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- Comment on Smoking ban introduced to protect children and most vulnerable 1 week ago:
If they really cared about children and the most vulnerable they’d be taking much firmer action about car pollution, especially near schools and hospitals
- Comment on UK will have removed China’s Hikvision surveillance cameras from sensitive sites by April 2025 as further risks through connected cars, EVs are addressed, report says 2 weeks ago:
Any vaguely recent car is constantly reporting its location back to its manufacturer.
- Comment on The Beginning of the End 4 weeks ago:
I’m guessing that’s Venus
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 1 month ago:
Interestingly, my family subscription more or less halved a few months ago, which I was NOT expecting, but which was very welcome
- Comment on Is it fair to ask individuals to make significant changes to their lifestyles to combat climate change?" 1 month ago:
It would have a massive effect. Transport (cat) emissions are one of the larger - and growing - sources of emissions.
And we can’t hide behind “But the corporations…” because ultimately what they produce gets used by us.
So to answer your question: riding a bike when Global Capital wants you to keep buying cars and pumping oil into them is one of the best acts of defiance you can make
- Comment on Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets 2 months ago:
Apparently the surge pricing reflected what touts would have charged. Makes you want to grab somebody and shout HOW IS THAT A JUSTIFICATION?! Yeah, and if somebody steals a car they’ll sell it to me cheaper than the dealer - so it feels like TM logic means the dealer should sell it to me cheaper too because that’s what the black market is priced at?
- Comment on Elon Musk shares fake news about England rioters being sent to Falklands 3 months ago:
The thing is, they’re now just using platforms owned by Meta and Microsoft, both arguably awful corporations in their own way. Choosing Zuckerberg over Musk is out of the frying pan and into the fire in my opinion. They really should go to Mastodon, I guess?
- Comment on Miliband overrules officials with immediate North Sea oil ban 4 months ago:
It suits oil companies to pretend allowing them to drill is apolitical. In reality very few things are apolitical, and oil extraction certainly isn’t
- Comment on Are Tetra Paks actually recyclable? 4 months ago:
“can be” is doing some heavy lifting here. I confidently predicted amount actually recycled is a fraction of one percent
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 4 months ago:
Important to know that real-world testing shows that PHEVs are rarely plugged in and just burn oil much of the time
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 4 months ago:
Except people don’t plug in their hybrids and run them on fossil fuels. Hybrids are yet another way the FF industry keeps itself going while pretending things are being fixed
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 4 months ago:
People need to hire vehicles occasionally rather than buy more polluting vehicles against some rare edge case
- Comment on Fck it, we ball 5 months ago:
Woodlice
- Comment on Swoletariots of the World 5 months ago:
m’=m-45. Fixed it for you
- Comment on How come hotel check-in time is always 3-4? 5 months ago:
If you ask, some places can do early check-in. You might have to pay for it, because it disrupts their routine
- Comment on Why does Sync not display some comments? 5 months ago:
It’s not just Sync, I find. I’ve had this issue with other Lemmy apps yoo
- Comment on Why does Sync not display some comments? 5 months ago:
I’ve just tested this and it didn’t work. I think this issue, of posts saying there is 1 comment when there are none, is some sort of Lemmy-wide issue. It drives me crazy, as it’s impossible to know whether posts have a comment or not without looking at each individually.
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 6 months ago:
Have a look at marginalia.nu - it’s like a return to the old days
- Comment on Why is "Dear X" considered more formal than "To X" in e-mail/writing? 7 months ago:
I wonder if my colleagues have picked up on the fact that when I start an email “Dear-” rather than “Hi-”, it means I’m annoyed with them
- Comment on Broadband boss hits out at rivals over mid-contract price rises 7 months ago:
One of the most annoying bits is that these increases are always inflation plus a bit (eg current rate of inflation plus 3%). But… inflation is calculated using, among other things, broadband prices. So this practice guarantees that inflation will be pushed up
- Comment on Here is How ChatGPT Can Harm Your Dissertation Research 8 months ago:
Ironically this article reads like GPT output
- Comment on Don't tell your AI anything personal, Google warns in new Gemini privacy notice 8 months ago:
I mean, just look at the way Microsoft are trying to ram “AI” into every interaction with every app right now. As the big players make it more and more non-optional, people are going to have to work really hard not to put anything into, say, Word that they don’t want sent back for analysis
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 8 months ago:
Why would billions of us stop our excess pollution when we can just kid ourselves a handful of billionaires are doing it all? /s
- Comment on UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts 9 months ago:
It’s disappointing how the article mentions the big issue is people who can’t work work thanks to preventable ill health, but then the discussion doesn’t go on to address this - as though dealing with bad diets and lack of physical activity are not even work thinking about, and it’s easier just to magic up £100bn a year
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Nobody can audit the code for all their apps. Even within an ideal world where the code is all open, people don’t have the skills or the time. Sensor permissions are supposed to be a system so that people can have a strong level of confidence in apps without needing those skills and time, and so not having the ability to control this sensor is a problem - but an OS problem
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 10 months ago:
Speaking of which, it uses the same web interface as a lot of other news sites. Newsletter popup, autoplay video part-way down that then jumps to the top of the screen, etc. What Hifi is the same, and there are various other sites all with the same annoying engine. Two questions: (1) are all these sites owned by the same company and (2) is there a browser extension that can fix them?
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
- Comment on Do we own our posts? 11 months ago:
I think the problem is that you’re not explaining which country you’re thinking of, and seem to be suggesting it’s the same legal situation everywhere
- Comment on US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit 11 months ago:
Those are much much higher up, which introduces a lot of signal latency. The Starlink types are low down, which makes the Comms faster (and also means they keep burning up in the atmosphere)
- Comment on Can videogames trigger a heart attack? 11 months ago:
Don’t ask online strangers for medical advice. Go to a doctor if you’re worried