[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 16 points 1 day ago

I think "a little hole in the wall" means a cozy bar or something

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submitted 1 week ago by thedarkfly@feddit.nl to c/usa@lemmy.ml

I thought there could be a sort of megathread about the inauguration of Trump. I'm watching the official livestream here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XOstVmSjf8

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by thedarkfly@feddit.nl to c/france@jlai.lu

Salut tout le monde ! Avec la mort de Le Pen, beaucoup de gens reparlent de son usage de la torture en Algérie. Beaucoup d'encre a coulé sur les accusations à son encontre et ses actions en justice pour diffamation. Mais a-t-il été lui-même poursuivi ou inquiété à ce sujet ? N'était-ce pas des crimes de guerre ? Pourquoi n'a-t-il jamais été arrêté ?

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submitted 1 month ago by thedarkfly@feddit.nl to c/foss@beehaw.org

I have been looking for alternative to Google products, including Google Maps and Waze. The best I've found is Organic Maps and OsmAnd. But I'm missing two features: public transport routes and live trafic.

For the latter point, I have used Magic Earth which uses OSM. But the app itself is not FOSS.

Does anyone know what their business model is? They don't charge for the app or service and the privacy policy does not seem like they commercialize data... What is their deal as a company?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by thedarkfly@feddit.nl to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

Posted on Bluesky of course.

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submitted 8 months ago by thedarkfly@feddit.nl to c/android@lemmy.world

Hi everyone. You can easily add a website shortcut to the home screen through a browser ("add to home screen"). However, if I change browser or if I need to clear the browser data, these links disappear. Maybe I'm using too unstable of a browser, but I'm tired of having to recreate my shortcuts.

Is there any way of adding a website shortcut to the home screen in a browser-agnostic way?

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 66 points 9 months ago
[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 87 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Another possible interpretation I haven't seen in the comments: it's possibly about capitalism under which companies fund school where you learn that it's normal to be a wage slave or something like that?

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 215 points 1 year ago

I checked for others who, like me, are too European to understand the joke: 50°F is 10°C.

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 39 points 1 year ago

Yeah, your teacher seemed to deal in absolutes: "it always happens" or "it will never happen again". I think that events can always happen (again) but they don't have to.

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 45 points 1 year ago

The important is now ensuring that they stay impartial and resilient even if populists are in power.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by thedarkfly@feddit.nl to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

Alt text: My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When we look at the sky, there is a line where there is way more stars than usual. This line goes all the way around the sky. This was called the milky way by the Greeks because it was like a road sparkled with milk drops. At some point, we deduced that we were in a group of stars arranged in a flat disk. Later, we realized that some weird space clouds (nebulae) were much further away than we thought and were actually other huge groups of stars like our own that we named galaxies, still after milk.

There are more details me course. Even along the line in the sky drawn by the milky way, there is one side where there is much more stars and dust than the other. We deduced that we were at the edge of the disk and the bright region was the center of our galaxy. Also, the amount of gas and dust that block certain types of light that teach us that our galaxy has arms.

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 73 points 1 year ago

Are the US and EU late, or is it a deliberate business decision from EV car manufacturers to aim for bigger and luxury cars because they make more profit?

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 61 points 1 year ago

I haven't tried Scrinever. What follows is about trying to convert people to Linux, you can safely ignore the comment if you're not interested.

If the will doesn't come from him, he will certainly look for things he doesn't like and that will confort him in staying on Windows.

I'd say keep him informed and let him make his decisions with the information he has.

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes, the contents of contracts are illegal even when they are signed. It's apparently not the case here according to the Court, but the question can be worth to ask.

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 41 points 1 year ago

If it were an ideal free market with an infinite amount of competitor, you'd be right. That logic ceases to function in a monopolistic context. In the case of YouTube it's not "go to the competition" because there's none. It's "stop watching online videos", which is still possible but a huge shift in habits, hobbies, and cultural environment. It's extremely difficult and only a tiny minority will succeed because human's psychology is a real thing.

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submitted 2 years ago by thedarkfly@feddit.nl to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/549047

Assisted GNSS is pretty handy. My phones gets my approximate location very fast. If I want to plan a route from where I am, I don't have to wait a couple minutes for the GNSS signal to be received (if I'm in a location where I can receive it).

But obviously, waiting a couple minutes before starting a journey is acceptable to avoid being tracked by Google, so I disabled the Enhanced Location mode on my Android phone.

Is there a private alternative for A-GNSS?

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Assisted GNSS is pretty handy. My phones gets my approximate location very fast. If I want to plan a route from where I am, I don't have to wait a couple minutes for the GNSS signal to be received (if I'm in a location where I can receive it).

But obviously, waiting a couple minutes before starting a journey is acceptable to avoid being tracked by Google, so I disabled the Enhanced Location mode on my Android phone.

Is there a private alternative for A-GNSS?

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Of course. And I'll continue to do so as long as advertisement is detrimental to my online experience. If it wastes my time by forcing me to watch an ad before a video, if it distracts me from reading a text because of animations, if it tries to scam or shock me, I'm better off blocking it. I'm not against advertisement as communication that a useful product or service exists, I'm against advertisement abuse and greed.

I'll happily pay for, donate to, or otherwise support services important to me that need and deserve it.

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