On the page you can search peoples home address, phone number, date of birth, other members living in the same house, real estate value, mortgage rate, all by searching their names. I successfully once identified a parent of a owner of a lost wallet, only containing a gym card with last name on it. Found her phone number on the site, called her and gave her the wallet.
It's similar in the sense that it's a unique number assigned to each person, but the fact that it's publicly available means that it cannot be used as authentication.
Now, with increasing criminality due to mass immigration there is only a question of time until these services becomes illegal I think.
I have personally been subjected to a stalker, so it will be nice when these services disappear for me personally but I honestly think the utility of them are great. If you find a wallet for example, you can easily find this person and call them due to these services. But for now, the only way to be truly anonymous in Sweden is to get a protected identity which is pretty much impossible to get or to buy some land and switch your home address to that place. People can still get all the properties you own with your "Personnummer" (social security number) but it is harder, less known, takes more time etc.
I'm not well read on the issue but a lot of things are digitalized in Sweden. It's a cashless society, where everyone have a personal number that they can use for government service & signing up for phone contracts. The tax institute (like USA:s IRS) sends their deductions out digitally, and AFAIK they have a very open API a lot of digital services in Sweden use for online identification of a private person. So I assume those pages probably use the tax-institutes API for personal information, and then other APIs (such as real-estate portals) to tie information together.
Sweden has a different attitude to this kind of information that is fundamentally more about transparency than privacy, so it's not perceived as an issue.
And there are even more extreme versions, like ratsit.se
where you can pay to get credit information on anyone.
Personally I think that what ratsit does is probably too far, and maybe it shouldn't be legal.
But in general I like our "public information" system, that lots of government information is available to every citizen, I find the benefits of being able to check what the government and those with power does (journalism would be way harder without this), outweights the negatives.
There are apps for Eniro and Hitta that could tell you if an incoming call is from a known callcenter for example. Not sure they still work after google tightened up security.
I'm always amazed I can't find someones phone number outside Sweden when I need one. Here it's just a few clicks away. Sure you can ask to be removed from their register but most wants to be there.
Another privacy nightmare with complete vehicle history -- better than carvertical.com or vin-info.com
It's kind of hilarious.
It's basically just a large catalog of products, filled by third-parties a-la Amazon now, only it didn't sell anything itself (until recently). Instead, it had detailed characteristics for a lot of products, with corresponding filters in the catalog; and good user reviews. Since Yandex is good at dealing with unstructured text, even poor data exports by vendors end up organized decently on the service. Since Yandex had millions of users on its other services, they all could leave reviews without much hassle. And since Yandex is primarily a search engine, it knows when a bogus review is spammed across the web.
Alas, it's only available in Russian since it works with Russian shops. Every time I need to look for a product on the English web, I lament that there's no service that is quite that solid. Amazon has filters, but search results usually look like simply a bit better Aliexpress. In regard to Google Product Search I don't even know anything particular—I tried to use it a couple times, and my general impression is that it... exists. Not much else.
Amazon attempts to do some product categorization but it doesn't work at all - even when they have the category you want to filter on the results are usually wrong, and the sort options are bad and marred by their ads and recommendations.
What I like most about Prisjakt is that they don't try to second guess what I want given a basic search phrase. Instead, Prisjakt gives me the categories to drill down into tables. Sortable and filterable tables with product name, price, rating, and category-specific columns (like storage size and $/GB for hard drives). The filters run DEEP. If you're looking for a HDR display, you can be happy with a "HDR" filter but also opt into DisplayHDR 1000 certified displays with 120+ Hz. For the entire Sweden because every decent Swedish retail chain and store is on this website, and they have everything between solid state drives and shoes in their database. If you look for watches you have filters and columns for e.g. automatic, solar powered watches, etc.
Amazon is very, very different. They're also a front to various stores but try to make it appear like THEY are the store when they are really not. Prisjakt instead just has this razor sharp focus on making you in charge of the data and forming decisions based on that, and then when the decision is made, presents you a list of the stores with that product and their respective prices. You are in control and maybe you prefer a certain one because you're a long time user there and like them.
So Amazon becomes a "fake store front" (like Sweden's CDON) and Prisjakt is more like just a database. One optimized for usability and presentation.
