Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 6y ago
No, it would not be great. It would only add to the already rampant collection of information bubbles created by the producer-follower model used by so many social networking sites. Instead of a producer-follower model I'd like to see
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
That is another potential option but it currently takes more effort to use one of these as a "daily device" - too much effort for all but the most motivated. If you want to partake in the crusade against the duopoly these devices
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an activist organisation which will label just about anything as "far right" which does not fit their narrative [1]. Using them as a reference for something being related to far-right individual
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
You don't need to get rid of a smartphone, just be smart on what you have on the thing. Start with Android since that is far more amenable to customisation than iOS. Install an AOSP-derived distribution like LineageOS. Don't insta
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> Because Sweden didn't mandate masks. I can not read the parent post since it was deleted, but... > First, Sweden had more deaths per capital than most countries. Then again, most of those deaths occurred in care homes where the
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Is is very much the point here since it is these words, and the way their meaning has been made malleable to fit the narrative of the day, which enables these practices. As long as this practice is tolerated it will be difficult if not impo
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I mostly use LineageOS (formerly Cyanogenmod) as a starting point, sometimes with a few customisations but often just straight off the 'net. As to app stores, I use F-Droid and Aurora Store (an alternative front end to the Play Store)
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
But that is the point: we need to get back to a situation where something like don't be a jerk is seen as just that, a simple suggestion not to be a jerk . As long as simple suggestions like this lead to cancellations the public d
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> So what’s the alternative? Currently: a Google-free AOSP-based distribution on one of the hundreds of supported devices. In the future, hopefully: a free software mobile platform compatible with a range of hardware. Google-free Android
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Nope, being wrong is not being a jerk, this used to be common sense and is what we need to go back to. Feel free to change the wording on the proposed CoC from don't be a jerk to don't be an asshole or something similar, the e
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I'll try to refine your argument a bit: codes of conduct have tended to become a distraction because of the sudden onslaught of such from a specific, highly politicised group of people who have used the opportunity to try to enforce th
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Can you share the sources which convinced you of the report's veracity? Those sources which I have seen mostly or totally debunked it so it would be interesting to see what made your sources come to a different conclusion. [edit] I mu
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
They could be using zinc-air batteries (like those used in hearing aids) which deplete whether they're used or not.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Not necessarily, it depends on what the money is meant for. A loan is still a loan, no matter whether interest is charged or not. It creates a liability which can have dire consequences if the conditions are not met. I only ever took out on
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Social life changes but it does not disappear. Those coffee groups make way for meetings with friends and neighbours (which might become equivalent, when there are fewer neighbours you tend to get to know them better). We live 3 km outside
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
A farm. Room to roam, largely self-supporting due to our own forest for heating and building, own water well, own waste water facilities, no building permit needed for farm buildings, own land to grow whatever we please. My children get to
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I've been using Linux on more or less everything since the late 90's, before that I used OS/2. Have there been hiccups? Sure there have, sometimes I needed to go hunt for some odd driver or even go so far as to use ndiswrappe
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
...or older, like my Thinkpad T42p with a 'Mobility FireGL T2' (Radeon RV350). Other than some occasional AGP-related instability which seems to be hardware-related Xorg works fine on this machine.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Yes, well, that is partly due to precisely the heritage you mention: when you think of the Netherlands you think of canal-interspersed fields with cows and a few traditional windmills here and there. That view would be ruined if a few 90m h
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I don't see them disallowing side-loading soon but what I do expect is an expansion of the SafetyNet [1] test which will flag devices with any side-loaded software as 'suspicious', upon which banking and electronic ID app
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
The concept definitely lives on in places like Jesuit educational institutions, one of which I attended for 6 years in the Netherlands [1]. These are not religious schools, they are schools started by people from a religious group which had
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I suspect many people conflate scholarship with clergy because that was the way things worked in the middle ages in Europe: if you wanted to have enough time for scholarly pursuits the clergy was probably the best place to be. Once it becam
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Racism. What does that mean nowadays? The term used to have a very specific meaning but it seems to be used as a more general-purpose smear nowadays, often based on nothing more than a dislike of a person or institutions politics. So now Ye
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Seriously? http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/kolumnister/a/dO3ddB/en-pa... http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/GGk664/de-nast-intill-av... http://www.aftonblade
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> For instance, can we explain where Sweden’s deaths occurred? Large care homes (100+ residents) that were ill prepared? A large problem in Sweden is that many of the staff in care homes do not speak Swedish or don't speak/read
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Att the start of the pandemic Sweden had the next-lowest number of ICU places per capita in Europe (Portugal had the lowest). The capacity was doubled, field hospitals were built... and not used since the hospitals could handle the inflow.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Computer graphics use Z as the depth axis.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Take 2 flat mirrors, set them edge to edge at an angle of 90°, mirror side facing into the angle. Position the mirrors in front of you with the edge horizontal and both mirrors angled at 45° towards you, i.e. look into the inner corner made
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> I am a programmer, obviously I label stuff; it is my job. Not everything is programming though, discussions on boards like these being a good example of such. Social interaction is not programming. I'll just point you at yet anoth
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Seriously... prove the opposite to be true then, that the majority of Europeans - in this case Dutch and Swedes for easier comparison - support either the current level or an increased level of migration. For what it is worth, De Telegraaf

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