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by Freak_NL 3y ago
> “We have been asked to be more rigorous in enforcing our ToS and must comply,” Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia told TechCrunch. He declined to say which company asked Gumroad to enforce stricter rules. This refusal to even name which pa
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Wow, that's a huge design flaw. Such a number should be opaque (the Dutch BSN is), but Sweden's number just puts the date of birth and gender in the number there for all to see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
The easiest way to avoid Apple and most of Google seems to be to get a Google Pixel and install GrapheneOS on it. This works for me. The status quo sucks. Political solutions are probably years off, and likely entail making Apple and Google
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
That's what the article hints at. The chair was taken before the set refresh for Generations. There are, apparently, quite a lot of visual changes over the seasons: https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies&#x2
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Some millionaire rock-star buying it for their home theatre, eventually ending up in a skip when the villa changes hands. They should make it so that you can sit and pose in the chair if you pay $250 to some suitable charity. You get a $50
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
As a benign Internet phenomenon, I personally don't get memes. At all. I see how some people might like them, I understand the jokes, but they just don't entertain me and the lack of originality (inherent to the format) irks me. W
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Indeed; this is capitalism in its purest form. The linked article about 'Blowback' features user comments containing gems like ‘Grooming little kids to be “trans” or “queer” has outraged many and made things worse’. Advertisers ge
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
As mentioned elsewhere: none of these are free with the BahnCard 100, and most are fully booked quite a while in advance. He sleeps in regular night trains on the floor or on some seats, not in bunk or bed on sleeper trains.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
And let's not forget the obligatory message that this conversation will be recorded for possible evaluation. Yeah that 'Did you know that most of X can be done on our website at double-you-double-you-doub…' message when you j
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Oh man, absolutely. Recently a lot of large businesses have resorted to walling themselves in behind chatbots, often completely replacing all forms of customer contact except phone support with endless queues. Dutch PostNL: here's look
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
I'm surprised Alibaba sits that much lower than Shein; and Temu in particular. This includes AliExpress surely?
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Really annoying too. A few years ago Amazon.de was great for buying stuff just not available in the Netherlands (Germany has a much larger market for people doing various crafts at home, and some home improvement products are a lot cheaper
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
You can't switch to original titles though, so I'm not really confident Google is going to be offering this option for long.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Mostly I agree with this, but for animated works dubs can be an integral part of the product when done right, and some are even tweaked for different languages (although I strongly reject adjusting the actual cultural content for different
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
You're creating a derived work, so you would be violating someone's IP unless the licence is permissive, and making money of it. That usually attracts the attention of whoever owns the IP.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
And automatically forced on every user depending on whatever their Google account is set to, just like the video titles which now get auto-translated without any way to turn this off. We're sliding back into a monolingual world. No tha
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
They probably meant before they start learning English in primary school, not before they start school. This used to be the case in the Netherlands too; I picked up a significant body of English from British TV series watched with subtitles
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Usually because you will inevitably get tasked with fixing something in that mess, and will have to slowly sacrifice your soul to get into the warped brain of that 'prodigy' coworker to understand the code if you don't.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Good. That at least will turn public opinion against this concept. The whole notion of not even being allowed to see the same ads as your fellow man in a public space because you are involuntarily shunted into some kind of cohort is disgust
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
And this requires absolutely zero screens, cameras, or demographic data collection of any kind. Just track the inventory. This isn't new; I would be extremely surprised if Japanese vending machines didn't do just that for decades
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Also for the investigative journalism behind this recent bunch of reports in the news (linked from the article on CBS as well): https://file770.com/the-2023-hugo-awards-a-report-on-censors... I can recommend that report to
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
People still avoid Aldi in the Netherlands if they want to keep up appearances. Lidl seems to suffer from this stigma a lot less.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Oh yeah, the Boschhammer is one of my favourites. Given that it is the one tool where I would use those really long masonry drill bits in, I appreciate not being burdened by the extra weight. I'll accept the inconvenience of the power
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
The title specifically claims that we are in a golden age of cordless tools. Having to commit to a single manufacturer or submit to managing a herd of batteries of varying species is not my idea of a golden age just yet. They are not as bad
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
> EDIT: and of course, Parkside, aka the greatest value for money of all time Well, Lidl's Parkside Performance range at least. The regular Parkside stuff can be hit-or-miss (but always cheap).
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Is it? Every corded power tool I buy comes with a standard power plug (region dependent of course). Plug it in, and it works. Buy another tool from a different brand (perhaps they are better at that type of tool), and now you have two tools
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Possibly, but in reality, not really. Without buy-in from the OSMF (the foundation) this could result in a lot of effort and time ultimately wasted due to overlapping roles of people concerned in the Operations Working Group. Most people wi
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Oh absolutely. I have given up on engaging with him, it is pointless (I am jdhoek on GitHub, and have contributed various commits to Carto in the past). While I can understand that being a maintainer for a project like Carto can be taxing d
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Way overdue. OpenStreetMap's website at openstreetmap.org is its calling card, and for the past few years the default style shown (called Carto) has all but stagnated in development. Accepted features like highway=busway (introduced th
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Interesting titbit in the last paragraph: apparently in the Wolf Hall series based on Hillary Mantel's trilogy, the codpieces in the show weren't as big as they ought to have been given historical evidence. That, at least, Blackad

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