#^Cost savings for city’s green spaces - Fewer flowers in Bonn

The pressure to save is also affecting Bonn’s urban green spaces. The gardeners are not happy about it. However, tourist attractions continue to be lavishly planted.

#^Factfulness

“The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.” — See the book Factfulness »

Factfulness is a relaxing habit for critical thinking. It helps you maintain a fact-based worldview. It teaches you how to recognise and avoid the most common ways information gets misinterpreted.

First: Realize that we don’t see the world as it is.
part is to accept that humans don’t see reality just as it is. There’s to much information for us to process it all. That’s why we all have an attention filter in our heads. But this attention filter is hard wired to make use care more about dramatic information, which easily leads to a stressful over-dramatic impression of the world.
Factfulness is the skill to recognise the common types of stories that tend to get all the attention because they trigger our dramatic instincts.

Second: Recognise what types of stories trigger our dramatic instincts
Next, you need to learn to recognise the common types of stories that trigger your dramatic instincts. this will help you control your intake of drama. Most people need to think twice to control their intake of sugar and fat. And it seems to be the same with drama. Here is the list of dramatic instincts and below this list we have listed the concrete rules of thumbs that help you avoid overdramatic interpretations.

Third: Use simple rules of thumb to resist over-dramatic stories
As soon as you start recognising the ten most common types of dramatic stories that trigger your dramatic instincts, it’s much easier to control your feelings of drama, and avoid having them triggered. You can quickly question the relevance of common dramatic interpretations with some few simple questions.

Warum sich über die Bayern aufregen, wenn es hier in NRW doch auch so unglaubliche Vorschläge gibt. #Vorverlagerung von Strafbarkeit #Unschuldsvermutung
#^https://www.landtag.nrw.de/portal/WWW/dokumentenarchiv/Dokument/MMV17-569.pdf



Herbert Reul, Innenminister NRW wrote:

Aber wenn ich die Wahl habe, einen mit einer falschen Nachricht vielleicht einen Tag zu lange im Gefängnis zu haben, oder zu verhindern, dass eine Bombe hochgeht und 100 Menschen tot sind, dann entscheide ich mich dafür, das Leben der Menschen zu sichern.

Bin ja mal gespannt ob die FDP da mit macht, aber bis jetzt hört man keine Bedenken aus der Ecke was eine unglaubliche Bankrotterklärung der Liberalen ist. #Rechtsstaatlichkeit

#Freiheit #AEMR

#^Top German court permits use of online ad blockers, dismissing Axel Springer claim | DW | 19.04.2018

Germany's highest civil court has ruled that the online ad blocker AdBlock Plus doesn't violate competition laws. Axel Springer is the latest of several German media companies to bring a case against developers and lose.

#^Popular fair in Bonn - These are the new rides at the Pützchens Markt 2018

The city of Bonn presented the programme for the Pützchens Markt 2018 on Tuesday. There will be seven new attractions this year at the popular fair, which brings in people from all over the region, young and old.

Visitors to the 651st Pützchens Markt (7 to 11 September) can look forward to seven new attractions. The city of Bonn presented the programme in detail on Tuesday – about five months before the start.

#^Summer games 2032 - The Olympics could come to Bonn

14 cities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia want to host the Summer Olympic Games in 2032. Baseball, basketball and archery events could be held in Bonn.

Ever wondered how to add a Fluid paginate widget to a non Extbase extension in TYPO3 #CMS? For example a core Content Element (CE) and fluid_styled_content? It is straight forward when you are familiar with TYPO3, but there was one not quite obvious workaround needed to make it complete. The following solution is tested in TYPO3 v9.1 and v9.2, but it is possible that there will be another solution in core in the future.

I have a TYPO3 default File Links [uploads] Content Element (CE) and wanted to output a collection from a folder with a lot of files. I was surprised, that there was no pagination available, but it is a fluid styled template, so it was easy to add a paginate widget.

Add a template override path to your Template constants:
# Add Fluid Styled Content template override path
styles.templates.templateRootPath = EXT:myext/Resources/Private/ContentTemplates/

Add to your ext Template setup following TypoScript to set an alternative template name for File Links CE. Also add a workaround for non-extbase elements like the File Links CE [uploads]. This is needed so that the Fluid paginate ViewHelper will also work. Otherwise you have pagination, but only results from the first page are shown, because no controller is executed.
##
# Customised TYPO3's File Links Content Element with pagination template.
#
# CType: uploads

# Use a customised fluid styled content template
tt_content.uploads.templateName = MyFilePagination

# Workaround to add functionality for non-extbase elements (https://forge.typo3.org/issues/79430)
tt_content.uploads.extbase {
    pluginName = filelist
    controllerName = filelist
    controllerExtensionName = myext
    controllerActionName = show
}

You can take the default template from typo3/sysext/fluid_styled_content/Resources/Private/Templates/Uploads.html and save it at typo3conf/ext/myext/Resources/Private/ContentTemplates/MyFilePagination.html. In your customised template add the Fluid paginate widget ViewHelper around the for ViewHelper and change the variable according:
<f:widget.paginate objects="{files}" as="paginatedFiles" configuration="{itemsPerPage: 10, insertAbove: 1, insertBelow: 1, maximumNumberOfLinks: 10}">
  <f:for each="{paginatedFiles}" as="file" iteration="fileIterator">

That's it.

