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by nerdbert 3y ago
That's a different situation IMO. The data is constrained to what I buy from them, and my understanding under the GDPR is that they can't share it with anyone else (at least I never gave permission for that). I can use the store a
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Getting someone to host your pictures and provide you a platform to share them isn't a fundamental right. That's true. So they can charge everyone and respect everyone's privacy rights, if they think that's the best
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The value of Facebook is having a place to connect with all my old aunts and uncles and school friends. A self-hosted Nextcloud is never going to provide that. They're not equivalent in any meaningful way.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
By dollar value it is the largest category of theft in the USA, more than robbery, burglary, embezzling, all that stuff. And yet it barely even gets talked about, even though the perpetrators are in plain sight. Meanwhile someone breaks int
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Hard to understand what you might mean. Tokyo also has a rail system called Metro.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
CDG is also one of the busiest airports in the world and is used by French residents, not only tourists. If they can fill trains with airport traffic then obviously the demand is there, and that makes the other trains nicer for commuters wh
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It has light rail service to Baltimore, but the Amtrak/MARC connection to DC is many miles away from the airport, connected via an awful shuttle bus that dawdles around the woods wasting 20 minutes of your day. Plus the trains are extr
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by nerdbert 3y ago
If you're willing to queue for 20 minutes.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I'd say "easy" is an overstatement. You have to install an app and master their weird terminology (to get a reasonable price you buy a "carnet" of 10 tickets). And of course it still only works with Android. Easy wo
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I can't imagine they're good for air quality in the stations.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
This argument also extends the other direction, why not call it a day after 40 years then? You're only going to get more crochety and require more costly health interventions. And older people tend to take up more precious m2 of living
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> The hardest one to cut out is Google Maps, which doesn't have an ad free option. OpenStreetMaps is considerably more customizable, has much better hiking trail data, and doesn't hide train stations and street names when you z
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by nerdbert 3y ago
You get a commonly understood set of rights which critically includes the right to re-sell it.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
These proposals don't say you can't charge fees. They say that the actual total price has to be displayed from the beginning. If Ticketmaster wants to break down a $250 concert ticket as $180 for the ticket and $70 for an issuing
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It's fine to break them down on the invoice if they prefer/must. But the listed price should still be the final price inclusive of all mandatory fees. When I buy something here in Europe it will say €2 on the sticker, and then my
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by nerdbert 3y ago
If they're not earning a fair income, then their wage/salary should be increased. It's ridiculous to make their pay vary from day to day depending on how guilty their customers feel.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Yes but in this case we are describing old-school Twitter, in which people made their tweets via SMS. That's why it was easier for them to make these deals.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
My at-destination-ferrying costs rarely if ever exceed €10/day, usually less, since unlimited metro/bus passes are widely available.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
With the 4-bed one, if you're on the top bunk, it's not bad, unless you get unlucky and your compartment mates are particularly rude. The 6 is too much for me.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Yes, it does in fact go slower than walking pace in some spots. https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/02/21/green-line...
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> I can't get to the English Channel and across it at any time for twice that. Eurostar St Pancras - Lille €144 Monday evening. But I agree that the prices of air vs rail are way out of whack. https://www.eurostar.com&#x2
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Anyone alive today would be born between 1900 and 2023, right? And their mothers, assuming they were between 13 and 50 when they gave birth, would therefore have been born between 1850 and 2010. So that's 161 out of 9999 available last
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I cannot follow your thread from a security researcher sharing tools to put pressure on an insecure website, to a megacorporation stealing someone's land.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
For the five minutes it takes to get a physical SIM card, I'll take the much cheaper and typically faster service I get with local carriers vs eSIM MVNOs.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> but that would require unenrolling my US iMessage number It nags you but you don't have to agree to remove the number. I routinely replace my SIM card when traveling outside the EU and my iMessage number still works for green-bubb
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by nerdbert 3y ago
When visiting the USA I have often bought prepaid T-Mobile SIM cards for cash without showing any ID.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
2.5Gbps seems to have become the new reasonably-affordable thing.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
That's nothing - I've talked to people from the 1910s. Let me know when computers get that flexible!
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by nerdbert 3y ago
From my puttering, image->tokens->image yields something that may or not vaguely resemble the original, but is never anywhere near identical.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
With Digi in Spain 10G is €5 more than 1G - https://www.digimobil.es/fibra-optica/

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