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by mschuster91 28d ago
> I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery People have paid top dollar for archeological artifacts for centuries. Humanity lost a lot of knowledge from graverobbers, illegal artifact hunting
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by mschuster91 28d ago
> Drug patents are much more short-lived It doesn't make sense to extend drug patent lengths though because often enough, after the release of a compound, it takes just a few years for a new and updated version of it to be researche
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by mschuster91 29d ago
> The spectrum of rich person crank behavior has got a lot worse these days, going all the way up to "buying Twitter". And even that pales in comparison to running for President thrice and winning it twice just to settle an ima
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by mschuster91 29d ago
So yeah, more uncanny valley garbage. Yuck.
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> Most websites don't need a CDN nor DDOS protection A CDN not, and certainly not a global one. But unfortunately, you absolutely need DDoS protection, especially as a business. Too many shady actors and skiddies pulling off extor
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by mschuster91 29d ago
> Ever had a GoPro? Or professional camera? Drone? It's really not so hard to imagine a market for replaceable batteries lol. All three, in fact. GoPro is about 15 seconds from "battery empty warning" over safe shutdown, b
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by mschuster91 29d ago
> I never understood why any of the smartness had to be built into the TV in the first place. Because technology got ever more complex. A TV of yore? That thing operated on (relatively) simple physics alone, at the cost of requiring an a
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by mschuster91 29d ago
"AI-native graphics" good lord, this just reeks of "we're doing something with AI, give us some of that money".
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by mschuster91 29d ago
> 3D printed guns are a thing as well and yet they don't show up in most annual violent crime reports. For now in most parts of the world it's easier to acquire a gun either legally or on the "grey market" and be assu
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by mschuster91 29d ago
Even with a small pub that you run with your friend, you have to deal and comply with fire safety, toilet, public health and a whole lot of other codes.
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Repeat customers, certainly, there's only so many of them you can have. I'm talking about small shops with 5-10 people heading out to service calls, and a lot of these is "throwaway" customers that need a water faucet ch
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by mschuster91 29d ago
In Germany you have to keep your records for 8 years as a commercial entity, and 8 years is a lot of customers you deal with, if you work with private customers. If your primary focus as an electrician, plumber or other tradesperson is SME
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by mschuster91 29d ago
> Fire safety is less onerous and less complex. If there is one thing that is incredibly complex, it is fire codes - in no small part because these vary from town to town, or to be more precise, the height of their portable ladder trucks
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
> Even a plumber who types up offers and invoices on a computer is subject to all of this mess. Yeah and that plumber has 1000s of customer names, addresses, phone numbers, mail addresses, in Europe maybe even SEPA Direct Debit data. Not
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> Nobody who wants to bootstrap a business wants to deal with any of this. It's an enormous time sink. Indeed but it forces you to answer these questions and to think about them during the development process as well, maybe even eno
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
> Obsession with maintaining some degree of physical control over infrastructure drives many organizations to absolute insanity. Well... thank the current US administration for that one. The move they did with that ICC judge, cutting him
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
In the line of thinking of educated toilet shitters - why clean up after oneself when there is, from childhood, always some underpaid person of color that does the cleanup for you?
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
> Real examples of organisations I have come across who have to comply with GDPR include a local community theatre, a parish church etc. They are keep fairly simple information, and not exchanging it with anyone, but they still have to p
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
Spare batteries are a nightmare to handle. Far too easy to bend or have something short-circuit the pads, and you have to shut down and restart your phone. However, what is needed desperately is the ability to quickly change a degraded ba
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
> On a larger scale, we can think of atmospheric carbon dioxide as an undesired impedance matcher, coupling the infrared light waves of the sun into the planet. Someday, we may decide to cool our earth by adding tiny particles of dust to
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
> but now people are already creating Omarchy M4 GPU support using AI, and Ashahi devs can look at how it's working and understand it, they just want to take things a bit slower to have less slop The thing is... it's legal issu
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
> It really boils down to DHH and his conservative worldview That is putting a lot of strain on the word "conservative". To quote Wikipedia [1]: > In 2025, Hansson published a blog post expressing support for far-right Bri
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
> There is no "the answer" here, there are many answers depending on which lawyers you ask and how much you can afford to feed them. The thing is, at least in Germany, lawyers are required to carry a liability insurance and in
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
> If so, why carry those flags and bandanas on their faces? The flag just symbols that this person is against Nazis. Nothing more, nothing less. It can be held by anyone . Here in Germany, we have (amongst others, just a list of what I
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
> Can’t really see how it can be reigned in By political revolution. The coming, inevitable AI bubble implosion and the resulting chaos will provide for it. We are already seeing the first signs with local anti datacenter movements.
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> A good deal of what america is doing to itself these days looks just as insane as what they are doing to other countrys, or at least other countrys that are not doing it to themselves. America voted for unrestrained rabid turbocapitali
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
Well, the only thing the Trump admin did that really hurt us was the tariff trade war and the Iran war. The rest sucked for those affected, but had little consequence for Europe, and so the prevailing attitude here is "we can't
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> The US funding won't suddenly stop yup, but the utter majority of foreign funding that was found in the AfD and the other far-right parties' scandals came from Russia. The propaganda they spout comes straight from Russia. The
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
> Now, I could extend my user-global ignore I'd add .nvmrc and .npmrc if you work with NodeJS.
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by mschuster91 1mo ago
> The Linux version of Steam works out of the box. So, essentially a decent Steam Link remote play server.

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