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by iggldiggl 13d ago
> Always figure out all the apps I need to use local transport, to park, to charge the car, etc. In plenty of regions you also need special (often confusing) wallet apps to be able to pay for stuff without local bank accounts. And everyb
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by iggldiggl 13d ago
> The problem is not smartphones per se. They are very handy. They eliminate the need to carry a thick wallet full of physical ID cards, credit cards, membership/discount cards, etc. They help you if you are lost (who even gets lost
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by iggldiggl 13d ago
> Also the former national railway company decided to not build new crossings at all. At least partially that's actually the law as well – the default mode for new rail-road crossings is mandated to be grade-separation, with except
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by iggldiggl 16d ago
> without rooting being required If you want to use the standard port, that's only true as of very recently, though, see https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/218578943#comment17
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by iggldiggl 28d ago
Yeah, like for another example, I'd stumbled across some (probably somewhat obscure) blog/podcast series about Bob Dylan songs some time ago, but had forgotten to bookmark it. A few month later, I tried to find it again using the
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by iggldiggl 1mo ago
> And personally if it's more than 5 min of walking i would just look up the way to the station and then from the station separately with whatever modes i prefer Problem is when there's multiple stations nearby and which one ha
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by iggldiggl 1mo ago
Well, in my opinion Google Maps is terrible as an actual map anyway, it's more like some vaguely map-shaped thing that serves as a convenient geographical background for displaying POIs and directions on, but no so much use for actuall
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by iggldiggl 2mo ago
openBVE's not directly Japanese, it's an open-source re-implementation of the original BVE 2 and 4, which is.
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by iggldiggl 5mo ago
> This is what happens when the market for phone batteries only exists for OEMs who buy millions at a time, custom. Even a few years ago when phones with replaceable batteries weren't that rare and I was in possession of one – by th
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by iggldiggl 5mo ago
No indoor smoking makes a major difference, but there still are enough semi-stationary semi-close-up situations where smokers can be still rather annoying, e.g. outdoor seating in cafes and restaurants, popular lunch break spots in parks an
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by iggldiggl 5mo ago
Another crucial difference is that energy supply (as in selling energy to end users – physically providing electric energy to the grid on the other hand does require sufficient physical transport capacity in some ways) and internet access
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by iggldiggl 5mo ago
> or live closer to work Which means you also need to battle the housing problem, too, though, plus changes in settlement patterns take years to decades to manifest. In the meantime, you might have to weather quite some griping about it
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by iggldiggl 5mo ago
> Unused memory is wasted memory. 77% is basically caches + private process memory + shared memory. In simplified overviews, Windows counts file system caches (standby memory) as free (respectively available) memory, so if 77% of 32 GB i
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by iggldiggl 5mo ago
> The deep tube lines will all get variations on the 2024 stock I think that's a bit optimistic. Right now, the only thing that has confirmed orders is the replacement for the 1973 stock (Piccadilly line). The same order also has o
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by iggldiggl 5mo ago
> I've never actually seen 230 V, the supposed standard, in real life. I've just measured the voltage in a socket my home (Germany) and the multimeter says 231 V. (And it's nighttime, so no solar generation from houses in
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by iggldiggl 5mo ago
With Android that's definitely not the case. Supporting older phones might get harder over time because you can't use any new APIs introduced in more recent OS releases, respectively always have to provide some fallback code path,
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by iggldiggl 6mo ago
The other factor would be driving away potential users – even when giving away an app for free, some people might derive satisfaction from knowing that other people find it useful and are actually using it, too.
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by iggldiggl 6mo ago
> And every time a car makes a turn, pedestrians automatically have priority. Which creates an implicit zebra crossing. Only for turning traffic, though, i.e. as a pedestrian you still need to yield to traffic coming from the side stre
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by iggldiggl 6mo ago
Also if your software for whatever reasons is using the original libjpeg in its modern (post classic version 6b) incarnation [1], right from version 7 onwards the new (and still current) maintainer switched the algorithm for chroma up-&#x2F
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by iggldiggl 6mo ago
I poked at the app, which surprisingly enough isn't even obfuscated, and as far as I can tell, it's mainly relying on Play Integrity's verdict. I didn't investigate it in detail though, so I don't know absolutely su
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by iggldiggl 6mo ago
Sarcasm aside, it depends on whether your employer has configured Entra to allow classic TOTP (in which case Microsoft will try to push its own app as the default option, but you can in fact use anything that supports TOTP if you insist), r
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by iggldiggl 6mo ago
> That is an issue with the capabilities the os exposes to you. The answer to every security issue not "add a backdoor". Problem is, I strongly suspect we'd still be having the same discussion even if we were talking about
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by iggldiggl 7mo ago
Also time references in stories would become much more cumbersome, and never mind how you'd handle fictional locations…
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by iggldiggl 7mo ago
If you can read German, somebody also wrote a whole dissertation on the subject of the CD's development history: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/95066
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by iggldiggl 7mo ago
A transcript for a half-hour radio comedy show with some formatting takes up about 60 kB. The English Wikipedia page for Monty Python is about 130 kB in pure UTF-8 text and the actual HTML page takes up around around 660 kB (plus/minus
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by iggldiggl 7mo ago
I think Apple's implementation in macOS is the only one that offers some slightly more advanced features, but even those don't get you that far (Some sort of way to store permission references with relatives paths in a file, but w
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by iggldiggl 7mo ago
> What most of these people do not seem to get is that proper sandboxing does not only protect against attacks from the inside (rogue developer, supply chain attack), but also from the outside. The problem is that strict file system sand
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by iggldiggl 7mo ago
See https://www.thecontactpatch.com/ for some interesting reading material related to that.
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by iggldiggl 8mo ago
Those are for the opposite problem – detecting defective trains (overweight respectively otherwise faulty weight distribution as well as wheel flats).
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by iggldiggl 8mo ago
> I vaguely recall it not being compatible with either 25kV electrification or high-speed rail in general, and most modern tracks therefore using axle counters instead. Track circuits aren't incompatible with that per se, but axle c

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