Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Or leave out a handful of flags and render the rest. :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21166519
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Useful feature though, but just for limited audiences (not just Slack of course, Mattermost does this too). We have a grammar Nazi flag, a rubber duck, and an animated dancing banana.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
I'm pretty much against avatars featuring people's actual faces too. Digital communication pretty much allows us to completely disregard another's appearance, so why reintroduce that via the backdoor? Emoji segregation feels
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Oh yeah, that's totally not awkward. Imagine being the only one of a particular shade of human and constantly seeing your lonely thumbs up next to the the thumbs ups of the rest of the team.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
I'm somewhat fine with the unix epoch timestamp, but this thing is not just seconds or microseconds since x, it is days since x, plus the rest of the time bits as a fraction. One second to midnight on January 1st 2008 is… 39448.9999884
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
That's probably better for the sanity of all concerned. I'll have a look.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
> Anybody who knows a bit of Excel can pull that data themselves by following a set of simple instructions. That is very much possible. It is also completely impossible when you live in a country where Microsoft decreed that the C in CSV
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
If you ever write some HTTP endpoint where tabulated data is returned, you could quite reasonably return RFC 4180 style CSV. However, if your API ever interfaces with users in a corporate environment, parsing simple comma-separated UTF-8 CS
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Whenever I open Google's Play Store on Android I get this feeling of walking into some dystopic shopping mall. I hardly ever come there (F-Droid covers all utilities for me, so Google's own app store is really only for official ap
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Is that… ethical? ('Course it is. Carry on.)
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
This year there were multiple reports of people stealing bronze sculptures from graves here in the Netherlands. Thinks butterflies, birds, and other personal memorabilia. That's a fairly new development (and a new low). Small sculpture
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Nah. Any sorting won't be done until they've finished their rounds. People who gather metal from street side dumps just cart it all to the nearest scrap metal dealer. Most is aluminium and steel anyway; both recycle just fine.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Already possible! Banks know who you are, so what if there was a safe way to let a site know that you are over 18 — and nothing more than that — through some common API? This was exactly what the German public transport service Mopla did wh
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
FetLife? It exists, and is subject to the same laws and regulations. Any legal site will have to comply to a load of regulations, supplemented by the inscrutable rules laid down by Visa and Mastercard.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Oh right! I was wondering why Steam wasn't loading the store properly. That hasn't happened in a while, has it?
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
An interesting example, but one that also highlights how AI fails to address it correctly. Email validation in 2025 is simple. It has been simple for years now. You check that it contains an '@' with something before it, and somet
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Unhealthy in what way? The article mentions that he is (or was) an active seller as well as a buyer. His lifestyle doesn't seem particularly unhealthy either.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
I just copy the OTP-URL from Aegis and place it into pass (passwordstore.org, with the pass-otp extension) on my desktop computer. That pass instance is backed up along with everything else which matters.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
I don't see that changing either. Banking apps, government auth, Whatsapp¹, public transport apps², etc. The status quo is that a small number of official app store apps are all but required. 1: Still basically required if you have you
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Oh yes, compose-key is great for the occasional German, but even for my native Dutch it is useful — not to mention Frisian.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Not just Apple users. The compose-key does this on a variety of desktop operating systems, where the shortcut is COMPOSE - - - for em-dash, and - - . for en-dash.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Heh. A top 50. No way that I'm in there — I don't post that much. Oh look, a more complete leaderbord — click. Oh. I'm at position 51.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
The fact that they recycle the butter for about a decade is reassuring though. A full cow worth of butter yearly just sounds wasteful, but this approach scales that back to a tenth of a cow.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
It's basically the status quo for German websites. This seems legally settled for now unless some appellate court strikes it down, and even that won't happen any time soon. As a user it's just odd to see German websites do th
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
There are only so many things you can actively fight. I can choose to actively pursue a number of topics and be the annoying squeaky wheel there, but not everything. This is one topic I cannot invest more time in, and which won't yield
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Paper balances and visiting your local branch are mostly a thing of the past. Calling them is an exercise in extreme patience. My bank all but discontinued actually visiting them except for certain specific things. In the Netherlands (and b
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
There is also the issue that other factors can keep you tied to a bank. Like having a mortgage there and getting a discount on home owner insurance for it, as well as getting a discount on the mortgage interest for banking with them. Changi
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
> I have never heard of a bank that has a hard requirement of a mobile app. It shouldn't be a thing, but it is. In the Netherlands the newer digital-only banks are allowed to do this. No smartphone, no service. The more established
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
[sic] is for when you quote someone verbatim, keeping the typo. The author isn't quoting at this point though, but using the misspelled word themself — for purposes of illustrating the problem with it for sure, but that is clear from t
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Creativity is more than just deciding that you want 'a space opera, but with an order of knights who yield swords that glow, bad guy looks like a Japanese samurai, reimagined in a 1970s futuristic style.' Creativity is not just ha

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