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[–] viking@infosec.pub 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's also quite awkward requiring others to spell the country with letters that don't exist in most alphabets, and therefore not on commonly used keyboards.

Sure you can make use of ü and others with some international layouts, but for laypeople it's rather cumbersome.

Imagine China would suddenly require everyone spelling it as 中国, nobody would even be able pronounce it, let alone write.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Post it on reddit, and that will end up as a google AI recommendation next week.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mullvad are Swedish and the most privacy respecting out there, so that's an excellent choice.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 2 days ago

Why are cucumbers in plastic? Strange practice.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How is it a good thing to spray shit on an apple? They last plenty long without that garbage.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 4 days ago

There is no c in Frikadelle.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 54 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yep. For the same reason I wouldn't visit Russia, Turkey, and the likes.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 5 days ago

I wish that was true. But as someone manufacturing medical devices in China for the American market, I can tell you that some components can only be obtained from the US. Usually it's some very specific sensors that are patented by US companies, so even if knowhow to replicate them exists, I couldn't use those parts in devices I'm selling back to the States.

What that means is that I now have to buy several components at twice their normal going rate, which brings the total price of the machine up by around 20%, and then I sell the finished product back to the US with another 84% on top, making the product more than twice as expensive for the hospitals buying them. And knowing hospital practices in the US, they'll tack on their standard margin, so patients pay at least triple for the treatment.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Trump is trying push a whole pick sides narative on the world, that seems pretty ignorant to actual reality, and just ends up with everyone more fractured and weak.

That's because he can't think in 3D. Boyo is pretty limited in his worldview...

[–] viking@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago

I'd consider myself liberal, but I embrace some traits considered leftist in some areas (universal healthcare, free education) and right in others (restrict immigration based on key economic and educational indicators, deport criminals).

[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

Fennec, you can log in with your Mozilla sync account and access them from any other sync-enabled browser in their ecosystem.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah old Firefox was the best. With a bookmark menu on the left where I could scroll forever and see it at a glance.

Those top bars are awful shit, and I cannot fathom how anybody uses them.

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