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https://archive.is/zUgeD

Paper: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I_am_not_alone_(An...

For rooted Android phones, there's ACC:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/mattecarra.accapp/

However, that means interactions, such as user likes, blocks, follows, etc are all public.

Au contraire, if network users control their clients, they can "block"¹ and "follow" content at-the client level without stating it publicly.

¹. Not a full block, as the blockee can still read and interact with the blocker's posts.

You got me

I wonder if regulation is partly to blame:

"Due to 27 different regulations in the EU alone (and more in other non-EU-countries), the administrative burden for international e-commerce is huge. Other than packaging regulations in many countries, WEEE regulations do typically not have any minimum thresholds or exceptions for SMEs. Therefore, WEEE registration and recycling fees are required in every country (separately – even within the EU) when shipping internationally. This also goes for startups and small stores which have just started selling electronics in Europe. (The laws even apply before the first sale is made.)"

https://www.ecosistant.eu/en/weee-directive/

https://archive.ph/8Pdlj

https://archive.ph/PNFX9

The "No politics" at Coinbase refers to topics outside of the company's core mission. Regardless of what one thinks of lobbying, seeking beneficial regulation does not contradict the spirit of "no politics at work".

https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(22)004...

If you check the spam folder frequently enough, there is (in my experience) no issue with enabling "spam learning" on the spam folder itself.

It'd be great if the README had example input and output images.

It is possible to both want vaccines to be available, and for it to be a free decision whether to take them or not.

https://archive.ph/WX7no

https://newsblur.com

It's an online service. It has features to extract the whole story from the source website, and to automatically filter feed items according to title, author, tags etc. There are android and iOS apps available; at least the Android one is opensource.

One can self-host it, but at $36/year it's almost worth it paying the author to avoid the hassle.

Many of the issues on this article can be solved by turning the moderation problem on its head: instead of preventing users from posting any possibly offensive content, give users tools to choose which content they are exposed to (f.ex. prebuilt blocklists that can be customized with some granularity, and shared between users)

I don't know, if they are not going to implement the feature I almost prefer to be told right away. (Although a short explanation of some possible workarounds and/or a rationale for not implementing it would be tots). I know it's just an example, but it seems to be more about sugarcoating than about being genuinely helpful.

(This is not Shingrix specific) Before doing the large (Phase III) clinical trial that leads to approval, smaller trials in humans (Phase II) are done to test different doses and see how the body responds.

It is also a matter of risk management: assuming that two doses always create stronger immunity than one dose, it's better to do a successful Phase 3 trial with two doses and "miss out" on getting approval for a one-dose course, rather than aim for a one-shot vaccine, and risk the response being too small to get any approval at all.

Also, if the drug is successful in the market, Glaxo can do another trial to show that 1 dose is not inferior to 2 doses, and get a patent extension for the new formulation.

One mitigation is to start serving the feed at a new URL. This should fix things for new subscribers. The old subscribers can optionally be encouraged to change to the new URL manually via a specially crafted post in the old feed.

The Russian government intentions being what they are, still: (i) This news can also be read as "Russia prepares for the possibility of being cut off from the global internet" (ii) Having access to important services (government agencies, banks, etc.) without being reliant on private, foreign companies is not that bad of an idea, even for the most democratic of countries.

Indeed, calling the fact not paying an employee's a type of theft seems to be an originally English idiom¹. In other languages it's more akin to an unpaid debt or a breach contract rather than stolen property. Intuitively, to have something stolen one needs to have gained ownership of it in the first place. (And being owed something is not the same as owning it.)

P.S.: What's with the hashes?

¹. It seems to also be used in Spanish, but mostly in an American context as a calque from English.

https://archive.ph/7OlJU

As sad as I am about Russia/Putins's fixation with redefining its borders and all the suffering that this is causing: at least in one country the map reflects the reality of the past 7 years.

It could be, but searching for Catalonia in Google maps explicitly indicates it's a part of Spain.

https://www.google.se/maps?q=catalunya

Another explanation would be the dispute with Morocco about Perejil Island:

https://www.google.se/maps?q=isla+perejil

Or even the dispute regarding Gibraltar with Britain.

Can't all of this just be explained by the restriction of money flows out of Russia? What is the point of doing business with a country if one cannot get the profits out.

I use a barebones double-entry system (such as GNUCash or Ledger). At the beginning of each month, I set a budget, and I deduct all the forseeable fixed expenses (rent, bills, groceries, eating lunch at work). I also deduct a part for savings and investments. The remainder I divide by the number of days in the month, and that becomes the average amount per day I allow myself to spend on eating out, coffee and other small discretionary purchases. The goal is to have the budget continuosly balance out to zero.

For each of the larger, non-monthly expenditures (travel, quarterly/yearly bills, furniture, electronics) I have virtual accounts in which I put money every month, and take it out when the expense comes, so as to keep the balance of the month at zero. I allow these virtual accounts to go negative, but not often and not for long.

I have a "tab" for shared household expenses; 50% of each shared expense is credited or deducted from the "tab", depending on who paid. This 50% doesn't affect my monthly balance. My partner does his own accounting (i.e. none).

If the months balance is trending positive, I can either increase the daily allocation for the rest of the month, move some to investment, or save more towards a large expenditure.

If the months balance is trending negative, I can decrease the daily allocation for the rest of the month, or save less for future expenditures (which I then have to reduce).

I make the budget of the following month based on what I learned from the previos one(s), and a script that calculates how much money to put into accounts for future expenditures.

Sweden has a similar system, and, same as Denmark, prices for such shares are now unregulates. So they are also subject to the rise in housing prices.

Furthermore, when these cooperatives are built, a big part of the cost is covered with debt that is left within the association itself, and covered with a monthly fee. So the amount of leverage is even larger than that of the mortgage, and thus very sensitive to interest rate changes. Also, this monthly fee is usually set to an unsustainably low value for the first year to attract buyers, which makes the future cost of ownership even more unpredictable.

Of course, no one cares about all this since (i) renting is often not an option, as waiting times for a rental contract in big cities are 3-15 years, and (ii) house prices are rising, so the appreciation of the shares will handsomely cover all the interest payments until resale.

FreeOTP+ supports key export, so you can copy all the keys to a new phone while still having them on the old one. (Only for Android though) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.liberty.android.freeotpplus

If I could do food deliveries at a relaxed pace while getting paid a software engineer salary I'd sign up in a heartbeat. (Career prospects notwithstanding)

There is an equivalent software solution for rooted Android phones:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/mattecarra.accapp/

The Chargie will certainly be useful for the many people who don't want to/can't root their phones. But it's also sad that one needs an extra piece of hardware for something that the phone can technically already accomplish on its own.