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by lutoma 3y ago
There was a Mastodon thread by someone who had decompiled the leaked Android APK for Threads the other day. There were a few strings in there talking about the fediverse and federation with other servers, so it seems like they at least plan
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by lutoma 3y ago
That doesn't seem to be true. There are a lot of instances that have signed the 'pact' to defederate Threads right away, but those tend to be mostly small instances. Looking at the largest 30 or so instances by users most of
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by lutoma 3y ago
Anecdotal, but that seems about right looking at my circle of friends and acquaintances in Germany. I know lots of people with iPhones, but very few of them have an Apple Watch. The only ones that have one tend to be hardcore Apple fans tha
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by lutoma 4y ago
I keep seeing Americans claim that, but I really think your perception of this as more "more human-friendly" is really just a result of growing up with it.
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by lutoma 4y ago
FYI, the German word "beamer" is a 'false' anglicism. The English translation is (video) projector.
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by lutoma 4y ago
Okay, but Linux is an operating system (kernel), Firefox is a web browser. That's two completely different things with different expectations and threat models.
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by lutoma 4y ago
The filesystem code itself might be done, but the internal Linux APIs that code interacts with are not and change over time. And every time those APIs are changed, the SysV fs code might also have to be updated and tested, except apparently
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by lutoma 4y ago
Okay, but then Sweden is another exception to the norm, not the other way around.
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by lutoma 4y ago
SMS is very rarely used anymore outside of the US and a few select other countries, and for most people Signal and similar messengers serve as a replacement for text messages, not a supplement. It's probably just not a worthwhile marke
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by lutoma 4y ago
More details on the German one: https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Themen/Unternehmen-und-Organisati... The intention is good, but in practice I think it's mostly useless because: * The reports go to the AS operator,
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by lutoma 4y ago
„recently“ being the key word here. For the first few weeks/months, my Matrix server worked great too, but it’s becoming increasingly brittle as time goes on.
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by lutoma 4y ago
… because they banned AirTags? That seems a bit of an overreaction.
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by lutoma 4y ago
You don't actually need the license for computing resources in China, it's "only" necessary when you're hosting public-facing web pages specifically
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by lutoma 4y ago
I know here in Germany some fire departments have recently bought "dunk tanks" for EV car fires. Essentially large swimming pools that they just throw the whole car in once it's on fire
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by lutoma 4y ago
Personally I really like the GNOME UX. I was very skeptical when I tried it for the first time a year or so ago, but after a while of using it, it just started to make sense and really feels like a coherent system rather than the cobbled-to
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by lutoma 4y ago
How is this an argument against Signal and/or centralization? Pretty much the exact same thing could have happened with matrix 3pid servers. I really like Matrix (and Signal), I use it and even run a public Matrix home server, but jesu
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by lutoma 4y ago
Yes. I don't think I know a single person in Germany that seriously uses iMessage or text message. WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, ... is the name of the game here. I think a major factor is that Apple/iOS has a much lower market shar
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by lutoma 4y ago
But you don't have assigned seats on German high-speed trains. It certainly happens (although rarely) that trains are so full that some people need to stand
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by lutoma 4y ago
At least where I live almost all bakeries have added card payment as an option during the pandemic. So clearly it's financially feasible to at least some extent.
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by lutoma 4y ago
The German government has an instance too: https://social.bund.de/about (And the state of Baden-Württemberg has its own instance for some reason: https://xn--baw-joa.social/about )
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by lutoma 5y ago
I'm having a hard time parsing this unhinged rant, but if I'm interpreting this correctly, your problem seems to be that Mozilla... stopped accepting some types of cryptocurrency donations? Even if you don't agree with that d
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by lutoma 5y ago
It's not about "some organizations being unable to comply", it's that it is poorly written and thus incompatible with the legal systems of countries. But screw everyone outside of the US I guess
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by lutoma 5y ago
What I find even more worrying than the wrong info box itself is that Google still gives the wrong answer to the "Central park value" search query from the start of that twitter thread, more than a year later and after countless p
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by lutoma 5y ago
As far as the average person is concerned, EEA members like Norway are practically in the EU. You've got free movement, open borders due to the Schengen area, and so on. Meanwhile all the exemptions from EU law mostly concern comparat
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by lutoma 5y ago
I've dabbled with FastAPI a few times when starting new projects, but the lack of a high-quality ORM always had me switch right back to Django after a few hours. Sure, you can use SQLAlchemy, but it's a miserable experience compar
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by lutoma 5y ago
I'm not OP, but feel similarly about Keybase. When it originally launched, it marketed itself as directory where you could link your social accounts using cryptographic proofs, so that anyone who was wondering if "@lutoma" on
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by lutoma 5y ago
It's particularly bad in the German Wikipedia. Compared to the situation there the English language version is downright welcoming.
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by lutoma 5y ago
Looks like the same group of newspapers that also worked together on a number of previous high-profile leaks in coordination with ICIJ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Consortium_of_In...
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by lutoma 5y ago
Right, but the vast majority of self-employed people are going to be "Einzelunternehmer" or maybe in a GbR
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by lutoma 5y ago
And then even if you do pay, and the show you want is available on one of the services you're subscribed to, you often get a worse experience than with a torrent. I have a 4k screen, but Netflix's DRM only allows 4K in Microsoft E

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