URLCheck

One of the most useful apps on my phone. You set it as your default browser and any links open in that instead of in the default app. So before opening anything, it gives you a chance to see the url, remove tracking parameters (which it detects itself), unshort etc. and then open it in whatever app you want.

Interesting how Google Translate returns brown-haired for both Brunhårig and Brun hårig while DeepL doesn’t but they both return brown-haired when provided with the whole phrase. Shows how trustworthy auto-translation is.

Favorite albums that came out this year
Malicia - Mägo de Oz - Favorite song: El último rezo. There is a website about this album somewhere with a story formed by the songs but each song stands fine by itself too.
Puertas - El Cuarteto de Nos - Favorite song: En el cuarto de Nico. Some interesting lyrics here.

Favorite rediscovered song
The Last Stand - Sabaton - This feels pretty random cause I don’t even remember where I came across it, just started listening to it at some point this year. Perfect for waking you up when you’re feeling down.

Well shit, it had me convinced. I don’t remember what the argument was about so can’t really find the post to verify.

I saw a comment recently that answered with “would a bot do this?” with a photo of a post-it note saying Not a bot :). Was kinda cute

I shop from small businesses when it’s more convenient (which is actually more common than you’d think when you don’t have a car).

Mini markets are closer than supermarkets and stay open longer so I’ll often get groceries from there even if it’s more expensive.

When looking for a specific piece of equipment there are some things that can’t be delivered or they’d take an eternity to arrive so I find which stores sell it and go to the physical store, which is usually a smaller local place.

I don’t know if thrift shops count as small businesses but they’re also more convenient than going to big clothes shops.

And I guess most restaurants are local businesses too.

Sadly true (and yeah, I didn’t know about those movies)

And that’s why older media is usually better. Only the good parts have survived and the 90% has been forgotten.

That does not seem to stop people from trying to drive and park huge cars in these streets.

From the link, since I think this is the part most equivalent to DNS.

The Onion Service assembles an Onion Service descriptor, containing a list of its introduction points (and “authentication keys”), and signs this descriptor with the Onion Service’s identity private key.

The Onion Service upload that signed descriptor to a distributed hash table, which is part of the Tor network, so that clients can also get it.

You can still see that on https://lemvotes.org/

That’s very European of you to say

I haven’t done it myself but know people who do. If you use a known provider and only the domain is yours I wouldn’t expect it to be blocked as companies also use their own domain for their email.

Email yes but only with my own domain so I can change providers if the price changes.

I wouldn’t pay for anything I’d prefer to keep anonymous and that includes search.

Even if they don’t end up fully switching it doesn’t matter. Some might switch, some might try dual booting. But saying they are going to switch is free press and may convince more people to try it so that’s still a win.

Just tried it. Top result is… Sony Xperia 10VII

I have the 10vi. It’s pretty good for the money I paid (~300€). The UI is very close to plain android which is nice and doesn’t have a billion extra apps pre-installed like Samsung. The battery has been great so far. MicroSD and headphone jack are great features and I think you can also unlock the bootloader.

Having said that, some issues I’ve had that may or may not exist in other versions:

• The lock screen is buggy as hell, way too many accidental fingerprint unlocks and camera bugs that have persisted across updates.
• In Europe (different countries) it’s only ever gotten 5G once.
• Sony is doing something weird with its camera hardware. Any apps that try to use the camera outside the official app are having issues focusing and one app was actually crashing. This is not an everyday issue but would be a problem if you want to use a third party camera app.

I’d still recommend it but maybe try to find a discount cause Sony overcharges a lot.

Thank you!

Sorry, I’m too introverted for this. Where is the owner’s cat?

Any further info/links to that Norwegian police log? Sounds interesting for practicing small bits of the language.