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New comment by cuvert in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

cuvert — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:35:52 +0000

If the companies would keep their own word and never overreach maybe nobody would overreact. How many times did we hear in the past "It's just for..."

New comment by cuvert in "The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore"

cuvert — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:13:36 +0000

Honestly, I also miss, sometimes, those days, when every website had a toolbar to install. I didn't have high expectations in those days. Now you see these billion dollar companies and you ask yourself what are those people doing there? Can't they afford at least one guy to do the bugs?

New comment by cuvert in "International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply"

cuvert — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:34:22 +0000

I currently live in Italy and always lived in an European city. Most apartments are tiny here.

New comment by cuvert in "International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply"

cuvert — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:44:37 +0000

Am I the only one who barely knows people who think of making money by buying a house? In my circles, everyone buys a house to live in it and that's it. Same goes with NIMBYS, never met someone saying: "Don't build here because the value of my apartment/house goes down." What I've usually met, it's people who just been lucky because grandpa, grandma, and/or other very old relatives, usually after WW2, bought large plots of land and they build there something and now their younglings are asking incredible sums of money for rent or selling.

New comment by cuvert in "Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem"

cuvert — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:23:33 +0000

I don't know how many travelers use train instead of a car in New Zealand, but if it means 20% less traffic on the road, those taxes are probably worthy. That's what I say to all drivers which get nervous for sitting behind me when I bike to work. Think, that if I can't bike, there will be another car on the street.

New comment by cuvert in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

cuvert — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:07:24 +0000

But wouldn't be better if people would invest in better home insulation and ventilation? It would help in the winter also. I say this because since the early 90s, my father installed air conditioning in our home, but in 2020 the building was redone (the building is from 1986), and whenever I return home in the summer, I don't need air conditioning. Just lower the roller blinds and open the windows after the sun passed.

New comment by cuvert in "Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards"

cuvert — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:53:40 +0000

And in Italy many people say Bancomat when they want to pay with the card even if they don't have a card with that circuit anymore.

New comment by cuvert in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

cuvert — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:29:44 +0000

I understand the first part, but I don't understand the second one. It's probably my ignorance for not having children and being out of touch with schooling. When I was in school very little grading was based on homework, mostly was grading by testing in class. For example math, I'm absolutely sure it was 100% a few grading tests every semester. You could cheat by copying the homework of your classmates, it was the same set of problems for, but with 0 understanding, you would not pass.