Der weltweite Kohledioxidausstoß steigt – und erreicht wohl noch 2023 ein neues Maximum. Die Verringerung der Emissionen verlaufe “schmerzhaft langsam”, sagen Experten....
The “ermäßigter Mehrwertsteuersatz” (reduced VAT rate) you pay for staple food in Germany is 7%. That might be less than what you pay in surrounding countries, but 7% is remarkably bigger than 0%.
I am looking for a solution. I’m thinking of a locally hosted socks5 proxy like TOR has, but instead of TOR, this self hosted proxy can be configured to rotate through other remote proxies that I have access to...
Obligatory disclaimer here; I strongly recommend you do not do what you are planning to do with only rotating proxies. Tor is much safer and more private about this sort of thing; you will be de-anonymized easily if you do not use Tor.
Now that the obligatory “privacy community” disclaimers are out of the way; I can say that I do understand what you’re trying to do. Frequently many websites ban the ever loving crap out of Tor Exit nodes and simply will refuse you any service if they even sniff a hint of The Onion Router on your packets. This is, unfortunately, an intentional design decision of Tor Project. You see; they understand the massive potential for abuse of Tor.
Unfortunately…this probably leaves you, the reader, in a situation. You end up being required to choose to either trust or do without. In today’s world; that’s just absolutely freaking impractical even in the best of cases.
Unfortunately the same websites who block Tor are also the same kind of websites with the kind of kinks in their panties that also motivate them to block Proxies as well! Seriously; if your packets come in smelling like they came fresh off a SOCKS5 tunnel; the remote website can often tell. Sometimes the website will be nice and wave this on through; but only if you include headers like X-Forwarded-For: in your request…which defeats the entire purpose of the damn proxy; as that header is for putting your original IP address in.
So in the end your traffic will still ‘stink’; either of Onions or of SOCKS. Sure, you could buy a VPN; but now you’re coming from an obvious VPN proxy and websites that already hate Onions or Socks also hate VPNs; because they can’t see who might be abusing their service.
Now you can try all three ideas and see which one the site will accept. Your mileage may vary and some websites indeed will block all three; Cloudflare, which is a CDN that also services many other websites and protects their edges from DDoS attacks is notorious for doing this.
Best of luck. All I can recommend is a paid VPN plan, pay more than $0 and ideally less than you would spend on a week of coffee; and make sure that the provider not only does not log; but make sure that the provider also is verified by third parties who aren’t shady…to actually be a no-log VPN service. This will take lots of research but it’s worth knowing who in the VPN space are shysters and who arent.
No, I won’t recommend a particular service; I’d rather you did your own homework and risk analysis anyways
If a Paid VPN is out of the question; using Tor may be your only option. If you have multiple proxies you’re probably paying for them anyways and could afford a VPN.
Hello everyone! I hope to be posting in the correct place, if not please tell me and I’ll delete this. I have a W11 VM on my EndeavourOS KDE laptop that I use because of some software I need for university that does not run under wine (LabVIEW and Keil uVision). The VM is running on virt-manager (QEMU KVM) using the virtio...
Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history....
I actually hope this ruling gets reversed. This has been a known factor in physical vs. digital games for a long time. With a physical game, the publisher only makes money during the initial sale. If that person decides that they want to sell their game later, the developer doesn't see any of the money from that sale.
I routinely buy games on Steam when they go on sale for 80%+ discounts. Even AAA titles that are less than a year old occasionally see discounts up to 50%. It's rare that we can say the same for physical games. I expect that part of this is that game publishers have factored resales into the value.
A digital copy immediately has a $0 resale value. It has no further value to anybody other than the person who bought it. But a physical copy still retains resale value, as it can be resold multiple times. Aside from a few exceptions, if a developer sells 100 digital copies, around 100 people get to enjoy the game. Versus selling 100 physical copies, which results in significantly more people getting to enjoy it. Also, physical games degrade, but digital games don't. Without any degradation, there's no compelling reason for someone to purchase a used game over a new one.
