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Dutch, which has a pretty reasonable sound-to-orthography mapping (some exceptions of course, but not all that many) also has spelling bees. Often won by the Belgians.

I thought it was moderately well known. A couple of decades ago a friend would take some red candy when hiking as it could give her (at least the feeling of) a significant short-term energy boost if needed, more than just regular sugar would.

I actually thought that particular red dye was banned where I'm from some time back, though I don't recall why. Allergies perhaps? But that's just a guess.

Yeah, I also sit in this grey area. I think the maximum is 10 per domain or so, and last I checked, I'd had 11 or 12 leaked, so I can no longer see them. It's unfortunate though I don't know an easy solution that allows both people with per-site addresses to get free access, and also companies to be required to pay.

Fwiw, you can set (on Android at least) the language of Google Maps independently of the rest of the system. I also have my phone set to English, but maps set to Dutch because otherwise the reading out of street names can be incomprehensible compared to their proper pronunciation.

This does mean your navigation instructions are also in that language, which may or may not be a problem, depending on your fluency (but there's not really a whole lot of phrases to learn.)

> The UI for Libre Powerpoint(or whatever its called) doesnt have text size on the main screen.

I was curious, so opened Impress, typed some text, and saw that the font selection and size was by default open on the right-hand "Properties" panel, alongside all the various text configuration options. So that at least is not true.

That's interesting to me. From my perspective, I didn't find Duolingo great, but it did give me some vocab and basic sentences, and left me feeling more competent than I actually ended up being once I was living where they speak the language I was learning.

Since then I did classes on-again, off-again and I can really feel my ability ramping up when I'm doing them, to the point where I was having short conversations in that second language. When I'm not doing classes, I'm still reinforcing things through my surroundings but I definitely feel that I plateau and don't really get much better.

However, the classes did get me to a point where now I can do things like play D&D in my second language. I still don't feel fluent (I have to active-listen the whole time which is tiring, and sometimes mentally translate still, though that's improving) but I am pretty conversational, and the classes definitely made a big difference for me.

Perhaps it's that there are classes and then there are classes, and you've had bad luck with the quality or nature of yours?

I usually find it pretty terrible and so hardly ever visit, so let's try:

* 10 day old post from someone I know, involving other people I know

* a reel, with no origin specified

* People you may know

* a recent post from someone I know

* an old post from someone I know

* a recent photo from someone I know

* an old post from someone I know

* People you may know

* An old post from someone I don't know tagging someone I know

* then I scroll further and it does a weird jumping thing so I can no longer keep track of where I was

This is actually better than I remember in terms of "relevant" things, but I long ago lost the habit of facebook, and sometimes seem to get a whole lot of stuff that doesn't feel relevant which tends to put me off. Also that odd scrolling behaviour that starts happening after a bit.

In NL AH for me it seems to come in waves. For a while I'll be checked every other time, and then not at all for some time. This could just be me seeing patterns where they aren't though, perhaps I should track it for curiosity.

Interesting, where I lived (NZ), "coke" was the typical term for Coca-Cola (not generic soda, but you may be asked if Pepsi is OK), however in NL where I live now it's pretty universally "cola", and I think that's also not generic. Can't speak to other European countries though, I've never noticed.

> IPv6 is a disaster for personal privacy for the typical multi-user household

Why? With privacy extensions (which are normally enabled for user devices), then all someone can do is look at the prefix. This is identical to looking at the IPv4 address in a NAT setup, and it hasn't been that much of a privacy disaster.

As I see it, nothing is lost on that front.

It depends what you're trying to defend against. The rotation hinders associating an address with a particular device. If someone looks at the network prefix to see if people are in the same household, then that's exactly the same as looking at the IPv4 address to determine the same thing.

They did, at the last moment they released a version of the app that could be repointed to alternative servers, in this case the rebble.io ones. Without them doing that, it'd be a lot less useful.

There have been community-run services going since Pebble shut down. My pebble behaves as though nothing changed to this day, except the lack of new features being released.