The default #Drupal swiftmailer mail template override works something like this:
swiftmailer--[mymodule]--[mykey].html.twig

I was struggling how to configure a module which actually needed more than just module--key identifiers. For example when you have several Drupal webforms or even several handlers for one webform. It was not directly obvious how to access each handler, but actually it is quite simple:
swiftmailer--webform--[webform-node-id].html.twig
swiftmailer--webform--[webform-node-id]-[handler-id].html.twig

#CMS

#^Conflict Zone - Human Rights Wronged | DW | 14.03.2018

Despite being adopted in 1948, the principles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remain under threat nearly 70 years later. Conflict Zone confronts guests on human rights issues in this recent highlights show.

#UDHR

Nina Zacher wrote:

Wir leben in einer Gesellschaft, in der alles einen Preis hat, aber kaum etwas einen Wert.

#^Death of Jan Loh - Bonn remembers the "Alle-mal-malen-Mann"

13.03.2018 Bonn’s best-known city artist has died. Jan Loh drew many thousands of pictures during his time as the “Alle-mal-malen-Mann” in Bonn’s bars and beer gardens. For many Bonners, he is closely connected with their home town.

You always saw him in the city at night. Last time I saw him was just few days before he died, but during the day in a mall. Looking back the last weeks I must be the only one who was never painted by him. The funeral was just yesterday in Kessenich at a nice graveyard I crossed several times when we went to the forest with Kindergarten.

#^No, end-to-end encryption does not prevent Facebook from accessing WhatsApp chats

At a glance
* During his Congressional hearing, Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook doesn’t have access to WhatsApp chats thanks to end-to-end encryption.
* Nevertheless, communication channels between the WhatsApp and Facebook iOS apps could be abused to leak data from the entire chat history.
* The object of this article is not to claim that Facebook snoops on WhatsApp chats, but that end-to-end encryption is used by both WhatsApp and Facebook as a disingenuous and misleading argument to reassure the public.

#^Erneuerbare Energien: Der Heimakku als Baustein in der Energiewende - Golem.de

Solarstrom an Netzbetreiber zu verkaufen, lohnt sich nicht mehr. Ein Heimakku zum Eigenverbrauch ist die bessere Alternative. Diese Speicher könnten helfen, Schwankungen im

Sometimes it feels like we are living in Stone Age in Germany, and sometimes I am quite glad about this.

#^Accident in Dubai? Your smart number plate will soon alert police, ambulance

Trial phase of smart plates to begin next month  says RTA

Dubai: Vehicles equipped with smart number plates will automatically send out alert to police and ambulance centres in case of accidents or any other emergencies, officials said on Monday.
Dubai will be the first city in the world next month to run a pilot of smart plates, testing the Roads and Transport Authority’s (RTA) Tag2Connect (T2C) platform.

Another first in the world, and a related initiative is the Vehicle Chain project that will help RTA track the history of a vehicle from birth to scrap.
“The Vehicle Chain project will bring all the stakeholders such as manufacturers, dealers, workshops, insurers, licensing authorities, police and vehicles owners on a single platform. This will bring in the much needed transparency in the auto industry, especially in the used car market,” said Abullah Yousuf Al Ali, CEO of RTA’s Licensing Agency.

#^Office & Bar - SIEGFRIED Rheinland Dry Gin

Finally, our own Bar!
Every company needs a solid office. Even better if the office accommodates a fully equipped bar. We open this bar every Thursday to the public. Come join us and let´s have a great drink!

#Gin

Stadt Dortmund untersucht Potenziale einer Freien-Software-Strategie

Der Verwaltungsvorstand der Stadt Dortmund hat in seiner Sitzung vom 10.04.2018 beschlossen, die Potenziale von Freier Software und Offenen Standards im Bereich der städtischen Informations- und Telekommunikationstechnik zu untersuchen. Die Verwaltung wird den politischen Gremien Ende 2019 einen Ergebnisbericht zum Einsatzpotenzial von Freier Software und Offenen Standards vorlegen.

Für Do-FOSS markiert dieser Beschluss einen Meilenstein, der die Grundlage für eine systematische Potenzialbetrachtung Freier Software für die Stadt Dortmund darstellt. Die Verwendung von Offenen Standards wurde bereits in der Charta Digitales Dortmund 2018 – 2030 vereinbart.

Was fighting with Drupal8 half of my work day just to get stupid alternative mail templates for webform handlers with swiftmailer in production. And then in the evening I updated a private project to the new TYPO3 9.2 release and it was such a relief.

#^typo3-v920-released

Off to go Site-Seeing!
Packed with awesome features and perfectly on time, we released a new version of TYPO3 v9.

#^Cambridge Analytica causing trouble for Facebook in Southeast Asia | DW | 06.04.2018

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook is being forced to answer tough questions in Southeast Asian countries whether its platform is being abused and if citizens' data were misused.

Martin Heidegger wrote:

Wir haben nur dieses Leben. Niemand hat uns gewählt. Wir sind einfach da. Jetzt. Und jetzt ist es unsere Aufgabe, der zu werden, der wir sein wollen.