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by Svip 11mo ago
With the invention of steam ships, railways, aeroplanes and the automobile; travel became almost trivial. In conjunction with those inventions, states also became a lot more involved in people's lives; culminating in large welfare sta
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by Svip 11mo ago
Except the Supreme Court deemed the case to be of a principal nature, and granted relieve (i.e. no cost to either party), since it was disputed whether a fake SMS train ticket counted as document fraud.
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by Svip 11mo ago
Whether internet is covered by § 72 seems undetermined; as far as I can tell the Supreme Court hasn't made a decision on it; but considering that it considered fake SMS train tickets to be document fraud, even though the law text never
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by Svip 1y ago
I've been using XFCE for the better part of two decades now (I still run into people upset about the changes XFCE made in 2003, i.e. 4.0), and I am perfectly satisfied. Though as the saying goes: what I don't know I don't kn
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CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, Reddit Invited to Testify on User Radicalization(oversight.house.gov)
7 points by Svip 1y ago|0 comments
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by Svip 1y ago
> Tall buildings are banned in Denmark so its actually surprisingly imposing. False. Buildings higher than 5 stories require municipal council approval (whereas normally it's a functional approval, not a political one), but that&#x
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by Svip 1y ago
A few details to note: The quote is from August 2024 (last year), and the question (from an MP) to the minister is from September 2024 and so is the response, which can be read here: https://www.ft.dk/samling/20231&#x2
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by Svip 1y ago
In the HTML's <title>-tag, it's called "Lossy encyclopedia".
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by Svip 1y ago
I primarily work in Danish; but I use a US Intl AltGrDead[0] keymap, so I can access most needed symbols without the compose key, such as æ (altgr+z), ø (altgr+l) and å (altgr+w). But I still wanted to write ⅚ more easily, so I also added
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by Svip 1y ago
I've configured my compose key to be right alt + left ctrl; so now I can turn --- into — or --. into – (no one talks about en dashes).
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Radio is back – Gen Z's listening habits are changing the face of media(standard.co.uk)
12 points by Svip 1y ago|0 comments
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by Svip 1y ago
Related: "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" (9 days ago, 388p, 534c) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952185 "XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites" (6 days ago
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by Svip 1y ago
The real problem is actually less the exact rate of 25%, but rather that most of the systems only assume one rate. Denmark was the first country to introduce a general VAT in 1967, and whilst the rate has changed (last in 1992 to 25%), t
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by Svip 1y ago
This article[0], which covers the same but in Danish has more details. It mentions Sweden lowering their book VAT in 2001 to 6%. The takeaway was that more books were sold, but to people who were already buying books. Getting new readers
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by Svip 1y ago
The way this article is worded makes it sound like Denmark has a 'book tax'. Denmark has a VAT on goods (and services), which is 25%. But Denmark doesn't have split VAT values, so it's either 25% or nothing; no in-betw
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by Svip 1y ago
It definitely seems to include a lot of questions that may be related to what a Go programmer might encounter, but are technically _unrelated_ to Go. > 471.What does SQLite not support compared to PostgreSQL? I mean, I definitely use bot
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by Svip 1y ago
Kind of wish Firefox allowed one to modify the common keyboard shortcuts in the browser. But considering the open issue on the matter, I won't keep my hopes up: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57805 The h
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by Svip 1y ago
I wish you a lot of luck; I am basically just waiting on XScreenSaver to be ported to Wayland before I move on from X11. But jwz (XScreenSaver's creator and maintainer) doesn't give me much hope: https://www.jwz.org&#x2
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by Svip 1y ago
Which leads to my next questions: What is pornography material? Do drawings qualify? What about text? What about softcore pornography? What about a non-profit outfit? What is the amount of pornography material I need to have for it to
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by Svip 1y ago
A little more context: that article 3 paragraph 2.a. was added by parliament (not proposed by the Commission). But paragraph 1 (same article) was altered to this text: > Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that t
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by Svip 1y ago
Considering that Valve has a native Linux release for Counter Strike (as well as all their other titles), I doubt you looked much into this.
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by Svip 1y ago
Under the section "Software authenticity" does it mention that the secure boot requirement appears to come from article 3, §3 (i). Quoting article 3, §3 (i): > radio equipment supports certain features in order to ensure that s
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by Svip 1y ago
The '<number> to beam up' line is an instruction to the transporter operator; since they can detect life signs, they can guess by proximity. It's thus not the computer making the call, but a human operator.
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by Svip 1y ago
Communicator Communicate remotely between two arbitrary points. It claims smartphones is that (though surely cellular phones would count then; why not list Motorola or whatnot?); but in Star Trek, the communicator works every
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by Svip 1y ago
According to the same paragraph, it's because Signal isn't a "browser app": > Given that Windows doesn’t let non-browser apps granularly disable Recall, Signal cleverly uses the DRM flag on their app to disable all
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by Svip 1y ago
What's the usage of the word 'factoid' when its use is clearly to just say 'fact'; considering the word 'factoid' actually means something that looks like a fact, but is – in fact – false? The fact that
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by Svip 1y ago
As noted, the politicians wanted to switch to the euro; but it's the voters who said no. Twice or thrice, depending on how you count. That isn't a case of "symbolic nationalistic policies", but rather a state apparatus
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by Svip 1y ago
That's because the powers that be want the euro, but the people didn't. They were asked in 1992, 1993 and 2000; and effectively they said no to the euro every time (yes, I know; in 1993, the euro was specifically opted out, but t
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by Svip 1y ago
Yes; it's obvious you include the full context: > Did you know there's already a special developer's edition? No web designer is building on Firefox first any more. We're lucky if they even test on it. All the functio
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by Svip 1y ago
I am not asking the CEO to be familiar with the details of programming or with whatever other technical minutiae a company is forced to deal; they can – however – demand insurance that their systems are properly tested, even if they don&#x2

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