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by svl 4mo ago
This might be country specific? Specifically dependent on laws in the fields of consumer-protection and keeping things universally accessible. I don't own a smartphone. I have never owned a smartphone. There are inconveniences, and big
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by svl 8mo ago
FWIW, it's reported in Dutch news - https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/26/dertigduizend-doden-sla... - with reference to this time.com article - https://time.com/7357635/more-tha
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by svl 9mo ago
duckduckgo: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+configure+arducopter+g... Optionally with a custom CSS rule to block the starting video block: [data-layout="videos"]
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by svl 1y ago
Sadly they explicitly don't support that. :( > Now that there is a Steam Deck Native build, is Baldur’s Gate 3 supported on Linux? > Larian does not provide support for the Linux platform. The Steam Deck Native build is only supp
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by svl 2y ago
No discussion about roundabouts can be complete without a mention of the (mostly) Dutch "turbo roundabout", where the lane you take going into a multi-lane roundabout depends on where you want to exit, and you can't / ar
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by svl 2y ago
> I'm "pulling this from" the settings on my browser. When I look at the check box in preferences it's unchecked and greyed out. The setting being greyed out indicates that the entire functionality is disabled, and
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by svl 2y ago
Direct from the source: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/dutch-d... The full PDF with the investigation results e.a. as sent to clearview: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl&#
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by svl 2y ago
Source with detailed info: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/system/files?fi...
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by svl 3y ago
If you care to read deeper, including comments by many of the principal parties involved, there's no better place than https://file770.com/ (also linked to from this news article). It's hard to follow if you come
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by svl 3y ago
As others have said, between competing bids for who'd host Worldcon in 2023, China got the most votes (from registered fans at an earlier Worldcon). However, there was also controversy about this, as a very large number of those votes
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by svl 3y ago
Please note that Kevin Standlee is a good egg here, and was not involved with this iteration of the Hugo awards and everything which went wrong with it. His only fault was saying something impolitic at the wrong time, which people feared
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An eruption has begun north of Grindavík(ruv.is)
81 points by svl 3y ago|44 comments
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Binding Decision on processing personal data for behavioural advertising by Meta(edpb.europa.eu)
3 points by svl 3y ago|0 comments
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by svl 3y ago
browser.history.maxStateObjectSize and places.history.expiration.max_pages (both accessible through about:config) should be the settings to modify. Do a web search for those properties to get more information on how they interact.
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Designing Respectful Tech: What is your relationship with technology?(boxesandarrows.com)
1 points by svl 3y ago|0 comments
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Utrecht Builds Car-Free Neighbourhood(hedgehogcycling.co.uk)
1 points by svl 3y ago|0 comments
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by svl 4y ago
In Firefox you can set dom.event.contextmenu.enabled and dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false in about:config which will natively prevent most of this type of annoyance.
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by svl 4y ago
Luckily I don't see any "encouragement to use aria" on that page you linked to, as that - and particular your example - goes directly against the first rule of ARIA [1] (paraphrased: "only ever use ARIA if you can't
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by svl 4y ago
Personal information about yourself which you have to include on your website, and how to register it, depends on the laws of the country you reside in (e.g. Germany has strict requirements on this), so I can't say anything about that
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by svl 5y ago
gmusicbrowser (combined with Ex Falso for more extensive tagging) has replaced foobar2000 for me, and I _think_ that these days I like it even better than I ever liked foobar2000 - but maybe that's just the long years making my memorie
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by svl 5y ago
This is the normal procedure in the Netherlands as well, for I think all-but-one of the package delivery services. If you're not home, delivery goes to one of the neighbours (could be 5-6 houses away if the driver already knows that th
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by svl 5y ago
I'd say ~30M, rather than 50M. They explicitly call out the summer holidays effect above the first graph: "Generally, MAU fluctuates over the course of a year, dropping in the summer months and during holidays." So comparing
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Development Toys(shiningrocksoftware.com)
1 points by svl 6y ago|0 comments
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by svl 6y ago
Came to recommend the same one. My first one stopped working after a decade, now been on the second one for six years. (The "stopped working" thing is not ideal, but given the constant use, also not a dealbreaker for an electrical
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by svl 6y ago
Swimming and diving with orcas is not just regularly done, it's so common and safe that it's something which is offered as a guided tourist activity in Norway. (I personally know someone who went on such a trip.)
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Save and Load(shiningrocksoftware.com)
2 points by svl 6y ago|0 comments
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by svl 6y ago
The complexity in supporting CSS does not come (primarily) from its individual properties, no matter how obscure. It comes from things like margin collapse, from correctly determining the stacking context, and about a gazillion other things
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by svl 6y ago
Nicely done! We've been using a very similar setup at the Dutch public library for the last many years - e.g. https://www.bibliotheek.nl/catalogus/titel.263072924.html/th... - complete with thickness based on
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by svl 7y ago
Dutch media reported yesterday that this person (who had been in China and had dinner with the 38 year old "patient 1") still tested negative on a second test, so the search for the real patient zero continued.
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by svl 7y ago
A nice followup to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19121716 - Kenya Government mandates DNA-linked national ID, without data protection law - from last February.

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