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SirQuackTheDuck ,

The former, unfortunately.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

“you’ve seen our war crimes, now you’re no longer welcome here”

As if you’d go be a tourist in a country, just after you’ve seen solders of said country commit, or politicians and citizens actively defend war crimes. Plenty of pretty cool other things to see.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

The EU is could very much send them right back where they came from, but they don’t

That’s only for the war refugees. Sending people back to, say, Eritrea, would mean they’d be executed for leaving the country (which is illegal there).

Those only represent a tiny fraction of the immigrants though, and they’re not the ones “taking all the jobs”, that’s the worker immigrants.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

For DNS and DDoS protection that wouldn’t directly be an issue.

For caching it would be breaking. You cannot cache what you cannot read (encrypted traffic can only be cached by the decrypting party).

SirQuackTheDuck ,

⚠ NSFL

SirQuackTheDuck ,

The ICC in The Hague will probably bar tha- what? they don’t recognise that court? Oh well.

Good luck over there.

How do I setup my own FOSS shopping website for my business?

Hello, I don’t have much experience in self-hosting, I’m buying a ProtonVPN subscription and would like to port forward. I have like no experience in self-hosting but a good amount in Linux. I’m planning on using Proxmox VE with a YunoHost VM. I already have a domain name from Njalla. I’m setting up a website for my...

SirQuackTheDuck ,

You can’t get around JavaScript, it’s impossible to build a functioning online store without some kind of JS.

Well, sure you can. It will just be a pain to use for your users, especially when validation comes into play.

But a simple list with an “add to chart” button really won’t need any javascript.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

You don’t have to be PCI compliant for stuff like bank transfers or other forms of payment. Credit cards aren’t the default payment method everywhere.

Maybe it’s pay on pickup, or just a simple mail with sepa wire transfer instructions.

Also, the PSP can still use JS but your site still doesn’t need to have it. Services like Mollie and Stripe offer checkout environments they host, meaning you still don’t have to use JS on your site.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Learning about different cultures is part of that cultures agenda!!!one!

Not like that “Christian university” won’t have an agenda of their own

SirQuackTheDuck ,

You don’t. They’re usually posting awareness campaigns that link to government sites.

I’ve opted the example to elsewhere, but they’d be like “bought a house? Find out how the taxes work on (link)”

SirQuackTheDuck ,

The posts aren’t constraining the information though. They’re effectively advertisements linking to the information (advertising they have info for you to read).

The information itself is public and freely accessible.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Nah, more like deleting explorer.exe.

There’s isn’t really a Windows equivalent for this, as Windows doesn’t give you control on this level.

It’d be as if you could delete services.msc but also the runner behind it.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Smaller? We’ll just have to re-annex some stubborn province to the south then. We don’t do smaller.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

The humour is in the sweet releasing embrace of death

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Bread!

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Kelvin: Zero is the freezing point.
Scientists: Of what?
Kelvin: Yes.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

the worst are the black and one always looking for troubles

BLACK AND WHAT!?

fine. keep your secrets.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

No, the title is subjective. It would be something like “court upholds fine”, nof “not hear out a party” since there’s often no room for a defence.

Highest courts are usually acting upon a “this judgement is faulty, because they didn’t allow x” or “… didn’t consider y”. Not “… they disagreed with my opinion”.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Nah, you’ve seen NPCs do this.

It sounds like this: youtu.be/_GGfz-o5khc

SirQuackTheDuck ,

If it were chmod 1777 it would be your mom after everyone had had their fun.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

I work as a bartender in a live music venue in the Netherlands.

We, just like most festivals, used to always remove the caps from the water bottles, citing safety concerns (people would drop the bottle when empty but put the cap on, which is a nasty tripping hazard).

So a company started to make bottlecaps that clip to your pants, and most water vendors used a single size opening, which made this feasible. People held on to their cap, and could pause drinking.

Then water companies started to attach the cap to the bottle, to prevent litter, and the government issuing a mandate requiring us to charge per plastic unit.

So now we leave the caps on, but as guests return about 95% of bottles and cups to the bar (buying a drink without having a cup adds a 1 eur plastic surcharge), the safety hazard is basically gone.

As a bartender, I’d very much prefer bottles of water to cans. It allows guests to drink at their leasure, they’re easier to transport and can’t cause as much harm as a can (either by throwing or when squeezing it).

They are slightly visually less appealing than a cool can though, I’ll give them that.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

The latter is still done by old code and outdated management that thinks disabling the clipboard is “more secure”. It’s fucking infuriating.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

tar -extract -any -file is easier, auto detect the compression based on filename.

Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles (www.polygon.com)

Warner Bros. Discovery is telling developers it plans to start “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon. At least three games are under threat of being removed from Steam and other digital stores, with the fate of other games published by Adult Swim...

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Well, since you retain a license to the content until you or valve closes your account, you should be covered.

According to their own personal Steam Subscriber Agreement, you only forfit licenses when you end your subscription (like EA Play) or when the main service contract ends (close your account).

Although they may try, but then you can still sue for breach of contract.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

I used to have this enormous dev folder of projects. Some with git, some before I knew what it was.

I clinged and backed it up like crazy, until I actually looked at what was contained (spoiler: horrid code). Then I just got used to burning some old code. Now I’m often distracted by stuff like docker, kubernetes and that stuff

It’s fun though, I’ve grown a bunch. but the setup sometimes does overscale badly

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Give 'em that sweet 4% global revenue fine after their IPO goes through would be a blast.

Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative... (www.bloomberg.com)

Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative…::The Boring Company’s tiny Las Vegas Loop is all that’s come of Musk’s promises to build superfast mass-transit...

SirQuackTheDuck ,

that’s what I call innovation

Well, yeah, but both maglev and vacuum are high maintenance. Doing both seems like asking for constant downtime due to failures.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

When I downloaded The Last Of Us it would shoot to 4-5 and get stuck there. Meanwhile, I downloaded Madagascar on a random Monday and a week or so later that thing is at 36.0.

It’s totally random.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Those are very common in the Dutch supermarkets. There are no dumb weighing systems though, so if you scan on the go you can pack it while shopping.

The Albert Heijn uses an optional loyalty card that can be used to exit without a receipt (just scan the same loyalty card).

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Asking a staff member to open the gate for you?

SirQuackTheDuck ,

It’s not a border patrol style 4m tall metal gate. It’s something you push open in case of fire.

They look like one of these. Meant to deter, not block.

supermarket gate, about 20cm tall gate at hip height

Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)

Remember when Spez said it was “It’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company”? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit’s profitability right b…::undefined

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Unless he pumps and dumps them, selling them after the IPO

SirQuackTheDuck ,

creditors would do their due diligence and try to assert that you would be able to pay back your loans by doing many of the same things they do now.

In the Netherlands this would boil down to:

  • proof of employment (pay check and statement from your boss)
  • summary of outstanding debts

That’s it. The BKR system only tells you any outstanding debts (such as a car or phone to pay off) or if you stil owe significant money to debtors. It doesn’t tell you how long you’ve been a good citizen.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

The key to a successful marriage

SirQuackTheDuck , (edited )

Maybe that SkyShowtime - being inspired by the likes of of Netflix and Amazon Prime - announced it’ll be raising prices and adding an ad-powered “cheaper” tier.

Streaming services have become what cable was all those years ago: ad-powered, overpriced, low quality entertainment.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

This is Windows 11 though

SirQuackTheDuck ,

PoopDrone™

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Yes, that was Blackbird Technologies in 2019 (it’s mentioned in the article).

SirQuackTheDuck ,

This is just the machine learning-powered pattern recognition we’ve had for at least a decade now.

AI has become an umbrella term, but this isn’t new tech.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

doesn’t show up somewhere

Oh look, it’s a scheme.
You’re 99.5% sure getting screwed over

SirQuackTheDuck ,

I disagree

very upsetting (lemmy.ml)

captiona screenshot of the text: > Tech companies argued in comments on the website that the way their models ingested creative content was innovative and legal. The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has several investments in A.I. start-ups, warned in its comments that any slowdown for A.I. companies in consuming...

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Not just the output. One could construct that training your model on GPL content which would have it create GPL content means that the model itself is now also GPL.

It’s why my company calls GPL parasitic, use it once and it’s everywhere.

This is something I consider to be one of the main benefits of this license.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Yes, now gimme that brain of yours. My comment was GPL too.

Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany (alexwlchan.net)

Some version of this has been floating around the Internet since 2007, probably earlier. This tweet is pretty emblematic of posts about this claim: it’s stated as pure fact, with no supporting evidence or explanation. We’re meant to just accept that a single PDF can only cover about half the area of Germany, and we’re not...

SirQuackTheDuck ,

There’s probably an emacs plugin for that.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Sarcasm.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Ehh, in the Netherlands you need to report all bank accounts, home value, income from salary and contracts and a fuckton more.

It’s all done via a web app made by the Tax Authority.

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Ahh, the Lord of the Rims

SirQuackTheDuck ,

Ah, a fellow user of the Kitchen Gun? Good to meet you

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