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  • Used saily once: only works through the app, had to contact customer service so they send me a QR code to set it up. (Could not install the app because it claimed my device was not compatible)

    Used airalo a lot in ~5 countries: works fully through the browser or app. No hassle to manage esims for multiple devices from a single device.

    In all cases, what I looked for: what’s available. Its not like there is much choice. You search for the country and then take the one that fits for the duration you are there. I usually get the smallest data that covers the whole time I am in the country. Unlimited is not worth it if you have WiFi at most places. When i stay for 1+ months its basically always better to get a physical sim. So I get a 3 day esim to cover the first days and then get a sim at a store (not the airport).






  • That’s just not true. Bottles are made from 4 different plastics that all have to be separated for recycling (bottle, label, cap+ribbon, soft part inside the cap to make a waterproof seal). The ribbon part the cap is attached to is also present in bottles where the cap is not attached and it has to be removed anyway. So nothing really changed there except the part that has to be removed is bigger now.

    Despite what right wing nuts that have to be against every progress say, there is literally no downside to this law.

    But the biggest improvement is from nature cleanup crews that previously always found the bottles but never the caps.




  • groet@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTitle
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    Not illegal in theory but easily countered by the enemy team just encircling them or forming a wall. Pushing the enemy team out of the way of the ball bouncer would be a foul.

    Also the referee could just call it unsportsmanlike or obstruction of play and give a free kick to the enemy. The referee is basically always allowed to call any bullshit.


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    17 days ago

    Exactly the opposite. Offsite means it is illegal to pass the ball to a player behind the last defender and instead you must walk the ball around said last defender. This tactic is all walking and zero passing so offsite never applies.

    Instead its illegal because you are holding the ball. Every move where the ball is stuck for more than like a second is a foul.


  • Why does OP have a stick with encrypted data if they do not care about its security?

    Yes, maybe its just the porn collection that they don’t want others to see, but maybe its actually important stuff.

    I think it is important to inform people about the ways their security can be circumvented and if somebody gives security advice its important to inform people if that advice contains flaws.

    OP should know about the potential risks and then decide themselves if that is acceptable to them.

    And when talking about encryption, people often forget, that the best way to break it is to never attack the encryption, but attack the way people interact with the unencrypted data.

    OP should know about the dangers of decrypting their USB with software that could be manipulated.

    Is all that overkill in 95% of cases? Probably? Do we know OP isn’t in the 5% where it matters? No.

    Maybe they want to hide something from someone in their household who has frequent access to the USB stick. Maybe they are a journalist that might get searched by police/airport security … we do not know and we shouldn’t make assumptions about their threat model.

    That’s why I started the comment with “reasonable approach”


  • This is a reasonable way to do it HOWEVER this only protects you against data loss in case of a lost USB stick. If attackers get access to the stick and place it back into your possession afterwards, they can manipulate the portable veracryp so you will run their malware to decrypt the data. The malicious veracryp could then either save the password you entered (hidden somewhere on the USB for the attacker after they steal the stick again) or just upload the whole decrypted data to an attacker server.

    If you use the portable veracryp you need to make sure it has not been tampered with.

    Well actually decrypting the data on any device you do not trust is risky for the same reason. If veracryp is installed on a machine you still have to trust the person that owns that machine to not have manipulated it or to not have been a victim of malware themselves.

    TL:DR decrypting the data on any device you don’t control yourself is risky and optimally you could install veracrypt on any device you control.