No, they didn't. That happened for example in Munich. But that is on the other side of Germany. And there is already a joke that MS can't move their german headquarters every time a state or big city want's to move away from MS products. (They did this when Munich changed back to MS producs - but of course this was pure coincidence.)
Microsoft started building their new Munich headquarters in 2013/2014. Their old headquarters were already immediately outside Munich. For example, the Munich airport is further away from Munch city than the old headquarters were.
The decision to revert to a Microsoft Platform was taken in November 2017.
Yes, the final decision to revert to Microsoft was taken in 2017. But in 2014, the mayor of Munich began an investigation into how to return to Microsoft products. And he was also the one who negotiated the location of the headquarters with Microsoft in 2013.
Not just "practically", but actually, factually, and legally: Yes, the state of Bavaria is indeed an entirely different state than the state of Schleswig-Holstein. That's like saying "Virginia is practically an entirely different state than California" -- WTF do you mean, "practically"?!? It IS a different state!
I find it inconvenient that pluggable eSIMS are so hard to get. In my opinion they combine the best of both worlds. You can download profiles without wating for SIM cards and you can put them in different phones.
Just exchange a slightly unreasonable about of money for a esim.me card. They can be managed on most Android devices and swapped even into a featurephone (read my comment before this though for some potential caveats).
Most German universtities have applied at an early stage for a class B network block therefore they have little pressure.
When I asked the IT staff at my university years ago, they said that there are still some very old routers without IPv6 support in use. And since everything seems to work with IPv4 for the university administration, there is no money for new ones.
I don't know anything about this particular case, but about these systems in general.
They can work without any operator or network connection. They verify that you have a valid passport and that the taken image (face) matches the one stored in your passport.
But for modern passports they use Extended Access Control which requires up to date terminal certificates to access the data (you have to update them in the range of days) und you can give these systems revocation lists and lists of unwanted persons. If any of this is not updated, they stop working.
> But for modern passports they use Extended Access Control which requires up to date terminal certificates to access the data (you have to update them in the range of days
Passports don't know the current time and thus can't tell whether the presented certificate is within its validity range (as in a malicious attacker could feed an expired certificate as well as a fake "current time" value to make it appear valid), so why are those certificates short-lived?
Whenever you present a certificate to the passport, its current time is updated by the "valid from" value if it's newer then the current time.
It's not perfect but if you started you trip in another country with such a system and where a more recent certificate was used, your passport will deny access.
I'm pretty sure these changes are great for e.g. standard TLS connections.
But I don't quite understand what this means for other/custom curves.
For example I'm often using brainpool curves. Currently I just set the CurveParams and I'm done.
They are part of a lot of official standards (especially in Europe/Germany but also for e.g. travel documents in the ICAO standard) so I can't get around them.
Do I have to implement everything for that curves myself? That would probably be more insecure than just using crypto/elliptic.
> Reality: the Greens and their allies spent half a trillion USD on the "energy transition" and turned off perfectly good nuclear reactors. Result: energy shortages and diplomatic submission to Russia.
Um no. Renewable energy is now actually cheaper than nuclear energy. You could build renewable energy + storage within the same range of cost. The problem is the former government shut down nuclear power plants and then did exactly nothing.
The nuclear power plants aren't perfectly good. They are very old and would need a lot of investment if run for more than a couple of month.
And germany isn't even near electric energy shortages. It's currently supplying france with a lot of energy.
If electric heating were used everywhere from now on, there would be an electricity problem. But for that the electric heaters are missing.
It's only recently cheap. It's true that if they had pivoted to Nuclear instead, they would not had these energy shortfalls and maybe even Russia wouldn't have felt they had the leverage to invade Ukraine.
The global output of battery storage isn't high enough to switch to solar/wind. Energy is a solved problem. It's a natural progression of mankind's command of energy. Wood->Coal->Oil->Fission. There's enough Uranium in the ground and oceans to supply humanity for million of years. We can't let a few accidents hold us back for ever.
