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by fmajid 9mo ago
CE conformity is a self-declaration by the manufacturer, so essentially the honor system, not an actual certification program like TüV. Items without a CE mark cannot legally be imported or sold in the EU, but there is little enforcement.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
Same here, I'd buy from B&H instead. The thing, though is, as you discovered with the water bottle, "items that are often counterfeit" is pretty much everything nowadays, not just SD cards.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
I've contributed to PrestoDB, but the availability of DuckDB and fast multi core machines with even faster SSDs makes the need for distribution all the more niche, or even cargo-culting Google or Meta.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
El-co Color in New Jersey is known for its affordable 20x30" poster prints. https://www.elcocolor.net/index.php/poster-special
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by fmajid 10mo ago
The publisher Blondel la Rougery made a modernized one, I had a poster version from a mid-nineties copy of the French GEO magazine, now misplaced. Sadly they went out of business shortly afterwards, and the map seems out of print. Here is a
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by fmajid 10mo ago
Also invented Reverse Polish Notation, as used in vintage HP calculators.
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by fmajid 10mo ago
At least it's truth in advertising. I guess Auschwitz.com or Dehomag.com must have been already taken.
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by fmajid 10mo ago
A paid photo hosting service that bought out Flicker, which would otherwise have been shuttered.
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by fmajid 10mo ago
Why not ban pens, after all, they are said to be mightier than swords?
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by fmajid 10mo ago
Seconded, the original title ("We don't need more contributors who aren't programmers to contribute code") caricatured what seems like an eminently measured and sensible policy change.
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by fmajid 10mo ago
Judges and the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, for instance. https://archive.is/DFHM6
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by fmajid 10mo ago
They meant the lawsuit will take 20 years to adjudicate, by which point it will be completely irrelevant.
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by fmajid 10mo ago
- open source and auditable - support modern VPN protocols like WireGuard and Tailscale
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by fmajid 10mo ago
Exactly.
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by fmajid 10mo ago
Enterprises that buy ThinkPads do care about maintainability and Lenovo does provide parts and detailed instructions to repair almost every aspect of their machines.
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by fmajid 10mo ago
I used to have a UniFi gateway for the nice traffic visualization but Ubiquiti lost my trust when they started running telemetry without consent and I’ve gone back to an OpenBSD’s box as router, thus this device does little for me. I’m look
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by fmajid 10mo ago
Web search engines' advertising can be hidden with an ad blockier. The App Store? Not so much. Its search is completely unusable anyway, even when you give it the exact app name you want. Apple's enshittification is real, and acce
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by fmajid 10mo ago
You can charge a premium for a premium experience, or you can show ads, but not booth. This reinforces my determination to move off macOS and iOS to Linux and GrapheneOS.
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by fmajid 10mo ago
Wang never led a frontier lab. He founded a company that uses hlow-paid uman intelligence to label training data. But clearly he is as slick a schmoozer as Sam Altman to have taken in a seasoned operator like Zuckerberg.
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by fmajid 10mo ago
Google and PayPal are notorious for locking customers out with no recourse.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Or even if they have any operations outside the EU, as the recent case where a Canadian court requested data from OVH showed.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
$2000 seems ridiculously overpriced. They are based in the City of London and I suspect they are cargo-culting the Bloomberg Terminal, hence the name.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
I wish they made their keyboard into a standalone Bluetooth device, it's far better than anything else in its size class.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
I loved my HP 200LX, and I bought a Planet Gemini as well as a GPD Pocket for the same reasons you described. But I am also 55, and my eyes can't deal any more with a screen less than 11" in a general-purpose computing device (as
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by fmajid 11mo ago
LLMs actually do a good job at reading legalese, this may finally reverse the trend of corporations using inpenetrable language to screw over customers. Of course, that doesn't help in the US with its vicious Supreme Court endorsing th
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Wen thinking about risks from depending on the cloud, people fixate on the risk of losing data, when this kind of denial of access is a much more likely occurrence. I've started on my de-appleification plan in earnest this year: https
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by fmajid 11mo ago
For the same reason there is the Z2, Z4, Z8. There are several tiers of workstations, the Zbook Ultra is the best PC laptop you can get in a non-boat-anchor format, bar none.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
They treat the departure of Alan Dye as a negative for Apple rather than the unalloyed win it is. That tells you everything you need to know about the credibility of the article.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Yes, even Apple with its practically infinite resources took 14 years from when it acquired Infineon's mobile chipset unit to launching its C1 modem. So much of the telcos' allegedly open protocols are actually implementation-depe
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Zbook Ultra G1a 14 makes perfect sense: Z means workstation Book for notebook/laptop format, not desktop Ultra is the line, like Pro in MacBook Pro G1 is the first generation, that way you don't have to wonder a for AMD 14 is the

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