Overall, this lost revenue will have to come from somewhere. This will almost certainly hurt indie game studios, as well as the digital storefronts themselves. Epic Games is already far from being profitable as is. I can only assume that this will end in higher game prices, less sales, and lower discounts. Other possibilities could be limits on number of downloads, as that extra bandwidth comes at a cost, or subscription fees for storing your digital game library. Of course everybody has their own opinions, but I'd much rather just keep the games I've paid for, and acknowledge that I can't resell them.
Google hits a paywall. On the heels of a deal struck last week between Ottawa and Google, the search behemoth will pay Canadian news publishers $100 million/year for the privilege of hosting their content. Is that a win for Ottawa? Well, on one hand, Canada is now one of the first countries to compel digital platforms to pay...
Well, consider that prior to this, Google was paying $0 to support the journalists who were driving web traffic to Google News / Search (besides paying them in exposure, of course), thereby not generating ad revenue for the actual news outlets directly. Meanwhile, Canadian tax dollars were subsidizing journalists’ salaries.
Now, Google is supporting newsrooms by being forced through C-18 to pay for the news they’re disseminating (and profiting from) to the tune of $100MM next year. That’s $100MM in the Canadian Federal Budget that’s freed up for other use (or savings).
So, not all bad. It’s imperfect legislation, but it appears that the desired outcome of this aspect of C-18 has at least partially come to fruition.
In this case it’s “Ingress Protection” rating - as in how well it prevents water and dust from getting inside the phone when exposed.
Edit: since I’m on hold and bored, here’s the Bard description of the rating system
The Ingress Protection (IP) rating system is a two-digit code that tells you how well an enclosure is protected against dust and water. Here’s a quick breakdown:
First digit: This is for solid objects, like dust, fingers, or tools. It goes from 0 (no protection) to 6 (dust-tight).
Second digit: This is for water, like splashes, rain, or immersion. It goes from 0 (no protection) to 9 (protected against high-pressure water jets).
So, an IP67 rating means the device is dust-tight and can withstand being submerged in water for a short time.
Here are some real-world examples:
IP44: Splashproof phone, suitable for light rain or spills.
IP65: Dustproof camera, good for outdoor use but not submersion.
IPX7: Waterproof smartwatch, can survive a dunk in the pool.
IP68: Rugged phone, can handle being underwater for extended periods.
Remember, IP ratings are just guidelines. Always check the manufacturer’s instructions for specific usage advice.
This would pay off our mortgage and we could dump that monthly payment into saving for retirement.
However, if the question was how much do we need then it would be $0. We are far more fortunate than many.
If there was a line of all the people in this comment section waiting to get whatever amount they need I’d be one of those continuously moving to the back to let others go first.
I hope you all find improved quality of life, even if it’s not through some financial windfall!
I’m a trans woman. Before I transitioned, the grand total number of compliments I ever received was a big fat 0. Now I receive at least one compliment from strangers every week.
I was taught that negative numbers should be written as (-2) with the parentheses when using exponents. So I assume that the calculators are doing it right, or maybe it's just a measure against calculators doing it wrong? I cannot be sure. Also-2 = 0-2 so -2^2 = 0-2^2.
The way the problem was phrased was “2 coin flips happen, and I have a machine that tells me either if both are Tails or not, this time it turns out that there is at least 1 heads”.
That is exactly what my program simulates. We’re only interested in the times when this time, it turns out that there is at least one heads. If they both land tails, then we don’t record anything about the flip, because the question is “if they aren’t both tails, what is the probability that they are both heads?”
Think of it this way: generate n pairs of flipped coins, and put them in Bucket 0. Take every pair of coins that has at least one heads, and put it in Bucket 1. You’ll be leaving 25% of the pairs in Bucket 0–specifically, the TT pairs. The TH, HT, and HH pairs are all in Bucket1. Now, 33% of the pairs in Bucket 1 are HH.
When I tell you that I’ve flipped a pair of coins, there’s a 25% chance that they landed HH. But when I tell you that at least one is heads, it’s like pulling a random pair out of Bucket 1. We don’t know whether that pair was in Bucket 1 because of the nickel, dime, or both.