It's a pity that you didn't have a tab at the bar I bumped into you in in Amsterdam last year, while wearing my PTS, then ;)

I remember you mentioning that there was hope of the firmware being open sourced. Very glad to see that it's happened, and that I might well have a chance to upgrade this 10-year-old but still going strong watch.

You can do this already if you have a Pebble, someone made an app for it.

For at least months in my city, the screens in buses have been showing a "broken image" icon as part of their ad cycle. I'd much rather know about the next stop.

In addition, I've started writing failing (or empty, in the framework I'm using empty fails) tests as a todo for the next time I pick it up, so by generally keeping the tests passing I know what I was intending my next step to be when I last worked on it a week ago.

Nothing* does mass storage these days, because you a) don't want to run your filesystem as FAT32, b) have two devices mounting one disk at the same time.

But anyway, you don't have to hack anything, they literally give you all the access you could ask for. Run samba on it if you want.

* I'm sure there are exceptions, but they're not common in my experience.

Do you mean hack the box in "go to this page in the settings where it tells you the root password", or something else?

the reMarkable lets you upload PDFs and then you can write on them, so perhaps it can do what you need.

I was using mine a little while ago for a PDF-based RPG-type thing which involves a lot of writing on the PDF and it worked quite well (the main downside was the PDF took a while to render as it's very image-heavy but that might work better in your case.)

There's a DigID app that I use for the Belastingdienst (and all other overheid things), I don't have a OTP keyfob at all.

Wasn't that from the X-Files? Or maybe I'm misremembering. I think I'm thinking of this: https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Conduit but I also remember it being seen from a balcony, so maybe I'm conflating two things I've seen together.

Yes, I had a similar experience in high school. I ended up modifying a virus that infected a bunch of computers and causing problems, so I got kicked out the lab until the next year (but this was late September, so no biggie.)

The next year I mentioned to the teacher that I had something I wanted to play with, can I please get access to a PC (the lab computers were Acorns), and so he gave me after school access to the accounting classroom, more storage on the network drive (50MB when everyone else had 5!), and basically free reign if I didn't break things. So I didn't, and was running Tierra on piles of machines overnight, just to see it doing cool things, and getting in in the morning to save everything and reboot them. It certainly set me up well for the future.

And didn't break things, because I didn't want to kill the golden goose!

It's a wee bit different. It wasn't my time, so someone correct me if my details are wrong, but this is using the rows of switches on the front panel of, say, an early IBM machine to actually put in the bootloader code in binary. I.e you could do something like set the address with one set of switches, set the opcode with another set, and press a button (or something) that would then write that opcode into that point in memory. Repeat until you've put the whole bootloader in. And, I imagine, hope you never have to go through that again.

Vodafone, but in NL. You might be on to something there.

Verizon is prone to overstepping with Pixels. I couldn't tether my phone with my carrier (from a country that doesn't have Verizon anywhere near it) because they happened to use the same SIM ID (or something, I'm not sure of the details), and when I tried my phone would reach out to Verizon to see if I was allowed to, it didn't know who I was and said no, so I couldn't tether my phone.

As someone from a developed country in the southern hemisphere, I find that a pretty terrible term.

I went once and it was very fun. It's about time I tried to arrange a group to go again.

I've been using Jellyfin for several months now, for me it works nicely. I did a bit of tuning over time (e.g. "OK, now I'll spend a bit of time improving how subtitles work"), and after learning how to set that aspect up, it just trucks along working. I have a handful of friends using my setup too and haven't had complaints.

Beware though that if any transcoding is needed, the RPi probably won't be up to it. Instead I shelled out a little bit for a small Intel NUC thing that can do hardware conversion.

I thought the same, but it turns out I have quite a number of friends (especially younger, who are sharing apartments with flatmates etc.) who don't have a TV or tablet, and who will just sit on their bed or couch with a laptop for netflix and such. This is totally anecdotal of course, but I do feel like it might be the device stats are quite different from what we might expect.