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by foepys 5y ago
You mean the good old times when the US military just shot at people trying to unionize? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
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by foepys 5y ago
You cannot compare those numbers. Cost of living is very different in Germany and the UK compared to Russia. Personnel costs make up for most of the German budget and a Russian soldier earns only a fraction of a German soldier.
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by foepys 5y ago
I don't know about other countries but German auto manufacturers require (nearly) all suppliers to submit an FMEA [1] for their products. Some or maybe all US manufacturers do this, too, if I remember correctly. In short, FMEA is a way
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by foepys 5y ago
NewPipe is specifically designed to be privacy first. This means no account, no client-side tracking, as few web requests as possible, and everything (e.g. watch history and subscriptions) is saved offline. Thus it is impossible to show non
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by foepys 5y ago
NewPipe does not see themselves as a project focused on blocking ads but as a privacy first project. See their reasoning for rejecting the sponsor block PR here: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/320
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by foepys 5y ago
The official YouTube app is unable to play 2160p 60Hz video on my Android TV because it stutters and falls back to 1440p 60Hz. Doesn't matter whether I use the native app or the built-in Chromecast. NewPipe doesn't have any proble
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by foepys 5y ago
It can also just mean that Flutter is very confusing while React Native is more intuitive, especially if you already have an JS background.
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by foepys 5y ago
Be aware that Fefe is very pro Russia and repeatedly stated that he thinks that Russia is defending itself against Western aggression. He also made fun of multiple people who said that Russia would invade.
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by foepys 5y ago
This system is completely anonymous. The government is only involved when giving out the certificates to the services and the ID card to you. If you don't want to use this system, you will also never be able to complain about the gover
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by foepys 5y ago
It's obviously something services have to implement for each type of ID. When you have to interact with the real world that things get a bit messy. Companies can abstract this away and be certified by each government, e.g. like Stripe.
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by foepys 5y ago
Very good to hear. When they launched I remember them saying that it will take up to 15 minutes for the VM to be ready. My small Hetzner VM has been reliably running for years now, so I'm super happy with them, don't get me wrong.
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by foepys 5y ago
The German ID card ("neuer Personalausweis") can already prove to a service that you are a real human without revealing your identity in a fully automated way. It can also verify you are 18+ years old, reveal partial data, and muc
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by foepys 5y ago
Hetzner has been known in Germany for quite a while now. They are a very cheap but reliable hosting provider, not really a cloud service. A friend of mine used them over 10 years ago for some dedicated servers and got them to connect the se
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by foepys 5y ago
Let's extend this further and apply it to the president of the US. Would you agree that the president should be paid dozens of million or even a billion USD each year because they kept the trillion USD economy going? The US president h
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by foepys 5y ago
> Formula 1 cars are as small as it gets. No, Formula 1 cars are massive. They are light but very large to maximize downforce. There are a rules that define the maximum width and no current F1 car is smaller than that. I'm fact, thi
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by foepys 5y ago
Under this definition email is also social media. Everything where I can talk to people, like IRC, or even telephone is.
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by foepys 5y ago
Since they released the CAD files can anybody even reverse engineer and sell new shells? Valve can now easily claim that their CAD files were used even if they were not.
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by foepys 5y ago
I don't believe for a second that anything being tweeted by billionaires, C*Os, and politicians is not approved by some marketing and/or social media department. It's not like people are required to tweet, they choose to twee
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by foepys 5y ago
There are multiple shipyards in Europe that were build hundreds of years ago and were never meant for ships of today's size. Procedures to get these ships out include dismantling structures (as seen above), deepening the river by diggi
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by foepys 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_121 North Korea successfully stole tens of millions by hacking banks via SWIFT between 2015 and 20216 and probably several hundreds of millions in crypto currency in 2021 alone. ht
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by foepys 5y ago
Let's be real here, IAB Europe knew exactly that what they were doing was borderline illegal. Now it's officially illegal.
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by foepys 5y ago
To this day Twitter is not even trying to comply with GDPR. They have a banner "we track you, deal with it" and that's it. So far nothing happened. I hope that they get fined billions for keeping it illegal for so long but I
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by foepys 5y ago
That's all the talking points those manufacturers give you but my dishwasher can do all of this with 2 buttons, a few LEDs, and a wheel for program selection. It even opens by itself so I don't need to be present when it's fi
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by foepys 5y ago
> POS terminals You can get portable card readers for like $50. Everything including the postage stamps for regulatory approval will be more expensive.
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by foepys 5y ago
In Germany newly built charging stations will be required to allow payments with credit/debit cards from July 2023 onwards. There will be no requirement to retrofit existing stations but I think that the pressure from the public will e
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by foepys 5y ago
Who does make my browser request the resource? Clearly the website owner who can also decide to make the browser load a resource fully under their own control. The user could block it, certainly. But I don't want my browser to ask me f
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by foepys 5y ago
The interesting thing that a lot of services don't consider is that blocking these cookie banners is perfectly allowed and does not implicitly allow services to collect personal data. Twitter is one of those service that just states
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by foepys 5y ago
c) is very popular among various German websites I frequent. Instead of the embedded content there is a blank area and you can consent with one click to send your data to $service which will then load the embedded content. Sometimes it also
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by foepys 5y ago
No, you don't understand progressive taxation. You pay 0% on your first 10,000€, then a few percent for the next 12,000€ and so on. In 2021 in Germany for an income of 60,000€ you need to pay 11,735€ income tax, roughly 19.5%. there is
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by foepys 5y ago
You only pay 42% for anything above 57,000€. Germany does have progressive income tax.

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