sparqlittlestar

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Comment · 1 day ago
What's a ' traditionally male surname ', aren't they given to daughters and wives, too?
Comment · 19 days ago
My husband's "shared" his with me and now I don't get warnings anymore, but we're both on iOS
Comment · 25 days ago
All testimonials from the Netherlands on that website are from people with no distinctly Dutch names. Sure, a majority could be non-Dutch heritage as it's all very much passport related, but still, none?

And once I tried to click through on a Trustpilot review, there was a 404.

Comment · 1 month ago
This looks awesome and just what I need, with the difficulty of ARC in my corp environment
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm however so confused by Windows' top level of the hierarchy. Like the Desktop contains the computer which contains the Desktop, yet that one doesn't have the computer in it. And likewise for the bin, the Configuration Panel, yet not Settings, etc. etc.

    Desktop > My Computer > C > Users > Me > Desktop
or perhaps even on my work laptop

    Desktop > My Computer > C > Users > Me > OneDrive > Desktop
Comment · 2 months ago
It was still there in spring 2026!
Comment · 3 months ago
I onve saw a €500 note when I was exchanging guilders at the fentral bank and asked if I could see one. They showed me, from behind the glass. It's big
Comment · 3 months ago
> over-protecting from a risk is as bad as under-protecting

How would protecting ourselves against 50 °C summer heat (122 °F) ever be as bad as keeping 40° heatwaves or better yet, a return to the 35° summers?

50° means a human mass extinction event. There are no corporate profits possible in that scenario anyway

Comment · 3 months ago
Doesn't your argument hinge on the fact that roads and sidewalks are public works anyway?

The fact that compliance costs outprices some smaller companies rather shows that we as a society prefer to have accomodations, than live in one where such accomodations are only affordable to the affluent.

Comment · 3 months ago
I believe I read somewhere that WhatsApp gets awoken by a silent notification with the cyphertext from the Notification Service, which it then needs to decrypt before generating a local notification that actually gets displayed to the user. This was due to e2e, as/so the Notification Service can't have the plain text.

Edit: as a possible explanation for the battery drain?

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Well, I'd like to tell security that
Comment · 4 months ago
You know that's not a good thing, right?
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Interstingly, since 2008 Dutch bankers need to take an oath and whilst I don't think that in itself deters fraud, being fired for fraud would preclude going back to work for another bank (tuchtrecht / disciplinairy law)

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