matips

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by matips 3mo ago
You could buy property and sell it later. Of course it is not a solution to current situation when real estate are very expensive, but in theoretical discussion where real estates are affordable you can buy it and sell when you move.
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by matips 3mo ago
In Poland legal guardians are responsible for neglects in guarding child. What is "proper custody" depends on child age. Parent cannot close child in basement, it is expected for child to have freedom appropriate to is age. I doub
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by matips 4mo ago
The way how corporations like Meta implemented modern social medias filter information as well. It does it in a different way than TV, but personalized information bubbles are important arguments again using "social" medias.
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by matips 7mo ago
Poland? I live in Cracow and have same experience.
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by matips 7mo ago
Considering all forms of sharing information as freedom, USA have huge problem with copyrights. Copyright limits people right to speech to protect interest of corporations, same as ban of stalking or slanders limits freedom of speech to pro
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by matips 7mo ago
I hope that Discord, Twitch and Snapchat will die soon after introducing verification of adult persons. I hope it will be replace by more open and privacy respecting services.
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by matips 10mo ago
Actually Visa and MasterCard used their position to influence on business like Steam or Pornhub.
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by matips 10mo ago
I am thinking of cancelling my Spotify Premium subscription because they introduce extra paid channels on top on paid Premium subscription.
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by matips 10mo ago
Corporations care primarily about their position relative to other corporations; you and piracy is not concerns for them. Disney, Warner Bross and similar media corporations fears monopoly of Netflix. You cannot harm them thru piracy, Netf
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by matips 10mo ago
You always pay for piracy or it is bad experience. You have to pay in your resources (private torrent trackers) or in cash (derbit, usenet). Alternatively you use unstable and low quality stream. Because of philosophy I prefer sharing resou
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by matips 1y ago
I doubt we will see IPv6-only ISPs. Such provider will have to face complaints that some part of Internet is not working correctly. It can be written it in the offer, but for not technical people some services will be broken by ISP. It is c
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by matips 1y ago
Yes, you should own your data and do not trust companies. There are a lot o cases when SaS companies used their position to squeeze money from customers. If they are allow do do so, they also be used by their governments to push on other go
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by matips 1y ago
Work as design. Ali Khamenei is YOUR, not USA leader. His confrontation politic is done in behalf of YOU and he mange YOUR efforts and resources (ex. taxes). If you want to work with democratic country your country have to change Iran polit
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by matips 1y ago
In Poland it is much cheaper, but it is slow or even slower.
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by matips 2y ago
> "Olympians" representing their countries. Yes, but people connected to Olympic want to be independent from governments. In some way Olympians Games are private tournaments which are sponsored by host countries. It is funny th
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by matips 2y ago
>But the headline number is somewhat irrelevant. 300m sent to Finland is "gone forever". You can make a deal that US buy icebreaker for 300M from Finland and Finns buy weapons from US for 300M. They need it because of Russia an
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by matips 2y ago
People love things. It is easy to say "consume less", it even easer if you add "and work less". It ease to give up something you recognize as a luxury: we can skip exotic holidays, use public transport, eat less meat, m
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by matips 3y ago
EEA is UE + few other countries.
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by matips 4y ago
I think it is result of labour protection law - just symmetrical. In Poland there is same notice period for employee and employer (up to 3 months). In Poland it is popular - especially in IT - to sign B2B contract which do not have such res
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by matips 4y ago
Interesting, I did not know that internet payments are so expensive. In Poland (UE) max interchange is 0,3%. Blue Media (Polish payment gate) cost 1,19%. 1.9%-3,25% + €0.25 looks expensive.
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by matips 4y ago
Sometimes cookies are used as they were designed - to store data in browser. For example 5etools-mirror-1.github.io. App without cloud storage or user account system. It stores your shortcuts in YOUR cookies, not in the server's DB.
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by matips 5y ago
I tried Jellyfin as Plex alternative, but Android App is bugged or under development: not all codecs are supported, HDR is not implemented.
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by matips 5y ago
Exactly: it shows how lack of backward compatibility slows technology adoption. 25 years after IPv6 there is still no benefit for ISP from using it. They still needs IPv4 address (and NAT, DHCP etc.) - IPv6 do not resolve problem of limited
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by matips 5y ago
Main problem with IPv6 is lack of backward compatibility. You cannot "just use IPv6". If you accessing Internet you still needs to obtain IPv4 address and setup NAT if needed. Then optionally you can setup IPv6. Internet connectio