We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
You’re right, but security and privacy is about layers, not always 100% effective mitigations, especially not when the mitigation is a function (contact discovery) that requires a private list (your contacts) be compared against another one. For anyone where this is an actual security risk, they don’t have to to share their contacts. They will not know which of their friends/family are on Signal, but they can still use the service.
This feature does protect users in that any legal court order for Signal to present who is friends with who (as almost every other messaging provider has actual access to your list of contacts) is not possible. They’ve been subpoenaed multiple times[0] and all they can show is when an account was created and the last day (not time) a client pinged their servers.
Lastly, I’m not sure if this is even a feature or not but it wouldn’t be too difficult to introduce rate-limiting to mitigate this issue even more. As an example, its very unlikely that most people have thousands (or even tens of thousands) of people in their contacts. Assuming we go just a step beyond the 99th percentile, you can effectively block anyone as soon as they start trying to crawl the entire phone number address space, preventing the issue you’re describing.
I've tried this before, but I prefer keeping the placeholder for consistency. Without it these posts look very small compared to the image posts, but I could add it as an option later.
There's also the margin: 10px; on .entry figure elements, I cannot decide if it looks better with margin: 10px 0; so that images can extend closer to the edge when they have the right aspect-ratio.
Mail envoyé par Gabriel Attal "Tous les élèves entrant au lycée seront désormais accompagnés, à la maison, d'un outil d'IA de remédiation ou d'approfondissement en français et en mathématiques” (nitter.net) French
Source: nitter.net/NassiriMohamedX/…/1731992823191183792
Global Carbon Budget: Fossile CO2-Emissionen erreichen neues Rekordhoch (www.zeit.de) German
Der weltweite Kohledioxidausstoß steigt – und erreicht wohl noch 2023 ein neues Maximum. Die Verringerung der Emissionen verlaufe “schmerzhaft langsam”, sagen Experten....
What are your "poor person" money life hacks?
Let’s get a list going. Like with a Target debit card you can get $40 cash back and it takes 1 to 2 days to be withdraw from your checking.
NYT Tuesday 12/05/2023 Discussion
Link to crossword: www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily
FOSS Games are actually pretty good! (rldane.space)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/6819337...
Self-hosted rotating proxy
I am looking for a solution. I’m thinking of a locally hosted socks5 proxy like TOR has, but instead of TOR, this self hosted proxy can be configured to rotate through other remote proxies that I have access to...
[Solved] BSOD on Windows VM after update
Hello everyone! I hope to be posting in the correct place, if not please tell me and I’ll delete this. I have a W11 VM on my EndeavourOS KDE laptop that I use because of some software I need for university that does not run under wine (LabVIEW and Keil uVision). The VM is running on virt-manager (QEMU KVM) using the virtio...
Wusstet ihr, dass wir in Deutschland auf z.B. leer-CD, aber auch Festplatten und Handys Pauschalabgaben zahlen? (de.wikipedia.org) German
Das Geld geht an die Verwertungsgesellschaften....
If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how would you use it? (kbin.social)
Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history....
EU court rules people can resell digital games (www.gamingbible.com)
Finally some good news! I’ve been waiting for quite a while for such a ruling....
Baldur’s Gate 3 and other RPGs reign supreme on Steam Deck, Valve says (www.pcgamesn.com)
[Article] Google to pay $100M a year to Canadian news publishers (www.cp24.com)
Google hits a paywall. On the heels of a deal struck last week between Ottawa and Google, the search behemoth will pay Canadian news publishers $100 million/year for the privilege of hosting their content. Is that a win for Ottawa? Well, on one hand, Canada is now one of the first countries to compel digital platforms to pay...
Nothing's iMessage app wasn't its only security lapse - Android Authority (www.androidauthority.com)
ich👕iel (feddit.de) German
Police raid Moscow gay clubs, photograph passports of patrons inside (www.bbc.com)
What’s the least amount of money that would significantly improve your life?
What a feeling (lemmy.zip)
NYT Monday 12/04/2023 Discussion
Link to crossword: www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily
Glitch in the matrix (ani.social)
Personal space (startrek.website)
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)
We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
KoolBin - clean userstyle that puts more focus on the images (userstyles.world)
Cleaner look for KBin...