viking

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[–] viking 4 points 1 week ago

Ahhh I just looked it up, it's an app that allows you to use the physical ID card for online verification. I knew that one, thought we have a fully digital ID now. That'd be a real innovation.

[–] viking 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

German here: There's an ID app??? Seriously, I never heard of that.

[–] viking 2 points 1 week ago

I switched from team sports to individual or 1 vs 1 where risk of injury is significantly lower.

Badminton, Paddle ball, ultimate frisbee, yoga, cycling.

[–] viking 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As someone who lived in China for 7 years, the alternative is that the next best person who enters the bathroom takes all available paper home.

In my entire time there, I can count the number of times where paper was available on a single hand, with spare fingers.

Naturally, everybody carries a box of tissues at all times.

[–] viking 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A gram is not the base unit, it started with one meter (hence, metric).

Kilo means thousand in Latin, so 1000 meters became one kilometer (aka, one thousand meters), and when they need smaller units, they took to Latin again, simply because the language was en vogue for science:

Deca (ten): Decimeter (dm, nowadays hardly used, but it exists) = 0.1m

Centum (hundred): Centimeter (cm) = 0.01m

Mille (thousand): milimiter (mm) 0.001m

Weights were then adopted from the dimensions based on practicality, i.e. one liter was a common enough volume that people could use it in a household, and it's defined by 1dm height x 1dm length x 1dm width. Or 10cm10cm10cm (same thing, but the base notation was units of one).

[–] viking 3 points 1 week ago

In the first place they must not be compromised with dead man switches from the US.

[–] viking 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

NewPipe as well, without any update either.

[–] viking 7 points 1 week ago

What's that supposed to be? Never seen those before, and I'm in my 40s.

[–] viking 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a nice concept for interpersonal relationships regardless of the setting, but it's got limited applicability in a results driven setting.

[–] viking 3 points 1 week ago

Nice, another of those shit platforms nobody needs is dead.

[–] viking 2 points 2 weeks ago

Or too smart to bite the hand that feeds. Either way, whoever they'd send as a replacement won't be better, but possibly worse.

 

Hi all,

Need to pick your brains for a bit regarding best practices for handling of account recovery issues while traveling.

Premise would be that my phone gets lost or stolen, and I may not have easy access to my laptop either, and being in a foreign country I couldn't easily get a copy of the original SIM to restore via OTP.

Consequently, I also don't really love the idea of using some password manager with a master password and no F2A.

Under those circumstances, what would you consider the best way forward to ensure accessibility without crippling myself in the process?

The only thing I can come up with is a random subdomain on one of my domains, with random username and random password, where I store an encrypted container containing txt-files. Maybe even further obscured with a random cypher (all numbers / letters shifted x positions to the right or something).

But there's gotta be other use-cases out there, so I was wondering what you are using?

Ideally something that doesn't involve another person.

Thanks!

 

Hi all,

I've got a bit of a spam issue that isn't solved by either keyword or actual spam filter. The problem is that I'm in China and mass email marketing here is acceptable for some reason, so local spam filters don't catch the perps, and international ones are useless based on the language.

And since I'm in a customer/supplier facing role, quite a few genuine mails use the same keywords as the spammers, so that doesn't work to fix my problem.

However, the mails are usually sent to hundreds of people at once, all with their mail addresses in plain view in CC.

So I'd just like to set up a filter to send mails with >100 recipients or something like that straight to trash, but can't seem to find it in the outlook rule settings.

Does anyone know of a useful workaround?

Thanks!

 

I don't really use facebook anymore so couldn't care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.

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