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mongrelion··on Swedish data brokers claim journalists' legal protection to evade EU law
I don't know if this is going to help you answer your questions but here is some background information: 1. In Sweden you must be registered at an address for all purposes (taxes, health care, official communications, etc.). 2. On websites like MrKoll's, all you need is a phone number to find someone's home address (you can also find someone's phone number using their home address).

Based on these two facts, all the bomber planning the attack needs is a phone number to find out the address. If the victim is using a burner phone (which, by the way, have become illegal in Sweden since 2023, now all "kontantkort" or anonymous simcards can't be anonymous, they have to be registered to someone's name, and you can only do that with a valid ID), they can otherwise target one of their family members.

> Where is the evidence that the bombers used a data broker to find their target

The writing is on the wall. This is a free service. Why wouldn't they?

> removing this information from the public would have changed anything?

The problem is that these companies (like MrKoll there are others) are abusing the media license they have been granted, not only violating rights that have been well established in the EU (which Sweden is a part of) but also they are making an already vulnerable population even more vulnerable.

Grandmas and Granpas are being targeted by scammers with all sorts of schemes, and where do they get phone numbers and also a quick profile of the target? via these websites.

So yeah, removing this information from the public would change something, perhaps not necessarily to the gang wars, but for sure for the safety of the public in general (gang family members would be harder to find).

mongrelion··on Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
I remember when this happened.

I tried googling a bit but I couldn't find quickly enough an article that mentions Rhapsody, the streaming service, as the other party in the trademark dispute.

However, I do remember the whole thing when it happened because I had just discovered the band.

Feels like ages ago

mongrelion··on Deno in 2023
Slightly off topic but I just came here to show appreciation for the hang glider in the picture.

Shout out to all my fellow hang gliders.

mongrelion··on The current state of OpenTelemetry
I believe right now this type of telemetry data is for whitebox monitoring for backend components
mongrelion··on Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths
I ride electric unicycles and I have a question about these OneWheels: when you are rolling, the wheel self balances, right? And when you are reaching the power limitations of the board, does it let you know of this in any way? The EUC will either tiltback (the wheel will literally stop you from leaning even more, so you are forced to lean man) or it will beep very loudly for several seconds, before it finally cuts off either because you fried the board or because the wheel is protecting itself.
mongrelion··on Gandi.net – Pricing Update
You are right. My timeline is off. That doesn't make me any less angry, though.
mongrelion··on Gandi.net – Pricing Update
Agrgrgr I'm angry. Gandi got recently bought and people were saying that it was just a matter of time before they would pull something like this. Your predictions were right and I hate that I'm in this position now.

I'm reading the messages of people saying that they had paid for their domains like 10 years in advance but they are going to have to start paying for their mailboxes, which is a breach of contract.

These people are just pieces of shit.

Fuck you, Gandi.net

mongrelion··on Gandi.net – Pricing Update
Great to see you guys here. I have been considering moving my mailbox to Tutanota but last time I checked it was not possible to import emails. What's the progress on that?
mongrelion··on The brand new Thunderbird logo
That is kind of correct. There hasn't been a Thunderbird Android client, really. Since last year [1], K-9 became under the umbrella of Thunderbird. But before it was a completely separare and independent project that had nothing to do with Thunderbird.

[1] https://k9mail.app/2022/06/13/K-9-Mail-and-Thunderbird.html

mongrelion··on The brand new Thunderbird logo
> Everything and everybody wants to look angry and dangerous.

> I think it looks shit

> And that's not a good thing.

mongrelion··on Enola: Hunt down social media accounts by username
That's the one. Thanks! It's definitely better than the OP link because maigret will also look for linked accounts, so it's definitely smarter.
mongrelion··on Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
I see that a lot of us rely heavily on the 2x free mail addresses we got per domain.

Is it an idea to join efforts & money and rent a VPS from Hetzner and run our own mail server?

mongrelion··on Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles
> I'd rather people treat plane flights as a rare luxury rather than a routine thing.

