Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 1y ago
If they're listening to the instructions, nope. If they are interacting with the display and focussing on the mini map, yes. Not anxiety by the way, just a healthy amount of distrust.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Smart Glasses 2: Revenge of the Glassholes Will it take off as a general consumer product this time? Probably, for some (unfortunately). It will create a whole new class of distracted people in traffic, that's for sure. Someone lost in
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
I can't shave comfortably without showering first . Get the hairs soaked for a smoother shave. I wet shave, so all shaved bits get gathered in the razor which gets rinsed of in the basin.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
15 is a common data point too, because that effectively puts you at once every two days. That's my natural rhythm; any longer and I feel grubby (shaving in particular). I just don't sweat that much I guess. This is a weirdly posed
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
> If I read an English news site that has a translated French version, it doesn't matter if I'm most proficient in French, I'll want the English version. The solution there is not to abandon the very useful Accept-Language
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
And you can't turn it off. I really hate this non-feature.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Not if they use those generic phrases without any preamble. It's exhausting to have a conversation with someone who constantly answers in hollow pleasing unidiomatic language. Changing someone's mind isn't instant; it's
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
If someone earnestly starts using those pointless platitudes LLM generated slop is filled with (“You're absolutely right. Here's where I was wrong …”) I suspect they will quickly find that violence was never far off.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
And yet the event is full of politics. From the voting cliques and countries favouring specific allies, to lyrics with hidden (or not so hidden¹) messages, it's everywhere. A lot of it is on a meta level though, leading to an event whi
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
These would work beautifully in Dutch cities, although you can easily see from the design that its native biotope is Paris, where cars are increasingly being pushed out of the narrow streets.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Do you mean 'contribute' or 'donate'? Contributing fixes, bug reports, and code to FOSS projects using OpenStreetMap data makes sense to me, if they do something you appreciate.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
> Would need a new name though. How about a public-is-invited contest? Like the one linked to in the article? https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/34
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Never heard of them. I don't think I ever saw these offered in online shops operating in the Netherlands, while Klarna is in almost every online shop. If they offer BNPL they are probably just as much scum.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
In the Netherlands no less than twenty trade associations sent letters to the government on behalf of their shopkeeper members urging legal action to prevent Klarna from coming. Part of it is that Klarna is fairly expensive compared to the
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
They are scum, and currently are suffering from increased scrutiny from governments for pushing their buy-now-pay-later exploitative business everywhere. In the Netherlands they are even attempting to gain access to brick-and-mortar stores
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Mentioning Lego is absolutely OK, and you can sell used Lego as well and note that you are using genuine Lego bricks (resale laws simply allow that). Lego is really antsy about anything which might look like it is actually a Lego Group init
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
(Initially) fan-made stuff which gets big enough to get noticed usually won't be able to call themselves something with 'Lego' in it. Usually some variation of 'brick' is used instead (e.g., Bricklink, Rebrickable,
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
It depends on the payment method, but for Amazon for me that means either using the Dutch Ideal system which means I have to use my bank's authenticator (which takes my debit card and asks for a PIN) or my bank's app (PIN plus unl
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Trademark law leaves no space for that. The Lego Group has to actively defend their trademark. That means a name like LegoGPT is really on the obvious end of 'don't do that'.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
The punishment, if they are found guilty, will likely be partly intended to act as a deterrent in addition to being punitive and compensative. I.e., a judge could find that setting an example is in the best interest of society, to deter oth
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Not sure what your point is. The AfD is not the first extreme right party to gain a sizeable number of seats. And yes, if they continue to win elections with an ever growing percentage of votes, at one point they will rule, and could eventu
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
> I feel that the Signal folks are worth trusting. The MobileCoin integration and the long standing refusal to support a way to use the messenger without using a phone number (or a smartphone at all) make me wary. To me they sit pretty m
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
It's a beautiful painting. I also can't stand the sight of it. It has been abused as a kitchy backdrop on so much tat and assorted items — including wheelie bins, recycling bins, garden fences, pillows, phone covers, and posters —
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Romania, if the author's current location is also where this ordeal took place. I just looked that up to be sure; the article itself has a very strong eastern Europe vibe to it. I was figuring it would be Bulgaria, Slovakia, or Romania
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The type of person driving this pointless cultural war would like to make it seem that this is essentially all about men dressing up as women telling children things they shouldn't know — both erasing the fact that trans men exist, and
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
> transvestites The focus seems to lie on transgender people, not cross dressers.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
This should have been a no-brainer for BetonBlock. Lego is a popular brand with a trademark a lot of adjacent commercial parties would like to see become xeroxified/kleenexed/hoovered/aspirined, and any attempt to use their t
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Lego block: Dutch court rules mould maker can't use toy trademark(digitaljournal.com)
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Sure, but omitting it is like having a study about 'a dominant social medium' and not mentioning that it is Facebook or X in the abstract (or a study about radicalisation of young men focusing on 'an anonymous imageboard&#x27
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The whole document looks weirdly formatted, but you can click the red numeral in the placeholder text for the tables and figures to jump to the appendix where it is. Not sure if this approach is intentional. It's certainly weird. You w

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