Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
The name ShinyHunters is currently quite well-known due to a number of high-profile hacks (Odido in the Netherlands this year was huge). Their brand has a significant value right now.
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
How is Instructure getting away with paying off the ransomware hackers? Is that still legal in Utah or something?
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
The same group has a reputation to uphold (i.e., that of 'honourable' criminals), so they just move on to the next target, who will, incidentally, know that they are absolutely true to their word. (This is why paying off ransomwar
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
This is what Ideal/Wero does. Because this is the standard for webshops in the Netherlands (and rapidly expanding to the whole EU) the only gap left to fill was that of consumer-to-consumer transfers with just a QR code to scan. Tikkie
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
It sounds a bit like the Dutch Tikkie with the QR codes and instant transfer. Of course, in the EU most bank wires are already free when using SEPA, and often nearly instant as well. This Tikkie thing is a way to easily create a payment req
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
Wait, why isn't that the article instead? Who actually wants this fade-scroll-thing? It detracts from the sensible content.
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
It always feels like my phone experience is just a pleasant intermezzo. My banking app (ABN Amro) works, government apps (DigiD) work, everything just works, and I get security and a certain degree of distance between me and Google. I can u
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
The article mentioned that the use of 'ASCII' within the context of those tools should not be seen as the limited character set ASCII. Personally, I would avoid mentioning ASCII at all. The title just talks of plain text though, a
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
Which is totally up the gods — or a hairdryer: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/23/hairdryer-or-l...
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
Completely wrong about the harder goat milk cheeses. I can get a variety of goat's cheese at my local cheesemongers, including really old goat so hard it crumbles. So extra-hard goat is not a gap. I wouldn't call the hard goat rar
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
This whole idea is dead on arrival because of this. Most nations actively warn their citizens never to carry packages from someone you don't know, and never to carry packages you didn't pack (or saw opened) yourself even for peopl
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
A CNC router is on my list of tools to figure out and own. Routing aluminium, wood, and things like HDPE and being able to make moulds for silicones and resin? Yes please. 3D printing on the other hand never appealed to me.
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
Nope. They get special treatment; and that's fine.
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
Sounds like a good name for renaming the President Donald J. Trump Boulevard leading up to Mar-A-Lago when the current bout of totalitarianism over there ends.
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
A brief glance at the other posts makes me feel that this is not a bad thing perhaps. That blog seems quite high on rant and low on substance.
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
I am doing leatherworking as well as woodworking. No idea if it is possible to actually make money with this¹, but damned if I'm not giving it a go just to have skills in an area where AI is not a threat for the coming decade. At the v
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
German uses both kinds depending on the style and writer's preference. French has the guillemets the other way around. (That Wikipedia table shows that too by the way.)
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
I feel ya. I've never been accused of using an LLM, fortunately, but depending on the context I do use “smart quotes” (even in „Dutch” or »German«) and the em-dash obviously… (And that ellips fella there. It's just so simple to ty
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by Freak_NL 6mo ago
There are a bunch of typos in there which jar a bit ('deterioted'), but I guess that makes sense for this specific article. Personally, I would recommend them to simple use any old editor with spellchecking enabled. That suffices
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
> Who banks that often that they really need to do that, outside of places like Sweden where cash is almost dead? I often pay cash in physical stores, but when buying things online I (and every other Dutch person) use Ideal (Wero). That
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Why not? It doesn't make much sense for Nestlé to have plants in every EU country.
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
I've checked a few locations I know, and it looks like this project imported points from various sources, (locations check out) but they completely left out the metadata. This project looks useless. No curation (left as an exercise for
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Why omit the name of the leading cryptographer in the field?
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
> There’s another cat space on the underside of the desk surface, in the normally unutilized space in front of your knees when you’re sitting. Yeah… If you're of a typical Japanese length. My knees appreciate all the space they can
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Or just get randomly selected by an ICE goon to hit their target for their bonus and get put in some processing facility for a few weeks. I guess this is for our own protection.
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Selling won't be a problem in the current housing market in Amsterdam. Getting somewhere new to live on the other hand…
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
The part where he believed the protagonist from his own books uploaded to ChatGPT had become sentient and that building an app based on that would make sense didn't strike you as eccentric at the very least? Or the birthday party where
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Did that vote pass with a difference of one single vote? Tight squeeze there.
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by Freak_NL 7mo ago
Better governance, hopefully: https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1024387/

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