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Records, shmekords. The practical experience of having your own domain for your email is that you delegate your domain to Google / Fastmail / Proton / whatever, and it takes care o…

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Usually you can't, but not always: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Chilean_presidential_refe...

In a typical retelling of Chilean 9/11 there indeed was a guy who abused his power to become a dictator, but that was not Allende. It seems that the story you have is different fro…

> Copy and paste them into the Jira ticket so the junior employee who makes half your salary can run them next time. Or, more likely: so that you yourself can remember what you did…

You can do chargebacks, it's just that you are not likely to have business with that merchant again. No big deal, given that that merchant is proven to be not very reliable with yo…

This was the first thing I did when I landed in the South. Answer: very easy. You know the shape from the flags and logos, you can't miss it. Magellanic clouds are harder to see, a…

> Given the very limited space available in Paris centre, I don't really see an easy way unfortunately... Bicycles take less space than cars, both on road and when parked, don't th…

Funny that you chose Amsterdam to give an example: this is one of the places in Europe where there actually are IT startups - some "home-grown", some moved from elsewhere. "Nobody"…

> I don't understand why he went back to Russia --- on principle, maybe? He was a Russian politician and was intending to stay one. In the eyes of Russian public opinion, a politic…

> Personally I'm going to move out of the country as soon as it forbids the cash transactions Which country is it? In many jurisdictions cash transactions are already illegal above…

I absolutely should not anthropomorphise LLMs, but I can't get rid of the feelling that "it" was writing this answer with a mischievous smirk, and was having a lot of fun in the pr…

Don't take me wrong, but it certainly sounds that your mom needs some Linux in her life. Pick a stable distro, set things up once, leave them be. For basic stuff like web browsing …

If what Google does - closely observing us, collecting the data for further analysis, often without our knowledge or permission - is not surveillance, then what it is? Which word s…

> People are not criticizing ethnic Russians. Some do, and are rarely denounced for that. Alas.

An honest question from someone without a car or a driving license: why exactly were you renting/borrowing these SUVs and trucks? Where does the need come from, what were you trans…

€3k today is a price of an expensive laptop or an expensive bicycle (e.g. a bakfiets). €3k in ten years will be the price of a normal laptop or a normal bicycle. How not being able…

> What other practical changes will there be? Your online banking will stop working on your unapproved software, just like your baking app stopped working on your rooted/old Androi…

> Since I've been hosting Tor Nodes since I was 14 Honest question: why do people host exit nodes when they aren't 14 anymore? Given how dangerous it is to host one, and how little…

> Im just trying to raise a few kids, go to some parties and sell some junk around the house None of these things should require selling your soul or firstborn rights to Facebook, …

> You can find some of these by searching the shipping address and seeing if it's a freight forwarder Am a legitimate user of a freight forwarder, this attitude makes me sad.

> So what happens when yo invent/create a thing, attempt to commercialize it, and an established corporation just rips you off because there's no barrier to doing so? Not sure if y…