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by mpol 6y ago
Here in the Netherlands I can use the website of my bank even if I don't have a smartphone. I get some QR-camera reader which I can point at the computer screen and it generates a TAN code, which I can enter at login and at transaction
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by mpol 6y ago
And security sells better than privacy. Ah yes, it's a shame.
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by mpol 6y ago
I have heard it should be possible with adb. But if you don't trust Google Chrome, how can you trust Google Android?
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by mpol 6y ago
"Signal's devs are strongly opposed to anyone creating third-party Signal clients." Hmm, that might have been the case. There was that famous blog post from 2016 about no third-party clients. That has never been retracted, bu
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by mpol 6y ago
How i fairtrade a scam? Please be aware that the market of cocoa is not an easy one and not very transparent. The Dutch TV maker Teun van der Keuken was devastated by what he saw in Ivory Coast with a lot of child slavery going on. He start
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by mpol 6y ago
These are all technical and business considerations that make clear that the change in terms of service are not bad. I don't think the controvery is about the change in terms, but more about what is and was already happening. If WhatsA
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by mpol 6y ago
“cars are unethical” That was not what he said. He was quite clear in making a personal decision. There was no force on anyone to make that same decision. That you are reading that into it might say more about the way you think :)
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by mpol 6y ago
So yes, ofcourse I ended up at youtube, if only for my own curiosity :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1KXL1vjTX4
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by mpol 6y ago
In the times of 50cc road races you could get 10hp out of it, at maybe 17.000 rpm :) No idea how fast these cars would go with such an engine, they are not made to go 150km/h :) The way you tune a 2-stroke is by polishing the ports of
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by mpol 6y ago
> Perhaps this is due to a combination of frequent life failures, low confidence, and low ability of critical examination. Ah, nice combination :) Purely anecdotal, I once had very low confidence, but could be very critical to myself. Th
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by mpol 6y ago
Math. Or he might be a human being with feelings and perceptions, however subjective they may be.
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by mpol 6y ago
The name is just a string, right? If some character in the string is causing havoc, maybe there is something funky going on. This is just one symptom coming up at the surface. It might require a bit of extra investigation to see what is rea
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by mpol 6y ago
Two basic ideas come to mind. We want suspects not have their life destroyed if they are found not guilty. And after you have done your sentence, you should be free to have a normal life again. For some people and some cases this is not pos
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by mpol 6y ago
I am not sure what you are replying to, so I assume there is some miscommunication. I don't know anything about mapping public Wifi access, like in shopping centres. What I meant is that already some people feel like their city and a 3
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by mpol 6y ago
There might be many situations, but I was mostly talking about virtual vandalism. When you edit points, lines or routes in the wrong way, they get damaged. The volunteers guarding these need to fix them themselves, which can be a burden and
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by mpol 6y ago
Not sure what "open-source upstream" means, but in software, there is the complaint that companies like Google can add a lot of complexity to software projects, which serves Google, but not the classic home user of Linux. That can
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by mpol 6y ago
But this time someone's salary depends on it, it is not just fly-by vanadlism for fun. They will be more persistent in staying active as mapper.
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by mpol 6y ago
Oh, one other thing. Many volunteers are maintaining and guarding hiking routes and cycling routes. These get damaged easily (I just did that yesterday myself) and these volunteers sometimes carry a big burden. The big companies don't
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by mpol 6y ago
For me this discussion is new, so I don't have good answers to these questions. One thing that happened when Pokemon Go got popular is that people (users) were conducting vandalism, in the sense that many pokemon figures were added to
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by mpol 6y ago
The argument is not always true though. Welding of titanium is not easy, and often there is tension in the frame. Even 10 years and 50 thousand kms later it can crack. The better welding culture is in the US and Russia, but even then there
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by mpol 6y ago
"While I honestly doubt anyone can really feel the difference, there are plenty of people who swear they can." Problem here is that most people will have one bicycle, which makes it hard to compare. When I started cycling again, I
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by mpol 6y ago
Good question. When you are commuting and need to be practical, you might prefer electric. But cycling for fun on a roadbike is about being outside, enjoying the surroundings, and putting your legs to work. It can make you feel alive and ju
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by mpol 6y ago
Yes, carbon has taken over the highend market. And not only because it is cheaper, but it also can be more comfortable, while a scandium bike might be more harsh. You could argue that aluminium/scandium is not the right material for a
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by mpol 6y ago
And still I do like my Pinot Noir a bit watery red :) I don't really know what is happening in this context. Maybe a lot of people have not much taste, or cannot disciminate between different tastes or things? I don't understand a
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by mpol 6y ago
Also, ed wasn't open source. Vi still used ed, so even of vi itself was open source, it wasn't completely functional. It was only around 2001 / 2003 when Caldera open sourced some UNIX utilities under an open source license a
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by mpol 6y ago
Here 7 seconds on my AMD A8-7600 from 2015 with an SSD from 2012 :) But the test is with a very big XCF file, loading lots of high quality layers. I would assume that takes all the time. Unless it is the MS Windows filesystem that is terrib
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by mpol 6y ago
Agreed. The only way reviews can be done is by stores doing the review based on source code, and have submitting source code be mandatory with automated builds before review. That is not something companies like Apple or Google would even c
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by mpol 6y ago
Interesting read, thank you. So there is also a plugin system in Lua waiting, it just needs someone to care for it. The S-lang plugin system will not go in mc itself since they prefer to get rid of S-lang alltogether, in favor of ncurses as
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by mpol 6y ago
I see this is mostly about the editor MCedit, not the dual-pane filemanager itself. Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc? Since the fork of mc about 10 years ago, there has come a lo
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by mpol 6y ago
Thank you (and the others who replied). It is even from Germany which already sounds good.

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