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  • In my experience, Yandex has always been better for piracy than any other search engine.

  • In Spain at least I have two small alternatives to this:

    • Paypal (I don't like it too much, but it works fine).
    • A prepaid credit card offered through my bank. Good for sites that don't look too trustworthy but I need to buy from. I just activate it, load it with whatever amount I need, I make the transaction, then disable it again. Even if it gets leaked no one can take any money out.

    For everything else I have a virtual credit card number that's not dynamic, but at least it's something I use exclusively for online stuff.

  • Here you get a debit card by default with your bank account, and that one's free. You might get a credit one, but credit limits are typically low. I lived in Canada for 9 years and by the time I left I had a CC with a limit of 26k CAD. Here my Spanish credit card has a limit of 1.2k euros, and I've had it for quite a long time.

    In Spain at least there's quite a lot of confusion with this. People call any card type a "credit card", even debit ones.

  • I'm not completely sure. Sometimes I find stuff in one site I don't find in any of the other two. Also, I don't know how often catalogues are synced.

  • Yes. I combine libgen with Anna's Archive and Z-Library and there's very, very little I can't find.

    Combine that with KOReader and this is pure bliss.

  • I've been using Fastmail for a few years and I'm quite happy with the service. Being a semi-large organization I expect their security to be OK, but if anyone has comments on that aspect I welcome them.

    As for privacy, I always consider e-mail to be a postcard. If I want to encrypt something, I use GPG locally.

  • In Spain (not sure about Europe in general) things are slightly different.

    I have been living in Canada for 9 years, and there if you see a transaction you don't recognize in your credit card statement you phone your bank and they take care of that.

    Here in Spain you need to go do the police, file a report, then talk to your bank, then they'll think about it.

    So when I came back I was talking with some guys I know and they convinced me that, at least around here, it's still a good idea to use Paypal. You also get faster refunds, etc (and that could be due to some European regulation, not sure).

  • I like it a lot, but sometimes I feel he's going to get eaten alive by the character he's created. He should tone it down a notch sometimes.

  • You're right, I completely misinterpreted the comment. The thing is that "voice" is a very specific term within IRC, and I got confused :D

  • If you mean that in some channels only some people can actually "talk", I think it depends on the configuration of the channel, but it's a possibility.

    I thought people used Discord because you could have video / audio chats (not sure about this, I've used it very sparsely.)

    And then there are Open Source projects that use Discord as the documentation repository. Hell is a place on the Internet, apparently.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    Hidden cameras capture bank employees misleading customers, pushing products that help sales targets

  • Damn, I was used to work around shitty stuff on Teams. Are you telling me they're going to push another, different set of bugs on me now?

  • What has been your involvement with Reddit as a user so far? I'm trying to understand what users are getting those offers.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml

    Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

  • Some people have already commented how to find it.

    However, on a tangential note: last I heard, they stopped adding new papers due to a trial in India, but I never found out the outcome of that. Anyone has news about this, or did I dream it?

  • With the new EU's interconnection laws I hope I can WhatsApp from Pidgin, or even from irssi!

    But no, I don't use pidgin anymore. irssi, yes.

  • Also, some (most?) RSS readers don't need the path to the feed directly. You give them the regular URL and they'll figure it out. TinyTinyRSS does it.

  • Gnomon. A massive disappointment.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    CRA now allows 2FA apps

    Privacy @lemmy.ml

    Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base'

    Privacy @lemmy.ml

    Accept cookie banners with third-party cookies rejected

    Privacy @lemmy.ml

    Europe’s hidden security crisis

    Privacy @lemmy.ml

    We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices

    Canada @lemmy.ca

    Opinion: Quebecers, act now to freeze your credit file

    Books @lemmy.ml

    How Manga Was Translated for America - NY Times