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by rhblake 10y ago
That's what Debian backports ( https://backports.debian.org/ ) are for. Best of both worlds - run stable as your base distribution, use backports whenever you need a more recent version of something. E.g. Debian stable c
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by rhblake 10y ago
In France it's 25 paid vacation days or 36 if you include paid public holidays. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b... . 20 paid vacation days is the EU minimum [0]. [0] https:&#x
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by rhblake 10y ago
It's essentially a myth [0]. According to the latest stats from the European Commission [1] the French work 40.4 hours/week on average (including paid/unpaid extra hours; excluding meal breaks and travel time), which is close
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by rhblake 10y ago
> Now that's a different question. While having access to the certificates is no problem at all, being able to create a new certificate for an arbitrary website allows one to pretend to be that website. The only defense against it i
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by rhblake 10y ago
New ThinkPad keyboards can easily be found on eBay, too, for a bit less. Even ones for models that are many generations old. Very convenient.
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by rhblake 10y ago
> California, for example, has a huge population of Republicans and now their vote would matter. And at the same time votes from Democrats in California would also matter more. I'd assume a number of people who'd vote Democra
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by rhblake 10y ago
Not merely a lot (in Sweden, anyway) - I'd say the vast majority of Swedes are fluent in English; of course more or less so but I don't think I've ever met a Swede who couldn't at the very least hold a basic conversation
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by rhblake 10y ago
> France, Paris - visited it and that's a no-go zone for me. Couldn't buy a ticket at international train station in English and German as cashiers speak only French. Huh. I've lived in Paris for two years, freelancing, an
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by rhblake 10y ago
It's perfectly possible to have suffered shitty hours/below minimum-wage pay/poor management/etc. and at the same time be sad to leave. (The sadness then being leaving a project you're proud of and the community tha
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by rhblake 10y ago
I'm waiting for more people to discover the next level - the "no slides at all" style of presentation. Cory Doctorow did a nice keynote at 28C3 completely without slides, and it worked very well ("The coming war on gener
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by rhblake 10y ago
That "remnant" is much larger than the handset division they sold. 114k employees after acquiring Alcatel-Lucent. Seems to be doing well. (I just learned that Bell Labs is now " Nokia Bell Labs".)
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by rhblake 10y ago
Well, this is the Baltic Sea we're talking about. The average European tourist wanting sea and sun prefers the Mediterranean (i.e. Spain, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Turkey, ..) -- considerably warmer, plus cheaper/easier to get to for
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by rhblake 10y ago
Gone from the cell phone business, sure, but certainly not gone as a company. Big in telco equipment. After acquiring Alcatel-Lucent, I note that Nokia now has roughly the same amount of employees as Microsoft...
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by rhblake 10y ago
I agree that there are indeed many problems with the commission. (And I so wish that Viviane Reding had been president rather than Juncker.) Just wanted to clarify how things work, as many have no idea. And for all its faults, I certainly d
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by rhblake 10y ago
It should be noted that the president of the European Commission is proposed by the [democratically elected] heads of state of the member states, and that their proposed candidate has to be accepted by the [democratically elected] members o
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by rhblake 10y ago
They have essentially described him as a sociopath. That's very different from merely being brash and clumsy...
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by rhblake 10y ago
> And other similar and very recent account of the US gov harassing Tor developers: > https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/fbi-harassment.html It could be noted that the core Tor developer (@isislovecruft) who wrote tha
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by rhblake 10y ago
So a number of high-profile, veteran, respected, typically anti-authoritarian members of the hacking community - including multiple Tor project members - have spoken out against Applebaum in the past week. That it's all being orchestra
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by rhblake 10y ago
What short list? I know he's had access to some of them, along with other journalists, but I've never seen anything about him having all of them.
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by rhblake 10y ago
No, I didn't forget that he was one of three people involved in writing stories about the NSA ANT catalog, nor that he worked with Poitras (after she, Greenwald and MacAskill had done the most important part). I also did not forget tha
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by rhblake 10y ago
Re: NSA, state actors, billion dollar budgets... I think you're giving Appelbaum way too much credit here. While he's been splendid at marketing himself, consider that he might not actually be that important to the causes he&#x2
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by rhblake 10y ago
I think the first-person stories of @hypatiadotca [0] and @violetblue [1] suggest more than that. [0] https://hypatia.ca/2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/ [1] https://twitter.com/violetblue&#
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by rhblake 10y ago
I've always liked https://mullvad.net/en/ (Swedish company, around since a number of years), especially from a privacy point of view. You never actually enter any personal information when creating an account - no
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by rhblake 10y ago
Article seems to fail to mention that the majority of apartments in Stockholm (55% in 2014, more now) are in housing cooperatives ("bostadsrätt" -- in practice like a condo but not quite [Swedish compromise]). For a lot of people
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by rhblake 11y ago
You're not, but it's up to you to deal with the administrativia (reporting it to the police, disputing the invoice).
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by rhblake 11y ago
On the other hand it's trivial to change someone's official address. Just send a certain form by mail to the tax agency. (Not sure if they send a confirmation to the old address; but if they do, the perpetrator only has to pick so
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by rhblake 11y ago
The mentioned websites contain at least the full name, birthdate, registered address and marital status of every Swedish resident (at least above the age of ~16?), with the exception of a very small percentage of people with protected ident
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by rhblake 11y ago
Generally speaking: what's legal and what's morally right sometimes diverge. Civil disobedience can be a necessity. If being a professional means blindly following laws without thinking, I'm happy this place is not just for &
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by rhblake 11y ago
Having someone's personal identity nummer (personnummer) is in itself enough to do a lot of damage. Many Swedish online shops will happily send you goods along with an invoice that you pay later. The invoice option is often only availa
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by rhblake 11y ago
Ah... if you're a resident of Sweden, anybody can get your full name, address, date of birth, civil status, list of company engagements (e.g., board member, owner of a firm, etc.) and the make and year of any cars registered by going t

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