Trains would definitely be key here. However, for migrants living in another continent, it becomes impossible in several scenarios to go back to visit their beloved ones.

mongrelion··on Enola: Hunt down social media accounts by username
I remember a while ago a similar tool was posted but that one could also derivate similar accounts if any of the originally found accounts had an email exposed or something.

Does anybody know which one I'm talking about? My Google-fu is failing me

mongrelion··on What modern utilities should be a standard part of a modern unixy distro?
If you like htop you'd appreciate btop as well
mongrelion··on Photoprism – open-source Google Photos Alternative
For me this almost completes the use case. The only sad part is that there is no 2-way sync for the mobile apps. It's a 1-way sync, where pics on your phone get pushed to the server but whenever you delete them from your phone, they stay in the server, effectively making you do double clean up. Ain't nobody got time for that.
mongrelion··on How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
Thank you for this. I have been having some issues recently with one of my servers and my solution was to increase the size of the tmp mount but that's basically a Russian roulette.

Enabling swap during the update sounds like an elegant solution.

mongrelion··on Fulcrum: an ergo-mechanical split keyboard with extra thumb functionality
There are plenty of people in the 2nd hand market parting ways with their dream of ergo and mech
mongrelion··on Fulcrum: an ergo-mechanical split keyboard with extra thumb functionality
I have a keyboard with thumb clusters as well and more than micro-optimizations I see it as iterations until you find something that really suits your style :)
mongrelion··on KDE beats macOS
I understand where the author is coming from but after going through the list of complaints it became obvious that they haven't fully read the manual as a few of the things that they say is lacking is simply not true.

The rest of the points go about design choices and decisions made by Apple, which is fair enough: some opinions you will agree with. Some others you won't. And that's ok.

mongrelion··on All companies are fucked up
Yeah, good job. Going from white to yellow I can kind of believe because of dirty hands and stuff. Kind of far fetched but I could buy it. But from that to orange to red to black just from dirty hands (especially red you would expect from the blood of your enemies) is just bs.
mongrelion··on Tesla stock hits 2-year low after Musk sells $4B worth of shares
https://archive.ph/mi3dn
mongrelion··on Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
Congratulations. It seems like your project is well received in the community.

Could you elaborate on how this differs from gotify?

mongrelion··on Do I need to worry about my privacy if I were to buy a WiFi Mesh router kit?
Sorry that I can't comment much on the whole mesh part but as a side note you might want to look into setting up pihole in your home network (no raspberry pi required). On your main router, deny all outgoing DNS requests and only allow those coming from the node you have pihole running. In that way you can track which of your devices is phoning back home and block accordingly
mongrelion··on An early disruption event is starting for the Polar Vortex
I saw zero ads on my phone thanks to running pihole at home
mongrelion··on Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?
Unpopular opinion: this goes to show that you don't need no fancy microservices, distributed, asynchronous, highly available architecture to build a product that "generates more than 20 million dollars a year of revenue". No unikernels. No Kubernetes. Non of that cloud native mumbo-jumbo.
mongrelion··on Show HN: Knockles – eBPF Port Knocking Tool
Apart from what others have mentioned already,the whole point of BPF is to replace iptables.
mongrelion··on Introducing multitasking to Arduino
Very interesting projects.

Looking at the documentation and Github pages it's not very clear if ATmel, the microcontroller family for Arduino, is supported at all or not.

Do you have a link where this is validated?

mongrelion··on Appetite for Destruction: Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation
I understand where the confusion is coming from: that Columbus thought that he had arrived in India and so named the natives "Indians" but it's been long established that this was a terrible mistake and that the peoples from the Americas were, in fact, not Indians but rather Native Americas. They were not brought from India. They were already established here. So it's incorrect to call them American Indians. It's just plain offensive these days to call them so.

Don't take my word for it, though. Just ask any "American Indian" which term they prefer and you'll find your answer quickly.

mongrelion··on Appetite for Destruction: Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation
Two things:

1. I think a much appropriate term to use here is Native American instead of American Indians.

2. I disagree with your statement "the reason why the Europeans became dominant was mostly luck and genetics". I do agree that the disease brought by the Europeans played a very important role in the whole colonization effort but mostly it was violence the main driver. Saying otherwise is just downplaying the genocide.

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