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by avh02 5y ago
> the otherwise encrypted database is an unlocked sqlite db while the app is running. this is news to me - i will definitely be using/chasing this lead to get my data, thank you!
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by avh02 5y ago
that's not why i want to export the data though in my case - i want to export it as a backup that doesn't depend on the continued existence of whatsapp. If e.g: MSN messenger had the same strategy, you would one day find yourself
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by avh02 5y ago
hmmm, that's rather annoying as it still creates "whatsapp lock-in" :(
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by avh02 5y ago
since the author mentions whatsapp: What's the best strategy for exporting _all_ whatsapp messages on a device to a format that is readiable without whatsapp? - the export functionalities i've tried work with a message cap or othe
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by avh02 5y ago
haven't been to the US, but you can get a clean schufa if you just move to the country. I've _heard_ that in the US you'd need to get and pay off debt in order to have a good standing, a lack of any record is considered suspi
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by avh02 5y ago
bank transfers regularly get restricted by scared governments
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by avh02 6y ago
Honestly, one great advantage it had was a good airport (and at least two other major hubs nearby for cheap transit flights with virtually no layover (e.g: there were ~25 flights a day to Doha at some point)) I made some great trips from Du
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by avh02 6y ago
That's a completely different story - and there are obviously many reasons I left Dubai. But Dubai is not _entirely_ that repressed (believe it or not, you may date someone. (but technically, no sex outside marriage - didn't know
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by avh02 6y ago
technically, yes. but the reality is that the population is changing. I've only been here a few years but basically everybody who's been here longer says "it's not what it used to be" in that the vibe of the city ha
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by avh02 6y ago
I used to live in Dubai - i got there at almost peak rent/real estate... I look at rents now, and they're just under half what i was paying. Sometimes tides turn the other way too.
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by avh02 6y ago
most contracts drawn up during the "the law is being challenged" period have a "shadow rent" where you agree to pay the difference to what the rent is without the cap. I.e: "it's x euros _now_, but if/when
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by avh02 6y ago
I ran noteshrink in order to get a farewell notebook put together for a colleague with handwritten notes sent in via scan/photo soon after the lockdown started. you need somewhat decent scans to get this working (but when it works it w
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by avh02 6y ago
I recently set up smokeping to gather some data, I can't say it was a breeze - documentation appears complete but misses some key pieces of information you have to dig for or trial/error it out. E.g: i struggled figuring out where
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by avh02 6y ago
I mean, they're preventing a mode of transportation, not entry (I'm not saying this justifies anything at all). Legally I'm assuming people on the no fly list can still take a boat in to town.
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by avh02 6y ago
> Is that a threat? Who is "we"? Nope, just an expectation that sweeping claims get backed up either by reasoning (like you just did) or a source As for your reasoning vs your claim: you had made it seem like there was some wel
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by avh02 6y ago
> When ordering online, always, always, always use a fake number, it's not required Until something's gone wrong in the process and they need to call you to clarify/fix it. (happens regularly to me due to address suffixes
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by avh02 6y ago
We're going to need a citation for this claim
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by avh02 6y ago
I guess everybody is a serf to some state unless they live in anarchy - you pay your taxes for protection (military) and infrastructure in most places. In some of those places you don't even get either of those things for your tax mone
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by avh02 6y ago
> how are they not serfs? I'm gonna go with: I can choose not to work for my "owner". (you can argue if you want to be extreme that I'd have to leave Europe, but I could do that.) Also, I get healthcare whether or not
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by avh02 6y ago
expat in Germany here, opinion: you have a lot of trash to see elsewhere before you realise how good it is here.
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by avh02 6y ago
I moved away from cable because my area had poor capacity planning (and it's generally a crappy technology) - if someone in the house was on a video call (edit to say: any upload really) - ping times to any external host (like 1.1.1.1)
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by avh02 6y ago
if they wanted to do that they'd probably have found another solution already through google's data at the very least. Probably apple/FB as well. Plus cell phone service providers. I don't know why this new thing is your
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Facebook announces two transpacific undersea cables(engineering.fb.com)
3 points by avh02 6y ago|0 comments
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by avh02 6y ago
> Ever changing gestures, hidden menus, differences between machines One of the reasons i'm getting sick of all this cloud crap and autoupdating software is that the changes are mostly cosmetic bullshit but I often have to re-learn
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by avh02 6y ago
I had a special topics course in parallel computing in university - Amdahl's law is probably the single biggest takeaway from that course. It's amazing how applicable it is to more general things in life as well - can't remem
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Moving from Cable to DSL(arahayrabedian.github.io)
1 points by avh02 6y ago|0 comments
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by avh02 6y ago
not the OP, but on my few (yes, tourist) visits to India - I've found things done that try to watch or "guide" you to do things a certain way. Examples: getting a phone number as tourist was complex, we decided to keep roamin
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by avh02 6y ago
There's plenty of systematic[1] as well as "oh there are protests, let's turn off internet in the area" types of censorship[2] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India#T... [2
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by avh02 6y ago
One of the first products i worked on was put in to "maintenance" mode for most of my tenure at the same company (we were disbanded and moved to different teams). I wanted to be the one to shut it down (we knew it was not success
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by avh02 6y ago
I have/had phenomenal problems avoiding DNS leakage with openvpn on my ubuntu installation. Spent a day or two, trying fix after fix from many sources, the best solution was ripping out the POS that is systemd-resolved and throwing in

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