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by zirror 5y ago
German here: We don't dislike eastern europeans at all, at least not on any society wide level. Of course, there are exceptions. We do dislike backslides into authoritarianism in governance, like in Hungary (who's Victor Orban de
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by zirror 5y ago
Well, tbh, I don't know the reason, I can only speculate. It is meant to encode pure binary data (cbor) and not to be human readable or URI or anything like that. It is specifically designed for QR Codes. I read through some Github iss
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by zirror 5y ago
The EU's Digital Green Certificate [1] uses Base45, which I think they basically invented. They do this because "even in Byte mode a typical QR-code reader tries to interpret a byte sequence as a UTF-8 or ISO/IEC 8859-1 encod
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by zirror 6y ago
Fulltext for people who blocked facebook: I'm resigning from my job at Facebook. For years, President Trump has enjoyed an exception to Facebook’s Community Standards; over and over he posts abhorrent, targeted messages that would get
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by zirror 6y ago
Tom Lehrer is a national treasure.
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by zirror 7y ago
Yeah, totally forgot about the second one. Thanks!
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by zirror 7y ago
I have wondered for quite a while about this so maybe you can help. How does it spread without symptoms? Like, I get that you start shedding the virus, but if you don't cough or sneeze and practice generally good hygene it should not s
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by zirror 7y ago
They do: https://foldingathome.org/alternative-downloads/
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by zirror 7y ago
> "so many journalists don't understand that a single article published in a journal does not mean that there is now a scientific consensus around this" I respectfully disagree that journalists don't understand that.
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by zirror 7y ago
> The most recent Samsung S series they support is from 2014, almost six years ago. You know, maybe I was lucky or hit some weird Window, but they used to have S7 Lineage OS on there and I still run it on mine.
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by zirror 7y ago
Tutanota is also pretty good. Protonmail was also pretty great. (I used them both, currently at Tutanota)
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by zirror 7y ago
If you care for an in-depth back and forth between the IARC and the ESFA, I can recommend this[1] collection of letters between the head of the ESFA and the head of the IARC at the time. If you are interested in the particular scientific cr
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by zirror 8y ago
The information is not yet published, however Julia Reda ( https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1110514210176462850 ) is working on it. Also, I would suggest voting on a party-bases i.e. voting for Pirates in your r