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by mastazi 5y ago
Reminds me of that Commodore 64 still in use in Poland at a car repair shop (at least, it was in use as of 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqA8YBwwCl0 Edit: the YT video cites this as the source (in Polish): https:&#
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by mastazi 5y ago
Firefox still supports mobile plugins but, a while ago (IIRC last year), the plugin API changed, as a result currently the selection of available plugins is much smaller than it used to be. I should add that I haven't checked in a few
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by mastazi 5y ago
AMP is also used in other places e.g. any external links in Twitter when visited on mobile (IIRC)
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by mastazi 5y ago
Could someone share a non-walled link please? EDIT: incognito tab works, hope it helps in case anyone is having issues.
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by mastazi 5y ago
The whole of Australia? That seems like an overly simplistic view. Australia is a very diverse country from a climate standpoint, there is everything from deserts to alpine regions[1]. Of course the impact of climate change will be seen eve
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by mastazi 5y ago
> I did similar but more for lifestyle reasons. I should have added, lifestyle is a big one for us too. We looked north of Central Coast but also other regions. We are thinking to be a bit more elastic and a commute of 1.5 or 2h would st
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by mastazi 5y ago
We (me and my SO) are saving and planning to move out of the city, to a piece of rural land that has its own water source and where we can grow most of the food we eat. This should happen in a couple of years, once our daughter will be old
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by mastazi 5y ago
I've been using mailinabox for almost a year, I had an email caught in spam once, I contacted the spam filter and said my IP was probably being used by someone else before I took it, and they whitelisted me. So you can have an occasion
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by mastazi 5y ago
I'm an Australian permanent resident. Aussie Permanent residency doesn't exactly work that way, it depends on certain factors whether you will need to apply for a "returning resident visa" or not. It does not depend on w
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by mastazi 5y ago
> And I even pay for Google One. you would think that paying for it would translate into a slightly better level of customer care. But that doesn't seem to be the case with Google. I pay for YouTube premium and I had my fair share o
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by mastazi 5y ago
This was in case OP didn't want to give up Gmail straight away. Of course you can just migrate to another provider, or, as in my case, spin up your own mailinabox[1] instance. That way the only provider you have to deal with is the clo
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by mastazi 5y ago
If you are in the US you may not know but years ago Pandora closed down in most other countries, so I wouldn't be surprised if their API are geographically locked as well.
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by mastazi 5y ago
I'm sure you already know, but setting up your own myname@mydomain.tld and then setting that up in Gmail[1][2] means that in a catastrophic scenario (your Gmail is closed) you don't lose your email address. In addition to that, yo
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by mastazi 5y ago
Uhm someone buying the company would make things even worse, based on my personal experience. I would probably resign before it happens.
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by mastazi 5y ago
> I enjoyed being a part of new startups, those that were still "scrappy." But each time, once that growth-stage hit and managers started coming in to make things "more efficient", that's when I knew that those t
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by mastazi 5y ago
Perfect! Thank you
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by mastazi 5y ago
I would like to purchase an i5 with 16GB RAM and 1TB storage, am I missing something? https://frame.work/products/laptop/configuration/edit
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by mastazi 5y ago
Sort of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28593034
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by mastazi 5y ago
When I say don't anthropomorphise animals, I don't mean it in a diminutive manner. I grew up on a farm. People who know next to nothing about animals are often quick to let me know that it's not humane for farmers to treat ch
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by mastazi 5y ago
Great, thank you for the link!
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by mastazi 5y ago
Wow thank you, yes this is very similar behaviour, the only thing that was different with the Aussie ones was their call
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by mastazi 5y ago
Thank you, I will try and find that study. European magpies (unlike Australian magpies) are actually related to ravens (family corvidae, whereas Aussie magpies are in the family artamidae)
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by mastazi 5y ago
> Closer to a post-mortem. They apparently do a threat assessment so this particular cause of death can be avoided in future wow that's interesting I would love to read more about it if you have any links. > though standing in a
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by mastazi 5y ago
I live in Sydney, I love Australian ravens! Once a raven got ran over by a car near my home and sadly died. A group of ravens were "guarding" the body and not letting any human near it. They were exhibiting highly sophisticated so
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by mastazi 5y ago
In the video I linked, "Sponsored projects" is a type of in-video ads, where they build a particular PC and the video is sponsored by a hardware company, so the total for all types of in-video ads is 41% vs 26% from AdSense. For s
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by mastazi 5y ago
> Ads is a stable revenue stream for these content creators. Ads are a revenue stream mostly for the platform e.g. YouTube itself. You can have a look at this[1] or any other "how my YouTube channel makes money" video to see th
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by mastazi 5y ago
From the second link you posted: > The two primary differences between Tor / Onion-Routing and I2P are again related to differences in the threat model and the out-proxy design. This is the first paragraph. No further explanation is
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by mastazi 5y ago
> Anyway, short-term workers are protected by unions, I know for sure at least CGIL has a department devolved to temporary workers But they are generally less likely to unionise i.e. the percentage of temporary workers who are union memb
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by mastazi 5y ago
There is also another problem with Italian trade unions. The workers who are unionised are generally privileged compared to the general population. Meanwhile many disadvantaged workers - who are employed with short-term contracts[1] or ver
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by mastazi 5y ago
Probably the replacement program and the associated logistics were too expensive and the recall was an easier solution in terms of costs/benefits. Not sure about the PR costs this will cause though.

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