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by nisegami 5y ago
I miss my sodastream. I still have my machine and 3 empty tanks, but no way to refill them that's practical last I checked.
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by nisegami 5y ago
While at university in the US, I subscribed to YouTube Premium. Once I graduated and moved back home, I was able to continue paying for YouTube Premium (and still do), but using any of the features such as background playback required me to
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by nisegami 5y ago
No one said anything about justifying it.
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by nisegami 5y ago
This was still essentially the case at my university ~3 years ago (and likely still is). There was a firewall by default, but it was a simple form to fill out to have it disabled.
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by nisegami 5y ago
Twitter only really clicked for me when I disconnected it from my IRL identity and started using it in a way that more accurately reflects my actual self. I tried to obtain followers explicitly, but I've built up a small number of mutu
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by nisegami 5y ago
One idea I've seen is running through translation services. IE, convert to spanish and then back to english. But unless we have good offline services, it defeats the point.
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by nisegami 5y ago
Trinidad (Caribbean island)
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by nisegami 5y ago
I've long since suspected that a small part of the housing crises in the developed world is due to the high minimum standards for apartments and housing.
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by nisegami 5y ago
>LTT seems to be walking that tightrope a lot more than some other outlets do LTT's sponsored content is clearly marked and for videos with an ad read, the writing staff isn't informed what companies will get a spot in the vide
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by nisegami 5y ago
The watershed questions stumped me, but I feel like I had a rough idea of most of the others.
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by nisegami 5y ago
Unless these wallets have their private keys exclusively held by firm(s) that answer to Canadian law, sanctioning a few dozen crypto wallets is about the only thing less effective than thoughts and prayers.
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by nisegami 5y ago
Kinda spooky how much of the cutting edge semiconductor fabs are in disputed territories...
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by nisegami 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies rely too heavily on infrastructure from our economic and societal systems to provide any kind of defense against economic deterioration.
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by nisegami 5y ago
School is glorified babysitting until university. Actually learning is just a convenient but ultimately secondary use of that time.
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by nisegami 5y ago
The sun passing the horizon is affected by your vertical position. Someone in the lobby of a skyscraper has a different sunset time than someone near the top.
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by nisegami 5y ago
IME, a lot of people learn about Wayland's security improvements over Xorg and then immediately consider them deal-breakers. Stuff like global hotkeys and shared clipboard access.
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by nisegami 5y ago
>Some lay people think they know better than the medical community and won't hesitate to tell you their unqualified opinion. The medical community doesn't have a great track record. Things have largely improved where most parts
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by nisegami 5y ago
Can you do that in Europe?
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by nisegami 5y ago
TikTok turns it up to 11 in my experience. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube all started off with a mechanism where you choose whose content to view through following/subscribing/friending. Over time, this was de-emphasized
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by nisegami 5y ago
Seems excessive, but I imagine that the shipbuilding company (Oceano) is beneficial to the local economy. It doesn't strike me as odd that the city would honor their request.
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by nisegami 5y ago
The author of PirateStealer isn't the skiddie, the person running this instance of it is.
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by nisegami 5y ago
In the software world, this is usually described as "source-available", where the source is, well, available, but the license has restrictions such as not allowing commercial use.
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by nisegami 5y ago
>can’t be compelled to handover to US law enforcement Even if a US company holds their data in the EU, due to FISA 702, the CLOUD act and EO 12.333, they can still be compelled to hand over that data. So being a US company is a dealbreak
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by nisegami 5y ago
Isn't the NSO on an entity list now? That should mean that the NSA no longer has access to Pegasus.
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by nisegami 5y ago
Wasn't right then, isn't right now.
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by nisegami 5y ago
If those goods were produced by people paid fair wages and using materials sourced sustainably/ethically, sure. So in practice, not very often
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by nisegami 5y ago
I think situations where literally all parties involved are better off than they were before should be celebrated, even if the intentions behind it aren't just philanthropic.
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by nisegami 5y ago
Debated posting this, but it's memoize, not memorize.
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by nisegami 5y ago
Use the right tool for the job. Sometimes that's wired headphones. Sometimes that's bluetooth headphones.
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by nisegami 5y ago
If the bits are identical, where does the hidden information live?

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