[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 161 points 6 months ago

A moment of normalcy and laughter before the events of the evening unfold.

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submitted 9 months ago by thedarkfly@feddit.nl to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

Honestly it's nightmare fuel. I consider my European city as pretty bad, but american cities always helps to put it in perspective.

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[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 65 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's also a "simple english" Wikipedia: simple.wikipedia.org

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 55 points 1 year ago

The censorship makes it worse actually

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 88 points 1 year ago

I'm countering with this from my home country of Belgium

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submitted 1 year 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 1 year 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 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by thedarkfly@feddit.nl to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

Posted on Bluesky of course.

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submitted 2 years 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 87 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 220 points 2 years ago

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

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

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 71 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 60 points 2 years 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.

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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 63 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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[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 64 points 3 years ago

It seems to have become a habit that most good things about the internet is linked to the EU. I'm really grateful. That being said, I hope that Lemmy can become a collaborative project uniting a lot of devs rather than rely on two people.

About the scandal; as long as their opinions do not influence the platform I don't see them as relevant to Lemmy. If they are illegal, let justice do its work.

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