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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Dutch tech news website Tweakers.net basically has this. Comments are moderated on a scale from -1 to +3, and then you can choose to expand only +2 and up.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Somewhat related, there is currently a guy on YouTube attempting to drive a car from Belgium to Japan. https://youtube.com/watch?v=w4OZmMlUHWw
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
MetroCard was definitely a confounding factor too, but isn’t it still the case that you have to manually push the turnstile within a certain time frame? (idk, maybe I was just a clueless tourist who didn’t know how it worked :P) To your lat
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
There is definitely an aspect of online language learning communities where certain sanctioned methods are treated as gifts from the gods, while other methods brand you as a no-good heretic who doesn’t really want to learn the language.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
You can also be motivated because you like to consume media in the language (relevant for English and Japanese), because you think it will be useful for a job (English) or for travel (French, Spanish, etc.), or simply because you like the l
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Sorry, but your landing page is really awful. I’m not allowed to learn about your app because I’m on a tablet? And I have to give you my e-mail address, even though I know nothing about your app so far? Suggestion: Allow me to browse your s
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
The last time I was in NYC was 10+ years ago, but from what I recall, operating the turnstiles correctly required some experience: you need to know that they require manual operation (not obvious to first-time users), and then you also have
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
This is perhaps more of a ‘New York’ problem (i.e. high passenger volume + small stations + slow turnstiles). In the Netherlands, there are cases where this can happen too (notably, Amsterdam South station), but generally there are less pas
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
> I feel like they could combine the IC and contactless reader into one bit of hardware with some engineering. This is the case in the Netherlands. The same readers accept the old OV-chipkaart (stored-value) system and the new OVpay (EMV
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Perhaps surprisingly, PayPal is a bank too.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Source?
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> I think we've seen this before. Back before phones were "smart" there was one (Nokia, maybe?) that you could put on a little dock into which you could plug a keyboard and monitor. There have been multiple attempts at thi
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
I’m not a lawyer, so perhaps I’m missing something, but I don’t see any exception in your quote or link. Your quote literally says ”equipment directly or indirectly connected” (emphasis mine). The Netherlands regulator interprets this by
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
They do have to allow own modems as well as routers. Article 5 of the EU Net Neutrality Regulation states that “end-users should be free to choose between various types of terminal equipment […]. Providers of internet access services should
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
The EU has had Ecodesign regulations for a long time, and the Brussels effect [1] does the rest. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Yes, the good old Game Boy(/Color/Advance) consoles still work. Hobbyists are modding them with better screens, and are still creating new games.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
> The request could not be satisfied. The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Hmm, I don’t have this use-case so maybe it really doesn’t work, but are you sure you went to Settings > Video quality preferences and set it correctly there? If that doesn’t work – reach out to YouTube support – as a Premium subscriber,
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
We don’t see this on Android, where you can install apps from outside the Play Store.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams (The Verge, 25 Jun 2024) – https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185467/microsoft-teams-...
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
I have Premium and I always get a high resolution, if my connection allows for it.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Who cares? Sometimes, you don’t know everything, nor will you. You won’t be around for everything. This is the human condition. It seems unwise to spend too many brain cycles worrying about this.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Not sure if this works in other countries, but here in the Netherlands, homeless folks can get a postal address at municipal offices. People who move can set up (albeit paid) mail forwarding for up to a year. Other than that, there’s good o
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
> We've already started attacking the future by mocking it as "vibe coding". The term ‘vibe coding’ was coined by OpenAI’s co-founder. https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Many vendors use Linux in their products. Think: smartphones (Android), routers, smarthome/IoT devices, other embedded devices.
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This Wikipedia page also has some interesting maps: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse_dialecten
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by Tijdreiziger 2y ago
> I went to give my 10 year old access to my old AWS account to play around […] Why not give them an old machine and a Linux install USB? That’s how I got started around that age (ok, with a CD instead of a USB, because it was the ‘00s),
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by Tijdreiziger 2y ago
Most of those do in fact seem to use WordPress for part of their site: * microsoft.com – uses WP at devblogs.microsoft.com * digicert.com – may be a false positive, they link to files at /wp-content/ URLs, maybe they used WP in th
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by Tijdreiziger 2y ago
That’s not what the stats show. WordPress powers 43% of websites today. Shopify, Wix, and Squarespace together only account for 11%. https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management
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Enjoy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=teC_uksSPBU

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