Also, accounts. Long promised for community or lowest tier then integrated only in the expensive tier of photoprism IIRC, which made me switch because that only then works for individuals.

Except for database versions in 2.7.5->3.0.0

But one docker compose change and it migrated seamlessly.

There are very different rules. Like worlds different.

Comparing just Belgium and the Netherlands right next to each other. The Netherlands is quite doable if you find a job. Some automatic work visas and then residence based on that depending on origin country

In Belgium literally no company in the country outside of IMEC and Deloitte will go through the extremely long visa sponsorship program (only digitalized in 2022 IIRC). It is pretty much only possible if you have family or a partner that already lives there. Even people studying there for 3-8 years have a few months to find a job or they are kicked out (in a bad job market compared to other countries also).

Yes, they likely brought on a PR person after their last major fuck up. It directly contradicts what those youtubers said about the sponsorship. Who knows who is telling the truth.

That AI-generated apology is better than doubling down like the last time, but they shouldn’t be treated as this “oh they are clean and haven’t been caught doing anything”.

Though they didn’t apologize for the Brazilian fascist support because that didn’t go viral like the French one. They might still be paying him.

Except for financing a French fascist and a Brazilian fascist who is the son of a dictator who was one of the leaders of a fascist coup… You know, besides them.

Besides financing fascist YouTube’s including a French fascist and the Brazilian son of a dictator who was one of the leaders of a fascist coup.

Besides those.

That is because for a long time software developers were paid way higher than anyone else in the tech industry. There are very very few engineers in the Midwest that get paid that.

If you compare CoL in silicon valley to France, it is literally 4x+ in many cases.

I moved from the Midwest (low CoL) to Belgium and my CoL went significantly down, like 40%.

The podcast provider themselves use download IP to dynamically grab ads and push them to your player.

It tags me wrong for some reason so I get French commercials even though I am in the Flemish part of Belgium.

Why do so many “important” people die in plane crashes in the past couple of decades?

• Andy Cecere (2026 - US Bank)

• Joshua Base (2026 - Capital Factory)

• Christophe de Margerie (2014 - Total energies)

• Petr Kelner (2021 - PPF Group)

• Kobe Bryant (2020)

• Glen de Vries (2021 - Medidata Solutions)

• Gary Knopp ( 2020 - politician)

• Steve Appleton (2012 - Micron CEO)

• Cheryl heinze ( 2012 - politician)

• Alison Des Forges ( 2009 - human right investigator)

• Beverly Eckert (2009 - activist on 9/11 committee)

• wilhemson executives in 2012

• Now the CEO of Ubisoft in 2026

That is just in the US, so many other rich businessmen have also died in plane crashes in other countries. Romania, Italy, Brazil, Russia, etc… Are aircraft crashes just way more common than the companies want us to believe? I was always told that airplanes were statistically safer than cars.

Also why are plane crashes so often surrounded in suspicious circumstances like the IBM plane crash where a ton of executives were killed and immediately following the other IBM execs pivoted the company focus (which kind of led to their downfall in the consumer market).

Well to be fair, the US declaration of independence is quite explicit about the right to revolution being one of the inalienable rights. They spent I think around 20 written lines talking about it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

Of course, it doesn’t mean their causes were just or their intentions were good or even that they were much more than an angry mob, but America was literally founded on the idea that a corrupt government should be overthrown by force. What is bad, how it is bad, blah blah blah depends on where you sit and if you value human life or human hierarchy.

Considering you need large parts from custom CNC aluminum, likely in the 5k range I would guess.

Edit: I was wrong. I went the the website and they sell complete kits for a like 1300. I think that is with 3D printed parts and not much aluminum.

Everything is working as designed.

The only 2 tasks that have been worth automating for me on my phone is time-based volume/vibration switching and VPN turn-on and off when I am on home internet or away.

No need to steal people’s water to do it.

Holy shit is Unvanquished a remake of the old Tremulous game? I used to love it. It has now been kept updated on github

Yes, but 90% of ISP supplied modems around the world are modem + router + WiFi access point with a unified firmware.

You also can’t take the antennas off of those and they are required in order to receive internet.

Yes you can use your own router (I have a Unifi cloud gateway ultra myself and one access point in the middle of the house), but that doesn’t mean that disabling the WiFi on the ISP web-software bullshit actually disables the WiFi and doesn’t just hide the SSID and make it un-connectable and still use it for this kind of thing and identifying nearby devices.

It also doesn’t mean that all the routers themselves like my Unifi aren’t using the access points to do the exact same thing (or will in the future). The only way you can actually control that is with openwrt or similar.

Do you think every country has its own router hardware manufacturer and commodity chip manufacturer? 😂

The 2 giants that make 95% of consumer routers around the world and the few companies that design the chips for them are both in heavy surveillance states.

I think it really depends. People literally have significantly less time than they did in 2005 when WoW got big. People have to work longer or multiple jobs just to pay sky high rent and mortgage prices with long, stagnated wages.

I get wanting to bring back the nostalgia of a bygone era but these community mmo’s where they were very social were a gigantic time sink that most people simply can’t do now.

Hell, I find the easiest workflow for me is literally on one computer:

• scan with skanpage
• save
• drag/upload via web UI to paperless server

Then you automatically have a 2 location backup (and 3 with 1 off site if you have a backup server implemented) and it is very simple for family to pick up.

Known liar too.

Pledged to donate a ton of money to climate change organizations. As of tracking it until 2 years ago, he had actually donated only 3% of the pledge.

VPNs are to protect you against your ISP, that is about it. I guess sailing the high seas also since fingerprinting doesn’t apply as much. Also getting around authoritarian government blocks.

It is a small piece of the puzzle.