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by seszett 10mo ago
I think it's especially American English that doesn't use litotes as much as British English or the other Western European languages. This piece seems to be very much about American English, when I read something like: > In En
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by seszett 10mo ago
Belgian federal law is also written in Dutch, French and German, by the way. But no English so you might not be interested.
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by seszett 10mo ago
> The company is virtue signaling It is true! And as a (very occasional) customer, I like that this company is signalling that it does not oppose inclusion and doesn't mind questioning "traditional values" (the wolf eati
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by seszett 10mo ago
> the triad of the US, China, and Russia. Europe is a military vassal of the first, an economic vassal of the second, and an energy vassal of the third. What an hyperbole. There are also other places in the world besides Europe, the US
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by seszett 11mo ago
> there was a nice time, albeit short, time where we downloaded music and felt as if it was ours to own. Granted, a lot of this was probably pirated Nothing prevents you from doing it today, and there is more music to download than eve
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by seszett 11mo ago
It would take an especially perverse mind to keylog using audio on a KVM , though. The KVM basically has access to everything, any secondary spying using a microphone or a camera would provide very little added value.
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by seszett 11mo ago
I'm much more worried about the Ente install getting broken for some reason and my pictures being locked and lost, than a burglar stealing a hard disk in my basement. That's why I like how Photoprism just uses my files as they are
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by seszett 11mo ago
> the cars in both unions have been made the same, of course they cost similarly I'm really not sure what you mean, many of the most popular cars in the EU aren't even sold in the US (Renault, Dacia, Opel, Peugeot/Citroë
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by seszett 11mo ago
You don't have to run your own server. My parents have a domain bought from OVH (they had to move away from their ancient ISP email address) and just use the free email service that goes with it. OVH is big enough that its email server
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by seszett 11mo ago
I don't have a rigorous study to back my feelings, but I am pretty sure most people actually prefer to avoid their partner's farts and toilet smells.
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by seszett 11mo ago
What do you mean? I don't think HTTPS is a paying feature of sdf, and HTTPS is otherwise free thanks to let's encrypt.
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by seszett 11mo ago
I like XMPP and I use it with my family (with the Conversation client) but the web interface (converse.js) if pretty rough. I would like to replace Matrix at work with an XMPP server, but to convince my colleagues I would have to show somet
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by seszett 11mo ago
What are you guys talking about? I have a Pixel 8, didn't install Lineage OS on it, and my power button works fine?
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by seszett 11mo ago
That might work in big countries like the US, but in western Europe it's basically impossible to tell whether a connexion originates from London, Paris, Brussels or Amsterdam just by hop count or latency. Even just jitter in router res
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by seszett 11mo ago
Same (French polar institute and Kerguelen in my case) and I use double-sided tape to place them so I can remove them in the future.
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by seszett 1y ago
> the usual "it's a one store per app bonanza issue" What do you mean "usual"? Android had always had app stores without too many restrictions (though for a long time it was complicated to have auto updates) and
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by seszett 1y ago
That one was in activity about the same period I took the Montparnasse station somewhat regularly, and over those years I couldn't ever take it as it was always either broken or running opposite to my direction. I do think a concept wi
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by seszett 1y ago
I'm sure something like this would be doable and I like the idea, but the stag doesn't seem structurally sound for example. People generally just want cables to be buried, but apparently this poses more problems than just added co
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by seszett 1y ago
Sarkozy is not a political prisoner though. He's a politician that committed fraud by taking foreign money to finance his electoral campaign. Once elected he then proceeded to declare war to the dictator who gave him that money and eve
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by seszett 1y ago
Well almost all websites in France do the legal thing now with an obvious "decline all" button, which was not the case at first. It took just a pair of ruling that made it clear this illegal pattern was going to actually be cracke
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by seszett 1y ago
> The solitary confinement part is quite harsh, I've never understood how that is supposed to rehabilitate someone. In this case it's for his own wellbeing, because it's probably difficult for a former president to go al
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by seszett 1y ago
Nice, but it's only available in English sadly, there's a link that says "see kalenderpuzzel "Ruit" for the Dutch version" (I'd prefer French but Dutch would do as well) but that page says "De maanden
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by seszett 1y ago
> the "device on internet" talks to "device in my house" It doesn't handle it well other than with bluetooth or awkward port forwarding and manual entering of IPs. I don't see it as a problem though, I don
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by seszett 1y ago
> got themselves a military base being built on American land now too As a European I'm as critical of the US government as can be and their president has definitely been bought, but there are already several countries that have s
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by seszett 1y ago
This is addressed on the very page though: > A sovereign US cloud does not address or mitigate the strategic reliance of European businesses and governments on US-based cloud providers. > Some commentators are therefore calling tho
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by seszett 1y ago
> For sensitive information - such as financial transactions - the rewards for bad actors are simply too high to trust any device which has been rooted In practice, that just means you trust a Chinese black box Android ROM from a rando
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by seszett 1y ago
You can buy Peking duck and make the rest of the dish yourself at home though. The restaurants mostly don't make it themselves either, but that's normal.
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by seszett 1y ago
Even in Dutch today, weg is pronounced very differently between Holland and West Flanders. In Holland the g will be hard while in West Flanders "weg" is much closer to English "way" with a very soft g.
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by seszett 1y ago
I don't remember the exact details now but that was mostly out of spite from presumably one entity (or a handful at most) that owns many US local newspapers though. They're not subject to GDPR anyway as they explicitly don't
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by seszett 1y ago
> or they just have no idea how salty the sea is Well sea saltiness levels vary wildly, and although the Mediterranean is much too salty, I'd say salty like the North Sea seems about right to me.

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