Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on [Social Engineering] My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster. 7 hours ago:
Great read. Hard to see how people could fall for these myself but some must or they wouldn’t still be operating. I’m more surprised they aren’t asking for bitcoin
- Comment on Lemmy specific Apps and Libraries 3 days ago:
Jerboa, very Reddit is Fun like, on f-droid too!
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 week ago:
To get back on topic: I bet you pull your phone out at the urinal
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 week ago:
Old habits die hard. But the most teenager comment I have seen on lemmy needed a rebuttal
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 week ago:
Sure, loads of sewage. But it also had smaller settlements, less people, and human waste was recycled more in times gone by too. Far more water was far more drinkable even 150 years ago
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 week ago:
Lol, we definitely have had clean drinking water for far longer than we have had dirty drinking water, thank the industrial revolution for that. And try skipping a shower for a day - you’ll be fine. Soap also has a long history www.soaphistory.net/soap-history/ over 4000 years
So literally wrong on all three points. Perhaps you need to read more instead of doom scrolling and swapping nudes on your smartphone
- Comment on .world c/conservative is unmodded now too! Post all the things they hate! 2 months ago:
Where did the last mod go?
- Comment on New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency 2 months ago:
Only getting rid of them next year I’m pretty sure. And initial problems of reliability but not these days. With phenomenal thermal efficiency from tiny engines
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 2 months ago:
Free to air. It’s how we all got hooked
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 2 months ago:
I’ve got a bell, spring, and pull handle. It’s genuinely amazing
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 2 months ago:
Spoilers: it’s the weekend and some hard drive is full. Japanese uptake of the cloud was lagging, and I fully anticipate that PSN isn’t utilising any big cloud providers scalabaility and we’re now waiting on Jim, who is on a long weekend (and well earnt!) to reboot/add more storage/logrotate
- Comment on Call of Duty's massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War 3 months ago:
$700m to market the same game year in year out
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 3 months ago:
Finishing Mass Effect 3. Multiple times :)
Smashing and being smashed with my mates at worms with couch-coop
Multiplayer halo 2 across the LAN in my house
LAN party instagib ctf 1 hour 0-0 and winning it in overtime
Rocking a battlefield 2/3/4 server online with a squad of mates all using voice comms, and nobody playing a sniper
I love gaming
- Comment on How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March? 3 months ago:
So with british law, the intent of the law is as important as the written texts. Listen to the debates which can and are used by judges from the commons and the lords to decide upon intent. It’s not for tiny forums, but I’m also not a lawyer. Significant most likely relates to not just user count, but also other reporting from other media, it’s significance of significant users, anonymity, and ability to break bigger stories. Try codifying any of that (and more!) in a law
- Comment on How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March? 3 months ago:
I don’t believe it would target any of the fediverse currently. No instances have significant volumes of users or target markets. This is designed to target facebooks, tik-toks, and twitters. Services that do influence populations. Essentially, making these services actually responsible for their algorithmic output and akin to publishers in the UK
- Comment on How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March? 3 months ago:
Simple. Don’t be a company. Companies exist to sell stuff: the fediverse doesn’t. There are a few other structures in the UK alone to circumvent this potential law, which is designed to combat large social media companies. And it won’t affect outside the UK either, and with brexit - will anyone else bother enforcibg?
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 months ago:
Not my title, as I already said. But anecdata backs this up ime. Go ask your parents for a giggle, see what they say
- I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphonesimonwillison.net ↗Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 159 comments
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 5 months ago:
Installation the trouble. Roofing is expensive. Next time you have to redo the roof: then it’s time
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 5 months ago:
This is clearly a tender fail. Byte code can be emulated for a fraction on that price. And it’s a two or three man job with a rota
- Comment on On the importance of F-Droid 6 months ago:
F-Droid is the single biggest reason that Android is actually usable. And the only real reason Google aren’t getting sued for monopoly practices. If only ReplicantOS was more viable