Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 4d ago
It's a dumb thing to do too. If you have a website, you control what it says. For a shop or restaurant it's totally fine to just show a nice photo with your name, opening hours, address, and contact details, and just link to whate
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by Freak_NL 5d ago
Is it? I'm not getting that at all. Edit: ah, there it is. This site is so crappy loading this weird code that fucks up the clipboard takes a minute. You can tell it is loaded when the text selection colour changes to light blue instea
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by Freak_NL 7d ago
This is better explained elsewhere in this thread, but it boils down to a totally valid trademark dispute over a company calling itself Automatic.css which supplies services for WordPress installs .
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by Freak_NL 7d ago
This rings true to me. I am looking at setting up my own online store, and if you sell (legal!) stuff which Shopify Payments disallows, but Stripe does allow, you end up looking at WooCommerce (a very popular WordPress plugin) pretty fast.
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by Freak_NL 10d ago
What is keeping you hooked to that type of content?
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by Freak_NL 14d ago
Either your phrasing is really odd, or you are sincerely promoting China's Uyghur 'reeducation' camps as being sensible for the greater good. Europe meanwhile, in case you are unaware, is all about unity through culture, but
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by Freak_NL 16d ago
What kind of book cataloguing software (excluding something like an order system for a printer of present day books) demands an ISBN? The article smells due to its complete omission of any verifiable software or marketplace that does this.
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by Freak_NL 16d ago
The second submission by this bvanbranden account getting flagged today is a clear, well, red flag.
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by Freak_NL 16d ago
> Somewhere around 11 PM on a Tuesday — it's always a Tuesday — you will attempt to catalog a book printed in Lyon in 1642 and the software will ask for an ISBN. Not politely. Insistently. A red border. A validation error. A small,
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by Freak_NL 19d ago
The naming policy is generally quite sensible, although individual mappers sometimes do weird things (OpenStreetMap is sort of an anarchistic collective). As long as most English speaking people around Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico us
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by Freak_NL 19d ago
I have a hard time making sense of your post. What do you mean with 'Japanese OSM maps'? There is just one OpenStreetMap, which includes Japan. On OpenStreetMap all entities which are named have at the very least the tag `name`.
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by Freak_NL 22d ago
This is despite the unfortunate and rude trend of payment devices now offering a big dickover screen filled with obscene tip suggestions first (25% in a fucking chain fastfood place?), because with the decline of cash the old way of roundin
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by Freak_NL 23d ago
No idea if this applies to the whole of the EU, but the government designated critters responsible for this in the Netherlands mention that business that ship less than 50 tons of packaging material, and don't use single-use plastics a
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by Freak_NL 23d ago
This is not a software issue (not directly). Sure, the software has a bug. Software does. Almost always. What is broken here is that it is possible to get stuck in an airport with no possibility of escalating sensibly to a chain of human be
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by Freak_NL 25d ago
> but I don't have time to read Keats. T.R. Napper explicitly states that you do in his piece: > But I am saying this: go look at your phone, and tell me what your average screen time is per day. Two hours? Five? Seven? If so – s
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by Freak_NL 25d ago
Your environment has a huge influence on your language, which is why the advice for anyone writing given here (read, read a lot) is not only sensible but indispensable. LLM tropes are one thing, but before those came along you could easily
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by Freak_NL 27d ago
David Brin who is an accomplished scifi author himself? Awesome (also because of dolphins in space).
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by Freak_NL 1mo ago
The page of my bank's website (ABN AMRO) which shows an account's transactions does this in the worst way. It all loads perfectly, it shows the transactions, I move to click on one or the button for a new transfer, and boom a me
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by Freak_NL 1mo ago
This tool uses OpenStreetMap data for the buildings and base layer. Unfortunately, it kind of hides that it is doing that, which sucks. Usually the required attribution is placed in a corner of the map. Shade Map has a little information-i
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by Freak_NL 1mo ago
> I'm not a Christian but I'm pretty sure I'd still need to deconsecrate a church before knocking it down What makes you think that? If you own it, it isn't a listed building, and zoning laws allow it, you can knock i
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by Freak_NL 2mo ago
Ah yes, conception. The magical moment a body gets 'ensouled'. Wanting to protect literal embryos is considered a rather extreme view outside of Gilead though.
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by Freak_NL 2mo ago
> That's clearly already a child and I will object. Not your body, not your choice. Late stage abortions in order to protect the live of the pregnant woman happen. Unviable pregnancies happen. You know what happens in countries wher
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by Freak_NL 2mo ago
In the Netherlands this boils down to the 'system banks' (the big ones like ING, ABN AMRO, Rabobank, etc.) which grudgingly offer hardware devices for people who won't or can't use a smartphone, and the neobanks (like Re
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by Freak_NL 2mo ago
> and many only support iDEAL Actually, look closer when you pay using Ideal (as we all do). You will notice that usually there are several payment methods, and these almost always include credit cards . The reason for this is not becau
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by Freak_NL 2mo ago
As an experiment this might be interesting to observe. I strongly suspect that a subset of the children will rapidly move to trying to harm the bot, just to see how and if it responds. Slather its face with lipstick? Stick pencils in its or
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by Freak_NL 2mo ago
> I miss seeing machines that would bend a 12oz can of soda for 25¢. Those were the days. A bending machine?
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by Freak_NL 2mo ago
> In some cases borders may overlap without making it an incorrect tagging. It may be result of agreement between countries to administer area together or to mark areas not controlled by any country, with both claiming it. Fun fact: when
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by Freak_NL 2mo ago
The basic sets are still there; look up the Lego Classic line. And for creativity at a good price the Creator 3in1 sets are gold. Don't be misled by all the franchised stuff (Star Wars, etc.). That stuff sells well and has its fanbase,
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by Freak_NL 2mo ago
LeoCAD is really nice and smooth to work with, and on Linux a much better experience than Lego's own Bricklink Studio. Unfortunately, for instructions you can't really get away from Studio, and while importing the model made in Le
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by Freak_NL 2mo ago
It's a skill, but it's not too hard to get decently good at it. It's mostly a matter of actually building your model in the real world and iteratively improving your digital model and instructions from there, and changing the

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