It's completely impossible to tell good quality stuff from useless garbage (especially since they are usually commingled in the same listing), and often it's impossible to find good quality stuff at all under the barrage of listings of the same two products with different fake brand names. The sorting options are a joke and the ratings are gamed so much they indicate nothing except how much the seller spent buying reviews.
It's amazing that Google hasn't been able to do better here.
AFAIK, north americans don't know about its existence. It's available in english.
BTW. it's a cooperation between french and german public televisions, is there something similar elsewhere in the world?
I recently discovered what a documentary is for an American and it's night and day. American documentaries are entertainment package with actions and conspiracies. There's really not a lot of discovery and knowledge.
I.. I thought that it's gonna be a Youtube channel about people living.. underground. I should get some sleep.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1676462/
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/048080-001-A/hatufim-in-der-ha...
- LeBonCoin.fr (“the good corner”, a Craigslist type site that’s used for everything from second-hand selling to job hunting to meet up organising),
- LesNumeriques.fr is a decent tech review media with in-depth tests and a VERY critical community providing good balance
- Gazelle which has now become backmarket.fr (also exists across other countries like Spain and the U.K.) and offers vetted second-hand tech gear - great for bargains and avoiding buying new for ecological reasons,
- LeMonde.fr/Les-Décodeurs is the fact checking arm of the French paper Le Monde and has some really interesting visualisations and articles
- Presse-Citron.fr was one of the first tech blogs in France and continues to be a reference
- priice.fr is a price comparison site I’ve heard good things about but haven’t used myself yet
- danstonchat.com is the French version of Bash.org for IRC fun
- Legorafi.fr is a satirical paper with lots of hilarious fake news - often quite timely - akin to The Onion (it’s a play on words on the famous French paper Le Figaro)
- Gandi.net is a registrar and hosting site which I’ve been using forever - they’re awesome
For example:
https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100008800/defaul...
https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100003900/defaul...
https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100004800/defaul...
Sadly they don't present the full scores, only the beginning or some part. I wonder if there are other sites where you can find something similar.
Somewhat related is http://www.critique-musicale.com/ - another great site.
I would not advise presse-citron they have been pretty obvious about being more or less just a sold out editorial at this point.
CanardPC is a GREAT addition, excellent build! About so much more than games too.
Lots of interesting content you don't find anywhere else.
Not so much new posts, mostly talks about tech and whatever goes.
https://bienvenidoainternet.org /int/ section https://bienvenidoainternet.org/world/
Social networks largely unknown outside of Russia? We have'em (vk.com, ok.ru). Reddit equivalent? See pikabu.ru. IMDB? See kinopoisk.ru.
There's a Russian browser (Yandex.Browser), Russian map service (Yandex.maps), tons of Russian e-mail, hosting and cloud services, Russian Spotify (Yandex.Music), Russian Netflix (several of them, actually), Russian Uber (Yandex.Taxi, which actually owns Russian Uber).
You'll see lots of Yandex services here, it's sort of Russian Google (except it predates Google by a year or so). Yandex's primary business is search and advertising, but just like Google, they diversify a lot. And even in primary area, they sometimes manage to beat Google. Yandex's reverse image search (when you upload the image to search for similar ones) is FAR superior to Google's.
And there's a lot of unique Russian content on global sites like Facebook, Livejournal (owned by a Russian company nowadays) or Wikipedia.
The Russian Internet seems to be an overall great place to find information on old devices, old software, and the like. http://sht-rajvo.narod.ru/index.htm is a retro-looking site about retrocomputing, it has many articles from computer magazines circa 1990. Also worth noting that due to Russia's traditionally "relaxed view on copyright" it's not hard to stumble upon a site that has direct download links to e.g. versions of MS-DOS or Windows 3.1.
dic.academic.ru allows you to search through several dozens encyclopedias. And bigenc.ru adds onother one (the largest and the most recent).
fantlab.ru is the best site dedicated to sci fi/fantasy literature (it is IMO 10 times better than goodreads or librarything). There are also a lot of site dedicated to literature like proza.ru lib.ru litres.ru feb-web.ru www.obshelit.su etc.
Besides habr, forum.ru-board.com ixbt.com cyberforum.ru overclockers.ru 3dnews.ru are very popular sites dedicated to hardware/software/coding.
