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by Freak_NL 2y ago
15°C would be the standard setting of 'no heating' (just keep the house warm enough to avoid mould and such). The 'holiday' programme would be 21°C or whatever is desired. That would effectively turn the thermostat into
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Computers exist to serve. Anthropomorphising them or their software programming is harmful¹. The tone of voice an officer would use to order a private or ranking to do something seems suitable — which obviously comes down to terse, clear, u
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Isn't this pretty much what these thermostats already allow? I have a new Honeywell Thermostat which basically does what the twenty years old one it replaced does with a few added conveniences in terms of UI. It has those wake/lea
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
> Netflix no longer plays on my Linux/Firefox setup […] I know Netflix doesn't support anything beyond 720p or so on Linux, but that never bothered me. Otherwise it just works. Is your Firefox out of date? > The piracy scene
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
I found it did start out really easy, getting harder half way. You might have some form of colour blindness (or a really bad monitor).
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Quite. With the odds being 1 to 3 you'll pick the right one when you have to click one at random to proceed, the results get skewed.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Heh, my first thought was “Don't they do this already?”, but apparently GrapheneOS was ahead of the curve there. Nice.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
All I saw were the two references about representing prosody typographically.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Trying to find out how this font is licenced is painfully impossible on both the linked Microsoft website and the atrocious https://kermit-font.com/ homepage. Regardless of the claimed merits of this font (I'm not dysl
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Our invisible borders are quite real when it comes to shipping. It's only the really big ones like Amazon which seem to be able to negotiate lower prices across the block, and that's just depressing.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Yeah, you have to try real hard to get a customs processing fee on a package from AliExpress. Customs literally can't keep up with the fire-hose of packages coming in from China, so the current deal is that they, AliExpress, charge and
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
It's not fast-fashion they are competing with — they invented ultra-fast-fashion. Their platforms (Shein and Temu) are fully geared towards allowing manufacturers to jump on board the latest hypes and trends and have a saleable product
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
I genuinely can't tell; it's a good question. If the sellers on AliExpress could ever be arsed to use recyclable packaging instead of four layers of plastic baggies and wrap it would be even more interesting.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
It gets even weirder when you consider the prices of shipping even within the EU. Within Germany? €3,50 if the seller has a good deal with DHL, within the Netherlands? €4,50 with PostNL. As a normal consumer shipping something the price goe
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Temu is about offering a convenient hyper fast shopping channel to Chinese manufacturers with customers worldwide, primarily for clothing. A product which sells for months/years and gathers reviews is not part of their vision. Their cu
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Someone extremely critical of Google is likely to not just use Firefox? That doesn't sound statistically likely.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The language used here ('obsolete') strongly hints at making this the primary case, with any secondary option deemed inferior. It wouldn't surprise me if using a paper boarding pass will just flag you in the system for extra
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Or if you don't have a smartphone. Seriously, are we making owning one of these (even more) mandatory now? If someone is travelling with someone with a severe disability, or children, do they need to include them on their smartphone?
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
“Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.” Nothing odd here. It seems to be the new normal: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/australian-w...
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
One upside: by degrading the experience¹ Netflix did make it a lot easier to simply stop your subscription and hop over to another streaming service for a few months. A very interesting development: in the Netherlands KPN, one of the larges
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Those are there because of overtourism, and the locals have a point. Europe is big enough, but if you have any sense you'll ignore Venice, Barcelona, Bruges, Amsterdam, Ghent, and even parts of Paris and Rome, and go to somewhere where
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Of course they are, as long as you make an effort not to stand out too much. Obviously, that means no MAGA hats (but who wears those outside of the US?), but also no USA flags on clothing, hats, or whatever (and definitely no flag of Israel
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
I'm now desperately looking forward to reading someone else's blog post about their vibe domain squatting set up where a combination of LLMs and spiders trawling Github for fresh targets lead to a decent passive income.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
For anything where practical skills are concerned (woodworking, metalworking, leatherworking, anodising stuff, etc.) I have to resort to searching on Youtube. There is, fortunately, a lot of information there in the form of tutorials and gu
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
This was already happening, unfortunately. The user's mail agent is deemed untrustworthy (and so is the user), so every service which needs to send confidential data just turns your email into a notification with a link. There are so m
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
> Sad to hear that he's working at a supermarket. I wouldn't be too hasty to call someone's job sad, unless they actually hated it. From the article: > […] Christophe relies on the steady income of his job at the Co-op
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
> Kind of like the nausea-inducing, shaky "hand held camera" thing that was so predominate some decades ago. Good riddance to that. Shudders . A lot of shows were utterly unwatchable for me. (Now they're just unwatchable
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
He is not a citizen of El Salvador, he is Venezuelan. The sole reason he was classed as a member of that criminal organisation are his crown tattoos, and 'secret inside information'. The Guardian article gives some more background
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
My comment was about spaces specifically. The Guardian and the BBC use en-dashes instead of em-dashes, but both do so with spaces.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Using spaces is not wrong. Typographically, a hair space or another thinner than usual space is usually used, but in plain text a space is often preferred. Style guides vary of opinion on this, but newspapers often space them. Without a spa

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