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Most useless link ever?

We used to have what I think must be one of the last video rental places in The Netherlands around the corner from me. For some reason that always sparked a little nostalgia in me …

Ordered... along with some other swag. Love HTMX, can't wait for my https://brickboy.xyz/ to arrive so I can get to work!

“Everything is end-to-end encrypted… depending on how you define the ends.”

Same here... very saddened by this news. Regular listener to the No Agenda podcast. Will miss that voice dearly. I guess this will also mean the end of the No Agenda podcast is nea…

Ah yes, Elon Musk's famous murderous path to wealth.

"You must disable SIM PIN to enable Assistive Access..."

Well, I guess there is no other option then. Follow the science.

No Agenda is a regular of mine... the sound levels on it are incredibly well done, also for all clips they play.

No responsibilities in the EU at all? I feel trump is more of an accelerant/trigger.. but where two parties fight etc. We did not get to this situation (or Trump for that matter) f…

High bandwidth and (relatively) low sentencing would be my guess..

"everyone hates PDFs where you can't reliably select and copy text!" Boy do I. One of my biggest annoyances is receiving an invoice in pdf format, where I can either not select the…

I like this framing. The differences between these two groups is much bigger than the differences within these groups, at least at some fundamental level. There is as always, nuanc…

First thing I noticed too, as I have multiple cards from the same bank. I also noticed they show you last digits of the ... CARD number, not the account number which would be treme…

If there is only 1 telephone company, either owned by the state, directly or indirectly, or even just a monopoly... what is the difference?

Without it being good or bad (long term, second order effects), I do think all of these (proposed) laws and where we are heading will balkanize the internet. Alternative tech may s…

Maybe the desire is always there, but somehow the momentum is just in an upswing now?

Same in NL... we used to rent our telephones from the "PTT".

I am completely baffled by this wave of new laws and proposals... they feel dystopic and can seemingly only lead to brutal restrictions on the internet. What will we end up with? O…

I have recently made the same move... mostly because it allowed me to stop using my google and microsoft accounts. Moved all personal (and family domain) and business from google w…

I see your point, but the last few (services) that tried seemed to have become even worse?

Well, perhaps they make verifying it hard.. but what is stopping you from publishing an app in the app store, while also hosting the source code for anyone to see, and use? 99 buck…