Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 2y ago
It's illegal in a number of countries. In the Netherlands you may only import fags for personal use; reselling is explicitly prohibited. The amount of fags imported is limited too — tools like this one pretty much have to assume the us
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
It makes you wonder if the glaring typos weren't introduced just to make the pre-print seem pre-print-y.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Absolutely. Brexit proofed that this is a really great idea. Who doesn't want to start paying through the nose for roaming again? The idea that just abandoning a thing with some issues is better than trying to repair it (or even just k
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
'Quiet quitting' means not going beyond that what you are paid for. No overachieving, no engagement with your work beyond what is needed to do that work. Regardless of the societal causes (and those are interesting), this sounds
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Please just write 'fuck' if that is obviously what you mean.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Which is why programmers who know these features from languages like Rust hate these. Except, they don't. Whenever I do something in a neat, elegant match-statement in Rust, going back to a language which lacks these is painful. This i
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Nitpick: if I want to compare the number of Github stars (as a metric for popularity), than abbreviating values makes this harder when scanning that table row: 716 35k 6.6k For me this would be much easier: 716 3
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
It is really concerning that I probably need to ask my parents to stop sharing any photos and videos of my young son digitally (privately via WhatsApp) when he's staying at their place and they are teaching him to swim in their swimmin
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
> So they explain it to people as being able to catch criminals, but they known it won’t work against that? Why a law is enacted is more complex than just the here and now. Some of these law-and-order types dream of the day they can or
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Again, not what this law is about. This is all about wanting to gather signal intelligence on millions of people automatically. About being flagged when someone uploads CSAM or uses certain keywords. They know it won't stop anyone with
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
That's not what the law cares about. Being able to encrypt stuff end-to-end, is not what is being targetted — it is not realistically possible. What is being targetted is millions of people getting private, true end-to-end secure com
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The EU does not want to ban encryption, because it is the backbone of e-commerce and banking. There are plenty of public references that show the EU's explicit support of strong encryption. What some law-and-order types (globally) want
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Step one would be determining if anyone actually uses those two apps together. A handful of people? No one cares. Is it now the default way you install Signal (or its two components) and do hundreds of thousands of users do this? Then the n
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
You don't seem to understand the point of these laws. It is not about stopping anyone with enough technical know-how from encrypting their communications. This is possible today, and not something which can be easily legislated away wi
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
This is not about preventing you from doing that, it is about preventing services with many users from providing that service to you without a backdoor. You can just send anyone you want an encrypted e-mail or message, but Signal can&#x
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
But how? My five year old knows his home address and his full name. If he ever gets lost he'll be safe. Actually getting lost at that age is really hard too, because a five year old is not often left unattended. Besides, in the coming
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Why would her having a smartphone lead to an expectation of location sharing? I completely expect my five year old son to have the freedom to just not have his future gadgets on him if he so prefers when he gets to the age that a smartphone
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
That would have been an excellent addition to that comment.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Why? I wouldn't mind using a search engine where Weird Al answers my queries.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
I'm sure this happens because my senses haven't been dulled down enough to just shrug and gloss over these, but the AI-generated filler image after the first full paragraph just jars me out of the reading groove and makes me just
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
160% here. One of the few websites I zoom into actually.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
This one? https://floor796.com/#t0r0,697,577 Given that this meme, while distasteful, was quite popular, the reason it was included may just that: its popularity. There is more edgy content on the station (like the 'be
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
I'm not reading any deliberate sabotaging in this write-up. You do? They spent way more time and resources getting that offshore team up to speed, but the team still failed to do anything useful. It wasn't their job to make this w
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
(2002)
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Wanting to avoid pornographic content on platforms which do not cater exclusively to porn is a valid goal, but often that is just a checkbox away. Something can be both disgusting and artistic at the same time (plenty of lauded examples of
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
A well-written and well-sourced proposal might sway the Unicode Consortium. The 'powered on'/'powered off' characters come to mind as a successful recent attempt which did exactly that. Existing use of such 'te
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
There doesn't seem to be anything in today's society even remotely hinting at that.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
If by FNAF you mean the game franchise Five Nights at Freddy's , that could only have boosted their popularity. You get the fans of that game who would at the very least go there to see the real deal (minus the killing) as an addition
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
So? The receipt still shows the VAT amount, as required. This is not a problem.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Just ignore it. Tips are for above and beyond service here in the Netherlands (and in most of Europe). Anything below 'actually quite good' does not warrant a tip. Let the American tourists tip if they want.

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