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by Symbiote 4mo ago
You can see the fines the Bulgarian regulator has handed out here: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
Living directly in view of a metro entrance within the inner city will be have noise from people using it, but one minute walk away is considered perfect in Europe. Many people who visit me for the first time comment on this. On the very qu
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
Proportional to the respective populations, this would have needed roughly four times as many signatures to get to that level in Switzerland.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
Firefox has a "copy clean link" button for hyperlinks and in the address bar.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
In a small business, I've been responsible for buying laptops for a while. In about 300 person-years, we've had two laptops stolen. Both were stolen while the staff were on trips abroad, and the staff were both rather careless IM
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
The chart on the site below shows JK Rowling's net worth growth was pretty much linear. $100M per two years until about 2006, then $100M a year after that. She also pays full UK tax on her earnings, the 36th most of any individual. h
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
"Corn" is the general word for the most common cereal crop of a region, and the word for an individual grain of such a plant, in case you wish to use the corn-on-a-chessboard story without the qualification.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
In England, I had summer jobs in factories when I was a teenager, since they needed extra hands to help with cleaning / maintenance during the annual shutdown. I don't know if this work would have been offered to staff who turned
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
I noticed AI-slop style phrasings, especially (but not only) the "Watching the footage today" paragraph.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
I was thinking of the emissions from 'temporary' gas-powered electric generators in the USA. Improving the electrical production system would be fine, but it needs to be paid for upfront by the datacentre and ideally completed no
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
The assets aren't a problem in 2026, they are in an edge cache. The RSS feed can't be cached for long, and AI crawlers will be making millions of requests to these.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
It would help if Reddit used the standard Retry-After HTTP header, but otherwise I don't see why more than one request per minute is necessary for the expected use of RSS feeds.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
Increased energy prices, increased local pollution, increased climate change. (And waste electronics are considered hazardous in the EU.)
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
Friends and colleagues here in Denmark have no problems with summer trips to Italy etc, but I haven't tried a long trip like this myself in an EV.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
It's not as direct as a future tax, but ICE cars have been gradually made less useful in many EU countries including Germany and France. You can't drive one into the centre of Paris, and older ICE cars are banned from the centre o
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
The equivalent 10+ years earlier was so much lower risk: £25 or so for an old computer at a junk sale, £4.99 for a magazine with a Linux CD-ROM to avoid a week-long download.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
Can a German child buy non-essential expensive things, like a concert ticket, console, Warhammer or whatever? (Or a video game, back when those were sold in shops.) I bought these things while a child in the UK. I'm sure Games Worksh
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
They may well have the account with a debit card for other reasons, like buying food, travel etc.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
I get secure messages from public authorities and companies in Denmark, which go to my secure 'mailbox' for this purpose. Of course, contracted out to some private company, and they'll probably change the contract again in 5
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
The opposite -- it said elsewhere they will accept a low offer if it means the historic bridge is preserved.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
Using easily available numbers, a high quality distribution center building (heavy duty concrete floors, HVAC etc) is $100 per sqft. A very large 1,000,000 sqft data centre is therefore $100 million.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
In the Russian far east, where it's not practical to bury cables, many roadside bars have small signs showing a piece of fibre cable and how it's worthless for scrap.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
I think in the UK the scrap yards can only pay electronically, with a delay of several days. They must also record photo identification. This was put in place after the Nth theft of railway cables.
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
Cricket is even more accessible: you need a bat (which could be a piece of wood), but you don't need space. You can compress the game to play in a 1.5m wide alleyway between two buildings. I think this is why it became so popular in I
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
Strangely, these limitations don't seem to have been present on the European platforms. (Although I've never bought shares in an IPO myself, so I'm not certain about this.) e.g. with https://www.nordnet.dk/kam
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
I have observed the same from Meta's crawler. User-agent: * Disallow: / on e.g. our preproduction site, Meta is the only big-tech crawler that accesses it, at least with an honest user agent. (Meta also accesses disallow
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
It's not copyright data (academia / library stuff), so the concern is the DDoS. If researches write to us, we send them a database dump or export, but only one AI company has ever written. So far there's always been some pat
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
My employer's site was recording 1,500 requests per second from a single AI bot earlier this week. The requests came from 2.4 million different IPs at the time I looked, between 1-2 requests from each IP, most likely all were unique U
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
The original submitted title (when I commented) was something like "Bots overtake human traffic for the first time".
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by Symbiote 4mo ago
It's not Cloudflare's title, the submitted invented it.

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