There are a lot of sited about video games like old-games.ru goha.ru stopgame.ru riotpixels.com as well as a streaming platforms like goodgame.ru
rutube.ru exists for many years now but it's crap.
There are several sites dedicated to popular science like elementy.ru arhe.msk.ru gramota.ru histrf.ru
www.intoclassics.net and www.classicalmusicnews.ru are popular for those interested in classical music. www.darkside.ru and rock.ru for rock music.
forum.awd.ru and otzyv.ru are popular travel sites.
There several general purpose forums like forum.rcmir.com www.e1.ru/talk/forum/ In general, classic forums are still very much alive in runet (hell, even LJ is still alive) and there are a lot of niche forums you could visit.
There are more than 100 news sites, but the quality is quite average (like everywhere else). meduza.io ria.ru rbc.ru tass.ru inosmi.ru for example. sports.ru and championat.ru for sport-related news.
ozon.ru is now a russian version of amazon.
And obviously there are a lot of pirate sites from rutracker to flibusta to libgen.
But I do love the old usenet-like interface with thread trees. I wish more message boards still used a similar interface (although it is a pain to use on mobile).
There's plenty of content (in German) on YouTube about it, and forums:
We're talking about software which is used to make money. Translating it to English would help with that, because English is the default for software development (yes this is changing, but it's true at the moment).
It's not like we're talking about a work of art, it's a tool the creators sell.
Baidu Wangpan (百度网盘): file-sync service like Dropbox, but gives you 2TB (terrabytes!) of free storage
Tengxun Ketang (腾讯课堂): similar to edX/coursera, they have a lot of free courses on programming, machine learning, and technical topics
Wanmen Daxue (万门大学): similar to edX/coursera, they have a lot of free foreign language classes and lectures on economics/social sciences
HKGolden (香港高登): Hong Kong forum on tech and software, similar to reddit
Huxiu (虎嗅): tech news site
Toutiao Xinwen (头条新闻): news aggregator site, has categories and comments
Zhihu (知乎): QA platform, similar to Quora
Zhihu Zhuanlan (知乎专栏): blogging platform, similar to Medium
Ximalaya FM (喜马拉雅 FM): podcasts app
Duokan (多看): ebooks app similar to Kindle
Douyin (抖音): Chinese version of Tiktok
iQiyi (爱奇艺): video site with tons of movies and dramas
JD (京东): amazon-like marketplace with same-day delivery
Taobao (淘宝): ebay-like peer-to-peer marketplace
Weibo (新浪微博): microblogging site like Twitter
Zhifubao (支付宝): peer-to-peer payments app that works by scanning QR codes, very widely accepted in China
Wechat (微信): messaging app that also has tons of micro-apps and payment functionality built in
A few things to add about some of the items:
- Baidu Wangpan's sharing model is more like the file locker sites of the early 00s: when you share a file or folder, the recipient gets a 'copy'. It's not like Dropbox where you collaborate and sync changes with each other.
- Baidu wangpan can download torrents server-side.
- Toutiao is by Bytedance, which readers here will know for their popular Tiktok product.
- Readers here may know Tengxun by its international name Tencent
- Zhifubao's English name is Alipay.
- Taobao is more than a peer-to-peer marketplace. I'd guess that over 50% of e-commerce goods purchases in China (by volume, not value) are via Taobao/Tmall. There are many 'mom and pop' stores, but also many with 10s of employees.
- Tingting FM is another good one for audio content. e.g. it has Peppa Pig episodes in Mandarin, and each episode has some commentary at the end explaining the key lessons from the story. (You can watch Peppa Pig in Mandarin on YouTube for free, but there's no commentary at the end.)
Bilibili Manhua (哔哩哔哩漫画): webcomic site adjacent to the Bilibili video platform https://manga.bilibili.com/
Qidian (起点): webnovels https://qidian.com/
Zhanse Nileyuan (战色逆乐园): discussion forum attached to another webnovel site with female-skewing readership, maybe slightly similar to r/twoXchromosomes https://bbs.jjwxc.net/board.php?board=20&page=1
SegmentFault: StackOverflow-like https://segmentfault.com/questions
V2EX: the closest thing to HN, except more like a traditional forum https://v2ex.com/
I'm assuming you're probably more interested in the new digital RMB wallet technology which supposedly works even if your phone doesn't have internet access, but I'm not familiar with how that is implemented (I'm guessing it uses blockchain and broadcasts the transactions later when you connect to the internet). There's some info about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Digital_Renminbi
Tiktok is literally chinese??
