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There are major cities in those countries with a few exceptionally gnarly ones, though. I don't blame if you're traumatized if you ever found yourself circling Arc de Triomphe in Paris, for example.
Ex Vice Motherboard.
[1]: At least ebaumsworld was notorious for the bad kinds of piracy. albinoblacksheep, newgrounds, and somethingawful, were the major hubs outside of other individual creator sites like weebls and lemondemon otherwise IIRC. Firth did publish himself on NG, and later on YouTube. But I think he only appeared as himself on YouTube like a decade or so after Salad Fingers first went viral. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/276616 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBaum%27s_World#Copyright_infr...
I'd say it's a key factor to why it can sustain at all.
Compare to tech startups and big tech where I imagine the majority of those who would be able to drive a union are already intertwined enough in leadership that they feel prevented from organizing due to conflict of interest.
You know how to find your way for that from Wikipedia, I assume. From PostNord:
https://nitter.net/PostNordSverige/status/172767223321924818...
https://nitter.net/PostNordSverige/status/172773029292270847...
They don't always perfectly align on big nor small.
Source: My PR was merged in 2021, the changes are still part of Synapse, and I never signed any CLA. I don't think they'd be able to get enough sign-offs from historical contributors to pull off any actual shenanigans with the Synapse license.
Aside: I'm curious what these numbers would be for other European countries:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37758402
> Sweden has about 8600 people in prison so about 37% of their prison population is in there for "drug offenses"
Don't know if you picked Sweden in particular intentionally but they are very much an outlier of their own when it comes to drug-related crime. Simple possession of small quantities for personal use can still have you end up in jail or even prison for up to 6 months.
They're still all-in on the War on Drugs.
This is roughly what you should expect if you get busted carrying one joint in Sweden.
Source: Some people around my social circle smoked back in uni.
Because the perpetrators are often children/teenagers, in many places actually not. It's the underage factor making many of these cases challenging to prosecute.
If you listen to the PM, yes. Another major factor (actually the biggest?) is Sweden's among European countries relatively unique hardline and boneheaded stance on recreational drugs including cannabis, which has contributed to growth and strengthening of criminal gangs who fund themselves and maintain territory by drug trade, simultaneously silently pushing otherwise law-abiding citizens into the criminal sphere, furthering the split into parallel societies. Basically the opposite of the Portugal approach. There are arguments that the law on sex work (buying sexual services is a crime; selling is not) has been having similar effect.
If you believe it was naivete behind the open immigration policy, well, you could still say the same here.
I live by a different Japanese small town famous for its textile industry and there's at least one place still similarly using punch cards and tape. They exhibited some of it and a contemporary art piece made using it during the annual Fuji Textile Week last year.
Separately I also met an artist who's doing binary-hacked glitch embroidery and knitting with older machines in the area. I think they have stuff for sale from time to time and would be open for commissions. There's some pokemon/otaku/tech-related stuff if you dig through their insta.
After a couple of days, people would desperately go back and forth for upwards to an hour with it.
That's nothing compared to what current gen can do. People being more aware of bots being a thing in general these days isn't sufficient to compensate.
Intro video[1].
I get woken up at 07:00 every other day or so (weekends included!) by an announcement on the village PA that everyone is asked to please sort out their My Number Card if they have not already done so, assistance is available in the village hall between these hours, and so on and so forth.
Supposedly all (tax?) residents already have a My Number while the My Number Card is optional. My only rationalization for the aggressive push is that there is an intention to have it adopted enough to be able to make it mandatory in various situations and for various purposes.
The experience is a bit dystopic to say the least.
As with anything relying on trust with a third party, one should definitely actively assess their individual threat models and risk profiles. It might be useful for parts of your traffic, not necessarily all
For outgoing, I also heard that proxychaining is a thing (which might not help you if collaborating actors compromised all obv)
yourusername at myusername dot se
Here's what I expect: If I'm subscribed to a podcast and have it marked as "download", Spotify should sync new episodes as they become available and I will later be able to listen to them offline.
This used to work but does not anymore. Sometimes I will even preemptively open the Android Spotify app in the foreground, only to leave the house and later discover that nothing got downloaded.
I've also in recent months noticed weird latencies of downloaded content which is only present when Spotify servers are not reachable (such as when not connected to internet). Pressing "play" or navigating to a new episode will do nothing for 5-20 seconds, despite all necessary data already being downloaded. This is the same for podcasts and songs.
Oh, and also getting a nag-overlay about Google Play Services whenever I try to use Connect, despite my setup not relying on it.
All these are regressions: They used to work fine but got worse. As another commenter noted, it's amazing how they can spend so much resources when basic table stakes and seemingly trivially fixable UX regressions like this is what will actually drive me away from using Spotify for podcasts.
Arch Linux on ARM has also come a long way in the past few years.
Strong password, 2FA, email, registered pgp key, and I still have access to everything, yet they still need to "verify", which makes no sense given they (supposedly) don't have any ID of mine from before.
Contrasting that to OP and yeah, an insider sounds like the more likely thing.