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Ubiquity Unifi AC-Lite. But if I were to redo it, I’d use something that runs OpenWRT.

Crime is high, but I guess I’ve been lucky, overall I’ve now spent about 10 months there without ever being the victim of a crime (well, unless you count the fuckhead of our white racist landlady stifling us on our deposit)

Just tested it, at least with number of characters in a word and splitting words, GPT4 does it flawlessly.

South Africa: Hate of walking, danger of walking.

I’m from Germany, I’ve walked to school in 1st grade already. In South Africa there’s an American-Style car culture, and a lot of crime. So mostly the very poor walk. I’ve lived there for half a year in a rich area. I walked to the store, because it’s a nice walk (Uber back, because we lived on top of a mountain… some of the cars even struggled, only tried walking that direction once) every time I went shopping, I was the only white guy to walk that street. Some black employees (it was a rich area) of the mansions there were walking, but mostly it was just SUVs.

My wife’s niece’s school is maybe 1 km away from where they live. Car, both ways, every time. She’s 13.

Last time we visited, we went to a restaurant. It was dark (minor culture shock: It’s crazy how fast the sun disappears in comparison to Northern Germany. Bright-dark-black. No slow sunset) when we walked back (~500 meters). When we arrived, her uncle was just leaving and told us we really shouldn’t do that, it’s far too dangerous. About 350 meters of those were brightly lit …

Also, not so much culture shock directly, but a ton of things were new and strange to me, a white guy whose exposure to black people was pretty much just TV and cinema. Simply that hair works so different was completely new to me because I never thought about it.

In SA, there’s some added strangeness from surviving tribal rituals that sometimes get blended or live side-by-side with Christianity. Last time we were there (my wife is from the Sotho tribe), there was the ritual overnight slaughter and cooking of a lamb, which also involved making bread and brewing some kind of beer, and then eat, drink and either smoke or take snuff. Even the tiniest amount was okay, so even the children participated. This was to ask the ancestors to bless our lives and our trip back to Germany. Then, because a ton has (?, not quite clear, my wife is not very traditional :D) to be made, they had to find people to eat/drink all that stuff.

That wasn’t always the case, when I was younger the clubs had to close at 5. Which meant locking the door and only allowing people out, but not in. Until 6 when they opened again for the morning club ;)

easier overwiev of your spending

It’s the opposite for me. I have to be far more involved to track cash payments, with bank accounts I can easily see and track everything and make sure my budget stays in sync.

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which makes absolute sense

It will make sense, once it’s not required to have a local subscriber, or do a search for it first. Right now, it often results in 404 for smaller instances.

You search for the URL. Not sure why that is required, but doing that works. Once someone has subscribed, the normal /c/communityname@kbin.social works.

• Shady company, free-tier stopped working for fake reasons. But it’s very fast: NopeCHA

• OSS with multiple backends: https://github.com/dessant/buster

Captcha or ReCaptcha are easier to solve for the bot I use to solve it for me, than it is for me…

Your 2nd idea is trivial to solve for any specialized bot.

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GPT 3.5 (what chatGPT was at the beginning) failed at non-trivial math ;) It couldn’t figure out how many characters even were in a word.

That only works as long as the bots are generic and not targeted. Just let the bots use headless chrome and fill out visible stuff.

I actually use my provider’s webmail interface (fastmail) both on Android and Web. I tried Thunderbird and derived clients, including commercial ones, but the performance kinda sucks.

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Safe, physically. Not safe for me mentally :D

The only reason to not do it would be taste

Which IMO depends on the hardness. I’m from Flensburg originally, the water there is at around 1° dH (~18 ppm). Amazing water, I’d always drink it straight from the tap. It tastes as if it were sweetened.

Now I’m in Lübeck, 17° dH (~303 ppm; measured in a lab) and I can’t drink it unfiltered. I usually switch the filter after slightly over a week, measured (with indicator liquid, so not super exact) when it tastes noticeably bad at 9° dH (~160 ppm).