It is not uncommon that Chinese firms have separate, parallel versions of their applications within / outside China.
So it is accurate to say that Douyin is a Chinese (meaning, available in China; not meaning made by a Chinese company) version of Tiktok.
its like a cool mixture of stack overflow + reddit + twitter ... all in japanese
Dutch-language tech community. Has news, a well-moderated and active forum, product and price comparison (with many filtering options) and reviews (both by tech journalists and the community), second-hand sales, and a job board.
It was started by one guy 20 (if not more) years ago, but these days it's part of one of the big Dutch-language media conglomerates (DPG Media).
Never did get on with the forums much, mind you. But some threads are fun to follow.
The community on /r/thenetherlands on Reddit is pretty friendly (more friendly than Reddit at large, where arguments tend to devolve into snide remarks with a higher frequency).
https://fok.nl and its associated forums are still kicking, although I don't personally frequent the site.
There is also https://dumpert.nl, which appeals to a certain subset of the population. I admit some of the videos on there can be entertaining, but the community is offputting to me.
Other than that, there are of course a dozen news media (ownership of which is mostly split between two conglomerates: DPG Media and Mediahuis) which have an online presence. Reputable ones include NOS, de Volkskrant, NRC, Trouw, het Parool, de Groene Amsterdammer, FD, de Correspondent. Don't bother with de Telegraaf, it's the Dutch equivalent of The Sun or Bild (or in certain regards, Fox News). There are also media outlets covering Dutch-speaking areas outside the Netherlands (Flanders (Belgium), Suriname), but I'm not too familiar with those, being from the Netherlands myself.
Also of interest might be https://dutchnews.nl and https://facebook.com/NOSinEnglish, Dutch news coverage in English (the latter one specifically translating NOS's COVID-19 coverage).
Google maps alternative with great tourist maps (also has a layer for cross-country skiing) and an app with offline maps
I definitely recommend it for worldwide use. It can do _everything_ offline, which is something rarely seen in this age. I have found it very practical for hiking Japanese countryside.
Only have managed to fault it once whilst trying to decide how to descend a mountain in Slovenia.
Today it feels that it just became a somewhat bland and nothing-special corporate resource (OpenClassrooms), but it was once a vibrant community with it's own identity:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120309143317/http://www.siteduz...
On a completely different topic, https://www.jeuxvideo.com/ have long been (and still is) one of the most popular forums among young people in France.
Made by former staff of Sdz, high quality, can't recommend enough.
Online courses with a wide variety of topics. Took a number of them unrelated to CS, unfortunately many are archived. There is a very good introduction course to Chinese https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:Inalco+52004+sessi... with a session this spring.
forum.hardware.fr is a big one (it's not just about computer hardware, there's a decent section about news/world events, etc.)
is a 20 years old French audio/music gear website featuring an exhaustive product database, reviews, newsletters, forum, social network, and marketplace.
Most musicians / producers in the country will be aware of it, including probably some famous ones.
I don't know of an equivalent in the Anglosphere (gearslutz.com would be the closest thing in terms of forum/community, but lacks most of the other features).
Audiofanzine does have some English content, but I don't think that ever really caught on.
Around 2005 there was a very cute php generalist forum called kopikol.net but I still lament that they had to close around 2008
A world wide map of rail tracks run by (german) rail enthusiasts.
Easy price calendar for (mostly) German trains.
is ebay but cooler and from Latino America.
Both very useful to understand what people really think in Spain about all kinds of topics.
[1] : https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelle
[2] : their other channels are listed at the bottom of [1].
https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/
also its parent site PC watch
Small selection of things that I found interesting:
1. Turn your old Dreamcast VMU into a modern game console: Would never have thought of it but in hindsight its the perfect device to mod given its form factor! https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1306197....
2. Combine a Raspberry pi with a Famicom cartridge to provide the Famicom the ability to run DOOM. Given all the other Famicom related releases listed there, its amazing to see the Famicon still alive and kicking. Wonder how the N64 scene is like over there. https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1297530....
