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by _abox 4y ago
GDPR didn't enforce cookie banners. Sites can simply not track if they actually care about their users. If they don't track they don't need to ask for anything. And a lot of these dark pattern cookie banners are not GDPR comp
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by _abox 4y ago
Even with the link it makes no sense to route Ukrainian traffic all the way back to the US. All they'll do is route to the nearest downlink. Otherwise the intra-sat connections will become a bottleneck, not to mention the added latency
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by _abox 4y ago
> This is how I feel about all the bold circumvention of paywalls. It’s a legally fuzzy area in some cases, but to me at least, it is basically people saying, “here, let me help you steal!” The problem exists because these companies want
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by _abox 4y ago
Thanks!! I donate to FreeBSD too, and it even runs my daily desktop. Thanks to people like you who keep it funded.
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by _abox 4y ago
> If you advert suggests you are about to go under, but in reality you are spending money left right and center on various other charities, with only vaguely related mission statements, then you are taking advantage of the god will of yo
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by _abox 4y ago
As hardware owner I disagree. Both personally and as part of the management team of 150.000 computers at work, we don't use this stuff there either.
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by _abox 4y ago
> But who cares? Why not just let the command figure out the right buffer size automatically? Well, because it doesn't. At least on the Linux version I used in the past, it defaulted to 512 byte blocks or something similarly small a
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by _abox 4y ago
Yeah it surprises me that 10 euros seems to be the minimum for pretty much every online service now. For 10 euro you can get Netflix, Spotify. My Ring security subscription is also a tenner. Pretty much everything that has a subscription mo
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by _abox 4y ago
Nice!! I hope it will go to the production version soon too. I would really like to use bypass-paywalls but without this it doesn't work.
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by _abox 4y ago
But the fediverse doesn't use any algorithms, it just shows you what/who you subscribe to. This is the way social media should be. If I don't want to see something or someone I can just block them. It's only gone downhil
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by _abox 4y ago
The Microserver G10 Plus is not too bad. Replaceable CPU, iLO option, half the size of the G8 (though external power brick) The regular G10 one is pretty useless obviously. Soldered AMD CPU, cheap design etc. No iLO. It's more of a hom
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by _abox 4y ago
The problem with faulty memory (that could go bad after purchasing) is not knowing about it. ECC doesn't always protect you (it can only fix one bit flip, not more), but at least you will know the memory is bad. You will not keep wor
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by _abox 4y ago
They've done it to my employer. I won't go on the record but it's definitely happening.
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by _abox 4y ago
> France and the netherlands have good roads and yet they dont constantly have to maintain them. Yes they do. In the Netherlands there's a lot of maintenance going on. Once on a trip to my workplace at the time (75km away) I counted
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by _abox 4y ago
For security and theft prevention yes. For market research no. The purpose is very important (which is why it's so key in legislation like GDPR)
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by _abox 4y ago
What's so bad about KDE? I think both Gnome and KDE are pretty good but Gnome's design decisions and philosophy don't match my preferences.
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by _abox 4y ago
Well, if you use gnome/GTK apps, of course it uses gnome-keyring. If you use Qt apps, it will use KDE's keyring. This is simply caused by the lack of standardisation in such elements of Linux desktop environments. I tend to use mo
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by _abox 4y ago
> If a Frenchman doesn't like French laws he can move to Germany and haul all his stuff there (and his pension, etc). A bit offtopic but this is still something I find very lacking in the EU. For all the good it's brought us, w
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by _abox 4y ago
Climate change is far from the only environmental problem have. Sure, it's the biggest but also the biggest to solve. And the EU has had a consistent push to solve it, unlike the US, which for instance during the Trump era pulled out o
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by _abox 4y ago
> A political organization like EU has no say in this. EU citizens already make this decision for themselves by voting with money and choosing to buy/not buy an iPhone. I think it's important to point out that most EU countries
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by _abox 4y ago
Jeff is always a raspberry foundation supporter. I do feel a bit more pushback is needed. The other companies he mentions like Apple and Nvidia have shown considerable improvement in recent months. The raspberry is only ever harder to get
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by _abox 4y ago
The Sony Z4 tablet with keyboard dock is great. I've fixed mine several times to keep it going. The dock is a hard plastic laptop-style affair that is perfect to use on a lap. The tablet itself is much thinner than current ipads and wa
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by _abox 4y ago
> In addition to that, if you have a high-DPI laptop display and you want to plug it into a low-DPI desktop monitor (or vice-versa), good luck getting the scaling to work in a usable way. Sure? This is exactly the thing that Wayland was
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by _abox 4y ago
I kinda come here because it doesn't have this :) But this is the good thing about it, people can extend it as they wish.
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by _abox 4y ago
> What the VCs have to understand is that if their greed makes them push Bitwarden to engage in silly tactics, they risk driving away their customer base. They don't care as long as they can extract their profit before that happens.
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by _abox 4y ago
The alternative would be a proper electron app. MS can do it. Look at VS Code. It's strange how they make some of the very best electron apps and also some of the worst (teams sucks on windows and Mac too and I don't see how their
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by _abox 4y ago
They're not. They're basically giving up and pointing to the web app that has always existed.
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by _abox 4y ago
Indeed, I'm in the EU myself and I've seen several instances of "this site is not available to you due to GDPR". I'm sure sites that are not specifically targeting the US will consider this too if it becomes too muc
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by _abox 4y ago
In 2G GSM there was this limit, because GSM used very strictly managed timeslots for each call. If a phone was too far away, its signal would arrive out of bounds of the timeslot and this was the reason. The protocol didn't have any
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by _abox 4y ago
Yum yeah... That's the one I miss! I always wondered how they get the eggs so round but one time I saw them make them.. They fry the egg on the burger plate but in a metal ring. Cool idea.

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