MrDresden

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by MrDresden 9mo ago
Switched back in 2009 and back then Ubuntu was the easiest to get running. And I've stuck with it ever since while trying Fedora, Arch and a few others along the way. I guess it just works for me, know my way around the tooling and can
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by MrDresden 10mo ago
In some locations banks are allowed to charge you for the interests they will loose out on when their clients pay more of the principal. In other locations this has been deemed illegal and/or only allowed above a certain amount (think
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by MrDresden 10mo ago
> Believability aside (I do think it’s believable personally) this is pretty much how “evil” (from outsider perspective) is done at every company I used to be in a mobile application team for a bank, where I had genuine meetings with t
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by MrDresden 10mo ago
I've attempted to take two DB trains this year, while travelling both through Germany and with Berlin as a destination. In the end there were seven trains, and 8 hours extra lost travelling with DB. My compensation was pitiful. Living
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by MrDresden 10mo ago
Both PGP and Signal will leak if you use them incorrectly, so that comparison doesn't really hold up. I say this as someone who uses both.
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by MrDresden 10mo ago
Write to your legislators/representatives. Honestly, it is the only thing that you can do, apart from voting and talking to people in your near environment. Is it a good solution, and always likely to work? No, absolutely not. But is a
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by MrDresden 10mo ago
A local roasters recently opened up a cafe (again, they had one but lost their space some years ago). Having only been there three times now, each time I've gotten into long conversations about technique and equipment with the baristas
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by MrDresden 10mo ago
This happened not so many years ago, in a certain small European nation, where official government housing valuation numbers were incorrect for some years due to a flaw in a spreadsheet. I remember my apartment got a ~10% bump in value one
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by MrDresden 11mo ago
To clarify, no the AMOC collapse I have grown up with as a discussion point over the last 40 years. I am talking about the decision by our national security council. I had not seen any reporting on that domestically.
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by MrDresden 11mo ago
This is clearly getting more reporting on than on any domestic news outlets. This is the first I am hearing about this.
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by MrDresden 11mo ago
Frankly the originator of this pull request deserves the "classic Torvalds" treatment, no matter who is delivering it.
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by MrDresden 11mo ago
Note though that the sulfur smell from hot water in Iceland is only a thing in certain areas in Reykjavik, and perhaps some locations around the island. This is due to the hot water in those regions literally being pumped out of the ground
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by MrDresden 11mo ago
Something that I feel needs to be clarified, since I've noticed this being parroted around and it's technically incorrect: It is incorrect to say the FBI has subpoenad the register for Archive.is. The FBI can not subpoena the regi
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by MrDresden 1y ago
I'm not sure why you feel like it is abandoned. There is a steady release cadence and the changelog[0] clearly shows that much is being worked on. [0]: https://nextcloud.com/changelog/#latest32
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by MrDresden 1y ago
You are badly informed. Even Denmark, the main proponent of the bill has withdrawn it's support. What you have just witnessed was a working civil society. I'll take that over the alternative any day.
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How Russia built an Arctic spy network using European equipment(lemonde.fr)
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by MrDresden 1y ago
While climate change is a reality, backed by multiple metric tons of hard science, it is unclear if these three mosquitos were genuinely colonizers due to it or if they had simply been transported over by a foreign cargo vessel at the alumi
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by MrDresden 1y ago
You know you can just start doing that in your projects. That's how practice often becomes standard.
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by MrDresden 1y ago
For a few years now I have made an effort to first try to find a local (in the neighborhood, city or country) seller who has a good reputation before even considering Amazon. In all cases, where I have found alternatives, I've had grea
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by MrDresden 1y ago
Ah thanks for correcting me. I had only listened to the ADB podcast episode and from that it seemed that signature would always be needed.
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by MrDresden 1y ago
Look I love that GrapheneOS exists, and I have used it in the past (as have I with Lineage). But GrapheneOS lives by the mercy of Google. Pixel devices being reference devices makes it so that it's unlikely that Google will close them
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by MrDresden 1y ago
There sadly isn't a single viable option for a Linux mobile phone out there. - Purism runs ancient hardware, charges way too much and has questionable business ethics. - Pine64 has equally bad hardware but reasonable prices. I don&#x27
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by MrDresden 1y ago
My understanding was that those packages still had to be signed with a key known to Google.
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by MrDresden 1y ago
After 15 years of professional development on Android I too am now thinking about switching my focus to something different. And it sucks. Just wished there was a viable* FOSS Linux based mobile OS project out there that I could offer my ti
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by MrDresden 1y ago
Reading this gives me flashbacks of my ~22 years old self who was, as most of us do, trying to come to terms with how life, responsibilities and the experience of it changes in your early adulthood. At that age we all read academic literatu
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by MrDresden 1y ago
I notice that Mastodon is only mentioned in the article in terms of protocols, but to me the killer feature there is the absolute lack of an algorithm. Nothing is ever pushed on me by the platform, so the whole experience doesn't becom
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by MrDresden 1y ago
Facebook/Meta has shown time and time again that it can't be trusted with data privacy, full stop. No amount of internal auditing, externally verified and stamped with approval for following ISO standards theater will change the f
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by MrDresden 1y ago
But the crucial bit to know here would be if that data was readable in anyway in case it was accessed? Personally it doesn't matter if there are auditing systems in place, if the data is readable in any way, shape or form.
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by MrDresden 1y ago
Personally I've never understood the need some have for keeping chat histories. So this isn't a feature I'll use, but am sure others will. And remember, Signal is a nonprofit. If you use it, and if you can, you should be dona
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by MrDresden 1y ago
Seems only about 9% of US manufactured car exports go to the EU[0], which is down from 12% in 2022. So there are some who buy US made cars, but why they would... [0]: https://www.acea.auto/fact/fact-sheet-eu-us-vehicle-

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