3. IPS Screen mod for Wonderswan (granted we have seen lots of IPS mods so this one for Wonderswan makes sense given its Japan)
The story about Akihabara stores being vacant seems sad though. Even they cannot escape COVID/the future of shopping being online it seems.
They also posts new PC parts rumors relatively early.
- Germany: ARD, ZDF, DW, Deutschlandfunk
- France: France.TV, RadioFrance
- Spain: RTVE
- Portugal: RTP
- Italy: RAI
- Switzerland: RTS, SRF, RSI, RSR
- Sweden: SR, SVT
- Denmark: DR
- Norway: NRK
They all have websites that are pretty easy to find and although some content is region restricted, a lot is not.
Nice terror series.
I could try to contribute too: My cache is full of eels, how do I set the death timer for the evictings of my tenants?
Often when I am really interested in something I read the article and four different languages, because most often each language offers different aspects and images.
also it's a great way to learn languages.
...at least that's what everyone on this site would like to think. In reality, it's just a digg.com clone, before it started to suck ;)
(even name is a reference to digg, 'wykop' means 'a dig site', or 'to dig')
It's one of those websites that makes you lose faith in people e.g when you read popular takes about Bill Gates and COVID related stuff, it's pretty sad.
I bet that just reading titles from the front page for a 3 months would affect your happines cuz majority of headlines there are sad stories, provocative titles about politics, religion, men and women relations with heavy biass towards one side, generally a lot of junk
It's sad that this is one of the biggest ""discussion"" happening sites in the Polish internet.
Best resource for Korean language when approached from the Anglosphere.
I mean, most of internet's content is in English. Programming is all in english. English is also the lingua franca.
But everything seems dull compared to english content. You have the science, the TV and so on, maybe its just me not feeling so good about local culture.
Yet tourists seem to love these places. What a paradox.
Taringa used to be the Reddit in Spanish (well, at least for South America), with really interesting content. Microsiervos.com was probably the best tech/curiosities blog in Spanish, and a few days ago I visited and it is still active (from 2006 I think).
It's like eBay, but for wholesalers who are ~selling "ghost shift" parts~ offloading excess inventory to small-time consumers.
There are brokers for international customers; they communicate with the sellers and consolidate orders into a single parcel for ~10-15% commission.
But it's harder to browse these days; less is available without an account which you need to provide a mobile number for, and you have to jump through hoops to avoid getting only "international" listings.
PC Building: - https://pangoly.com
Gamers Forum (one of the oldest): - https://netgamers.it/index.php
Daily News: - https://www.repubblica.it/
Marketplace: - https://www.subito.it/
That led me to Kazus Electronic Portal[0] which seems to have just about every hardware-related piece of information you could need. Including an obscure serial driver from 2005 that I couldn't find elsewhere.
[0] http://kazus.ru/
It is a bit like polish StackOverflow - every time you google a technical problem in polish you will find an elektroda.pl thread on very top. And just like on SO, it will usually be closed by moderator for some bizarre and arcane reason.
It certainly has 'old-usenet' vibe, both the good parts (huge amount of knowledge) and the bad (pretty toxic behaviour of many power users and moderators).
- Research*EU Magazines: https://cordis.europa.eu/research-eu - EU Research magazine is the World leading open access publication for scientific research and dissemination. Each issue covers a different thematic area, presenting cutting edge science in an innovative and entertaining format.
It’s a massive forum with an area for almost any topic.
kachelmannwetter.com is a weather site with more in-depth information and analysis.
vendeeglobe.org is a very exciting solo non-stop around the world sailing regatta that is extremely popular in France. They had very good English coverage on YouTube this time (20/21 race)
http://omegataupodcast.net/ is a podcast with deep dives into many engineering topics. Some episodes are in German, many are in (accented) English.
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html German language podcast about the Corona virus with one of the world's leading experts on the Coronavirus, Christian Drosten (who developed the PCR test).
It has an important place in Turkish youth subculture and I believe it originated as a 'forum' for the tech community in Turkey.
The Japanese anonymous forum that inspired 4chan. It actually started of as 2 channel but various business and legal disputes happened.
