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Quality docomentaries and looks on society on Arte.tv, the european culture channel AFAIK, north americans don't know about its existence. It's available in english. https://www.arte.tv/en/
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Besides, you still can pay with real money in most places, you just have to choose the right line at the exit. Not all of them take cash. For us that has no problems, card is so much easier to use but there are a lot of people that can't handle the tech and they should be able to buy things too. All this is marketed as better for crime prevention, less bank/store robbery. Ofcourse this only pushes the cost on the ind…
Good point, I should have mentioned that cash is still accepted almost everywhere. I think the crime thing might not be a direct link, as a bank robber and an opportunistic street thief are probably different people. There is less opportunistic crime than elsewhere as a big driver of crime is people's situation which, in general, aren't bad enough to resort to crime. I'm still unnerved by the lax security everywhere,…
[Ekşi Sözlük]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek%C5%9Fi_S%C3%B6zl%C3%BCk )
Eksi Sozluk(Sour Times) is a community driven wikipedia without the moderation. Most tech-savvy Turkish people I know visit it atleast once per day.
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The challenge isn’t with the script - it’s with lack of acceptable technical vocabulary in Hindi/English. Video works because Hinglish is how tech-talk in (many, not all) companies works. But you’d never see a technical doc in any of the these companies in Hindi, because you can’t even translate simple terms like Server or package-management. Even if you find acceptable translations, they aren’t immediately obvious,…
So if I understand correctly, Latin characters aren't used for loanwords like this in written text? When I was young I used to play some MSX games in Japanese, the language doesn't really matter for a lot of these 1980s games, and you would frequently see English words and terms written in Latin characters used all over the place. Why won't this work for Hindi? Are people not familiar with these characters? Or is the…
It's just that another phenomenon is the alphabeticising of Hindi (as in actually Hindi words) like 'namaste aap kaise hain? Mera naam Ollie hoon' (IAST āp, nām, olī, and hūñ) is a contrived sentence but the sort of thing someone might text if they didn't have the keyboard for नमस्ते आप कैसे हैं? मेरा नाम ओली हूँ or whatever reason.
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WOW. Is this a well known service/site in Sweden? In other countries this would have been blown up into a huge privacy issue. Assuming its not because its sort of underground, why do you think it hasn't in Sweden? Genuinely curious
yes, it is well known. I just see it as a digital versin of the phone book. And there are even more extreme versions, like ratsit.se where you can pay to get credit information on anyone. Personally I think that what ratsit does is probably too far, and maybe it shouldn't be legal. But in general I like our "public information" system, that lots of government information is available to every citizen, I find the bene…
https://www.wykop.pl is probably the biggest Polish site that gathers best experts from most of the industries, to provide comments on the newest political, religious, science and engineering news from all around the world. The comments posted by users of wykop.pl are often cited in other sites. ...at least that's what everyone on this site would like to think. In reality, it's just a digg.com clone, before it starte…
This page is terrible, heavily biased and almost all discussions that occur there are fundamentally flawed due to basics of basics of logical fallacies. It's one of those websites that makes you lose faith in people e.g when you read popular takes about Bill Gates and COVID related stuff, it's pretty sad. I bet that just reading titles from the front page for a 3 months would affect your happines cuz majority of head…
Agree but only partially, you just have not to browse the front page and Wykopalisko (= queue on Digg) - this is where tinfoil hatters, right-wing nutjobs and paid trolls thrive.
The sine qua non of browsing wykop.pl and retaining sanity is
- blacklist tags (like #polityka #przegryw #patostreamy)
- browse only Mikroblog (no frontpage, no Wykopalisko).
- use uBlock or a third-party mobile app
I stand with the GP that wykop.pl is one of the best places to ask for advice on hobby and such. Why? It's less circlejerk-y than specialized forums and people absolutely hate paid shills here. And there are almost no "Facebook mom" type of people. It's also good for local news / local questions, as hashtags of most cities have quite a lot of followers. Ah, and on Mikroblog the OP can delete comments on their posts, which comes in handy if someone is getting nasty.
The only comparable stuff would be the loosely defined "sekcje JBWA" ("Jak będzie w ...") groups on Facebook, but many of these groups have overzealous admins who ban people breaking rules, but with no subtlety (I mean, if someone is polite, posts higher-effort content and the infraction is minor, a mute would suffice)
There's a home automation protocol that's been around for over 20 years called KNX. It's backed by big names (ABB, Hager, Gira, Osram, Mean Well) however outside of Germany it's pretty much unknown. Compared to ZigBee or Z-Wave it's wired and the config is stored in the devices themselves, so there's no single point of failure. It has strict certification requirements so you can be guaranteed that products from diffe…
Germany really needs to start documenting their work in English. This is good stuff.
Quality docomentaries and looks on society on Arte.tv, the european culture channel AFAIK, north americans don't know about its existence. It's available in english. https://www.arte.tv/en/
A great initiative in the media industry for sure. They have a programme call Tracks that explores the underground culture [1]. Very interesting [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/TracksARTEde
https://tweakers.net Dutch-language tech community. Has news, a well-moderated and active forum, product and price comparison (with many filtering options) and reviews (both by tech journalists and the community), second-hand sales, and a job board. It was started by one guy 20 (if not more) years ago, but these days it's part of one of the big Dutch-language media conglomerates (DPG Media).
I started visiting this site when I was 16/17 and starting off my IT classes. I still feel like I learned more browsing the site's daily news than my school. It's still my daily routine, nearly 20 years later, to visit it every day. I'm apparently in the top 100 wrt number of comments (mostly shitposts and arguing, kinda like what I do on HN) Never did get on with the forums much, mind you. But some threads are fun t…