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by dirkt 6y ago
For me, the impact ist mostly "no, I don't want to read this if the headline is already that bad".
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by dirkt 6y ago
Assuming that by "our country" you mean the US: For example in Europe, car use is a lot less prevalent, walking and using a bike plays a much bigger role, and because of Covid, people are thinking about re-designing cities to rely
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by dirkt 6y ago
The concept of choosing a field to work in because "it has the highest pay off" is so utterly alien to me that I don't even know what to say.
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by dirkt 6y ago
Emitting UTF-8 when the settings clearly say "no UTF" is a bug, no matter if a real VT220 is on the other end, or something else that doesn't understand unicode (which is still quite possible, even today). It's even a bu
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by dirkt 6y ago
> At GitHub, we want to protect developer privacy, and we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution. After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really. No
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by dirkt 6y ago
My favorite one is the spiral tracks on the Apple II, which were possible because all phases of the stepper motor were directly accessible on the controller, so you could move the stepper motor in quarter tracks. Impossible to copy unless y
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by dirkt 6y ago
Can't upvote this enough ...
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by dirkt 6y ago
Not sure how it is in other countries, but don't the knobs when going left-to-right always correspond clockwise to the burners, starting at the lower left? And the oven knob is to the right? I've never seen a different arrangement
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by dirkt 6y ago
By being part of Facebook, gathering data about whom you communicate with (that works even with end-to-end encryption), combining this with the profile Facebook has about you, and selling this data to third parties. By using WhatsApp, you b
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by dirkt 6y ago
(1) A COVID-19 infection can have long-term effects even in young people. (2) We all have seen the images of hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, not having enough breathers, etc. For some reason this doesn't happen with the t
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by dirkt 6y ago
Thankfully, I can still read their article with javascript blocked (something that stops working on more and more sites), so I wasn't hit by that.
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by dirkt 6y ago
It very much depends on the contact tracing apps. Some contract tracing apps have been developed with privacy built-in right from the start, for example the "official" German one recommended by the German government [1]. The techn
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by dirkt 6y ago
> you don't even want to pay the type annotation tax for. You won't understand those aphorisms as long as think of "type annotation" as something useless, "tax-like". I know where you come from, in languages
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by dirkt 6y ago
> that are only provided for specific distros Last time I looked, it was perfectly possible to install them directly, without support by the distro. Yes, it's more work. > Nvidia gpus require proprietary drivers There's an o
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by dirkt 6y ago
Probably for the reason renewable energy plants are not built there [1]: Problems of politics and stability. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec
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by dirkt 6y ago
PDF is tied to page layout. PDF is a way to digitally describe something that's intended to be printed to paper, on a sheet of a certain size. And as a format, it's much more sane than, say, Word or Excel. Even if the focus on &qu
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by dirkt 6y ago
Don't forget that the Apple I was basically a glorified video terminal, so the text mode came first. Also in the Apple II. That's the reason there are 7 pixels horizontally per character. The graphics mode is just a juiced up text
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by dirkt 6y ago
Percentiles are not helpful, because at least in my home country what degrades the maximum potential speed is the influence that parallel copper cables have on each other. So my internet speed depends on how much my neighbours are using the
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by dirkt 6y ago
The stackexchange sites get questions like "hey, I am using Kali because all the cool hackers use it, but my Wifi hardware doesn't work, and I cannot install my favorite browsers, what should I do?" from absolute newbies abou
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by dirkt 6y ago
You may like "The Physicists" by Dürrenmatt, then, if you have not read or seen it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physicists
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by dirkt 6y ago
I love git, but the command-line interface feels like it was grown over some time (which it was). It's just very ad-hoc in what commands are used to accomplish something. The underlying architecture of git is awesome, but even if I kno
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by dirkt 6y ago
Full text from the netzpolitik article: > Provider sollen Internetverkehr umleiten, damit Geheimdienste hacken können > Geheimdienste wollen Hardware bei Internet-Providern installieren, um Staatstrojaner in Datenverkehr einzuschleuse
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by dirkt 6y ago
In German it's "querlesen" (read s.th. transversely, read s.th. across). I guess Russian and French people start top left and stop bottom right, while Germans start top center and end bottom center ... (at least that's w
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by dirkt 6y ago
> but in practice means "create small, composable pieces which can be used together or separately to accomplish what you need." Except they are not composable on a package managing level. At least they weren't Debian, back
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by dirkt 6y ago
Googling "france acheter maison 1 eur" find for example this: https://www.18h39.fr/articles/maison-a-1-euro-vraiment-une-b... ) (use Google Translate etc.)
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by dirkt 6y ago
And if you read the article and look at the list of examples, it's more the variants of "what?" in different languages. "Huh" and variants exist additionally in quite a few as well.
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by dirkt 6y ago
I am old enough to have written programs when "dark mode" was the default (black background and green or amber text, 40 columns, 80 columns if you were lucky), and I can tell you that light mode is much easier on my eyes. Black
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by dirkt 6y ago
If you are not afraid of the command line, have a look at smallstep [1]. I use it all the time for JWT debugging, and it can do other things as well. [1] https://github.com/smallstep/cli
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by dirkt 6y ago
> It seems strange to me that so many people are on board with privacy most of the time, but when it comes to financial privacy anybody who doesn't want their government to know which books they buy is somehow a villain. There'
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by dirkt 6y ago
It's really really hard to get things right with pure functions. Haskell struggled with this for decades. You can't expect to be able to import this in some random language and just make it work. So random languages just pick what

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