Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
I mean, it's not my fandom, but Catholics do have a wicked sense of symbolism and decoration. Hyperion wouldn't be as colourful if Simmons used a bunch of Evangelicals instead.
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
The Hyperion Cantos is a masterpiece which every scifi fan ought to have read, but I would like to recommend a lesser known title of Simmons for readers who have read at least some works of Charles Dickens (self-explanatory) and Wilkie Co
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
> This is what AI skills unlocked for me, and I want to walk through how. That one sticks out. I hate having to recalibrate how I read comments on websites. We are basically in the spam days of e-mail without any filter in sight — gasp!
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
Belgium too: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/18/belgium-invest... And of course Joe Popolo in the Netherlands: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11&#x2F
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
I have no doubt that there are honest academics who publish research which actually contributes to humanity's corpus of knowledge. Whether that is some new insight into the past, observations on nature and man's interaction with i
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
The flickering happens in Firefox too.
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
Lululemon famously had that 'incident' where they flat out stated their brand just wasn't suitable for fat people. Given their brand identity this makes complete sense, whilst also excluding a large group of people. Expect mo
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
There is also this: > Minecraft: Java Edition runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux; Minecraft: Bedrock Edition runs on Windows. (From their own website. Bedrock might work with wine etc.) For a game as popular as Minecraft, where every year a
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
Just that tiny image on his blog was enough for me to go "oh yeah, I used his diagram to explain this type of git workflow to colleagues a decade ago". Someone should have spotted that right away.
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
My bank is. It is part of their service. Obviously I pay a service charge, but the card reader is not charged separately. The card reader serves a purpose for the bank as well, because it acts as a back-up for when people lose their smartph
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
It's really simple. You're in the Netherlands, and you are going to buy something in an on-line store. Steam perhaps, or any Dutch retailer. You put the game in your Steam cart, and go to pay. You select Ideal (which Steam provide
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
> Why would you expect people not living in the Netherlands to just know this? Because this is a thing in most of Europe. Most people don't own a creditcard, and those that do use it mostly for online purchases outside of the EU. I
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
So, don't fuck around with your phone while driving. Stick to the traffic rules. Avoiding him seems really, really easy. Anyone who chooses to grab their phone while driving a car deserves all the negativity they get. Unlearn that habi
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
Why would you expect to be able to use a creditcard in a physical shop in the Netherlands? Surely you knew? It works if the payment terminal has support for it, but since no Dutch person uses a creditcard outside of the internet, your kinda
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
> Whatever they come up with, I hope it doesn't tie you to a Google or Apple smartphone. The article starts with Wero right off the bat, which a pan-European rebrand and continuation of the Dutch Ideal. The Dutch have been using Ide
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
And you're not even getting into Baen and Tor books territory, where the hard military scifi lives (David Weber et al). (Scalzi is always fun.)
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by Freak_NL 8mo ago
That Berlin bookstore (Otherland) also has great staff for recommendations. The resident scifi attendant was quite knowledgeable about original scifi written in German (as opposed to translated works). That's quite useful if your knowl
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by Freak_NL 9mo ago
> Unemployment benefits are unconditional until you find a new job. They are quite conditional: you must be applying for a new job while receiving them, and after the first six months any job you can do is eligible (not just the jobs
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by Freak_NL 9mo ago
Bit of an odd comparison, given that one of those flights (MH17) was shot down by a Russian Buk squad. That was not an issue attributable to the carrier in any way, and after the incident the likelihood of it happening again to Malaysia Air
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by Freak_NL 9mo ago
Apparently not. If I want to take nice (or naughty) pictures in a beautiful location (nature, urbex, or whatever) without anyone else around, getting up early is key. Going out at 4:30 to catch the first bus and hike an hour, or ride a bicy
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by Freak_NL 9mo ago
He reuses (or rather, rehomes) too by finding buyers for cleaned and sharpened knifes of good quality. That's a plus from an environmental viewpoint. I dislike scalping where no real value is added to the service provided beyond gettin
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by Freak_NL 9mo ago
No kidding. Most of our knifes are the same IKEA ones we bought fifteen years ago. Honing steel, whetstone and the occasional coat of oil for the wood part of the handle and they just last. I can understand the brand might dilute the resale
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by Freak_NL 9mo ago
Well, Abraham Lincoln's favourite game is Raid: Shadow Legends . This is well documented in Lincoln and the Fight for Peace (John Avlon, 2023) and Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Michael Burlingame, 2008). (At which point will malignant&
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by Freak_NL 9mo ago
I don't worry about that too much. I still contribute to FOSS projects, and I use FOSS projects. Whenever I contribute, I usually fix something that affects me (or maybe just something I encountered), and fixing it has a positive effec
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by Freak_NL 10mo ago
Is it? I hadn't used Ironwail before, but I just installed it somewhere (as per the instructions) and it found the Quake dir from Steam (where I extracted qbj3 as well) all by itself. I used VkQuake before this.
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by Freak_NL 10mo ago
It's crazy that there can be over a quarter century between the last time I played Quake, yet the first thing I do in e1m1 is shoot the fake wall in the recessed area on the right and grab the shotgun shells from the secret area…
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by Freak_NL 10mo ago
Just what the doctor ordered in the bleakness of January. Fitting for brutalist architecture. I do hope Dwell isn't updated with episode 3 too quickly now.
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by Freak_NL 10mo ago
The piracy route can even be ethical. Compare: * Have a Spotify subscription, listen to all 10 albums of some artist. * Pirate everything, but buy a T-shirt from that artist. * Buy one album digitally (their latest), and pirate the rest. Wh
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by Freak_NL 10mo ago
There is another way. Spend some money on artists, directly (digital downloads, merchandise, concerts, etc.). Pirate all music. If you still spend as much on music as before (for the sake of argument), more of that amount now goes to the pe
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by Freak_NL 10mo ago
We had a service that did this in the Netherlands (Blendle). They had a lot of the big Dutch media titles on-board. It failed and they pivoted to a crappy subscription service. The model just doesn't work at this point.

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