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by eythian 5y ago
I run my own XMPP server, have done for years (now just out of the fact it'll take more work to turn it off than to keep it going.) I almost never use it to talk to people these days, and typically see one, maybe two other people logge
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by eythian 5y ago
It's not a heck of a claim at all, it's a pretty reasonable one. I moved from a country that tended to use Facebook messenger and sometimes SMS (though that was fading), to one that primarily uses WhatsApp. While I already had Wha
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by eythian 5y ago
New Zealand English (through Māori influence) has this, in names like Ngaire and places like Ngaio. This said, a lot (perhaps most, though it'll be regional I expect) of speakers will pronounce it as though the 'g' isn't
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by eythian 5y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I just had a look at the settings and found that you can turn it back on, though it does come with the warning. Personally I think the risk to me of it learning being a detectable event vs. the tracking it bloc
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by eythian 5y ago
I don't really know how I feel about having the browser mess with URLs without the user engaging it deliberately. It feels to me something that should perhaps be approached with caution. On the other hand, it does make sense. It's
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by eythian 5y ago
The downvotes are likely because it's pretty much unrelated to the topic, aside from a coincidence of naming.
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by eythian 5y ago
When I was involved in the teaching of a course that allowed this, one student basically reduced all the course notes onto a single two-sided page, except they also had flaps on it to fit more in. The exam invigilator took it from them deem
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by eythian 5y ago
While I'd heard of the plant, I can't say I knew of it being called Rafflesia.
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by eythian 5y ago
Not everyone has an old laptop lying around they can use for such a purpose.
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by eythian 5y ago
https://archive.is/iyTVR
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by eythian 5y ago
Scouts, but not in the US, was where I learnt it as "reef knot", it's pretty much the go-to knot there, to the point where I recall it making up part of a lot of designs on badges and such.
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by eythian 5y ago
Thanks, I'll remember that. It's an awkward workaround compared to pasting their number from an email into the app, but it'll have to do I guess. Here it's pretty common for people to, for example, put a notice up in my
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by eythian 5y ago
Seems reasonable to me for a style guideline to discourage this. They presumably don't want "do this, do that, and voila! Done." in their documentation because it doesn't come across as very professional.
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by eythian 5y ago
As far as I can tell, on Android, whatsapp requires adding a person to your contacts before you can message them at all. I find this very annoying when I'm going to be messaging someone for a brief period only. If there's a way to
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by eythian 6y ago
I'd pronounce kite and kait differently I think. More rising on the latter. Being acceptably good at Dutch pronunciation, though non-native, I'd suggest keit, and I'm assuming that it's the same in German too. But really
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by eythian 6y ago
Similarish in the Netherlands, there's an app called Tikkie (some banks have their own app, but everyone still calls it tikkie), with that app you can make a link "please pay me €20 for pizza" to share through any messenger,
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by eythian 6y ago
On my own mailserver with spamassassin, I had my very first false positive in years just yesterday. It seemed that however the organisation emailing me does it, they're using mail hosts on blocklists.
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by eythian 6y ago
Huh? I'm literally thinking of the opposite. I'm describing where I live, which is somewhere where biking is not really a minority choice, it's what most people do.
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by eythian 6y ago
Not as far as I know - they maybe do this using other methods. But they're trying to remove the market of people buying them, therefore reducing the motivation to steal them.
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by eythian 6y ago
It's not entrapment as you're still doing something illegal - buying a clearly stolen bike, and they're not enticing you into it.
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by eythian 6y ago
Surely most people pay the sales tax, in which case you're optimising for the less common scenario. In places where including VAT/GST/BTW/whatever is normal, shops (usually targetting resellers or contractors etc) where
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by eythian 6y ago
> I always found it weird to end a completed statement with a statement-list-joining punctuation mark. But if you're producing a list of statements, isn't a statement-list-joining punctuation mark the perfect thing to use? Ther
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by eythian 6y ago
In the Netherlands, the police will put out "trap" bikes, and wait for you to buy it from a homeless person. Then they'll swoop down on you and charge you with something like conversion.
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by eythian 6y ago
You dress up better. For the past several years, biking was the only way I went to work, the only exception being if my bike was in the shop for repairs when I'd take public transport. You'll notice that regardless of the weather,
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by eythian 6y ago
Busses don't have to have a mindset issue. They don't where I live. You'll just take the bus if it's faster than the tram or goes closer to where you want to be, that's the only consideration involved.
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by eythian 6y ago
Those times usually not that big of a deal anyway. Too cold you can dress up against, to warm could be a thing depending on where you are, if you're late then a bike is probably the fastest mode of transport through a busy city anyway,
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by eythian 6y ago
Be aware that this site doesn't seem to be the whole story, it doesn't match me for example, but this one does: https://jstsch.com/facebook/ (NL only) So there's some ambiguity or incompleteness somewher
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by eythian 6y ago
Note: US and Canada only
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by eythian 6y ago
This means that nearly every application will have a pop up which nearly every user will get so used to seeing that they'll almost always just press "allow" on, which will mean permission prompts become less useful and securi
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by eythian 6y ago
It's to prevent malicious applications taking a screenshot of sensitive information. I've seen other apps doing this on, for example, credit card info entry screens.

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