RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm

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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
The physical card has a chip, which is digital. The point is that the ticket has a unique ID which is tied to the owner. Normal non-digital paper train tickets just indicate "someone paid this" but aren't tied to a unique per
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
Well, having a smartphone is still optional in most countries, I suppose in Germany as well. Movement on the other hand is a mandatory thing for many people unless you want to sit at home all day...
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
"Digital-only" = By smartphone app OR by smartcard, i.e. a card like a credit card with a chip and your personal unique ID stored on that. In other words: You cannot get a plain old paper ticket without personal information, the t
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
The ticket is digital-only (smartphone or smartcard), there is no paper version, and it's coupled to your personal identity (name etc.). So some people have voiced concerns about that being used to profile the movement of Germany'
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
Thanks, will have a look! :)
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
The problem IMHO is that it is so well-known that HN hates crypto that anyone who wants to voice a reasonable opinion is likely to avoid doing so in order to not get piled on with downvotes, hatred, etc. - At least for me that's it, it
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
Feel free to prove me wrong with sources :)
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
Anecdotally, I can say that their effect is already bullshitting indeed: When being in a random conversation on the "normal kind-of-average people Internet" (Twitch chat), discussing a subject where the host doesn't know a c
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
Remember when COVID hit and some people were saying "1% chance of death isn't much" and then they had to be informed that 1% is very high and we're in serious trouble? Why is 1% low when we're talking about lifelong
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
Even if much of the force is alleviated by that there's still enough moving kg's left to break condoms - which we don't even have to discuss, because there is statistics about this, and their failure rate is quite high, as sa
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
It's a 0.07 mm piece of plastic which has to absorb the forces caused by two moving bodies weighing > 100 kg together. Thus condoms do and will fail, even if properly fitted. The failure rate is estimated between 2% and 12% pregna
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
Uhm, what, reliable ? Source? The failure rate of that is in the double digits percentage AFAIK !? Besides, as long as you are still fertile and relying upon someone else not being fertile that is not self-determination. Men can also be
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
Whenever I again consider getting one and start reading up opinions on the Internet, it is usually a mix of a lot of people who say they're absolutely OK now ... and then I run into someone who says it COMPLETELY destroyed their life a
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
I would guess the reason the cheaper ones don't have it is that making it removable implies making it accessible from the outside which implies adding a pump and hoses to pump the ink into it: The slot for the box at my printer is at t
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
Does this still happen with current printers or is it one of those ancient memes about printers which don't disappear? When I turn the Epson one off, it audibly parks the head. I would suppose it is parked onto a gasket which would pr
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
?
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
I have printed over 5000 pages with mine, the head is fine (head test printout looks good), I don't know what you're referring to? To me it rather looks like consumers have been so thoroughly conditioned to distrust printers that
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
Get an Epson EcoTank printer. Ink for those is available in *bottles* from Epson, it's dirt cheap. No more cartridges! Make sure to get one which has a user-replaceable "maintenance box", the cheaper ones have a fixed one. Yo
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
The article seems quite unclear about potential consequences of using su this way. I typically use su to run some program in its own user account to ensure: - it has its own homedir and doesn't fill mine with garbage. - there is some l
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 3y ago
Meanwhile WhatsApp likely still coaxes people into enabling cloud backup, e.g. to Google Drive - which completely bypasses end-to-end encryption by putting plaintext chat history into the hands of Google et al. (Not a WhatsApp user myself a
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
Perhaps that is just the tax they ought to pay for wanting to squeeze out more performance? :) The alternative of not paying that tax by using WASM means "I want native performance but I don't want to pay the price of having to do
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
Surely that is a noble goal! But isn't it a case of XKCD 927? https://xkcd.com/927/ I.e. I would say the probability is zero that because WASM exists other existing complexity of browsers will be removed. Because
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
If people want native performance, they could just publish native software instead of websites :)
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
Oh right, and ActiveX!
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
All I hear when someone writes "WebAssembly is coming" is "more RCE exploits are coming - via the thousands of lines of new code I have to hook up to the Internet by using a browser". The industry has barely finished deb
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
The 24h limit is quite the contrast to what happens when you, as a customer, use their products: Around every corner there is a dialog which asks for permission to store extremely personal data, such as your GPS location or browsing history
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
> But these aren't questions for the community, The answers to the questions are of interest to the community so why not have them see them? :) > these are questions for the admins that actually run this place, and there's l
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
> Your account is rate limited. We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars. Thank you very much for taking the time to try to clarify things! :) I say "try t
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
> Wow, what an amazing combination of statements. You're blowing my mind actually. I'm not sure if that was meant to sound positive? :| > > HN is the only place where it is possible to talk to the people who build the te
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by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
"No means no." - I just said I would please not like this to be derailed into some mental health advice thread, so please accept the "no" to that as such.

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