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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Great job from noyb. It's sad that the gdpr is now being watered down, especially the protection of these specially protected data points.
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Agreed, I make a lot of stuff in my free time (cosplay related) and a lot of my older friends from Holland really frown on that saying it's "immature" and "I should do something more important with my time like doing a w
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Encryption is easily doable even with one way pagers. With one way you will lose the perfect forward secrecy option but that's usually ok.
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
I wish I could still buy a pager where I live :'(
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
You're still a miracle worker. Single-handedly managing a well-known fully user-contributed site not just technically but moderation in contentious times like these and still keeping it working well and encouraging a positive user comm
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Hell yes I hear you on that. I've been sideways involved with some of their projects too. It's always a minefield because they don't know what they want, what they do think they want makes no sense and they don't care ab
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
To be fair, this is more a result of the EU not being specific about their censorship so the providers have started to scramble to make their own lists without any oversight (which the article indeed identifies as a big problem). If we&#x
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
One of the most regulated industries, aviation requires crews to go through crew management training where it's explicitly trained for lower level staff to raise concerns in spite of perceived superior knowledge. Some of the biggest ac
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Same with Holland. The tax office is moving away from their own office package onto m365 right now. They apparently had an alternative all this time, which I find very surprising (the media didn't really elaborate on this). But Holland
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
On the other hand a lot of these startups and tech companies are a net negative for the world. Externalise problems and pollution, internalise profits. We don't want society to be only decided by those who make the most money. That&#x2
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
No the Linux kernel didn't move to gpl3 for this reason. It should have, IMO. Because now we're stuck with all these locked devices. Even PCs are becoming more locked now. FOSS (at least on the OS level) can't really exist wi
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
I just use it for personal information, I'm not involved in any wars :) I don't base any decisions on it, for example if I buy something I don't go by just AI stuff to make a decision. I use the AI to screen reviews, things l
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
It's the same site, just different domain name. But the site owner has some huge beef with Cloudflare DNS, so if you're using quad 1 it won't load. It's strange that .ph did load for you!
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Personally, I think they will go for the endpoint instead. This is part of the UK proposal now. Only allow "trusted" endpoints to access services, something which is kinda in place in the mobile world already. Many things are bloc
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Somehow they also think we'll pay for Gemini, GPT, Claude, perplexity and their browser thingy, co-pilot and whatever else they have going on. Not to mention, all these things do 95% the same and don't really have any moat. I don&
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Yes. I use it sometimes in Firefox with my local LLM server. Sometimes i come across an article I'm curious about but don't have the time or energy to read. Then I get a TL;DR from it. I know it's not perfect but the alternat
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
So.. if it was American companies doing the spying it would be a different story?
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
ps just as I wrote this the English had to prove my point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294780
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Don't worry, VPNs are next in line to be banned anyway due to their big evasion potential of all this age verification nonsense
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Also, all those ads that are still loading, are still tracking you.
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
> He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission Eh yeah, killing the #1 reason why people still use your product is pretty
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
https://archive.is/li0ig
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Not sure about the UK. I've seen a lot of outdoor plumbing in Ireland. I lived in a place that had that. They were literally running on the outside. Our maintenance guy said they did that to make maintenance easier, but it also makes w
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Linux had the chance to fight against what GNU called "TiVoisation" but Linus said TiVo did nothing wrong. So now we have a world full of devices running open software but which are locked down. And a Linux foundation run by corpo
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
That's another problem in Holland too. The government mandates people moving to heat pumps for new houses (and existing ones in the longer term) because they don't want Russian gas dependencies and they want to close the national
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Yes, it's just a lot of money for a lot of people. Norway is really a different kind of rich compared to the rest of europe, they have tons of oil rights all over the world (and as such they still contribute a lot to global warming eve
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Yes heat pumps are expensive and you need different radiators and more insulation than with traditional gas central heating. That's why it's an issue in Holland too. Not many people have the investment for all that. It's main
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Hmmm this doesn't look bad at all. The linked page doesn't make it too clear but apparently you can install it yourself for free, you don't have to buy their hardware. It's not something I'd go for to be honest. I n
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Yeah that's what I meant by full charge. Most fast chargers only give you a topup in 20 minutes.
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by wkat4242 10mo ago
Yeah they could take some lessons from Plato. However, koreader works on everything. Android, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook etc. Not just on Kobo like Plato does. It took me some getting used to but it's not bad IMO. It's more that its

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