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Before electricity, people had to make sure as much daylight as possible got into their buildings. Looks like this might be a large room, so large windows make sense.

Sounds like OP does in fact use condoms with everyone.

Dunno if you're German or Austrian or something, but in Vienna there is a Ziegelmuseum whose curator studies the history of bricks, how they were made and used and whatnot. They have a long list of brick makers in Austria, when they were active and so on.

If you're in another country, they could maybe help get you in contact with a historian local to you.

Could help you learn more about your mystery brick.

I'll use the cliche meme of "I was today years old when I learned where the name comes from". Just made the connection when I read this article, and I love Pulp Fiction.

But I too am not a native English speaker. Just always accepted the clunky acronym as the reason for the name.

I remember a talk a few years ago where someone engineered controlled detonations to destroy a single server in a rack without damaging any surrounding equipment. Was pretty fun to follow the engineering.

well häuslpapier.at goes somewhere else appropriate

I discovered Tinariwen through one of their live recordings. Pretty amazing stuff.

And if they have access to your computer, they can get much more useful information, both for extortion and surveillance.

If someone has enough access to your system to covertly use the camera, then the camera is the last thing you need to worry about.

Nobody is interested in looking at you. Getting your payment data, or private data, that is much more interesting.

In the railway context an engineer was the person who worked the engine.

In German the word comes from Latin roughly meaning inventor. Presumably the general usage of the word engineer in English has the same etymology.

The largest countries have the largest forests, how surprising.

If the traffic plummets, YouTube wins. Serving content to ad-blocking users only costs them money. They don't want those users.