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Re:Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays? on Saturday December 02, 2023 @06:08AM (#38497745)
I was in a EU prison. I have seen 5 years pretrial detentions with one guy. There is no rule of law.

Me, they put for a month into solitary confinement under 24/7 video surveillance when I demanded to speak to the US embassy, since they did not believe me that I am a US citizen.

Re:Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays? on Saturday December 02, 2023 @06:03AM (#38497723)
Thats hard and depends where the money is, it may even be abroad. My US bank did not even reply to inquires from my lawyer in Europe.

I am recovering too. Soon, I got to war.

Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:45AM (#38111088)
Do you have a link?
Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:41AM (#38111066)
I have a 10TB hdd and if a website is interesting, I am likely to save it.

This site you would find under /data/u/uranium/uranium_enrichment_yielt.html

And I use recoll to find stuff https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/index-recoll.htm...

Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:38AM (#38111047)
I wish your site would have an RSS feed. In our days you have to build your own scrapper
Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:31AM (#38110974)
- I searched Google for "how much caffeine is in coffee". It gave me a calculator that said, "40 mg" ... It turns out the calculator was normalizing the caffeine content to caffeine per 100mg of coffee."

Man, you have strong coffee. :-(

Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:08PM (#38104262)
For a teen it shows some balls. But he basically would have would have gotten trouble in most jurisdictions with this name.

You could not run an auction site as ibay.com

But you could still use the string in another context. e.g. eBayern

(Bayern=Bavaria)

Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:03PM (#38104159)
You might settle for squirt.ing ....
Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:02PM (#38104140)
Remember when fuck.yu became fuck.me ?
Re:Bitwarden Adds Support for Passkeys on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:00PM (#38104106)
I never installed it on Android. I use it only on my computer. But I use it also a lot as an organizer since it is so flexible. Has also my ID scans, Degree scans etc.
Re:Bitwarden Adds Support for Passkeys on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:41PM (#38103798)
Nothing beats www.enpass.io but they charge now. I still ran the free version (free version not available for download anymore).
Re:Uriel Utopian Philosopher, 1982-2012 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:13AM (#38096088)
Sombody posted suckless.org recently and this is how I found this guy. Probably not interesting for most users here but I found him interesting.

http://uriel.cat-v.org/

PS: "Harmful software is usually referenced to as software that is bloated or too complex in design. Such software has been known to cause suffering to lots of people, including the death of Uriel. Examples of harmful software are the things listed in picture.

Harmful software has remained a controversial topic on /g/, where people usually care about powerful and advanced software more than simplicity. The fact that GPL is listed as harmful has made many freedomfags butthurt."

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Harmful_software

LOL

Re:Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:46AM (#38095895)
Difficult to explain. As far as I remember it always showed the CN subtitles and you could with your mouse always see the translation and the meaning of the single characters.

viki and iq are around 5 USD a months so it could still be worth it.

This plug in is supposed to work well with Netflix: https://www.languagereactor.com/

Netflix is 12 USD or something. I am just out of prison and I have zero money and currently this is out of my reach. But it may work well for you.

BTW, try this movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7180392/

Well, they EU can sue too and if the government sues you it is a different game and can get expensive.

Fines for breaking EU Competition Law Overall limit: The fine is limited to 10% of the overall annual turnover of the company.

Annual turnover of Meta?

Re:Walk a Terminal File Manager on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:44PM (#38093283)
For a file manager I would just use mc and it is available on most servers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander

It rarely makes sense to install another app, especially if it is proprietary. Just checked out termius.com a ssh manager. With a monthly subscription? 10 USD a month, a steal!

I just use sshpass now via C&P.

I am not a lawyer.

"If i travel to the eu as an American does that mean it’s illegal to track me while present in their territory?"

Yes.

"Would I be able to sue them"

You can sue any time but only makes sense if meta does something illegal.

"and which country would be most favorable for the largest payout if so?"

If Meta breaks the EU law you would likely have to sue in the country were you were present. Could also be that you have to sue Meta in an EU country were they have an office. (Ireland? Luxembourg? Dunno).

"I’m happy to write their support team an email letting them know my intentions to travel (lol)."

