Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Delta Chat is here, now, and has been for a while. It works on Android, Linux, MacOS and is being developed for iOS (limited function beta is available). There is no Windows client yet as far as I know. Delta chat has a simple and concise
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
> great APIs ... great apps ... feel good ... I trust them ... I'm exited ... possibilities...will unleash ... That sentence has too many happy adjectives - something which seems to be endemic in the Apple world - and could have be
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Apart from the main battery and any backup batteries that laptop would probably work if it were left in storage for a few decades. The power supply is another story, that probably would need to have its electrolytic capacitors replaced befo
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Unless you're in the 'all potential evidence is faked' groupd I'd say the imagery provided by the flock of geostationary meteorological satellites is enough evidence to prove the earth is anything but flat. How else woul
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
I do. We live on a farm where they also get to do other interesting things, e.g. two days ago I was splitting firewood with my 7yo daughter - that is she did the splitting with a hydraulic press, I watched and helped where necessary while s
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
I'd rather compare it with one family which bought their children a box of Lego or a similar construction toy while the other gave them access to a scrap heap with broken mopeds and lawnmowers. The Lego-endowned kids will make interest
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
A 5yo can certainly be trusted with a blunt sewing needle, the type used to mend holes in socks etc ('stopnaald' in Dutch, darning-needle in English). A toddler can not but might find it interesting to toddle around while you show
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Strange, the last incompatibility-problems I saw were those caused by disappearing interfaces - things like parallel printer and SCSI ports - but those are all long gone. If I'm not using my HP SJ5200 scanner (with parallel and USB int
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Those 30 minutes of your time are only more 'valuable' if the only thing of value which counts is monetary value. This is, of course, not the case. Money is nothing but a means to an end, it should never be the end itself. Assumin
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
I'd put the top more or less at the rise of Linux, the BSD's and similar systems. While fiddling with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT might have given people the impression that they were 'programming' their PC's in rea
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
A good solution to all this $search_engine misery is to use something like Searx [1] as an in-between. This gets rid of most of the profiling - especially when using a shared instance run by someone you trust (to avoid being profiled by the
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Search engines - Google amongst them - are moving from using the search term as (possibly stemmed) literal words to search for to attempting to interpret the 'meaning' of the term. This interpretation can be somewhat... lacking, w
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
On the religious details of the status of the shochet and the number and character of formulations uttered by him (or, apparently, her) I can well be wrong, not being an insider and as such only having access to the (often only partly cor
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
> It’s not all that different in intent from kosher and halal slaughter: minimize pain and suffering, respect the animal, get tastier food while you’re at it. Except that this is not the intent for kosher and halal, nor do these methods
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
In the Netherlands tulips once were 'wealth', until they were no longer. In other words, iPhones are not wealth, they're utensils which compete on a fairly open market against a multitude of competitors. For some there is n
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
That's simply because these remote controls are transmit-only, fire-and-forget devices which spew out a pseudo-random code to the receiver without being able to listen to any response. This is also why you should not click the button o
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
One of the first things mentioned on that Github page is the following warning: WARNING: PUTTING NEWPIPE OR ANY FORK OF IT INTO GOOGLE PLAYSTORE VIOLATES THEIR TERMS OF CONDITIONS. Newpipe is available on F-Droid but that version is somet
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
If you're on mobile there's alternative ways of watching Youtube videos, at least if you're on Android: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe No ads, no direct tracking [1], just videos. [1] Google can
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Canada Goose is the iPhone or top-price Samsung of the coat world, an OK product which retails for far more than it should because the price itself is part of the appeal for the indented customer group. If all you need is a coat which keeps
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Yet that same Blackberry was also nicknamed 'Crackberry' due to the seemingly addictive nature of the device which had some users glued to its screen just as much as current devices do. The conclusion to draw from this is probably
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
That's odd, the article I read did contain specific instances of parents retracting the steps of their spendthrifty offspring which confirmed there was no indication of actual money being spent, e.g.: “I saw all these $19 charges fr
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
The problem is that the 'racist' label is so poisonous in our (western-European, north-American) culture that it is being used to silence others, no matter whether they actually are racist or not. It does not take much to be calle
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
History is rife with debate on the morality of conquest, this probably goes back to the dawn of civilisation. If there is one thing which can be learned from history it is that homo sapiens is a querulous and aggressive species which is mor
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
You forgot the bit which told of how the Aztecs [1] became to be the power they were back in the day: by a combination of military conquest and, to a lesser extent, trade. Before the Aztecs became the power they were there were the Toltecs,
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Neither 'frog' nor 'kiwi' are racist [1]: racism 1 Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. This abu
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
I live in Sweden and do not use - nor even have - Swish. The only occasions where this has been 'inconvenient' thus far was at markets and fairs where they only took Swish payments. In nearly all cases simply stating that I do not
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
The bigness is a good thing, most of it consists of storage space for (compressed) returned packaging. One of the more frustrating issues with the common variety of bottle/can recycling machines is that I nearly always get confronted b
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Only when you solely rely on the vendor for updates. While this is the only option on iOS devices this is not the case for Android where several third-party distributions can be used to keep older devices up to date. Some of these offer OTA
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
I just play a right-handed guitar 'upside-down'. While this makes it harder to finger many chords as I need to reach over the lower strings to reach the higher ones it makes it easier to just pick up any guitar I come across. I le
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Not at all but that might be related to the fact that I'm left-handed and as such have learnt to do many things in both left- and right-handed fashion simply because many tools are made for right-handed use, this goes from simple thing

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