I had to navigate up to the bare prop file page and it worked then, it’s something I’ve seen with LinkedIn before. Just for anyone else who hits this issue on other linkedIn profiles and needs to know the workaround.
I just got Perthed, he's a local from where I live, and I swear I recognise a more recent photo like I may have seen him at a tech event some time in the last half decade or so.
In the system we have been working on at https://build.games (an engineering platform for kids to learn and make software) we have avoided git and complicated project management systems carefully so far. Sometimes, to really appreciate some tools, one has to live without them first
Many of us here can afford to do the same. A very close friend and business partner gave a similar amount to help Star Simpson with her situation because he believed very strongly that she was a victim of the War on Dignity.
People who grew up in Cold War West Germany (like me) got fed the propaganda that mass surveillance is totalitarian, communist evil because communist East Germany was infamous for it, so they are more likely to view these things as a serious infraction.
I think Germany has the strongest anti-surveillance, pro-privacy movement in the world in general. We have a special word for it "Datenschutz" ("data protection"), which means:
- protection against information about you being recorded without your consent
- information about you being passed around without your consent
We have a lot of Datenschutz laws and activists. And well the activists tend to be IT guys, and those tend to be well-paid. So lots of activist money available for the cause.
But you in Germany seem happy with ID cards and reporting house moves to a police department which struck me as very odd given the recent history and especially the stazi in East Germany
Id cards facilitate stop and search which is more worrying especially given the recent judgement by german judges that its fine to do this disappointingly to black citizens.
In both the UK and the USA - there is more disquiet about this than what the NSA and GCHQ get up to.
Our history probably has something to do with it, but its also an issue of the media raising awareness since the 70s.
Be this out of fear-mongering to boost sales or of a sincere feeling of responsibility, it has influenced the views on privacy and surveillance of a large part of the population.
Its not just the Stasi btw., one of the canonical examples is the Nazis use of data to find and select the jews in the holocaust. This has influenced what is allowed - and especially what not - to be stored about each citizen in Germany tremendously.
Well looking at the comments, some germans make comparisons to growing up in east germany, the stasi, etc. And germany is the better performing economy in europe right now.
That's legal defense, and I'm sure that's expensive. But what if we just want to send him some some money to reward him for making the sacrifice for all of us?
