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by eythian 8y ago
> My theory on why they switched was to keep people from easily side-loading APKs, and backing them up easily, etc. I think it was all part of the battle to keep people from really owning their phones, keep them from rooting them, etc. O
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by eythian 8y ago
Yeah, same in the Netherlands, the car driver is at best 50% at fault, typically 100%. I do want to see self driving cars in Amsterdam though, I think they'd just shut down and have a sob after not being able to move due to being swarm
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by eythian 8y ago
For the first one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snoozetabs/
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by eythian 8y ago
Never had it lose them for me in an extremely long time. Restore last session has always happily recovered them too, if necessary.
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by eythian 8y ago
Similar for me, but more forgiving. Especially for horror which I enjoy but IMDb raters don't seem to the same. In general, anything below a 6 I'll maybe reconsider, or 5 or so for horror.
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by eythian 8y ago
This is covered in the article. In particular, it makes inserting and rearranging hard.
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by eythian 8y ago
They would, but they can't export them.
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by eythian 8y ago
Applications are signed by Signal, so Google can't make fake ones.
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by eythian 8y ago
> Also, by all reports, internet connectivity sucks big time If the poster is coming from Australia, NZ is not so bad.
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by eythian 8y ago
It's also very unreliable if you're messaging abroad. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. If you're roaming and so is the other person, it becomes even trickier. At least data works and within the EU is pretty much
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by eythian 8y ago
It doesn't matter why, the fact of the matter is that no one uses SMS in these places, which is also true wherever I've lived. People use Whatsapp primarily, or facebook messenger, or (in my bubble anyway, not so widespread) Teleg
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by eythian 8y ago
Modems have no concept of context, and out of band signalling was optional. It was _supposed_ to be +++[wait 0.5s]AT... but that pause was patented by Hayes, so to avoid patent issues, many cloners didn't require it. At least, that&#x2
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by eythian 8y ago
Can't speak to it specifically - yet - but I've been in NL for a few years now and haven't converted my licence as it requires some paperwork hoops on the non-NL side that I haven't bothered to figure out all of yet. Pro
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by eythian 8y ago
> Checking your email in the middle of a field? Checking mail on the BBS on the MIR space station . Kids these days trying to get an extra 10m range out of their wifi...
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by eythian 8y ago
I helped out a little with this sort of thing when I was at university and tutoring intro programming papers. From memory, the one thing that is fairly unique to programming courses is that they tend to have a more-than-normal bimodal distr
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by eythian 8y ago
Git doesn't store diffs, it stores whole files.
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by eythian 8y ago
That'd be so handy. Especially when going somewhere where the connection is by train or whatever and half an hour of biking at the ends is no problem.
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by eythian 8y ago
No, going straight has priority over turning traffic, a bike has priority over a minivan, and it's the responsibility of everyone to not cause a collision. The cyclist is right three times over.
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by eythian 8y ago
No, just that it was originally under specified. It supports some encryption (i.e. the type it can't tell is there anyway.) It doesn't support one of the common ways of doing home directory encryption. So the article is definite
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by eythian 8y ago
I run a quassel server, and then use quasseldroid from my phone and quassel client from computers to access it.
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by eythian 8y ago
In the article they say they're planning on doing exactly that.
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by eythian 8y ago
At the same time, slightly outside the centre of Amsterdam many small takeaway places, hairdressers, etc are cash only.
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by eythian 8y ago
This is different but in the same vein: https://flyovercountry.io/
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by eythian 8y ago
It's not always true. Many things (often smaller things) are free to use and not paid with data.
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by eythian 8y ago
From NZ, now in NL. In both places, the card is virtually always ingested into the machine, and only released as the second-last step (before you get the cash.)
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by eythian 8y ago
It's temporary. Typical readers where I am in Europe don't even have the magstripe hardware any more.
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by eythian 8y ago
Most I see these days in NL say to use the magnetic strip after a few failures. They don't, however, have a magnetic strip reader any more.
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by eythian 8y ago
I don't think I've ever used an ATM that doesn't do this since I started using them some time in the late 90's, even when the cards had magstripe and the chip was a twinkle in a beach's eye.
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by eythian 8y ago
Yes, they have free trials of many things.
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by eythian 8y ago
Its shelf life is advertised as something like 1.5 years if you keep it in the fridge. Just the other day I used some that must be about three years old and it worked fine.

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