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I've encountered this in Cape Verde and ended buying a local SIM off the street for a fraction of the price.

Prompt for ChatGPT to fill the form required by FB to opt out:

given

<insert description from form here>

and knowing I am a privacy aware person, give me a few phrases to fill the following:

- Please tell us how this processing impacts you. - Please provide any additional information that could help us review your objection.

Copy - pasted the result and got a confirmation of opt-out quite fast. I wonder how many people will go through this.

For location history I use https://gpslogger.app. It's open-source, can be found on F-Droid and has many settings.

I started practicing last summer and went on a few via ferratas in Switzerland and Italy. The hardest one was in the Dolomites and required climbing knowledge and upper body strength because there were no easy anchors.

The scariest one was in Switzerland, called Mürren where there's a 30m horizontal section with a 400m vertical drop with nothing to hold on to other than the steel cable and some metal inserts in the wall, see https://www.sac-cas.ch/processed/sa2020assetsprod/9/0/csm_15... .

Nice UI, but I got used to googling "14:00 Germany time in Los Angeles", for example.

Nobody mentioned the SmartTube Android TV app, which you can configure to skip sponsored content on top of ads.

I can relate, as I started my career at 16, setting up a small ISP from scratch without any prior knowledge of computer networking and doing the work remotely, part-time since recently when the company was acquired by a larger ISP. They had about 2000 subscribers when they sold it.

Besides that, I've worked full time on Linux administration at a large scale and in the last years on cloud architecture. When starting university, my colleagues were all envious of me because I was working on interesting stuff and because I had a steady income, but I don't know if the sacrifice of not having a life during high-school was worth it.

Some advice to my younger self: - enjoy your young, no-care-in-the-world years and experiment as much as possible outside work and jobs; this will come in handy later on because you will end up working with people - try finding a bachelor and master that can deepen your knowledge on the subject; for various reasons I've picked telecom and now I regret not picking CS for my current day-to-day job. I made the right choice by picking a networking master's - if in or near Europe and if you like traveling, search for Erasmus+ exchanges during high-school and university years - there are lots of certifications that can give you insight on the industry you're on. For example, I've only learned about Cisco certifications years after working in the networking field. Why? One constraint was budget and I initially implemented everything using Linux and cheap switches. - don't get hired full-time early (this I'm glad I didn't do), because there will be plenty of time to climb corporate ladders. A few of the university colleagues are now on a higher corporate level than me, but should I care?

TL;DR enjoy your young years and don't sweat it too much by working during university; you're way ahead of everyone else and will easily land a job when the time will come.

There are plenty of land borders that employ x-ray scanning, some of which I've been through are: entering Turkey from Bulgaria, entering Turkmenistan from Iran, entering Uzbekistan from Turkmenistan, entering Morocco from Mauritania etc.

It's not all Schengen and no controls out there..

As to why, probably to find hidden contraband or hidden CPUs :).

I've extensively used Osmand off-line during my overlanding trips, from Cape Town to Europe across west Africa and from Czechia to Mongolia. Why reinvent the wheel?

Last week, during a meeting, I found myself scribbling some notes in cursive some 20 years later since having last used it, the only way we have been thought to write in school in an Eastern European country. I didn't know it was possible for anyone to not understand cursive or to forget it, even if one wanted it. This is definitely a thing just in the US.

I have been writing in block letters because my writing is tidier this way and have self-taught myself to do it.

Maybe this way less entitled peoples will have a better chance at making it, a sort of culling of the weak and unwilling.

"Starting in version 90, Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default, improving privacy and even loading speed for users visiting websites that support HTTPS. Chrome users who navigate to websites by manually typing a URL often don’t include “http://xn--ivg or “https://xn--ivg. For example, users often type “example.com” instead of “https://example.xn--com-9o0a in the address bar. In this case, if it was a user’s first visit to a website, Chrome would previously choose http:// as the default protocol1."

https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/a-safer-default-for-naviga...

This is quite common in countries that have regulated exchange rates. From some I've visited, Angola and Iran even had websites with the black market rate, while in Turkmenistan I had to rely on public wisdom.

Opera does this by default.

May be possible using driftctl and some API calls.

You can get 25 Gbps in Switzerland :)

On this, Opera (for Android, at least) has introduced a "Dark Web Pages" mode that forces all white websites to dark colors. It does wonders!

I used tc, CAKE and ifb for a small ISP router-on-a-stick implementation (around 2000 end-users) and it did wonders with the limited bandwidth I had to work with (around 3Gbps). More simple to configure than HTB, no more playing around with lots of knobs. Even during high peak traffic the latency would stay low.