This is a great idea, unfortunately there are no punitive damages in most EU countries. Your payment would be tiny.

Re:Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:45AM (#38083300)
Dude, I am not sure you will still read this. Viki has changed: https://support.viki.com/hc/en-us/articles/17924295071251-Su...

What a clusterfuck. This may be a better option now: https://www.iq.com/

Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:29AM (#38082168)
Trust me, I could not care less about the German boneheads. But you are right, as always, the judge has little understanding how tracking works.

I have a heavily modified web surfing browser that offers me some amount of privacy and ad free experience. Pay walls I circumvent with "Pass paywalls clean" or with a bookmarklet that looks up the site on an archive.

In the end, it makes it harder for an average website to track me but not impossible. Dont believe me? Try this website:

https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint

By the way, ghostery, the ad blocking software, is (was?) owned by a German media company. Hubert Burda Media. You can't make this stuff up. And no, you should not use it.

Yes you can buy drugs in prison freely. You can even buy cell phones but they have devices to detect cell phones in your cell.

Who brings them in? Possibly guards but visitors can also bring in a lot. Pretrial detention is tougher. The drugs are brought into prison and then smuggled into pretrial detention.

The hands of the idiot judge who run the prison were shaking when the letter of the embassy arrived. Unfortunately the US embassy did not want to send a note of protest, because I am a dual citizen.

"There is an international treaty (Vienna Convention) that requires governments to inform arrestees of their right to speak to their embassy. The problem is that treaty violations aren't really enforceable without an underlying local statute to implement them."

Well, a diplomatic protest note from the US embassy would have worked wonders to the careers of the people involved in this clusterfuck.

Well, yes, I was in trouble because I was in prison already and my public defender did not pick up his phone for 6 months. In this situation, I said I am a US citizen and demanded to talk to my embassy. And after I insisted on this for two or three weeks, I was put into solitary confinement.

Even talked to one of the highest person in charge. Can you proof that you are a US citizen? Let me call my embassy. They did not allow this. I suggested they call the embassy but they rejected this.

I even wrote to my judge a complain and he said there "is no reason for this". I have it in writing.

What do you want to know?
As an American, who has spent time in a prison in Europe/Germany and was put in solitary confinement under 24/7 monitor supervision, I tend to disagree. The reason why I was put there: I claimed to be a US citizen and wanted to talk to my embassy. Since I don't know US prison, take my opinion with a grain of salt. But fuck Europe!
Re:Thunderbird 115.4.0 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:55PM (#38005438)
Use recoll
Re:Ask HN: How did you escape homelessness? on Saturday October 14, 2023 @05:46PM (#37884545)
This is comparably young, that is GOOD.

Some people here in the thread are suspecting mental issues. Please take this very seriously even if you think you are fine. Please consider getting medical help.

Re:Ask HN: How did you escape homelessness? on Saturday October 14, 2023 @02:32PM (#37882975)
The citizenship issues are not clear. I thought that he is American, Canadian or something and is trying to get Italian citizenship due to family ties.

> Did you speak to an embassy? This was an odd question from him.

Working without a home is very difficult. Also, your expenses are much higher. (Can't cook at home etc.)

Re:Ask HN: How did you escape homelessness? on Saturday October 14, 2023 @02:28PM (#37882940)
Dude, I am in a similar situation but I know how to get back to my feed.

Big question: How old are you? This makes a big difference.

> Is that what I should do... emigrate back where I came from?

No, but you should write down ALL options that you have. Italian citizenship is not bad, it would allow you to work in all EU countries. Also, this can be a 2 year gig. Gets you back on your feet, that's it.

Were you born in the US? Based on your post I am not 100% sure. Also, you don't specify what kind of degrees you have. IT?

Teaching English in China would also be an option.

PS: Travis, is this you?

Re:'Dumbphones' make a comeback: 'No one calls me anymore' on Friday October 13, 2023 @04:43PM (#37875416)
I just came out of prison, where I stayed 22 months in another country. I also had, besides another phone, a Nokia. When I left prison and turned it on, it started up and worked. It kept the charge nearly two years. I kid you not!

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