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by looperhacks 8mo ago
Cash has the protection that I don't get my wallet cleared because some JavaScript library got supply-chained. Or less snarky: it's simply harder to steal something or defraud someone in meatspace than in the Internet, so less pro
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by looperhacks 8mo ago
How is OCI terrible for reproducibility and security? They are certainly more reproducible than what we had before. I haven't heard "Works on my machine for a long time". If you're talking about reproducible builds, ther
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by looperhacks 8mo ago
> This experience fits a pattern I keep running into with European business-facing APIs and services. Something is always a little bit broken. Documentation is incomplete, or packaged as a nasty PDF, edge cases are unhandled, error messa
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by looperhacks 8mo ago
If I were to test an email delivery system, I would test Gmail. I probably wouldn't test Google Workspaces, because I'd (wrongly) assume that they work the same.
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by looperhacks 8mo ago
I have never paid anything via bank transfer, where are you buying?
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by looperhacks 8mo ago
The procureur is part of the executive, and thus represents, and is directed by, the government. The other is independent from the executive, as part of the judicary branch.
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by looperhacks 9mo ago
With the difference that cars can steer and stop to avoid collisions and aren't necessarily in your field of view every time you look at the night sky ;) I have no idea if the number is actually a lot shrug but it's surely diffe
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by looperhacks 9mo ago
It's not THAT bad for me, but I really can't take vacation days for "nothing". I struggle if I don't have plans and work really forces one to have some structure. If you need the structure and don't have any pl
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by looperhacks 9mo ago
Cool post! The capture process sounds much more complicated than necessary. There are emulators that can capture the output as APNG/GIF/... If you really want to make sure that you have every frame, a good emulator also supports m
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by looperhacks 9mo ago
Assembly events like [2] are not recorded because they are largely self-organized and barely moderated (if at all).
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by looperhacks 9mo ago
I live in Europe, never encountered a problem.
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
Can you explain what sanctions impact swiss citizens?
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
Since many are asking what a "ban" is in this context, the site has a FAQ: https://pen.org/book-bans/book-bans-frequently-asked-questio... The gist: Books that were previously available but removed due to pre
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
Does anybody take the World Happiness Report that serious? I think it's a neat and funny thing that probably has some footing in reality, but I never thought of it as hard science.
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
A similar thing was recently reported for Germany as well. When asked how they believe the average German is doing, most people answered something along "worse than me".
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
MASS is allowed casing of Maß, but not the preferred casing: https://www.rechtschreibrat.com/DOX/RfdR_Amtliches-Regelwerk... Page 48
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
Both Maß and Mass are valid spellings for a liter of beer ;) Not to confuse it with Maß, which just means any measurement, of course.
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
From the Wikipedia article: > Finnix 0.01 was based on Red Hat Linux 6.0, and was created to help with administration and recovery of other Linux workstations around Finnie's office.[citation needed] The first public release of Finn
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
As I understood it, this _is_ the standard that won. It's not like the EU invented it.
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
> People will generally follow an optional standard to make their own lives easier You must be new to the internet /s A company does not gain anything by sending "better" invoices that follow a standard. Only if they recei
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
To be clear: The ones who need to follow the standard (companies that create invoices) do not need access to the standard, only some supplier does. And there are a lot of things that the government requires that costs money - you could see
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
> In 1990, both Ritchie and Thompson received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), "for the origination of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language&quot
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
https://archive.ph/Cr3H2
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
Have you ever tried to get a game developer to open source a game? And a Japanese one at that? Even if they were willing to (they're not) and if they still have the code (they don't), it will contain proprietary code from Nintendo
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
You may want to check if your robot is supported by Valetudo: https://valetudo.cloud/
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by looperhacks 10mo ago
> I don't see the point > Therefore I'm against this Dude.
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by looperhacks 11mo ago
Man, I remember a few years ago when I was in a place without good Internet reception, but good enough phone reception. Wanted to send a SMS instead of a WhatsApp message and only noticed hours later that my phone switched to RCS without fa
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by looperhacks 11mo ago
As someone who really struggled with social interactions (and still does at times, just not as bad), this fails already at the first two steps: > Listen-- really listen --and engage with open ears How do I understand what is important? P
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by looperhacks 11mo ago
> Yes, it is of course in Germany forbidden to kill an invading predatory species - even on your property. This is Germany 2025. Raccoons can and are hunted in Germany, what are you talking about? The federal laws regarding hunting don&#
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by looperhacks 11mo ago
On the one hand, I'm happy that something is being done about this, because it's clearly a problem (completely basing this assumption on this one article). But I'm very annoyed that this needs to be done in the first place. T

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