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by ttepasse 2y ago
I came here to recommend it – I also got it in German. One of those beautiful books, where you're thankful for the printing industry.
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by ttepasse 2y ago
If you go on the further pages of /active you'll find a lot of flagged posts. An epidemic of flagging by the looks of it.
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That's a fun blog. The author writes about tall buildings almost to a point of fetishism, but seems at least aware of that obsession, hence the name. Although I don't care much about most tall buildings, I do like that blogs on si
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by ttepasse 2y ago
The ratio of flags needed is a moderation decision. The decision not to change it is a moderation decision. The decision not to override it is a moderation decision.
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I'm pretty much convinced that Brown cribbed his Da Vinci Code from a pulpy 80s book, this one. Annoyingly the authors didn't win their copyright case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Blood_and_the_Ho
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by ttepasse 2y ago
You can build bigger menus that a popup and sort them into usable buckets. Take a look at tesla.com. The shitty CEO aside, the language/locale menu does it right: An understandable globe icon opens a menu, that menu is sorted by contin
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by ttepasse 2y ago
The imprecision is something what I start to call the foreign-correspondent-culture-war-pipeline: Something happens in a country. Because of misunderstandings it becomes a minor topic in public discussion for two days or so. A foreign corre
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Feedbin as a backend and Reeder Classic on Mac and iOS for Reading. I'm pretty satisfied with that setup. One does not really need a backend, but I have far too many feeds, plus Feedbin has a email feature which transforms newsletters
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by ttepasse 2y ago
There is an extension for Atom for Paging and Archiving. And because it’s just namespaced elements those elements also could by used by RSS. But Feedreader support is mostly inexistent. RFC 5005: Feed Paging and Archiving https:/&#x2F
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by ttepasse 2y ago
I’m carrying my feed subscription list from reader to reader since 2002 – and every few years I’m thinking of thinning the list of long defunct blogs or at least look where they are now. Then I do something different instead.
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One exceptions are sadly podcast feeds and clients. Although technically the additional podcast elements or just a basic "non-funky" podcast feed shouldn’t be a hard problem, the podcast ecosystem mostly ignored Atom and produced
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(Although the IndieWeb community has this weird thing against "side files" and prefer having the content inside the HTML, marked up with Microformats2 special attributes. A social reader then polls the HTML and parses it additiona
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gdpr.eu is a page operated by the Swiss Proton AG, not a page by the European Union.
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The most inefficient protocol of the internet.
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Back in the 2010s Blue Origin had a naming scheme after the pioneering flights of American astronauts: The suborbital rocket New Shepard is named after Alan Shepard who was the first American astronaut and whose flight was a suborbital arc.
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by ttepasse 2y ago
I don't know. 17 years on and my fingers still miss hardware keyboards a little bit. My dream smartphone would be a black rectangle, but with a landscape hardware keyboard to slide out from underneath. And in an ideal world OLED keys f
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Nokia did had software chops, just on another metric than UI: According to a presentation at my university they were very deep in testing and verification and had a lot of expertise there. And in all my years of using Nokia phones I can’t r
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X11 support was also part of the early Mac OS X – even part of marketing pages, afair.
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My pet theory is that it is the data model: everyone must support ical/Exchange and those only support events with a textual description. Events may be a part, but not the only part of a good calender. There is a lot of stuff which cou
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From one SR-71 memoir I remember the factoid that sometimes the electromechanical star tracker was sensitive enough to catch stars in the daylight while the plane was still on the ground. Makes one wonder what is possible now with modern di
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Russia has a long stretch of Black Sea coast, including harbours at Novorossiysk and Sochi. Before 2014 there were plans to relocate the Black Sea fleet from Crimea to Sochi. One of the surprising things about the Ukraine war was the succes
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> And the reason pre-cooked meat pieces are added to curries in restaurants is that we need to get the food to you in 5-7 minutes. We can't cook it leisurely for 25-30 minutes in the gravy like we would do at home. It's called
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Bother Willisons and Grubers links blogs predate microblogging, afair. In the end, everything you post on a website is a post. But of course they a different, not just in content but also in form.
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> Prior to 2010, banks were charging around 5% for a GBP-EUR transaction. Also in the 2010s: The EU introduced the Single Euro Payments Area; Wikipedia tells me that the UK participates for transfers denominated in EUR.
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Plus: it has MiniDisc, the coolest media format.
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If you're in a mood for a monty-python-esque dystopia: Brazil (1985) is somewhat sci-fi-ish, as seen from the 20. Century. And it is “Christmas-themed“.
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Star Trek has "sonic showers": https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_shower And for other bathroom activities: One can imagine creative use of the transporter. Although: https://www.youtube.co
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There is a depressing site, which keeps the ranking for Mallorca: https://www.balcon.ing
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There is a semi-famous video from 1902 recording a ride on the then new Schwebebahn. MoMa digitised it and someone on Youtube did a side-by-side-recording of 1902 vs. 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc There
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> Germany (like France could and did) could have expelled the US military any time they wanted to. No, not legally. (And also not in reality) 1955 were the treaties, conventions, protocols and schedules of the Bonn-Paris Conventions, the

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