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  • Deutsche zahlen nach wie vor häufiger bar als viele Nachbarn

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  • Ich bezahle mit der Android-App meiner Bank, die eine girocard und eine Visa Karte enthält, und nicht mit Google Pay kooperiert. Ich frage mich, was Google hier noch an Daten sammelt, außer dass die App und NFC benutzt wurde. Die Datenschutzerklärung liest sich relativ generisch (zu jeder App passend) und die App scheint keine zahlungsbezogenen Daten zu sammeln.

    (AFAIK ein Unterschied zum Apple-Ecosystem, wo man an Apple Pay nicht vorbei kommt.)

  • Elements of Renewable Energy

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  • Well, Wikipedia claims

    The Earth has an internal heat content of 1031 joules (3×1015 TWh), About 20% of this is residual heat from planetary accretion; the remainder is attributed to past and current radioactive decay of naturally occurring isotopes.

    In that sense, it's the only renewable energy source we have that's not indirectly powered by the sun. It's most similar to (proper) nuclear power, but the latter isn't "renewable" because it requires digging up fuel from the crust.

  • Elements of Renewable Energy

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  • Isn't geothermal mostly nuclear power?

  • Any good Telegram alternative?

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  • Only iPads.

  • Any good Telegram alternative?

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  • It does. The Signal app for Android does not support being a secondary device. It must be the primary device with a phone number.

    In addition, whatever Play Store settings they use excluded all of our tablets, even the one that had a SIM. Manually installing the APK worked for this case, but that didn't really solve our problem.

  • Any good Telegram alternative?

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  • Signal is not available for Android tablets, which was a deal breaker when I tried to move my family off Telegram.

  • EFF Says Mozilla's PPA is better than Google's Solution

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  • Where did I say that?

  • EFF Says Mozilla's PPA is better than Google's Solution

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  • This is a nonsense comparison as these features serve completely different purposes, while only having in common that advertisers currently use user tracking to achieve the same.

    Topics data-mines your browsing history for information about your interests and reveals this information to advertisers in order to improve ad selection. It's meant to replace ad networks tracking each individual user's visits to connected websites and building that profile themselves. Since this is, in a way, much more powerful than tracking cookies, Chrome has a scary dialog asking for it to be enabled, and I don't think we'll be seeing it in Firefox. "Using different links" cannot replace user profiling at all.

    PPA doesn't provide any new capabilities to advertisers. It's a privacy-preserving way of measuring ad campaign success that is currently done by ad networks tracking individual users from ad impressions to conversions. "Using different links" is also defective, as advertisers need to connect ad impressions to conversions even if they are not immediately connected through a click on the ad.

    If these features become generally available, this reduces the leverage advertisers have on legislators to prevent tracking from being outlawed. Mozilla will be hoping Chrome picks up PPA.

  • Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131

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  • It's another feature that intersects with the sidebar work but has to be enabled separately.

  • EFF Says Mozilla's PPA is better than Google's Solution

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  • It was never about money. This feature isn't and was never going to make Mozilla one cent.

    It's about reducing the leverage advertisers have on legislators when it comes to the measurements necessary to operate effective ad campaigns. The hope is that with privacy-preserving methods available, privacy-violating measurement can be more easily outlawed.

    I think we would have arrived at the very same feature.

  • Firefox has a lot of issues, but maybe we don't have any other option.

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  • Looks like it's available in the Windows Package Manager Community Repository, so you can update it via winget update LibreWolf.LibreWolf or keep it up to date using the Winget-AutoUpdate tool.

  • What is the most unhinged conspiracy theory?

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  • They're usually also Biblical literalists, who believe that their infallible God-authored Bible says the Earth is flat ("four corners", covered in a dome, etc), thus the globe is an attack on Christianity. The worldly institutions are all controlled by the devil, who wants Christians to doubt their Bible and their belief in God.

    https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44

  • Is it worth switching to BTRFS for the average user?

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  • Healing won't work without copies (RAID) available. However, scrubbing regularly can also allow your drive to detect and correct errors before they become irreparable.