tobltobs

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by tobltobs 6y ago
Instead of having suspicions you could read.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
Do pedastrian-only zones or the internet kill retail?
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by tobltobs 6y ago
When I recently had to make a decision about which Cloud provider to use, Google, although looking fine technically, wasn't even an option because of their killing everything attitude. Reading stuff like [1] I am not assured they will
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by tobltobs 6y ago
Everybody not living under a rock knows that some day you might get banned/destroyed by some amok running script from Google. Are we supposed to be enraged that this can happen to buddies from Google employees also?
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by tobltobs 6y ago
> https://docs.python.org/release/3.9.0/whatsnew/3.9.html#you-... Compared to Python, good old Windows DLL hell looks like a paradise to me.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
> Are people in Germany more critical of Google? I somehow don’t believe that… For historical reasons (NS, Stasi) Germans value their privacy very high. Google is collecting a lot of data and therefore they are critical. 10 years ago, be
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by tobltobs 6y ago
Don't know why you are downvoted. This outcome was obvious from the beginning. Europe’s GDPR enforcers do not have the capacity to investigate Big Tech, just small fishes. Google and Facebook love the GDPR, they have the resources and
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by tobltobs 6y ago
> Developers should be aware of some features that are being deprecated and removed in 3.9, as well as some more deprecations that are coming in 3.10. Many Python 2.7 functions that emit a DeprecationWarning in version 3.8 "have bee
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by tobltobs 6y ago
> To avoid this you’ll need better more stringent zoning laws with bigger buffer zones. Zone the whole world as industrial zone, climate crisis solved.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
As far as I know there is nothing. If your customers do maybe buy your product multiple times you could sell credits (10x, 20x). If not you are out of luck.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
If you are fascinated by this, you will also be interested in the similar drama of the eruption of Mount Pele on Martinique in 1902. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_eruption_of_Mount_Pel%C3%... or https:/&#x2F
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by tobltobs 6y ago
Welfare costs money.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
"De jure" was breaking down in the Weimarer republic like it is in the US today.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
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by tobltobs 6y ago
> " he or some contractor could have built the same product in a weekend." All available contractors where already busy building a FB clone on a weekend.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
You also could have a look on twitter how many people with hacked accounts try to reach sendgrid support via this channel.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
Sadly they do now also allow bulk emails and therefore will soon be as shitty as all other emails sender services.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
This article sounds like sendgrid is the victim. But in reality this is going on since months. My account was hacked three months ago and abused by spammers. There was no way to stop it in the UI and the support didn't react for days.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
All those mentioned pain points are also valid for Google Play store. If you want to keep your sanity just avoid being depended on those wallet gardens.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
Everybody who is dumb enough to use his crap is electing him. Monarchs do force you to obey, nobody is forced to use FB.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
I recently bought a BMW GS310 motorbike for 5.5k (new, not used), that is just 500 Euros more than my Mountainbike did cost. Sure, the BW is an entry level model, and the MTB is upper class, but still. Mountainbike prices are a rip off, esp
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Sputnik V – The first registered vaccine against Covid-19(sputnikvaccine.com)
4 points by tobltobs 6y ago|2 comments
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by tobltobs 6y ago
"but I'll believe it when I see it." And what will do you do then?
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Fed Vow Boosts Debt Binge While Borrowers Cut Thousands of Jobs(bloomberg.com)
1 points by tobltobs 6y ago|0 comments
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by tobltobs 6y ago
Once the population ... figures out that ... people are using phones/fax machines/drums/smoke/whatever to coordinate their plans to set the cities on fire, they are dead via regulation.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
> The combination of preprint servers + twitter Filtering noise with noise?
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by tobltobs 6y ago
Instead of this marketing theater, they could help to improve battery life under Linux which still sucks.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
As long as you can ignore it is ok. /s
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by tobltobs 6y ago
Depends.
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by tobltobs 6y ago
Those technical problems can be overcome. It is no fun, a waste of time and frustrating. The real shitshow starts when your app is in the play store and you try to find users. Or when Google makes some changes that completely invalidate you

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