Limerance

Public key cryptography and signatures are common technologies nowadays.

It is possible to build an age verification system, where you use your actual ID with a cryptographic process without any personal data. The technology has existed for decades now.

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Washing hands is overrated. It only leads to a weaker immune system.

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One of Netanyahu’s sons was a press officer behind the lines, but the other was with combat intelligence at the front.

Israel is different in this regard. Everybody serves in the army. It’s also a small country. The military Is closely woven into society. The IDF is not a professional army, but mostly made up of reservists who are called up as needed. That means the political leaders will know people personally who have to fight.

What unit you serve in can make a big difference for your later success in life. Combat units, special forces, Air Force, and intelligence have the highest prestige.

Politicians benefit immensely in their credibility, if they have a distinct military career.

Valid. Employers want people they hire to do as they are told.

The qualification is social proof, that you’re from at least middle class background. Meaning you have a little manners and know social codes.

There are many nice and FOSS GUIs for the tasks ffmpeg is usually used for.

Handbrake is a great example for macOS, windows, Linux.

For more advanced video compression Shutter Encoder is fantastic.

Good old AVIDemux has a few other cool features as well, like cutting without reencoding.

There are also a bunch of straight up ffmpeg front ends as well.

Why do people use those shitty websites?

They show up as a fast and easy option without having to research, download, install, and learn to use a more complicated application.

Better for LibreOffice and other software to read and write.

XML isn’t meant to be written by hand.

Docx is bloated XML, but much better than the binary formats before.

Apple‘s AirPrint standard for wireless printing is pretty much sending a PDF over IPP.

There are alternative App Stores in Europe for iOS. So far they haven’t been very successful, because of Apple‘s interference. They do exist and are growing.

Domestic abuse is funny apparently when the evil gender is the victim.

It is a art

Statcounter is running on more than a million websites. They track user metadata across these websites.

While this doesn’t give you absolute numbers for everything, it should be enough to notice trends.

Their methodology is on their website.

You’re better off with a seedbox or a service like put.io

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