Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 7y ago
1) they didn't [1] 2) ...but the current political climate in Sweden is such that there is a frantic search for anything and everything which can be used to 'prove' that Sweden has always been a melting pot of different cultu
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Remember "hanging chads" and "pregnant chads" [1]? Those were machine-countable paper ballots which could be hand-counted in case of a challenge. Replace the punch-card ballot machine by pencil marks and the discussion w
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Things. Stuff. Collections of ... whatever, really. Don't get too attached to things and widgets and thingamabobs and artefacts and all the other man-made objects which supposedly are there to serve you but which end up needing service
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
There are three more infected people in the same company (Webasto, a car parts manufacturer) now, it is not unlikely that other people from the same company, at the hotel where the Chinese lady stayed and from the same airplane she travelle
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
I surely hope so, given that these make it possible to do things with Wine which are difficult if not impossible with a real Windows installation without having to do silly things with VMs or containers. As an example I use Wine to run Sket
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
The generally accepted term for this type of comment is "karma whoring", an attempt to garner upvotes for the erudite and enlightening explanation of the phenomenon by quoting the article itself. This works for those who suffer fr
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Abstraction upon abstraction running containers inside VMs, basically turtles all the way down.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Typing this on a 2GB Thinkpad T42p which seems to work just fine for browsing and basic tasks - and then some.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Making lots of money, that is what they're doing. They do seem to have managed to get people to believe that it is normal for a cable to fail after such a short time. By the way, I guess that your phone's standard cable is not min
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
No, it did not go beyond 4.4. 5.0 has been booted on it but never got any further, mostly due to the fact that nobody got a 3.x kernel running satisfactorily on the device. I do use one with a 3.1 kernel (running MPD) but all the others are
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Same here, including the Defy+ itself. I have a slew of them doing duty as work phone, trailer camera, media player and such.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Those same technical people get to help grandma when that simple webpage has eaten the blue e. PEBBAS - Problem Exists Between Browser And Site/Server/Storage.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Also, the failure mode of the 737-MAX thus far did not have it fall from the sky in flames - assuming that the video which purportedly shows the plane doing just that is a true depiction of the event. Furthermore it seems unlikely for a 3
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
As far as I know there were far larger fires in the 1974–1975 fire season but in those days there was no talk of climate change being a driving factor. In that season 45,000,000 hectares burned in Northern Territory, 29,000,000 in Western A
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Don't know about iOS, on Firefox (Linux and Android) uBlock Origin works. On Android you can also use Newpipe [1] for an ad-free Youtube experience. There is another app called Musicpiped [2] which plays ad-free audio-only versions of
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
There are ads on YouTube? Not for me, which I take as a sign that my ad blocking methods are working
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
> Internal activists is a fairly novel concept - at least activists with the power to make changes like this. There's nothing novel about activism in organisations like the WHO, nor in the media which report on the activities of the
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Works in normal mode with uBlock, blocking all 3d-party content, allow assets.bwbx.io, block the rest.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
They're not sophistry and it is important to make these distinctions, if only because not doing so allows those who continue to profess allegiance to these ideologies to get away with it. As a case in point it should not come as a surp
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Fascism has a specific meaning and should not be abused to indicate a state form which you find disagreeable. There have not been that many true fascist states, Italy under Mussolini and Spain under Franco are examples of such, Germany unde
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Nonsense, simply put. Past climate change has been driven by all sorts of factors, from bolide impacts through volcanic eruptions to large-scale forest fires. In several cases these changes came abruptly, far more so than the change caused
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Si vis pacem, para bellum [1] or "If you want peace, prepare for war". Yes, there are many downsides to war, those millions of dead people you mention amongst them. The thing is, just because you have decided the downsides of wa
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Another option is to use Linux and try your best to run essential Windows software using Wine or in a VM, that way you can play in the Windows-world without being committed to it. It "Works For Me"...
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Is is a monitor, albeit an expensive one with an apple on the back. So-called 'professional' displays have been used for a long time for e.g. digital medical imaging, they get cleaned every day using normal monitor cleaning proced
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Living on a farm in the Swedish countryside with 1Gbit/1Gbit fiber I'll probably make you even more jealous...
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Glass bottles get reused, plastic gets recycled. The first PET bottles were made to be reused as well, they were quite a bit more substantial than the current versions. This scheme was scrapped quite soon, probably because it ended up bein
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
The price of cloud computing is higher than that of owning and running the hardware. As to whether that implies the cost of running a commercial cloud is higher than that of running individual servers on customer premises is doubtful. I
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Bollocks, the increase in atmospheric CO₂ has led to the planet becoming greener and harvests have increased, not decreased. Keep on pumping out more demonstrable nonsense like this and soon nobody will believe claims by scientists. They&#x
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
> At this point it takes the same amount of energy (embodied energy, called grey energy in Germany) to erect a Passivhaus as it will need operating over the next 50 years. That doesn't mean much since it takes less and less energy t
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
> switching to the oral tradition replacing facts with mythological creatures & fantastic stories. ...and thus the circle is completed, next step: Berlin court opens Twitter/Facebook account to spread their fantastic stories.

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