I don't know whether it has been a while since you last used the SBB Mobile app, but it also offers the same functionality: start the trip by dragging a slider, stop it at the destination and the price is automatically calculated and charged from your card or invoiced at the end of the month. It works with the half-fare card, as well. Works all over Switzerland on trains, busses, cable cars etc. I haven't tried it with boats yet. :)

Like you say, a joy to use!

Another day older and deeper in debt

I went on a 84 or 87 hours (with a 3 hour layover in the middle) train trip which in 2018 was around 114 EUR, from Irkutsk to Moscow and it was not such a nice experience. I found that people like to romanticize transsyberian train journeys to a point at which it's all bliss. However, I found there's a limit on how much you can watch trees on the window, sleep, read, watch movies, talk to other people, drink tea from the samovar while being crammed in such a tight space with others. I've reached that limit after around 24 hours.

If anyone intends on doing such a trip, make sure you arrange it in a way that you have some stops along the way.

This reminds me of an impromptu interview I saw with a teenage kid driving trucks in Africa in order to support his family.

Found the link: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1104630323217300...

5 x AWS certified here (could be 7x tomorrow because I'm missing two entry level certs), with a background in operations instead of development. The AWS certifications have definitely helped me in my career. My previous (and current) gigs were at consultancies, previous happened to be a smaller AWS APN partner. I know for certain that my certifications mattered at my previous job because there were several thresholds they had to pass in order to become a higher class partner and because they added me to the AWS APN partner portal as proof. The number of certifications (including the number of top certifications) was one such threshold. I also believe that the certifications gave me more legitimacy in obtaining my current job in a different country.

Extract data from the 10 sensors available on the Texas Instruments CC2650STK SensorTag and then optimize power usage on its firmware. If you want more of a challenge, rewrite the firmware completely.

In Europe there's azair.eu.

A similar tool exists from AWS, the Instance Type (IIRC) inside the EC2 console.

Now all ransomware "hackers" will be able to easily buy Teslas, a nice incentive for people to get into that business.

Imagine doing something similar to a government application of an EU country and in 15 minutes finding a way to expose all citizen requests for an EORI number ever (some tens of thousands), with all personal details there for you to take. This was last year and in the meantime they updated their application from an ancient 2003 Oracle one to one that's more modern.

Thinking in perspective now, I regret not going out with it because that ancient application probably cost millions of euro from taxes.

Just wanted to say that here in the EU we have voted to abolish time changing, with the countries deciding if they want to stick with the summer time or winter time. https://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/summertime_en

The easiest way to experience Turkmenistan is to go on the Mongol Rally. They work with a visa company to give all the participants a letter of invitation, which is valid for two months, for a five-day transit without a guide.

Some facts that I found funny at the moment: - they gave us a GPS device at the border to keep plugged in so they could track us. We just threw it in the back because our old crappy car didn't have a lighter. They didn't check the data when we left the country. - they had a bank rate for exchange and a black market rate. The black market rate was 1 USD for 16 something and the bank rate was 1 USD for 3 something of the local currency. You could pay in USD, of course getting ripped at the bank rate. We managed to change some money on the street. - a room at a normal hotel costs more than 80 USD, we found something similar to a hostel for 15 USD and still went to the Grand Turkmen, acted like we stayed there and stole some Internet - a SIM card with 1 GiB of Internet was around 40 USD, we passed - the Internet goes through an IPS that blocks everything we use in the western world: FB, Gmail, Whatsapp, VPNs etc. I had to tunnel through an SSH server listening on port 443 just to be able to send an email. Images didn't work, because the connection closed (I think they were cutting connections based on sequence numbers or something) - you couldn't take any photos, they checked our mobiles upon leaving the country. Funny, because Ashgabat was beautiful and it's in the Guiness Book for the most marble and for the most waterfalls - whenever we were alone, it took only 10 minutes tops for someone with a walkie-talkie to pass next to us - they removed all people from a whole boulevard to make room for some official hotshot to pass - we were listening to music in the car with the windows lowered and I later read that it was illegal. Maybe that's why everyone was staring at us - beer was available at almost any place - we slept at Darvaza, "the gates of hell" one night. The next day we headed north and ran out of water. - we had some work performed on our car and the mechanics were very friendly

All in all, it was a fantastic experience and I would totally do it again.

It would be of tremendous help if you could also use it for optical fiber buffers. Does anyone know if it's possible, if it's on the roadmap or if there's another FOSS tool that can do this? Thanks.