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by nerdbert 3y ago
Cashing in on loneliness is big business. Singles bars. OKCupid. Half of the self-improvement/self-help world.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
For many people, feeling like one has exhibited kindness is a strong reward.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
All the humans who couldn't deal with tiktok are dead?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I don't know of countries that mandate a minimum price. If you are doing high volume you are free to work directly with carriers. If you are drawing as much billable traffic as you are sending, then that could even be a wash.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I can pop into almost any phone shop around here and walk out with a free SIM card, which I can top up for cash.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Most people using Signal - and particularly most people likely to donate - are not using it to hide their identities, but to decrease the chance of unknown parties reading their conversations. My Signal account has my full name on it, and c
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by nerdbert 3y ago
We really are doomed because some people like to think of ways that we could kill fewer of each other?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Is it so hard to believe that other people may have different opinions from yours? I've never knowingly clicked on an ad in my life. I am very aware of how law enforcement, political consultants, and other organizations purchase target
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> I'd be surprised if there was much, if any, fallout from the disappearence of Meta from the EU space. One sure exception would be Whatsapp. It's really baked into society in many countries, including here in the Netherlands w
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by nerdbert 3y ago
There's so much babysitting required. I've managed to wean all but one of my clients off self-hosted email. They are paranoid and insist on keeping it in-house. It's such a big time suck to deal with spam filter tuning and bl
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by nerdbert 3y ago
How much can Meta ditch before its all-important network effect starts to implode? Threads hasn't really gotten off the ground, and I'd say a good part of the reason why is that it excludes the EU, which is full of very online-eng
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It's not only browsers though. The OS has a root store which is used by other non-browser apps. I also want my email program not to be susceptible to government MitM attacks. And whatever else I'm running. Apple and Windows could
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by nerdbert 3y ago
If it doesn't exist already, surely this would be demand for this as a browser extension in the event that article 45 passes.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Same here. If I can't walk to things I want to do and people I want to see, I feel like a prisoner.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I believe it's coming to Instagram soon. Haven't heard about plans for Whatsapp or Messenger. Threads isn't in Europe anyway.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I think it asked for €12.99 on mobile, then I deleted the app, then it asked for €9.99 on desktop. Maybe they're experimenting with prices too. I'm from the Netherlands.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I know, I know, 'free rein' not 'free reign'.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
One question: couldn't the 180° look be created algorithmically after the fact, freeing them up to use a wider ISO range?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
This is normal for countries near the equator. Why would you use daylight savings time if the length of the day barely changes?
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Facebook just started requiring EU users to choose: privacy or €9.99/month
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by nerdbert 3y ago
If you punched the right extra holes could you get a larger refund?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Isn't anything that can be circumvented ineffective? Or, looking at it the other way, if you put a small sticker that says "do not do X" and even one person follows that, isn't that therefore an "effective" met
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Can a $3B nominal stake in Anthropic actually be liquidated for $3B?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I agree with almost all of his points, but it turns out I don't agree enough to forego the convenience of doing without cash. If bitcoin weren't so stupid I'd gladly use that instead of highly centralized corporate payment sy
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Even if you use one of those Thunderbolt/USB-C expansion dongles?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The longer battery life is genuinely useful to a wide range of people in a way that being able to connect 38 external monitors is not. I recently went on a 5-day trip and forgot to bring the charger for my M2. The first day I thought I&#x27
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Brings me back to all the time (and paper) I wasted in the 1970s writing programs to do abstract ASCII art on line printers. Watching those patterns made me feel like a child again!
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Please note that cash payments are not at all popular in India I was just in India, and while I didn't do very many of the transactions that a resident would, I used cash for almost everything (except for supermarkets where I paid
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Somehow I have decided that being paid 2% by the credit card company is a fair exchange.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Same here, haven't touched cash in the Netherlands in years. It's interesting to see how it varies in other European countries. In Germany and Belgium you kind of have to carry some cash or you will find yourself unable to pay at

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