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I am guaranteed to die at some point. Yet (at least in Germany) I can go to a private insurance company, agree to pay a few euros each month and in return they pay out 10000€ when …

>have no reason to be concerned about governments ... Many aren't, but everyone has reason to. Governments change. Telling your government your religion in 1920s Germany was harmle…

Determining whether anybody is in the car doesn't sound trivial beyond the driver seat. The seatbelt warnings are triggered by weight, but people frequently store stuff on their se…

That would lead to far more accidents where people leave kids or animals alone in a car in direct sunlight, assuming the AC will keep them cool. But as they step away from the vehi…

Sure, sending spam that I can opt out of isn't the worst thing they can do. But if you are selling security products I expect better morals than that. This is yubico squandering tr…

Yes, but in order to be useful for training, the fake detection algorithm has to be reasonably performant. Performance is less of an issue if you just want to test if one video is …

Technological solutions will help, but software to spot fake videos will lead to an arms race between video creation and video classification. The more promising angle is imho the …

>The press would absolutely hate that, and rightfully so. Not only the press. Whoever is making the decision what's real is the ultimate censor and can decide which reality the vot…

An individual fact isn't copyrightable, a collection of facts can be. Details vary by jurisdiction, but in an international project like OSM you have to comply with the strictest j…

Copying from Google Maps would violate copyright. Ideally you visit the place in question and correct them in OSM based on your observations. There are also some satellite maps tha…

db01 is taking it into meaninglessness. Is that running PostgreSQL, Redis or MongoDB? Was Redis on db05 or cache01? That's not far from naming them server01, server02, etc. sql01 i…

Satellites and space stations are neither aerodynamic nor dense. If anything survives reentry, drag will slow it down until it might still damage a regular building but will do not…

If every email service prohibits a topic, that's indistinguishable from state censorship. I fail to see how only one is bad and the other isn't. The free market isn't of any help h…

>Having said that, can't Mailchimp do whatever they want? Sure, in the same sense we can be appalled by anything we want and boycott things for any or no reason. There is no legal …

An increasing number of subcommunities have learned to rely on sponsors and patreon because YouTube demonetizes most of their videos. Meanwhile YouTube's three strike system is a c…

This was a big problem on YouTube too. Their solution wasn't to find a better thumbnail, but to change the incentives. Basically they now promote videos based on minutes watched in…

I imagine Amazon wouldn't be opposed to preinstalling the Play Store. But getting permission from Google to do that comes with a long list of requirements. You are either at the me…

To me the entire point of a password manager is to solve password reuse. I can only remember a small number of high-quality passwords. I use one of those to secure my password mana…

I'm glad to see they left a door open for users of custom ROMs. While inconvenient, it will end up as just another item on the already complicated guides for installing custom ROMs…

If anything, I would have said that KeePass provides too many ways to sync devices... KeePass has a feature to sync two files, and can access a variety of network storages. That's …

That's such an often repeated and weird argument. Censorship isn't dangerous because of who is doing it but because of what it does. Censorship inhibits the spread of information a…

Oh course German sex trafficing increased; prostitution is illegal in the neighboring countries, so now Germany's border regions service a large international customer base. Sex to…

When real life sounds like a Black Mirror episode

Leaving children in the car for short periods has occasionally practical benefits, just as with pets. And both humans and animals do just fine in cars as long as you make sure that…

There is no surveillance of actual people, the government just found a cheap way to find out that their own land had an unexpected change. Finding suspects seems to be old fashione…