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931.
by usr1106 3y ago
Only available for people who sell themselves to Google or pay the Apple premium. Well, one could say it's a gift so don't complain. No, it's paid by the taxpayers. And French/German taxpayer money should not be used to
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by usr1106 3y ago
I haven't studied the legalize, but I assume if they put all answers behind a paywall tomorrow nothing can be done. I don't think the license says they must share.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Ah, I had no idea that Paypal would do SEPA direct debit . They don't offer it to me. (I don't have a German address, although I would have a German account.)
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by usr1106 3y ago
But the same publication says that only a bit over 50% of the population even own a credit card. And debit cards usable online are still a niche product. So in Germany, can you pay your Paypal bills any other way than by credit card? Honest
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by usr1106 3y ago
Easier for those who sell themselves to Google or pay the Apple premium. For people who believe in freedom it means a chipcard. Which can be a real challenge because then the number of sellers gets very small and they might be very far from
936.
by usr1106 3y ago
Yes, that's a good question why they don't want our (not living in Germany) money. I think the background is: * Paypal is not very common/popular in Germany so most local transport agencies don't bother * with SEPA direc
937.
by usr1106 3y ago
Just to inform random tourists that cheap travelling is not for them. You don't just go to the vending machine and pay a cheap price.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Not familiar with Apple, but I guess they have country limits like Google. In what country is your phone registered?
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by usr1106 3y ago
That's 44€ per day railway only, whereas the discussed ticket is 49€ per month including all local buses, trams, subways.
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by usr1106 3y ago
SEPA discrimination is illegal but a fact. Many sellers don't even let you enter an account number that doesn't start with DE. At the latest the Schufa check will fail.
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by usr1106 3y ago
It has been discussed a lot in railway forums, it seems to be a fact that it's rather hard to buy the ticket if you do not live in Germany. * the default payment method used by 99% of the sellers requires a German bank account * most s
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by usr1106 3y ago
I am a subscriber. But wasn't the topic mostly about printed magazines? lwn.net has never been one.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Post recorded videos are good. Live streams are better. If I decide to attend a conference remotely I tell it at work and just spend the 2 x 8 hours it takes to watch the streams. Have done it for FOSDEM several times and in recent years te
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by usr1106 3y ago
I subscribe both to German iX mentioned in a sibling comment and to Skrolli (the latter happened to be in the mail today). Unfortunately I don't read a whole lot in either of them :( I should do more camping for longer than a battery l
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by usr1106 3y ago
You could still use the browser extension provided by Avast, no difference here.
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by usr1106 3y ago
I see 3 options. 1. The senators have no clue. 2. They support monopolies (or at least oligopolies). That's not compatible with US legislation, is it. 3. LLMs are dangerous like atomic weapons and all proliferation needs to be universa
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by usr1106 3y ago
It has happened in open source, too: OpenOffice was once well-respected, but 10 years ago we needed to switch to LibreOffice. (and I bet still not everyone has noticed)
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by usr1106 3y ago
All software is buggy. By translating it more bugs will be introduced. So I try to avoid using any translated software. I remember in Windows 95 (that's been a while) a little binary, probably ipconfig.exe was broken in the Finnish ver
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by usr1106 3y ago
For food to be kept in the refrigerator Danish, Swedish, and Finnish instructions differ by 1 degree centigrade each. Don't remember the values from the top of my head, something like 8, 7, 6 respectively.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Ah sorry, I thought I had written ballast of the current form. That was my intention, but I failed to type what I had thought. Otherwise there wouldn't be a point to mention that 50 years ago other, less stable ballast was still in use
951.
by usr1106 3y ago
Interesting. Of course semantics of natural language is not formally defined. For me it sounds like lying and telling lies is not necessarily the same thing.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Lying is intentional. LLMs have no intention, they are just clueless what is true or false
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by usr1106 3y ago
The speeds you can reach on traditional tracks embedded into streets is much lower. Outside of cities where trams run at higher speed ballast is preferred. Modern tram tracks have a steel-enforced concrete base under the street, similar to
954.
by usr1106 3y ago
Right. I referred to Stockton - Darlington 1825.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Of course it always depends what borders you draw. I started with steam railways. Of course horse driven railways existed before, but they were of a completely different load class. I don't know what clinker from salt mines looks like.
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by usr1106 3y ago
It's an exaggeration to claim that ballast would have been used for railway tracks for centuries as the article claims. Railways haven't even existed for 2 centuries. Although there are only 2 years left. Still in the 1970s, only
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by usr1106 3y ago
Marx was German. Lenin was in German-speaking exile. Maybe that had an influence? Edit: Forgot Engels, another German.
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by usr1106 3y ago
When you start an open-source project you don't start with thinking what will happen when you have Terabytes of traffic. Even for a start-up it's generally not advised to spend considerable effort on scalability before you have an
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by usr1106 3y ago
At least the day they go public they should be liable the same way for the information they give. It does not make the new owner or the share any different that it was originally sold before the company was listed.
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by usr1106 3y ago
FOSDEM presentation by the author earlier this year: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/bintools_fq/

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