Don’t know about Slovenian law, but here it wouldn’t be illegal as long as you do it on the gas station’s property and not on public territory :D (well not illegal regarding the plate swapping, filling >50ltr per person is still illegal)

Obviously it’ll still look sketchy as shit, you’ll look like you’re about to pump and run, so that was not a serious tip anyways. Would probably look less sketchy to just cover a letter and might be enough to trick an ANPR-based validation system already.

Just have a second set of plates with you, put it on for filling gas, then switch to the original ones afterwards.

For me it’s API usage for the most part.
When they locked the API, I was even fine with paying a bit, so I subscribed to Relay Pro. But now I got a degoogled phone, so I can’t use my play store subscription anymore, and don’t want to fiddle with cracked APKs or patching either.
The original reddit app is a nightmare to use so… that’s why I’m here lol

(Freedom, privacy and decentralization are awesome too, obviously. But I’m gonna be honest, I probably wouldn’t have switched - at least not fully - if it wasn’t for having an app that works well for me.)

This is especially noticeable in locations with lots of tourism. People tend to give higher ratings when they’re on vacation, as opposed to locals who are more critical.
That has always been my feeling and has recently been confirmed by a study.

The faxis

Will electronic stores accept either 100 or 200€ bills when purchasing an iPhone for 1500€ upon paying in cash?

Having worked in one - yes, it’s no problem at all. If it’s too much (I think 3k was the threshold), a manager has to come and do a second run in the counterfeit detection machine, so it might take a while.
(Answering for Germany though, might be different in France)

I work in a small store, we get about one to two customers a day paying with it.
When I worked in an electronics store, we had much more of them, but it was obviously still the lowest amount of all bills.

So I wouldn’t say they’re uncommon, but of course they’re the rarest one to get. Not only because ATMs don’t have them, but also because people rarely withdraw 200+€ on a regular basis in the first place.

Yea exactly. Both variants are funny in their own way. And I don’t think anybody thinks that someone who’s doing a big/small dick joke is seriously referring to their actual size.

Otherwise we’d all constantly smell like fart. Cause a fart is just opening that hole and pushing air out.
(… or maybe we do smell like fart constantly and just don’t know cause we don’t smell smells that constantly hit our nose)

Honestly, having to have the user type “I agree that I have verified the application i am trying to install is genuine and not a fraudulent app”

Yeah, this would be the most promising approach IMO. Whenever I was forced to write something, I did pay more attention to what that said than if I ticked a box next to it.

Maybe even have them write “I am not instructed to install this app by someone else. I am aware that following instructions to install an app this way often have fraudulent intentions”.

(Also if the language was changed recently, it should ask to write it in all languages that were set within the last 14 days or so. Otherwise the scammer will have them switch the language so they don’t understand what they’re writing)

And why?

Must’ve been the wind.

Yeah I get that but the way I experienced it is that ads can appear in a podcast in any of the following three instances:

• Podcaster themselves record the podcast, may or may not add advertisement (self-spoken in their language)
• Podcast network which the podcaster is a member of adds ad break time codes, in which later ads are inserted, dynamically based on the listener’s location (pre-spoken, usually in the local language of the listener’s location, sometimes personalized)
• The podcast player/platform (Spotify, Pocket casts, antennapod etc) adds advertisements (also pre-spoken and in local or app language, more often personalized)

The podcast player’s ads can not be distinguished from the podcast network’s ads, except that they have a higher tendency for personalized ads (given that personalization is enabled in the privacy settings) or if the player declares it as an advertisement in a place where the podcast can’t. Or if you know that a podcast is on an ad free network. Other than that, you don’t really know if it’s an ad by Spotify or the podcast’s network.

My point is that, unless your player is explicitly declaring an ad as such, you cannot diatinguish a podcast network’s ad from a player ad. The only proof I have to know it’s a network’s ad in my case is that my player is open source and ad free. If I used a closed source commercial player, I wouldn’t know from who the ad is coming when it’s in my local language.
I’m German too and got German ads on english podcasts, but I know that the player didn’t insert it, so you can never be too sure if it’s Spotify adding them either.

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TLDR: I know it because the ads were German but the podcast is in English.

That can still happen and happens to me too, despite using a no-ad FOSS player, so the ads are definitely from the podcast, not the player.
Dynamic ad insertion is absolutely a thing in podcasts. If you access/download the MP3 file on the server from a German IP address, a German ad will be put in at the specified ad break before you/your player downloads the file.

So a different language ad doesn’t mean it’s from Spotify.

(PS: By the way, using a VPN connected to a country where not many companies make podcast ads works basically like a podcast ad blocker. I route my podcast player through an Albania VPN and have like 80% less ads than before. The remainder is “classic” podcast ads that are inserted as a static part of the MP3 file, no way to get rid of those.)

I learned that Germany doesn’t have a state owned mail service anymore

It’s so dumb. We privatized all kinds of important infrastructure, then it became enshittified for revenue maximization and now it’s broken, shitty and expensive.

Some postal service, trains, telecommunication service, banks, airports & airlines etc have been government owned a few decades ago and worked so so much better.

Hmm I don’t know actually, but now I’m curious too. From quick search:

As the newspaper Handelsblatt explains, “angst about potential surveillance is rooted in Germany’s past.” The combined legacy of the Nazi Gestapo and the East German Stasi are thought to be part of the reason Germany has been a pioneer in data protection — with legislation dating back to the 1970’s.

https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/coronavirus-germany-privacy/

I’m probably quite biased being German myself, but I feel like that things like privacy and security tend to be more important to Germans than to other folks. And I don’t speak just about the tech bubble, it shows everywhere.

To give a random example, when a license plate has been blurred in a photo posted anywhere, chances are high it’s been posted by a German. Despite the fact that there is no license plate lookup (like carfax for US, finnik.nl for Netherlands, car.info for Sweden etc) so a license plate wouldn’t even reveal anything to anyone, yet we treat it like a secret on instinct. If you ask such a German why he blurred it, he probably won’t have a reasonable response, he just does it because he feels like it.
(Edit: Just look through the used cars here, most if not all will have their plates censored given they have plates on them lol)

Getting back to topic, this might not be the only explanation, but I’m pretty sure it’s a noticable factor why Germans are especially present on platforms like this, i.e. platforms that tend to respect the user’s privacy more than the big tech corporations.

Vermutlich ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, ausspioniert zu werden, im Durchschnitt bei bezahlten Produkten sogar größer.

Ich mein klar, es gibt Facebook und Co, aber abgesehen von den großen bigtech-Diensten sind rein zahlenmäßig die allermeisten wirklich 100% kostenlos in vollem Umfang nutzbaren Softwares ja welche aus dem open source-Kosmos, während die meisten bezahlten Produkte welche von gewinnorientierten Unternehmen sind, welche sich in der Folge von Gewinnerzielungs- und maximierungsabsichten für Nutzungs- und sonstige Daten interessieren.

(Natürlich nur ne Theorie/Vermutung)

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