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by seszett 3y ago
It was an alternative DNS but I forgot which it was. You had to switch to these DNS servers, which the added "benefit" that DNS queries returning NXDOMAIN were hijacked to show you ads. I don't think this has any usefulness a
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by seszett 3y ago
As always, these articles seem to be written from a US or "international" point of view that doesn't seem to understand that country TLDs are actually, at least initially, intended for the people of that country. They are g
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by seszett 3y ago
There's no particular reason not to do it, it's just that it's not in the power of a mayor, at least in France.
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by seszett 3y ago
Condos are just a kind of appartement, right? There is normally a kind of owners assembly in which the various owners can take (binding) decisions or action regarding such problems or anything that concerns the building as a whole. It might
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by seszett 3y ago
> Furthermore, once a front loader starts, it locks the door to prevent water spillage, but this prevents you from throwing in extra items that you found or taking items out part way through. Even if you ignore the European top-loaders w
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by seszett 3y ago
I have the same experience, just in some rural school in France (ZEP, meaning supposedly with more "difficult" population than average) in the 90s. I still like fountain pens but I almost never write by hand anymore. Most of my cl
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by seszett 3y ago
No.
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by seszett 3y ago
I haven't designed such a system and as you say I can't really prove anything, but the embedded software I worked on just didn't record anything like that. Of course one can always imagine a secret government firmware or what
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by seszett 3y ago
> - you take that cash immediately to a vending machine or supermarket auto-checkout that takes notes. The machine scans all notes it ingests and can match them to timings and purchase details. I can tell you they don't do that, at
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by seszett 3y ago
> You just paid a 0.3% "transaction fee" for your privacy. The Visa network takes on the order of 2+% to DESTROY your privacy. You're getting a really raw deal here. I assume it is not the case in Sweden or most of Europe.
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by seszett 3y ago
Generally, in order to run bank apps on a non-stock ROM you have to root your phone and install things that hide it, kinda defeating the purpose.
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by seszett 3y ago
> For example, if England had been conquered by true French speakers, the words "war" and "cat" would have been something like "guar" and "chat" instead. Even today there are dialects in France whe
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by seszett 3y ago
What do you mean by "spam on Android" though? I don't get spam on my phone (well, SMS spam sometimes but that has nothing to do with the OS) and nobody I know does. Also, I keep hearing on HN that iOS doesn't split notif
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by seszett 3y ago
Maybe not side projects, but I'm running Android and Kde Connect, Home Assistant, Element or Mastodon are all listed as having more than 1 million install. I can't imagine these FOSS projects paying any significant amount of money
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by seszett 3y ago
I don't know if it's common in the UK, I would guess not, but we have had thousands of kilometers of 25kV lines in France for half a century now, and I have never heard of people being electrocuted because their balloons had touch
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by seszett 3y ago
> That doesn't answer my question on why the EU turns a blind eye on other industries but suddenly focuses on those with local competition. The answer seems obvious though, there will be more vocal and powerful lobbies in fields w
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by seszett 3y ago
Not doing enough is not an excuse for not doing anything at all, though. And clothing is typically less dangerous than EV batteries.
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by seszett 3y ago
That's the wealth distribution problem I was talking about. I bet many would rather do hiking, writing or going to the cinema if they were paid the same. And since their job is useless already, it wouldn't change much. It wouldn&#
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by seszett 3y ago
I don't know about newspapers in Switzerland, but self-checkout machines don't usually weigh items in France or Belgium either (or the Netherlands, if AH stores in Belgium are representative of those in the Netherlands) and these
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by seszett 3y ago
Cashiers in the age of self-checkout machines are IMO a good example of a useless job, I'd rather prefer these people do something else with their time. I would even feel guilty to make them work when they aren't actually needed.
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by seszett 3y ago
RFID doesn't work that well when more than a handful tags are present at the same time. Even at Decathlon it doesn't always work perfectly. As I said in another comment, I think it works for Decathlon because you usually only buy
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by seszett 3y ago
I haven't had the same experience either as in this article, whether in France (where self-checkout has been a thing in most supermarkets for ten years or so I'd say), Belgium where it has arrived more recently, or the UK from tim
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by seszett 3y ago
Non load-bearing walls are usually drywall on wood or metal studs in the Europe I know of. They are probably as easy to remove as your (wooden?) walls, but I don't know anyone who would do it for just a few months.
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by seszett 3y ago
This website indexes its decimal time on the "standard" 12-hour timezones though, which is fundamentally broken in my opinion. Decimal time was designed before the introduction of fixed timezones, and was relative to Paris in Revo
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by seszett 3y ago
Have you read the article? Children don't need to be eating in bed in order to soil sheets.
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by seszett 3y ago
We might have different ovens but I don't see why mine would burn down my house when left on during vacations, but not when baking things for several hours. Once warm, it doesn't just get hotter and hotter, it keeps the temp I ask
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by seszett 3y ago
Probably Mobilizon: https://joinmobilizon.org/en/
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by seszett 3y ago
A former French secretary of state for the digital sector was Cédric O. I think it's a Korean name originally.
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by seszett 3y ago
> during the days of Gaddafi Well, although a rather harsh dictatorship, Libya was at the time one (bit.ly was registered in 2008) of the more stable and prosperous countries of the region, and had been normalizing its international re
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by seszett 3y ago
It completely depends on which airline you take. Like most other things, it's free on the more expensive airlines and more expensive on the cheaper ones.

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