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svl

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    Comment #48161882

    This might be country specific? Specifically dependent on laws in the fields of consumer-protection and keeping things universally accessible. I don't own a smartphone. I have neve…

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    Comment #46778705

    FWIW, it's reported in Dutch news - https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/26/dertigduizend-doden-sla... - with reference to this time.com article - https://time.com/7357635/more-than-3…

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    Comment #46409641

    duckduckgo: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+configure+arducopter+g... Optionally with a custom CSS rule to block the starting video block: [data-layout="videos"]

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    Comment #45357463

    Sadly they explicitly don't support that. :( > Now that there is a Steam Deck Native build, is Baldur’s Gate 3 supported on Linux? > Larian does not provide support for the Linux p…

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    Comment #41763792

    No discussion about roundabouts can be complete without a mention of the (mostly) Dutch "turbo roundabout", where the lane you take going into a multi-lane roundabout depends on wh…

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    Comment #41644816

    > I'm "pulling this from" the settings on my browser. When I look at the check box in preferences it's unchecked and greyed out. The setting being greyed out indicates that the ent…

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    Comment #41437509

    Direct from the source: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/dutch-d... The full PDF with the investigation results e.a. as sent to clearview: https://www.autoritei…

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    Comment #41433425

    Source with detailed info: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/system/files?fi...

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    Comment #39417814

    If you care to read deeper, including comments by many of the principal parties involved, there's no better place than https://file770.com/ (also linked to from this news article).…

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    Comment #39417692

    As others have said, between competing bids for who'd host Worldcon in 2023, China got the most votes (from registered fans at an earlier Worldcon). However, there was also controv…

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    Comment #39417634

    Please note that Kevin Standlee is a good egg here, and was not involved with this iteration of the Hugo awards and everything which went wrong with it. His only fault was saying s…

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    Comment #36775820

    browser.history.maxStateObjectSize and places.history.expiration.max_pages (both accessible through about:config) should be the settings to modify. Do a web search for those proper…

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    Comment #35100226

    In Firefox you can set dom.event.contextmenu.enabled and dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false in about:config which will natively prevent most of this type of annoyance.

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    Comment #33433666

    Luckily I don't see any "encouragement to use aria" on that page you linked to, as that - and particular your example - goes directly against the first rule of ARIA [1] (paraphrase…

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    Comment #33403907

    Personal information about yourself which you have to include on your website, and how to register it, depends on the laws of the country you reside in (e.g. Germany has strict req…

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    Comment #30074773

    gmusicbrowser (combined with Ex Falso for more extensive tagging) has replaced foobar2000 for me, and I _think_ that these days I like it even better than I ever liked foobar2000 -…

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    Comment #29197594

    This is the normal procedure in the Netherlands as well, for I think all-but-one of the package delivery services. If you're not home, delivery goes to one of the neighbours (could…

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    Comment #28018407

    I'd say ~30M, rather than 50M. They explicitly call out the summer holidays effect above the first graph: "Generally, MAU fluctuates over the course of a year, dropping in the summ…

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    Comment #26445280

    Came to recommend the same one. My first one stopped working after a decade, now been on the second one for six years. (The "stopped working" thing is not ideal, but given the cons…