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by wiether 3y ago
Some cookie banners, when you reject everything they're asking to put on your computer, are redirecting you on this page. I'm using an extension to hide them automatically so I can't give you a proper example but I've ex
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by wiether 3y ago
> Yes! Rinsing your mouth REGULARLY after meals does a lot to prevent further cavities. So basically drinking water?
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by wiether 3y ago
As a cyclist in France and Belgium, I'd say it's again the extremes. Wealthy and poor neighborhoods are the dangerous ones where drivers are absolute dangers. And to me the reason is simple : there's not much law enforcement
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by wiether 3y ago
Having worked in two companies practicing hybrid office with no nominative desks but two very different ways of doing it, I can say that it can be great. Or a nightmare. In the first one they just converted regular nominative desks to free
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by wiether 3y ago
> employers still think that butt not in seat = not working I don't like coffee breaks because I just drink water and I find small-talk very tiresome. I also don't smoke. So I never take breaks except for when I'm stuck on
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by wiether 3y ago
I was born in northern France, spent my childhood reading "comics", visited the "comics museum" in Bruxelles multiple times and never heard of the Adventures of Jo and Zette before your comment. So I can understand why
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by wiether 3y ago
Thank you. It seems that most of the takes against this article are coming from people that have opinions about AWS based on nothing. Sure, AWS is selling Lambda/Serverless services. Sure, they are making articles/videos on micros
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by wiether 4y ago
"fight or flight" is how you nicknamed your balls? Because when I take a cold shower they do instantly go away!
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by wiether 4y ago
Windows folks : just get ShareX[1] [1]: https://getsharex.com/
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by wiether 4y ago
I'm in the same boat; I was expecting to read an article about managers/CEOs taking short-sighted decisions. To be noted, I'm French, English is not my native language so when I realized my mistake I thought that was because
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by wiether 4y ago
> they end up in a landfill forever with no environmental harm Can you please explain to me how a landfill doesn't cause environmental harm?
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by wiether 5y ago
Funnily I was only 8 but still see 1998 as "peak human history". French people will obviously understand why. After that the next bit thing happened in September three years later. And, yes, it went downward from there.
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by wiether 5y ago
> for those parents, looking disappointed or hurt seems to cut their kids like knives You met my mother then?
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by wiether 5y ago
The worst part in this _advice_ to me is that they are basically teaching their child that littering is okay. If you want to punish your child because you are not patient enough to teach them correctly how to behave, at least don't do
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by wiether 5y ago
> 3. IT systems that they have to use were designed by people who have not talked with the workers who use them. They may have been designed with laws and compliance in mind. Nurses aren't the people who choose or pay for these syst
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by wiether 5y ago
Shea oil.
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by wiether 5y ago
I just used it for my resignation letter. Worked perfectly; thanks!
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by wiether 5y ago
privacy != security
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by wiether 5y ago
> I understand your view, but the hilarious (or sad?) thing here is we are applauding a multi-trillion dollar company for the most basic functionality. This is like saying “this restaurant sucks, but hey, I am glad that I got at least so
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by wiether 5y ago
When they were acquired by LogMeIn a few years ago, the thread on HN about it was recommending switching to Bitwarden. Which I did. In a few weeks, I'll have to pay $10 to renew it. Meanwhile, since December we have those kind of worr
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by wiether 5y ago
First time I read a comment on the Internet about so well how bad things are, how even worse they are going to be and how nothing is actually done to avoid it. Thank you. And if I may add, before COVID I was also concerned about antibiotic
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by wiether 5y ago
> If you are a programmer, it’s unusable. Those kind of cloud storage services were never intended for code. One has to be crazy to put workspaces in a Xcloud directory. Git is here for this purpose. And if you want a central repo you us
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by wiether 5y ago
A few months ago I tried Nginx Proxy Manager[1] and never looked back. It provides a nice looking UI to manage reverse proxy with Let's Encrypt certs, auto renewal and a few other nice features. [1]: https://nginxproxymanage
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by wiether 5y ago
I do both. I have a server @home with Plex and few other services that are used mostly by myself and close relatives. Not something very public. It runs on a second-hand i7 NUC which is almost silent unless someone needs transcoding on cont
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by wiether 5y ago
Based on my observations (so anecdotal probably), it seems that being happy doesn't depends on what you did in the past or what you intend your future to be, but what you're doing now. Looking bad at your younger self won't m
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by wiether 5y ago
To me the key difference is in the way the propaganda is done. Pro-CCP people are posting comments on the Internet to try to convince western people. Pro-Russia people are paying celebrities of western countries to promote their culture, th
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by wiether 5y ago
I used to have a laptop connected to my TV that I controlled with a small wireless keyboard. It wasn't VLC but MPC, but mostly the same as you're doing. Then someone advised me on buying a nVidia Shield on which I put Kodi. And fr
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by wiether 5y ago
Plex does the same, yet it take a few seconds to do that on the same library.
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by wiether 5y ago
> For whatever bizarre reason, Plex all but requires you conform to specific filename formats. I don't why, but this pisses me off to no end. Idk, on Kodi I had to rename my files a certain way for them to be associated with metadat
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by wiether 5y ago
> I'd love to see us build a British Google for example. Here in France we have (had ?) Qwant[1] that never really worked because at first it was about having a search engine at the level of Google, then being user privacy focused (

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