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by iggldiggl 1y ago
I think the grey area is a bit bigger than that. The Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz ( https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ddg/__5.html ) in § 5 imposes this requirement on "geschäftsmäßige, in der Regel gegen Entgelt angebo
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
There's also the related "Verify apps over USB" setting which is even exposed in the developer mode settings GUI.
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> The bundle is also customized to the device, meaning an .aab file ripped off a device .aab-files don't ever make it to devices, they're just for transporting the app from the developer's system to Google for further proc
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> The way to do it on a desktop, is to allow the user to choose exactly which resources a program may use, at runtime, by dialog boxes similar to the ones they already use, but with the additional behavior that the operating system enfor
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> I assume the best reason they have for this is that they can nuke the account, effectively killing the install base of an app is reported to be malicious. They can already target malicious apps via Play Protect, including presumably al
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> German Bahn Card is now only available in their app Technically not as long as the fallback PDF version remains available.
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
And streets don't automatically have names, and with a few exceptions addresses are always based on city blocks instead. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system for a more complete explanatio
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
That's not actually true. True, with computerised technology it might be more convenient to implement it that way and it also allows some additional optimisations and bonus features, but it's not an absolute requirement. At a mini
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
One problem I've run into with that approach is that Akamai uses DNS for steering you to the correct portion of its CDN and the default servers you get from public DNS have abysmal peering with my ISP. So simply switching the default D
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
Not being logged in to Google and not keeping cookies between browser sessions, most of the time Google gives me the standard cookie permissions popup (where you can enable or disable search personalisation and targeted advertisting), but o
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
In a similar vein, there's also the Wireworld computer: * https://www.quinapalus.com/wi-index.html * https://wiki.logre.eu/index.php/Projet_Wireworld/en
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
The Windows emoji picker is also useful for entering all sorts of completely legitimate and well-respected typographical symbols…
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> Some of the stations in the surrounding area are absolutely mental (Durmersheim for example), you have to walk over rails where ICEs and cargo goes through. That's not the fault of the tram-train system, though - without the tram-
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> Sure, technically the tracks are separated from streets, but every so often cars cross anyways or park etc. Those delays propagate to inner-city schedules. I don't follow your point. It's not like the inner-city tram lines ar
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
Checking some random apps on my phone, it's very much not just games, and not just apps you'd naively suspect of being "heavily performance critical", either. I suspect that code reuse of existing libraries not written
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
In practice I've sometimes encountered that in the form of "either waive your right of withdrawal or else wait 14 days to download your content/activate your licence/etc.", though.
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> Because nobody wants a .FLAC that starts with a few seconds of silence, inter-track gaps need to be appended to the end of the previous track Side digression: For regular albums, where the pregap is just two seconds of silence I can ab
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
There's also an intermediate category where an online/streaming version is available, but it's defective – a number of live Bob Dylan (!) albums from the Bootleg Series are missing the track transitions between the individual
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
It's arguable for modern rapid transit signalling systems, because those tend to be a bit more bespoke than mainline railway systems and you might not be able to switch to a different supplier without swapping out all the interlockings
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
Sure, but even in the US that infrastructure state is usually only found on minor branch lines (shortlines), not on the main lines.
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
Yes, those kind of track relaying machines exist, and they could most likely be adapted to work for the gauge change (one end of the machine would have to be set up for broad gauge and the other end for standard gauge), but they still manag
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
While narrower gauges are somewhat more favourable to tighter curve radii, ultimately the difference is negligible enough that it can be ignored. At the extreme end of the range, curve radii for standard gauge trams can go down into the 10
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> unless concrete sleepers are in use Which they are, as even a quick search would have shown.
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> There were a number of gauge changes, but they were usually quite early on, when the infra was less critical and you could get away with closing lines for months. It was also a time when railways used wooden sleepers, so you could simp
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
But they are set into prefabricated concrete sleepers, which cannot be modified to a new track gauge and instead need to be swapped out completely. Whereas during the US gauge change, the railways used wooden sleepers, with the rails fasten
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
A ballast cleaner wouldn't be enough, because you basically need to swap out the sleepers, too, so you need a complete track-relaying train. And anything involving switches and crossings needs to be done conventionally, because those c
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
Where? Finland specifically, or elsewhere? Both my local tram system in Germany as well as DB as the national infrastructure operator in Germany have construction tolerances of only +/- 2 mm. Maintenance tolerances on the other hand ca
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> Train tracks are normally not precise to within 4mm anyway Yes they are. Of course practical tolerances including allowances for wear and there are large enough that things can be made to work, but in terms of nominal construction tole
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> a 20 minute drive usually takes about 20 to 30 minutes due to the detours That variability makes the whole system much less interesting once a change is involved, e.g. if the on-demand shuttle is only supposed to operate across the loc
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> j-n: So... you go a day or two without a phone, replace it, and then things work again. Which still is an option right now, where a lot of things haven't yet been app-ified, but if you follow "Why should we handicap new, shin

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