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by ar0 6y ago
I call Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". The problem was that German politicians were extremely desperate for at least one large-scale German "new tech business&
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by ar0 6y ago
There is the officially supported /e/OS Fairphone 3: https://esolutions.shop/shop/e-os-fairphone-3/ Granted, /e/OS is not the same as one of those "pure Linux OS" options mentioned ab
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by ar0 6y ago
They have. It's called "peer review". It is just that peer review is a slow process, so it doesn't really work in a fast-moving crisis environment. Part of peer review being a slow process may be fixable (although it is
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Fairphone 3 is now available with /e/OS(fairphone.com)
4 points by ar0 6y ago|0 comments
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by ar0 6y ago
I think the problem is that something is wrong with the ENTSO-E feed for solar and wind power in Switzerland. Data is given as "N/A" on their webpage, too, and it states that: "Due to changes to a different primary data
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by ar0 6y ago
That looks like a good opportunity for an (at least tangentinally related) big shout-out to your great electricityMap ( https://www.electricitymap.org/map ) website! I wish there would be more countries covered (in particular
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by ar0 7y ago
I see lots of complaints about Captchas in the “real” world, too. Not regarding the centralisation etc. aspect but more regarding how painful they are to complete correctly, but there are definitely complaints. Regarding Cloudflare, a regul
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The new standard in on-premises team collaboration: Nextcloud Hub(nextcloud.com)
4 points by ar0 7y ago|0 comments
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by ar0 7y ago
> The US has the highest cancer survival rate in the world The US isn’t bad in that respect, but according to Wikipedia, this statement isn’t even true for the subset of countries on their list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by ar0 7y ago
Actually the article states that the driverless rides are limited to a subset of the total Waymo test area in Phoenix, which has nothing to do with legal restrictions but with how confident Waymo is in their technology. And, yes, some (mayb
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by ar0 7y ago
I would guess that for a large set of combinations of loaned items and customers’ typical credit card limits this would probably lead your customer to quickly hit his card limit and thus to a lot of frustration. (Also, in many cases the pot
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by ar0 7y ago
You can add "#g" to any search and it will directly redirect to Google (similar to DuckDuckGo's shebangs). This works very well on Desktop, but I agree that it's a bit of a hassle on mobile...
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by ar0 7y ago
Note that you do not have to wait for Google: You can just start searching using Ecosia ( https://www.ecosia.org/ ) which use their revenue to plant trees around the world and are also a "negative emissions" operati
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by ar0 7y ago
> Both countries with socialized medicine and yet they still didn't come up with a cure. This is misleading. The original post was about medical research, which neither in Greece nor in England is any more "socialized" tha
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by ar0 7y ago
Of course, podcast ads are also the opposite of almost all the other ads on the Internet: They don't send your personal data and web browsing history to hundreds of shady companies, they don't slow down your webbrowsing, they aren
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by ar0 7y ago
If this is really the only way to successfully shop at Amazon, I wonder why so many people are still doing that. It seems to me that it would be the role of the shop I am shopping at to perform this kind of due diligence and quality assuran
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by ar0 7y ago
I just hope this is a typo... ;)
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by ar0 7y ago
Where are you getting this from? OVH very prominently advertises their DDOS protection that comes with all their products ( https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/en/anti-ddos/faq.xml ). In fact, they once used it to e
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by ar0 7y ago
Just note that this is nothing new and has been discussed extensively a year ago. They say it is to implement full-text search and toots will be removed after a month: https://mstdn.jp/@tootdon/99759644880024717 If the
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by ar0 7y ago
Here is an interesting article about this subject, suggesting a 400m-rule for walking distance to the next stop: https://humantransit.org/2010/11/san-francisco-a-rational-st... The city of Zurich, Switzerland reco
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by ar0 7y ago
Plus, it also avoids interrupting all the others in the same office.
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by ar0 7y ago
The „time lock” approach is exactly what Apple is doing if you try to recover your Apple ID (without password and second factor). Unfortunately, when you search on Twitter, people are going bananas over having to wait a few days to get thei
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by ar0 7y ago
This is why it is important to adapt environmental policies to local circumstances: if you are living in a country where your plastic bag ends in a landfill, you will have a very different definition of what is better for the environment th
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by ar0 7y ago
Do you have a source for this? It seems to be difficult to get exact numbers on this, but the BBC quotes data (for the UK and for “developed European countries”, whatever that means, so not exactly for the EU, and comparing to North America
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by ar0 7y ago
I get the same treatment (and I am also not in the EU), but I have to say: apart from this specific link not working, their "European Union Experience" seems so much more uncluttered than all the other news sites out there! It see
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by ar0 7y ago
And, luckily for them, they don‘t need an airport to be able to land in the city.
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by ar0 7y ago
I also use Firefox, but this discussion should probably not be the reason to do so: Mozilla has stated that they are tentatively onboard with the approach proposed by the Chrome team: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public
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by ar0 7y ago
I am not so sure about this. When you read his books or look at his Twitter feed you surely get the impression he is a self-obsessed, extremely arrogant weirdo. But when he gives e.g. a talk in person, he comes across very differently - sel
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San Franciscans raise $46,000 to stop homeless shelter in wealthy area(theguardian.com)
45 points by ar0 8y ago|34 comments
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by ar0 8y ago
Their comparison to and discussion of the iPhone behaviour seems to be quite disingenuous to me: The iPhone search searches websites and your phone. Apps that you have installed on your phone can register to provide search results. If you d

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