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Haemm0r··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
The swiss-made Red Bull is exclusively for non-EU markets. It is a customs/cheap water/nearby headquarters thing. A lot of Red Bull is made in Austria too.
Haemm0r··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
High gas prices are not a thing anymore: It is about EU average: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/bookmark/bef444e2-...

Interesting fact when looking at the data: Many countries with a "high" inflation right now have very low gas prices.

Haemm0r··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
Don't think so. The storage capacities in Austria are rather big compared to other countries. In contrast to last year the gas storage facilities are already filled to the brim.

Europe wide gas storage information: https://agsi.gie.eu/#/

Ownership information for gas stored in for Austria: https://www.e-control.at/gas/gasmarkt/speicher/speicherstaen...

Haemm0r··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
The situation in Austria is fundamentally different than in Hungary. In Hungary the government kept prices of energy and food down by law for quite some time when everywhere else prices where rising. What they see now is the catch-up effect after those restrictions fell. I actually do not know what is the reason why the Austrian inflation is still that high. Energy prices as are like before covid, but food prices keep climbing. Maybe because the largest retailers Billa and Spar have almost 70% of the total market share they can do what they want (with the clients and the producers) I guess we also have to wait for one or two years that real estate/rent prices start going down for real (real estate prices are almost stagnating now, but rents are still rising). That may have a real impact on inflation.
Haemm0r··on A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm
Really GPS on the device or just tower trangulation data? Is there information availae on how this works? In Austria emergency services can not access GPS directly afaik.
Haemm0r··on Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices
Am I getting old if for me Trillian is an instant-messaging app? 0o
Haemm0r··on WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
Quite sure he is. Usually All-In contracts don't log their time in Austria.
Haemm0r··on Government should incentivize high performance home builders
@ Blower Door Test: As it may be an indicator it is not a real measurement for insulation or energy demand of a building.

For a compareable result an analysis of the wall and roof structure (structure and surface area) and the corresponsing transmission factors has to be done.

Haemm0r··on Cloak: Censorship Circumvention Tool
I really like the tool; I use it on my devices when I'm abroad. It worked very well in China (2019) with a Japan based VPS. The peering China-Japan-Europe is much better than China-Europe btw.

First time I could not connect successfully from a public Wifi to my server was Qatar airport this summer... Maybe they work with whitelists for access control.

Haemm0r··on Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
The feature is the reason why it is easy to convert older people to use signal: You can keep your SMS workflow and have only one messaging app...
Haemm0r··on Integrating with Fastmail
Is there a service like fastmail with pw-encrypted inbox like posteo.de (not pgp based like mailbox.org), bulk mail import/export, custom domain and imap support (as in: no special app required unlike protonmail/tutanota)?

Thx.

Haemm0r··on Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum
XP is very common on airports in China too.
Haemm0r··on Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data
Selling data? ... straight to jail! ;-)
Haemm0r··on Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA bulk collection
so everything that should not show up later will be put as "nuclear secret": e.g. bulk collection of telephone data for nuclear safety, financial data bulk collection for nucear safety, etc. ;-)
Haemm0r··on Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (2015)
Similar story: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datenklo

Assembly instructions: "And now never ever connect pin x and pin y, because then you'd have a working modem, which would be illigal...

Haemm0r··on The next big Wi-Fi standard is for sensing, not communication (2021)
+1

As many APs today are already cloud dependent I can totally see where all the sensed data will be stored and out of the owners control.

Haemm0r··on Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year
Can confirm this as an Austrian ;-)
Haemm0r··on We will be retiring Alexa.com
It's not dumb, it is a strategy.
Haemm0r··on We will be retiring Alexa.com
Amazon is going to buy the domain for sure. :-)
Haemm0r··on When is the revolution in architecture coming?
The way I see it, in Central Europe the reason for a flat roof on a single family home is mostly cost advantage (on short sight) or architectural.

Someone said: There are two types of flat roofs: Those that are leaky and those that are not leaky yet.

Haemm0r··on Nitrogen fertilizer shortage threatens to cut global crop yields – CF Industries
.. or killing the ability of the plants of reproducing itself for profit.
Haemm0r··on The IBM 4020 Military Computer – Tracking Missiles with 6-Bit Bytes
The aricle deals more with the 6-Bit Byte than the missile tracking.
Haemm0r··on L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source
About the same time as the oxid.it (page is not the original anymore) tools..
Haemm0r··on California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures
Nuclear is heavily subsidized itself. Without guaranteed prices for energy for decades nuclear plants would be far less attractive to build.
Haemm0r··on How great is the great firewall? Measuring China’s DNS censorship [pdf]
Selfhosted v2ray and shadowsocks with cloak addon were reliable in 2019.

Japan VPS location worked ok to access European sites, much better than Hongkong based, but I guess thats the peering.

https://www.v2ray.com/en/ https://github.com/cbeuw/Cloak

Haemm0r··on Tribler: Search and download torrents with less worries or censorship
Currently no webinterface is available.
Haemm0r··on Tribler: Search and download torrents with less worries or censorship
Seeding is anonymous by default afaik.

However the integrated search is not,so your ISP could know what you are searching for.

So you would need to get your magnetlinks over e.g. TOR an add them manually to stay anonymous.

Haemm0r··on Google classroom and Google docs can not be used when YouTube is blocked
Similar happened to me when accessing maps.google.com: I was redirected to consent.youtube.com for the privacy statement.
Haemm0r··on World’s Largest Solar-Powered Battery Is Now 75% Complete
After reading the headlines I question myself: What is the eqivalent in bathtubs filled with iPhones?

But still an interesting project..

Haemm0r··on T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach
Ah, can't wait for data leaks from that database ;-)
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