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by petre 8mo ago
I like how the VW controls are laid out on older models but not the seats. They're too hard and not confortable. Even my Suzuki has better, more confy seats. The seats in the A1 I had were a diaster, especially the back seats, totally
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by petre 8mo ago
I got tired of Vodafone's spam and switched to another operator altogether. Vodafone cheapest plan was 6€+VAT and I got the most expensive plan form the other operator at 5€ VAT included which included more benefits. Plus the added bon
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by petre 8mo ago
I'm using it in the browser anyway so why should I care? It's not as if it works offline.
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by petre 8mo ago
As perfectly echoed by Bob Dylan's Highway 61 song. "Now the rovin’ gambler he was very bored / He was tryin' to create a next world war / He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor / He said I never eng
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by petre 8mo ago
> Iran has an unelected supreme leader Had. Israel probably has a list with the next 3 or 4 in line to replace Khamenei and is currently working towards eliminating them, like they did with the Hezbollah. Regime change could also be trig
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by petre 8mo ago
NK was getting some reactor hardware from Russia. 'Unfortunately' the ship that was deliveing it, Ursa Major , went under in the Mediteranean.
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by petre 8mo ago
They're an existential threat to Israel and it also puts China's oil suppply chain under pressure as a bonus. Also, the US does absolutely not want them to get nukes. The regime is at its lowest popularity, so obviously this is th
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by petre 8mo ago
> I'm not supportive of these strikes. Iranians created this government, and if they want to topple it they'll have to be the ones to do it, without foreign intervention. Well, foreign intervention kind of worked in Syria, Liby
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by petre 8mo ago
The DPRK is a nuclear armed buffer state and shall remain so for the forseeable future.
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by petre 8mo ago
Yeah, he's probably French.
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by petre 8mo ago
What, is the US Ukraine? Is it under attack?
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by petre 8mo ago
Nah, they just respectfully said no to their face, which prompted him to make a big threat display and post another message with caps and exclamation signs on social media.
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by petre 8mo ago
Yeah, good luck with that. That ship has long sailed since Snowden and the Merkel phone affair. Threats to annex Greenland didn't help either.
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by petre 8mo ago
What they've always been used for: > Cold War computers were primarily driven by military necessity, focusing on nuclear weapon simulation, ballistic missile trajectory calculation, and cryptography to support Mutually Assured Destr
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by petre 8mo ago
Hopefully they won't allow it to launch the nukes without input from the individuals in charge.
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by petre 8mo ago
Lincoln and Kennedy, extra judicially of course.
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by petre 8mo ago
Because destroying them sends a different message. People want them gone, not merely disabled. They're not joking or messing around with drones and tempera about it. Using a firearm to wreck the camera lens before tearing the whole thi
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by petre 8mo ago
He'll eventually get pardoned like presideng Park and the Samsung crown prince , Lee Jae-yong. But he'll probably do 10 or 15 years anyway.
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by petre 8mo ago
Ejabberd is a bit overkill for a few people though. Prosody could be easily set up in 15 minutes or less. Also the config doesn't break when migrating to new releases.
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by petre 8mo ago
Yeah, the Russians also though they'd occupy Ukraine and change the regime in Kyiv a matter of weeks. Meanwhile the war has been going on for 4 years. The US totally botched Afghanistan, Libya and possibly Syria as well. I gueass anoth
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by petre 8mo ago
> Hopefully the Dutch political scene is a little less volatile than ours was in 2024. They have 3-4 party coalitions and all of them want markup on your wallet. This is how tax the rich ends up, everyone else gets hit with taxes.
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by petre 8mo ago
Not necessarily, you can just call the functions in the C library from D as you'd call them from C or C++ with the added benefit of being able to leverage the D GC, RAII, macros etc. https://dlang.org/spec/interfac
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by petre 8mo ago
That's exactly what Mr. Loophole would say. Mickey risking his life for ad revenue. Sure. Mickey throwing his bike in front of a speeding vehicle, when he clearly dismounted before getting struck. Sorry mate, I live, drive and cycle in
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by petre 8mo ago
It all ends up like YAML. Thanx but I'd rather take the parens any day.
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by petre 8mo ago
> The Wikipedia Tungsten article states the largest reserves are in China followed by Canada, Russia, Vietnam and Bolivia Easy one, then. The administration will kidnap the president of Bolivia, install a replacement and strike a mineral
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by petre 8mo ago
A BND (German intel) analysis shows otherwise. "The BND stated that these expenditures are being used not only to sustain the ongoing war in Ukraine but also to expand Russia’s sub-threshold operations against countries on NATO’s easte
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by petre 9mo ago
> What would targeting NYC help Iran? Destroy the infidels? Of course it doesn't exactly help anyone, but at least that's what their leadership keeps telling Iranians. https://nolabels.org/the-latest/irans-
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by petre 9mo ago
You'll have bots spreading propaganda in notime if it gets succesful even without those. So the 'algorithmic recommendation' (aka ads and propaganda) don't even have to come from the platform operator.
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by petre 9mo ago
You can probably trivially shield the GPS with an aluminium foil sticker once you know where the antenna is. The GPS sgnal is very weak.
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by petre 9mo ago
Unlikely. The data is freely available for download from geofabrik and other sources.

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