slower. Simplicity: It makes our cooperation more compley and hirarchical. Integrity: It undermines a culture of trust and could lead to a hightend level of confrontation. Excellence: It is not an up-to-date instrument of employee mangment and limits personal career development and influence."
Morover, according to the e-mails argumentation, a work council would lead to a two-class society for employees, because it is responsible only for German employees. A world-wide "Employee Representation Board" is named as an alternative proposal.
Back to me: Proposing a not-legally-a-work-council is a standard trick of German union busters. The real point is, of course, that the alternative board doesn't have the rights and protections of a real one. Also, looking at their Kununu reviews (I think that is a cultural equivalent of Glassdoor, though the focus is more on soft factors than money) they actually seem like the kind of work-place one would urgently want to found a work council at. So nah, not much chance of that being at all about genuine care for non-German employees.
> The article says the initial dissent from the management was due to Covid19 concerns
Here's the arrangement from the Worker's Council to address the concern
>>> How do you ensure the health and safety of participants of the Electoral Board meeting given COVID19?
> Our Health & Safety concept has been drawn up in collaboration with legal experts.
> The venue we selected accommodates up to 500 people with proper physical distancing. N26 Operations GmbH has less than 500 employees, so even if all of them decide to participate, the meeting can go ahead. N26 GmbH has more employees than 500; however, with holidays, illness and travels, we anticipate that not all of them will come to the Electoral Board meeting. In the (very unlikely) event that 500 or more people turn up, the meeting will have to be postponed.
> The contact details of each participant will be collected and kept for the time required by law.
> At the entrance, we will check the identity of each participant to ensure that no unauthorized or external people can enter. On the 13th of August, only employees of N26 Operations GmbH can enter. On the 14th of August, only employees of N26 GmbH can enter.
> If you experience symptoms of a cold, flue and/or COVID19, or you were told to quarantine, please do not come to the meeting! After the Electoral Board is set up, you will still be able to vote for the delegates for the Working Council.
The only thing that I found this reader did better was clearly indicating the reply level in the discussion of articles. Does anybody know if there is a simple css fix for that?
You can also make Yogurt out of soymilk. Not every milk that you can buy in the store will work, but it works just the same way.
What works for me is:
- Heat up the soymilk to 45 °C
- Put in the yogurt culture or a tablespoon of the leftover yogurt
- Add a tablespoon of sugar
- Fill into an isolating container and wait for 8+ hours
- Put the yogurt into the refrigerator
- Consume yogurt but save a spoon for the next batch
I've found that when starting from culture it takes a couple batches until the yogurt gets really good. After that there didn't seem to be an upper limit on how long you can keep making yogurt from the old batches, although it can get bad if you wait for too long with starting a new batch.
I've actually found that it doesn't usually make a noticeable difference for soy yogurt whether I heat the yogurt to 45 °C or some lower temperature or even at all, at least when using a electric yogurt maker (or other device with active heating). Maybe I need to try them side-by-side because I assume there's some reason many people suggest heating the milk first.
I just mix the existing soy yogurt with soy milk, both of which only consist of soybeans, water, and cultures which seems to be the most reliable option. It involves virtually no effort this way.
With a yogurt maker there’s no need to preheat it since the appliance will take care of heating and maintaining the temperature. But if you make soymilk yourself, the milk has to be cooked for sometime (regardless of whether you’re going to consume it directly or make yogurt with it).
> You can also make Yogurt out of soymilk. Not every milk that you can buy in the store will work, but it works just the same way.
You can also make it with peanut milk, coconut milk, cashew milk and other combinations. The process is the same, but the results will be different because of the inherent nutritional composition of the base ingredients. Store bought milks may have additives that hinder this process. It’s better to make the milk at home and then start it.
My universities computer science, physics and math departments use Sakai [1] instead of the university blackboard and I quiet like it. It's FOSS and works well on mobile (in contrast to the universities blackboard system)
When I got my first drivers license (Germany) the photographer actually digitally removed some moles from my face and did other editing to make the picture appear more good looking. I was a bit baffled as the picture is supposed to identify me but didn't say anything. Since then I always take ID-pictures in a photo booth. It really doesn't need a professional to take an acceptable picture.
I could imagine a photo booth outputting a digital copy of the picture with signature so it is clear to the registration office that the picture has not been meddled with.
For hosting an email server a static IP is all but required, so I got the free tier VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro VPS at Oracle Cloud. It has a static IP and I forward stuff to my rpi3 with dyndns. All you need for this is a credit card.