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  • What do you think is an overrated food?

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  • But why would you eat Mexican food in Spain, unless you live there. Your brain went "damn, all those people speaking Spanish are making crave tacos"?

  • Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group

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  • I use, depending on mood or circumstances, a SD cars with a dozen GB of MP3, or use Finamp on my phone via Android Auto.

    My collection is still made exclusively of MP3, mainly because it's a large-ish collection of pretty high quality files (mostly LAME V0) with all the tags just right (Picard+beet and a ton of work).

    I curated this over the years, it sounds more than good enough on my hardware, and I don't feel like throwing the whole thing away because something a little fancier came along, especially if in this day and age it still means taking a loss in terms of compatibility.

    Both with the car, and with my Yahama network receiver/amplifier. The car is relatively new (2020) the amplifier is a little more seasoned, but it can direct play mp3, while I'd have to transcode opus.

    Someone shoot me the day I change HiFi hardware over codecs.

    With this being said, I'm not sure I'd transcode Opus into MP3 on purpose.

  • Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group

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  • Only if you think I'm here to screw you over.

    It was a new car. A Skoda Fabia. Ordered in January, delivered in May after the first lockdown. The autoradio supports AAC, MP3, FLAC, WMA and vorbis.

    And I do use the SD slot, with a dozen GB of MP3. Anything fancier does not make much sense in a car.

  • The United Arab Emirates will expand its ban on single-use plastic products from January 1, 2026

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  • I mean, can you imagine being a slave AND having microplastics everywhere?

  • Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group

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  • OPUS files can be played by practically any modern device

    The radio of my car (bought in 2020) begs to differ.

  • Mozilla's New CEO: It's Time to Evolve Firefox Into an AI Browser

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  • Guess we're going to have to go with Brave then.

    ...

    Oh wait

  • Control: Resonant | A game trailer from the Finnish company Remedy Entertainment 🇫🇮

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  • Damn that's cool.

  • Control: Resonant | A game trailer from the Finnish company Remedy Entertainment 🇫🇮

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  • Of course I knew about CD Projekt Red and Paradox. Somehow the titles I mentioned caught me by surprise.

    About France, you could have named Arkane. They did Dishonored which was really really good.

    Only Italy does not seem to have a gaming industry to speak of.

    On mobile, why would I play Angy Birds when I can play Dead Cells (free right now in the Epic Store for Android, though it's well worth paying for)? Though I have to admit I'm kinda addicted to the open source goodness of Shattered Pixel Dungeon and Mindustry. Likely not made in Europe, but so good, and you can get then straight from F-Droid.

  • Electron apps

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  • XMplay, that brings me back!

    I discovered XMplay while trying to play the tracker files of the soundtrack copied from my old Deus Ex cd. I think it was in MOD files, some kind of spicy midi that includes some samples.

    I use Linux esclusively since 2006 though.

  • First steps

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  • Been there, done that.

    I bought a new 4K screen for my home office, to use with my work ThinkPad T480.

    Actually had to switch from Konsole to Kitty because my old-ass laptop had scroll lags on the big screen when moving around in neovim.

    Edit: It was neovim, I'm not living in 2005.

  • Control: Resonant | A game trailer from the Finnish company Remedy Entertainment 🇫🇮

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  • And the devs of Helldivers II are apparently Swedish? Yesterday I suddenly found out that Dead Cells is actually French.

    The European gaming industry seems, from an outsider, to be doing some good work.

  • In Italy, murders of women killed for misogynistic reasons will now be defined as femicide.

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  • Penalties for homicide in Italy, are generally still harsh enough that increasing them won't realistically make a difference.

    But this kind of murder is most often an escalation, and so the chance for prevention exists. But that sounds hard, increasing the penalty for the murder to life +5 yeas is easy.

  • In Italy, murders of women killed for misogynistic reasons will now be defined as femicide.

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  • It's a bit worse than that though.

    The law in Italy literally defines homicide as the killing of a man. God knows how long it's been on the books with that wording.

    Of course that hasn't stopped anyone from being prosecuted for that crime even with that wording, and that use is clearly understood to be synonymous with human, the same way that noone thinks that the word mankind excludes women. No lawyer, judge of citizen has any doubt with regards to that.

    Nevertheless, in this day and age that wording does feels dated, even to me.

  • In Italy, murders of women killed for misogynistic reasons will now be defined as femicide.

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  • Downvotes and doesn't answer to the point.

    Class.

  • In Italy, murders of women killed for misogynistic reasons will now be defined as femicide.

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  • Do the rates matter? Does covering everyone cost extra?

    Law shouldn't discriminate for sex or gender or race or a bunch of other things (yes there can be rare exceptions where the biological sex does matter, e.g. abortion, but can we read a whole paragraph without whaboutism?)

    People go through a ton of effort to explain how it's perfectly possible (and common) to write laws with sexist results even using neutral language.

    And yet when we need to do the reverse, write laws that are meant to combat discrimination and and inequality without having to spell out and pick each specific group it's meant to protect the same people go "nope, sorry, can't be done".

    Edit: Think of the so-called "pink quotas" argument. Does it make a difference to write that you need at least 30% women, or to write that you need at least 30% of each sex? Practical results is exactly. the same, but one of the two is written neutrally, and I think there is value in that. Don't you?

  • In Italy, murders of women killed for misogynistic reasons will now be defined as femicide.

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  • Beccaria is spinning in his grave.

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  • I mean, they're not going to let you take a look at the algorithms of the timelines.

    Knowing what are the top posts allows us at least to know what those algorithm are pushing. It's not much, but it's the bare minimum of accountability.

  • My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.

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  • other brands don't suffer from these issues

    Yet

  • Advice, myths, and reality regarding privacy when travelling to China?

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  • Using a SIM card with a decently sized roaming plan is absolutely the way to go.