Cool. I've been collecting these from all over the world: https://www.space-invaders.com/flashinvaders/
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netfortius commented on What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them? · Posted by u/ekusiadadus
The Swiss public transport ticketing system. Their app uses location services to automatically determine your fare, so you don’t need to buy tickets in advance: https://www.sbb.ch/en/travel-information/apps/sbb-mobile/eas....
As a bonus there are no ticket barriers so no queues and no overheads of maintaining those machines.
Certain parts of France and Germany, that I know, use something similar for regional trains and buses: FAIRTIQ
netfortius commented on Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/thm
What's different in Samsung's approach, that kept them out of this dispute? Why didn't Apple follow Samsung's solution, if not patent restricted?
Love it! One of my favorite (round) trips, this one from Occitanie to Auvergne, twice a year, for acquisition of Salers, Cantal, Saint Nectaire and saucisson d'Auvergne, from their source :)
netfortius commented on Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... · Posted by u/susam
So it will feel like Real® UNIX® again.
Solaris just wasn't the same after they switched to GNOME.
Now you just need that utility that replicates HDD clicking noise through the speaker when your SSD is accessed.
Is there a Firefox skin that looks like Netscape 4? For extra realism have a script that randomly kills the process every 15 minutes to simulate Netscape crashing.
I was hoping someone would mention Solaris... :)
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netfortius commented on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024) quartr.com/insights/edge/... · Posted by u/bilekas
That's just your bank giving back some (but not all) of those 2+% interchange fees.
Basically, in EU you have low fees, so credit cards are boring, they offer almost zero perks (because there's no money to finance those). No one really cares about what brand of card they get, only about their credit limit. In the US you are charged high fees on every purchase, and then the bank uses your own money to bribe you, or encourage particular types of (excessive) spending, or just make you addicted to credit card debt.
I have been using US credit cards for years, all over Europe, taking advantage of points/rewards/car rental insurance/money back on challenged purchases, and I pay no more than the Europeans with their debit cards, be it services or products. And I pay the entire balance once a month, from a HYSA US account, thus making a little interest on that part, also, rather than debiting at the time of each purchase, from my non interest bearing European account
netfortius commented on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024) quartr.com/insights/edge/... · Posted by u/bilekas
Rewards exist because credit card transaction fees to merchants are very high, though. Europe put a limit on those fees and no credit card rewards exist here.
Interesting you're saying that, because my usage model is: US credit cards w/reward points, in Europe. The cards I use have no currency exchange fees, and very good transaction rates (€ to $), so other than the unavoidable (majority of my money being in the US) ups and downs of value of $ vs € (great up to six months ago, degrading since the arrival of the new admin in the US) I get the best of both worlds, i.e. European lower COL, and rewards and services (e.g. car rentals and insurance, flights, hotels, etc.) from use of US credit cards.
Chapter 5 of Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel book "Equality" (in fact a record of their conversation) speaks to the "meritocracy" subject, mentioning Sandel's previous suggestions on usage of a lottery system as part of the admission process, first mentioned in his "The tyranny of merit" book. Highly recommend these two guys' work!