Unlike XDA, it's well-categorized into threads, the first post is always a good summary of what's inside that particular thread with links to individual posts, and low-effort clutter is mercilessly moderated away.
It's a French podcast covering a wide array of topics such as geopolitics, journalism, big tech, industrial espionage, economic warfare, etc.
I find it refreshing because the ideas and opinions discussed are very different compared to those you'd find in the usual anglophone media, and just that by itself is a ton of value.
Edit: It seems somebody translated it to English https://cp-algorithms.com/
It is so clean and nice, doing exactly what it should: present the news. No ads, no popup, no clutter. And they are incredibly fast picking up what happens abroad (for example, during several terror incidents around in Europe, NRK has been quicker with updates than bbc) as well as presenting curiosities such as: "Cute owl saved from ugly, Norwegian tree" [0]. In comparison, bbc.com (which is relatively okay for a news web page) makes me dizzy with all the different sections and styles and clutter
[0] https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/fin-ugle-redda-fra-stygt-norsk-tr...
- Catawiki; (Dutch/European) auction site for collectibles, antiques etc. The auctions are moderated by experts.
- NHK world; (Japanese) national broadcaster serving self made English video content (and translations in multiple languages): News,on demand programs, documentaries, sumo! Mainly focused on Japan and SEA. Although the content often doesn't go too deep into a subject - it's not very critical - it's generally a nice mix of human interest, environment, science, culture etc. I had to get used to the Japanese ways/tone, but the overall lightheartedness made it a nourishing non-fiction media escape for me.
http://jp-carparts.com has schematica of cars so that you can find pretty much any part you need.
https://www.amayama.com is a place you can put the part number in and actually order the part directly from a bunch of Japanese suppliers.
You want some of those little plastic interior clips for a 1996 Nissan? They have them. Power steering pump? Entire transmission? Window glass? Hood latch?
It is often cheaper than getting it locally too because the local markets assume scarcity and Japan tends to not price gouge in the first place.
If you know the coordinates, you can access a jpg-generated meteogram directly over the URL - example for Berlin: http://www.meteo.pl/um/metco/mgram_pict.php?ntype=0u&fdate=2...
I don't agree with the author on many subjects and views, but it's interesting to read and think about them sometimes.
They do very deep analyses on each subject they cover, provide a lot of context, information, graphs, historical comparisons and interpretations that are not (or only briefly) discussed in mainstream.
It's however best to skip reading most of the comments :)
Hungarian tech forum; think tech only reddit. The thinkpad thread used to host quite a decent knowledge in the x200 modding era.
http://www.elektro.zolee.hu/rajz_lista.php
Oldschool electronic circuit board drawings, also Hungarian.
Its name is "Headlines" in Serbian.
II. Quality YouTube channels from Germany:
- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrWissen2go/videos
Explains societal/political/historical topics (in a neutral manner) to laypeople.
- https://www.youtube.com/c/maiLab/videos
Explains science topics (chemistry, biology, studies) to laypeople.
III. Quality YouTube channels from Japan:
- https://www.youtube.com/c/atelierateruimath/videos
Math professor teaching linear algebra, analysis etc.
IV. Services from Germany
Computer hardware etc.
- web.de
For me the best European Dropbox alternative so far (Online-Speicher).
V. Services from Japan
Website hosting etc.
The Japanese YouTube basically.
The Japanese Amazon.
VI. Concluding Remarks & Miscellaneous
- Arte, Phoenix make good documentaries. (But these were already mentioned by others.)
- https://www.schenker-tech.de/en/ - https://www.xmg.gg/en/
Laptops made/assembled in Germany.
- https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/
Some smartphones are made in Germany.
- https://www.youtube.com/c/worldorder/videos
By Genki Sudo (須藤 元気) former MMA fighter. He's now a politician.
- Hiroshi Abe (阿部 寛)
The Japanese Clint Eastwood.
- Kim Ki-duk
A Korean movie director that I happen to like.
PS: If I find/remember more interesting stuff from Japan and Germany, I will update this post. :)
Japanese site for game news. Every new and upcoming game is in the list, very good to see whata coming
A german forum regarding coffee, bean roasting, coffee brewing, machine repairs and coffee related trading (tech wise it's mostly covering portafilters though). The community is really nice, very pleasant atmosphere and great content
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