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precommunicator··on I Became a Citizen of Japan
I'm pretty sure this is more data than what's required for security clearance.
precommunicator··on StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
you can revert immediately in bottom left corner of StreetComplete, click on little revert arrow
precommunicator··on Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets
My favorite thing when travelling across Europe is visiting local Lidl and comparing it to my own home Lidl. There is always something slightly different, but the base is most often the same.

For example in Belgrade they didn't have kaiser rolls in Lidl. That's a first for me.

precommunicator··on New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain
my experience with border control in Gibraltar (foreign car, 2023):

entering: Spanish side: passport scan, UK side: 5 second look

exiting: waving through

precommunicator··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
I have a Samsung Galaxy from 2022 that has exactly that and it's still supported by manufacturer. Unfortunately it's a Samsung Galaxy Tab Active4 Pro.
precommunicator··on Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers
They say:

> We might modify your laptop to remove or power down the battery

precommunicator··on Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers
Who says anything about e-mail? Government could legislate specific government electronic inboxes, with e-mail and SMS notifications of delivery, as has been happening in several, if not all EU countries.

I haven't got a snail mail from my government for years at this point, nor did I needed to send one that way.

precommunicator··on We asked 15k European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI [pdf]
in question

> How much do AI tools improve your productivity at work?

there is no 0-10% range

precommunicator··on HTTP Cats
I always post a cat from it whenever I need to specify a response code in an issue ;)
precommunicator··on HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
you can type "thisisunsafe" on HSTS error page to bypass
precommunicator··on Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
there is the e164.arpa domain, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping
precommunicator··on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
Random passers by towed me out of a ditch in Norway, once in summer, once in winter.
precommunicator··on RFK Jr.'s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism
I highly recommend this deep dive, with some entertainment value: Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response [1]. It shows how absurd those claims are

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc

precommunicator··on A down detector for down detector's down detector
No, it's just one layer deeper.
precommunicator··on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change
Sometimes while traveling I just watch movies on my laptop, I don't even bother to connect to Wi-Fi as there is simply no need. I wonder how Windows 11 would even work without internet, and probably it's not a bad assumption that it will refuse after a while.

Anyway, just wiped W10 out of this laptop and installed KDE (underlying distro doesn't matter that much), it works amazing.

precommunicator··on We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner
keep in mind, for dedicated servers, traffic is free and unlimited - see the page you've linked
precommunicator··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
already did https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk810pgkko
precommunicator··on Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
> and you're a working adult, then you wouldn't be home anyway

As of 2024, 36% of Australians work from home (https://www.ceda.com.au/research-and-policy/research/economy...)

precommunicator··on Addiction Markets
I guess it depends on the person. I gamble away exactly ~$3 every month, never felt the need to increase that. I call it "randomness fund"
precommunicator··on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
And on the other hand, you enter Montenegro by car outside of touristy season and no petrol stations carry sim card then, and you have to find some kiosk in city center that does, wasting so much time in the process, relying on offline maps or spotty wi-fi.

You enter Serbia or Faroe Islands, and to get a SIM you have to find the operator booth, hope it's not in city center where parking is close to impossible, wait in a queue, they don't accept card, go find an ATM, pay extra for foreign withdrawal, pay extra ATM fees...

e-SIM just solves that, you simply buy it online before. And if you forget, I have a bit more expensive "any country" e-SIM that will allow me to do so.

Before e-SIM was a thing mobile roaming outside of EU was on the extreme expensive end. Now, I don't even get to use my e-SIM capabilities, as my network operators have pretty cheap package rates to just roam outside of EU. I wonder if widespread of e-SIM has anything to do with that.

precommunicator··on Why do some people play their phones out loud on buses and trains?
I've had to answer a urgent phone call on a bus once (on headphones) and I felt bad about that.

I don't understand how can you even think this is ever acceptable.

However, same as the 54% mentioned in the article I won't ask them, but for a different reason: noise canceling headphones means unless someone is playing a concert, it won't bother me.

precommunicator··on The last European train that travels by sea
Nynäshamn - Gdańsk. I've also did shorter routes like Ystad - Świnoujście and Helsinki - Tallinn
precommunicator··on Creating an all-weather driver
I see no issue with that as long as you can override and drive manually.
precommunicator··on The last European train that travels by sea
Yeah, if you actually walk around outside of your cabin. I took this ferry last summer, pretty much didn't leave the cabin (except to look at Shetland Islands), only just before arriving. Having plenty of food, movies and games with me... yeah

If you take this ferry, make sure to do the stop in Faroe Islands, it's absolutely amazing.

I plan to sail this route again next year.

Side note: was it just me or this ferry or route is particularly rough? I crossed Baltic like 20 times by ferry (18h crossing), never got sea sick, until this one.

precommunicator··on When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it
I've used that trick as far as Windows XP, playing videos inside 3D models in programs like SketchUp
precommunicator··on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
Given it's Ryanair I doubt we will see it, still hope so (Peter works for them)
precommunicator··on Westjet is going to make you pay to recline your seat
Ryanair's seats don't recline, period.
precommunicator··on Age verification doesn’t work
Most important part:

> Device-level parental controls have existed for years, and can actually block a million sites. But politicians can’t take credit for them.

precommunicator··on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]
Quoting from proposed text:

> When executing the detection order, providers should take all available safeguard measures to ensure that the technologies employed by them cannot be used by them or their employees for purposes other than compliance with this Regulation, nor by third parties, and thus to avoid undermining the security and confidentiality of the communications of users.

EU demands impossible.

precommunicator··on How I use Tailscale
Are you sure they weren't just trying to redirect you too a capture portal?
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