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by eythian 4y ago
I have this in a bookmarklet: https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
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by eythian 4y ago
No, not really. They're closer to the equivalent of learning how to install a new lens in your telescope so you can do more astronomy. You've learnt about telescopes, which is a very useful skill, but it's not the same thing
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by eythian 4y ago
Eh, in Amsterdam you'll get plenty of people mentioning that there's people in vans who go and steal a bunch of bikes at night (scoping them and sometimes locking them with their own lock during the day), and driving them off to s
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by eythian 4y ago
There is an archiveteam project to index all the shorteners and where they direct to. I think it's the default project if you're running the warrior and there's nothing more important going on. https://wiki.archive
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by eythian 4y ago
You should have watched this video: https://youtu.be/sEON08d76oE?t=112 it nicely explains the importance of things like tram rails, and keeping a potato in your pants.
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by eythian 4y ago
I seem to recall Dell saying that you should never store a suspended laptop in a laptop bag, because there are situations where it might wake up and overheat.
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by eythian 4y ago
My early programming was on BBC Micro and some Acorn machines in school. There, the programming and documentation was all spelt correctly, from memory. "colour", "dialogue", "catalogue", and so on. It wasn&#x27
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by eythian 4y ago
Only high? I have super with you :)
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by eythian 4y ago
Good band! Saw them perform live a few weeks back.
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by eythian 4y ago
It's much older than that, from etymonline: pirate (n.) Meaning "one who takes another's work without permission" first recorded 1701; sense of "unlicensed radio broadcaster" (generally transmitting from a ship
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by eythian 4y ago
If you ignore German umlauts, you can end up with words that sound quite different. The same goes with the Māori macron, it can outright change the meaning of a word. If you can't type them easily, you can double the vowel (Maaori), wh
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by eythian 4y ago
Speculaas and Speculoos are somewhat different things. Speculaas is older and has more spices, apparently.
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by eythian 4y ago
This also applies in the Netherlands, I approve them through the app.
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by eythian 4y ago
You can click the little flame in the message list column to mark as junk, on mine at least it's between the sender name and the date. Then perhaps have a filter that auto-runs every so often to delete marked items so they vanish on th
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by eythian 4y ago
Huh, so I could perhaps hop on a train and take a look one day. What on earth is the ESA doing in Noordwijk though.
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by eythian 4y ago
I've heard of that, in some devices it can be a hardware issue where the bluetooth and wifi are in one module and one upsets the other. Maybe look into the model numbers of the devices and see if other people report similar things.
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by eythian 4y ago
It's been some time since I have had issues on Linux. I regularly use headphones, mouse, and keyboard with bluetooth, and just today got a bluetooth Wacom tablet. All of it was just pair and go, and if things turn off and back on, they
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by eythian 4y ago
I use Google Maps for biking around the city, if I'm going somewhere unfamiliar. It often seems to take non-optimal paths that presumably many hundreds of peoples worth of data should have told it could be improved. But it does eventua
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by eythian 4y ago
There is an archiveteam project that scrapes URL shorteners, so hopefully more than one might expect.
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by eythian 4y ago
It should not be re-used, but it is definitely a thing that happens sometimes, though rarely in my (used to work on library software) experience.
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by eythian 4y ago
> It’s so goddamn stupid I can’t believe this exists. It’s so easy to fake this and use some sort of man in the middle attack to transfer all money away from an account An MitM attack is significantly harder than "I have your CC num
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by eythian 5y ago
I thought it was the reverse. US shows of the time were so often dark. I'd heard there was a technical reason behind this: in NTSC, if the colours are too bright the video signal can leak into the audio channel causing annoying noises
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by eythian 5y ago
It'll depend a huge amount on the country in Europe you're referring to. Germany is a lot stricter than the Netherlands, for example.
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by eythian 5y ago
> Why do adults cycle so slowly there though? 12km/h is a moderate running pace. A couple of reasons. One is that it's a nice pace for getting to where you want to go without being all sweaty when you get there. Another is that
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by eythian 5y ago
I've wondered about this. I sometimes use it for biking if I'm going to an unfamiliar part of the city, and its biking directions sometimes end up a bit weird, like taking a path that, while slightly shorter, is a bit more uncomfo
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by eythian 5y ago
It depends where you are. Some countries require ID, some don't. Last I bought one in New Zealand it didn't require anything, but I know Australia does.
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by eythian 5y ago
> Meaning "one who takes another's work without permission" first recorded 1701 From https://www.etymonline.com/word/pirate It's not so much that words gain meanings, this word gained that meanin
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by eythian 5y ago
Just for example, here's one that I know of: https://onyxboox.com/boox_nova3color
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by eythian 5y ago
On my personal mail server I have an SA rule that gives .xyz a high score (like a +5 or so) because a while back I was getting a huge amount of spam coming in from senders/URLs using domains of it. I haven't revisited that rule in
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by eythian 5y ago
I'm not sure it's necessary in the Netherlands, learning the basic language is pretty easy and not uncommon (it's not strange and weird like Finnish), and additionally it's similarly unnecessary. Getting by in English is

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