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by rhblake 9y ago
He's really just chronicling what happened while expressing astonishment at the traction the story got (and the consequences thereof).
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by rhblake 9y ago
See Linus' follow-up http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/596 for clarification: > They aren't split up, there has never been any effort by you to make them palatable to upstream, and when somebod
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by rhblake 9y ago
In Sweden an artist painted a self-portrait, took a photo of it, and used that photo when renewing his driver's license. It was accepted. [0] The transport agency, when told about this afterwards, had no problem with it as it was -- in
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by rhblake 9y ago
You can actually choose between having a normal subscription (where they charge your card monthly) and paying for a certain number of months (1 or 2 iirc). If you choose the latter you have to make a new payment manually (where - again - yo
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by rhblake 9y ago
French operator Free sells prepaid SIM cards through vending machines in many places. No ID check, totally automated, machine spits out a SIM of your chosen type along with a receipt with necessary info.
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by rhblake 9y ago
Thanks for the recommendation - and I'll have to check out "Where the Buffalo Roam" too. Regarding the 1972 election, Timothy Crouse's "The Boys on the Bus" (published around the same time as HST's book) i
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by rhblake 9y ago
Last year's US election often made me think of Thompson's brilliant book "Fear and Loathing: on the Campaign Trail '72", in which he mainly followed George McGovern's campaign, running against Nixon (Nixon ende
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by rhblake 9y ago
For sure they're not standard, I just replied to "never seen an apartment this small" and wanted to point out that in some cities they're not unusual. Another example - Paris, 87 ads for condos 0-20m^2 [0], 104 for 30-40
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by rhblake 9y ago
Plenty of them in Stockholm and Paris. I once shared a 20m^2 flat with my partner; it worked alright. Just can't accumulate a lot of stuff. To give you an idea, here are some for sale in Stockholm county right now: https://w
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by rhblake 9y ago
Typically (or perhaps always) in EU countries, both kJ and kcal are specified on nutrition labels. And in my experience most people only ever talk about calories (kcal), much like in the US.
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by rhblake 9y ago
We've progressed a bit since the days of the state telephone monopoly, eh? My mom in Stockholm has symmetric 100 Mb/s included in her rent. ~$12/month extra for 1 Gb/s (both ways!). In France I currently pay ~$40/mo
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by rhblake 9y ago
Swedbank has provided this service for many years ( https://www.swedbank.se/privat/kort-och-betalningar/kort/log... ). You could also use one of the many independent sparbanker affiliated with Swedbank (they
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by rhblake 9y ago
So lemme try to clear this up. You are right in that brotli decoding is only supposed to work in secure contexts (so technically not just HTTPS, btw -- localhost is also considered a secure context, see https://bugs.chromium.
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by rhblake 9y ago
I don't speak German and I've been to every Congress since 2009. My favorite event every year. As mentioned most - or at least the majority - of the talks are in English, and the organizers very much cater to non-German-speaking v
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by rhblake 9y ago
Or if you're into printing and typography! Museum für Druckkunst - "Museum of the Printing Arts" - is really cool ( http://www.druckkunst-museum.de/Museum_en.html ).
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by rhblake 9y ago
Fly to Berlin and take the train to Leipzig (1h30m).
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by rhblake 9y ago
You're right, I forgot about that. My main point was that parent is probably overdoing it (even if he/she were a bodybuilder), and this seems to be quite common.
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by rhblake 9y ago
RDA for protein is 0.8g/kg (~0.36/pound), so about 65g in your case if you're sedentary. 1g/pound is an old bodybuilder myth according to this article [0] which goes through various studies: "many review papers have
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by rhblake 10y ago
Because that difference wasn't statistically significant, as noted in the image in the article.
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by rhblake 10y ago
Many tiling WMs (e.g. i3, xmonad) support floating windows. Also, GIMP supports single-window mode these days.
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by rhblake 10y ago
One doesn't need to be married in order to be covered by the EU rights in question. Straight from the source: "The following family members of an EU/EEA citizen or Swiss citizen, who is exercising his/her right to free m
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by rhblake 10y ago
For reference, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Targets is a nice little summary of how it's usually done these days.
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by rhblake 10y ago
The majority of foreign-born people in Sweden did not arrive as refugees. About half were born in Europe, with Finland - which is very similar in culture and also has conscription (as well as a much larger army) - being the most common co
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by rhblake 10y ago
Have you tried a "real" email app (i.e., one that's not just a wrapper)? I've used K9 (Android) + FastMail for many years and it's been great. K9 has tons of features, including letting you choose font size (with so
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by rhblake 10y ago
Thanks. Corrected URLs: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/3220 https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/2295
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by rhblake 10y ago
Re: metadata: I really like Riot/Matrix and have convinced a bunch of formerly non-IRC people to start using IRC through Matrix (the great free IRC bouncer in the sky!). However, a couple of things that bother me: - The fact that it ap
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by rhblake 10y ago
Right. I do share your concerns about performance, but I'm sure it will improve considerably. A few months ago on reddit, one of the Matrix core devs (ara4n) answered a question about how much they can improve performance: "enormo
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by rhblake 10y ago
I guess you're talking about something like Twitch? That's certainly a use case but a rather extreme and rare one. Among public IRC networks I believe QuakeNet has the record with a peak of ~240k users in total on the entire net
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by rhblake 10y ago
See https://matrix.org/ for all that. Riot is the flagship Matrix client, but there are many other alternatives in various states of development. For bridges that you can run on your on "homeserver" (if you indeed
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by rhblake 10y ago
Erosion of rights, eh? My country, Sweden, doesn't have a constitutional court; possibly because of some strange belief that our politicians can't make bad laws. (The Swedish supreme court cannot strike down laws, only interpret t

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