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by usr1106 3y ago
I must admit I have not really studied the differences. Not sure whether I could get the old login page back to do so. Probably not permanently, so not worth my time. The new page just felt much heavier and slower, so I looked what I need t
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by usr1106 3y ago
Yeah, McDonald's and friends have had no general need to close their places because of lack of customers in Europe. Counting locations I think compared to other kinds of restaurants their market share is small. Measured in turnover it
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by usr1106 3y ago
Megacorp and megacorp. Here they are small franchises, not owned by McDonald's. Of course using basically the same kiosk software makes sense despite being different localisations and different business owners. Having single points of
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by usr1106 3y ago
I see tesseract mentioned more and more. Myself I tried it probably 10-15 years ago on scanned scientific papers (decent scanning quality). The results were disappointing. The manual postprocessing required was not much less than typing it
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by usr1106 3y ago
On an unrelated usability issue: They have recently updated their login page. Now instead of a single TAB to get from the user name field to the password field you need something like five key presses to get to the enter password page. Yes,
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by usr1106 3y ago
Story time: In Germany in the 1980s an American asked me on the train for a restaurant recommendation in a town of 60,000. I thought hard for a place with good food and made big efforts to describe how to get there. In the end he asked: Is
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by usr1106 3y ago
That they have nationwide systems does not surprise me. But that it's a global system does surprise me. Their main market should be the US, but EU data protection is legally mostly incompatible. I am pretty sure they have major violati
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by usr1106 3y ago
No need to make your own generator. But being able to inspect (theoretically even audit) the source, building (if necessary) and running it locally in some container/sandbox without network connection would be minimum reqirements for m
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by usr1106 3y ago
Yes, you can see video decoding, but it's indeed only one detail of the data presented, as it's only a part of the HW. Not at my computer now, can't tell what metric to watch.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Except that not all keyboards have an AltGr key. European ones tend to have one. US keyboards don't. Not sure about British. Are they different from US?
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by usr1106 3y ago
It's over 10 years ago that I had to do such operations regularly with rather unreliable networks to Southeast Asia and/or SD cards, so calculating the checksum every time on the fly was important. Instead of the "fancy"
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by usr1106 3y ago
I use firejail. At least the browser cannot see arbitrary files in my home directory, like ssh or gpg keys, password manager, and everthing else. To share files between the browser and the rest ~/Downloads can be used. Disclaimer: Crit
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by usr1106 3y ago
I saw it from end-customer perspective. Somebody who buys an Apple device cannot choose other app stores, nearly the same with Android.
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KASLR. Read the discussion under TFA and you will never mix up the letters again ;) Those with enough background in German to be able to remember the word Kassler are at advantage.
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by usr1106 3y ago
I haven't drunk soda for decades. There is nothing I miss. (Not to boast with my healthy diet: I eat chocolate and cookies far over any recommendation.)
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Vendor lock-in is what wecall it in the IT-sector.
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by usr1106 3y ago
So you change your smartphone every time you are not happy with Apple or Google Android? Yes, you have a choice once every couple of years while you might want to install an app several times a year. Free markets would also be the wrong wor
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by usr1106 3y ago
Leaner on the source code side. The developer wrote that nobody is building it. If it were in obvious use, they could not even propose removal, Linux promises not to break existing systems by upgrading to a newer kernel.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Wheels are always weak spots of airplane. Incidents will happen. The same with compressor stalls. General media just like to produce headlines... Of course a door plug or manoevering system should not become a weak spot. And systematic fail
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by usr1106 3y ago
Yes, and that's why monopolies must die, in practice desolved by governments. Once you buy a smartphone today you and everybody who wants to do further business with you are at the mercy of a monopolist. For Apple 100%, for Google only
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by usr1106 3y ago
Sure it does. But that's not because the article shows us any new trick, it's just because they use the original and most basic tool to generate an initramfs.
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by usr1106 3y ago
But isn't the article about building initramfs bottom-up, presenting the most basic tools? I did not see anything special that would make it rootless. That seemed to be a point made by the submitter.
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Editorialized title.
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All European banks I know require you the enter the recipient's name. So they could do a plausibility check, even with some spelling inconsistencies allowed. But banks are not in the business of offering good customer experience, they
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by usr1106 3y ago
Yes, I was looking forward to read the section on IBANs, before it never came. Then I noticed the article being from 2000. IBANs weren't in use at that time. At least in Germany IBANs are not very popular. Compared to the national numb
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by usr1106 3y ago
EU might fund it and I have an account. But as long as Google, Facebook, Twitter etc are not mandated to federate and 99% of European users stay in the closed systems it does not solve the problem.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Unit prices are the law where I live. I'd say I am very price-conscious shopper. I have a clear feeling about unit prices of many products. But I absolutely don't care about package size(1) or package price. (1) of course within l
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by usr1106 3y ago
The reliability of trains in Germany is horrible compared to the planned and published timetables. However, there are typically many more connections than in many other countries. Don't expect to be at your destination in time, but onc
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Replying to myself: Of course these price reductions why they suddenly charge for IPv4 addresses. To my understanding AWS does not suffer from scarcity, they have huge pools. At least for customers using a lot of egress the charging per add
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by usr1106 3y ago
I have still lived in the obviously false belief that AWS charges for every egress byte (regular operation not take out, except Lightsail, which always had rather large quota included.) Now they claim every account has big free tier. When h

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