qyron
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- Comment on Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax 1 day ago:
Not enough rich people to lobby.
- Comment on Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax 1 day ago:
I find the US legal system more amusing the more I keep stumbling on these cases.
Spend enough money lobbying or just file a suit against the state, win, and you can get a law repealed.
Meanwhile, here…
The governmente draws a project of law.
The parliamente debates, votes it, discusses it in specialty commitee, votes it again, reviews it until it can get a majority to pass, gets shipped to the President for promulgation and if it gets ratified, it becomes law and is it.
You have an issue with, you draw your case against the law itself, take it to the Constitutional Court and if you have a case, the law gets to be reviewed and rectified. Not taken down: reviewed. Once a law, unless it gets completely repealed, by another law, you’re stuck with it.
- Comment on Great Tits 1 day ago:
Exactly.
I once read an article where a biologist stated that herbivores should be instead considered oportunistic carnivores.
- Comment on Great Tits 1 day ago:
A family member had a mule that had to be kept away from the chickens, as the animal would gobble up any chick within reach.
It wasn’t casual, it wasn’t out of hunger.
The vet was horrified when he saw it happen, even after being warned.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 days ago:
We can ask some russian citizens if they’re available. Until that opportunity presents itself, we’ll have to make do with whatever information we can access and read it with a good dose of skepticism.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 days ago:
Just this morning, I was looking at a tv screen when it was announced a new study had concluded nearly 68% of russians still lament the disband of the soviet union.
Propaganda as it is, even if we cut those numbers by two thirds, it’s still too many people longing by one of the most brutal totalitarian regimes that has ever existed.
As a side note: I worked for some time with a company that imported machinery from Ukraine and Belarus, in the 2000’s, and I saw the amount of graffiti with USSR simbology that was plastered on the crates. Some people don’t allow it to just shrivel and die silently.
This isn’t to say the USSR did not created good things.
I worked with a fellow from Romania and he was appalled with how bad by comparison my country’s public health care system was.
But the numbers tally a grimm story of the USSR and the wrongs vastly outnumber the rights.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 5 days ago:
My mind has a single track, runs at low speed and revolves on a predictable cycle.
A long, convoluted way to say I’m disgusting.
- Comment on What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail? 1 month ago:
I’m going to risk there is none.
Many hand to hand combat weapons were bespoke to the user.
Using an example I’m fairly familiar with:
In Portugal, we have a martial art called jogo do pau. It uses a simple wooden staff. Today’s schools insist the staff has a standard lenght, width and shape.
An old school practitioner I had the pleasure to meet taught me the staff was always made to fit the wielder, not the opposite.
As a general guide line, it should have the lenght of the distance from the wielder’s armpit to the ground but there would be people that prefered longer or shorter staffs. Some people would prefer thinner staffs, nearly cylindrical in shape, others would prefers heavier, thicker, almost eliptical in profile. The amount of customisation and variation capable of being put into the weapon itself was so diverse, it made each staff unique.
I’d risk this same logic would apply to more classic weapons, like the flails you ask about.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 month ago:
There are a few EU alternatives. Why are those not being considered.
LiberaPay is one.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 month ago:
I did and nowhere is Signal mentioned in the article.
You state Whatsapp uses Signal. So, again: how?
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 month ago:
To my knowledge, under Signal, the encription keys are locally generated and stored, and the traffic flows between end points as a closed packet.
This does not seem to be the case here, as the keys are generated and stored outside your equipment and, thus, are viable to be used by a third party to access packets.
But I admit I speak heavily burdened by technical ignorance.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 month ago:
How?
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 month ago:
I’m already considering building a maxed out AMD based machine, with DDR3.
The last machine I had with that technology lasted me 12 years. I can vouch for it.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 month ago:
Toasted AI! The best kind of AI!
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 month ago:
Yet! But should.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 1 month ago:
Never happened and I seriously doubt it ever will. But! I have a couple maid outfits laying around if it ever does. I’ll listen if they comply with my request.
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 1 month ago:
Nexus of causality?
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 1 month ago:
I was waiting for this reply!
I love those guys! Trolling them always makes my day. Asking if they are willing to help clean the house never fails to get them off my door.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 1 month ago:
Honest question: what is the reason to have a doorbell of this kind?
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 1 month ago:
Have considered a plain old doorbel and a peep hole on the door?
Low tech, cheap, cheap to install, lasts a lifetime.
Heck, if safety is the concern, install a periscope. Yes, mirrora inside a tube, to get to see, from a distance, who is at the door.
You want footage? Photos?
Install a local camera. Like one of those that are setup by biologists to film animals in the wild. Triggered by motion sensing. Or talk with someone technically inclined and install a local system.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Launches Public Vote on AI and User Choice 1 month ago:
So this already exists. That tells me they were already aware the AI was not that popular.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Launches Public Vote on AI and User Choice 1 month ago:
Isn’t there a method to access only the non AI search? I read someone on that here.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 month ago:
A visible weapon generates discomfort. Unless on a police agent, nobody likes to see a gun here. It’s a threat. Hence the default for concealed carry.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 month ago:
This just happened. Could not ask for better.
And now, for the obligatory drivel:
I live in one of the countries where more guns are owned and kept by civilians in Europe and the times I’ve seen one, it was on a police officer belt or on a museum.
Portugal (I was surprised when I learned this) has a lot of guns in civilian hands, mostly small handguns and hunting rifles, mostly shotguns and carabines.
The average hunter - I live in a somewhat rural area - stores guns empty, with trigger locks in place. And having more than one gun requires a gun safe, that is routinely inspected by police. Handguns have to be stored in lock boxes or safes unloaded. Ammunition must be stored separately and outside a minimal range of the guns.
Secret storage compartments are forbidden. Open carry is forbidden. Concealed carry is mostly standard here but manifesting it, with no reason, is a serious crime.
Gun violence is not rampant here, regardless what sensationalist news outlets and social networks desinformation campaigns try to do.
Most people never see a gun their entire life and if confronted with one will instantly call the police for safe removal.
So… I appreciate this kind of topic but it always strikes me as unnecessary for the average reality.
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer 2 months ago:
Distro chooser is a thing. Or was. I’m not being able to open the site right now.
From that point forward, it is up to the user to decide how much or little they want or need.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I worked with someone that defend this isea to the letter, just not contemplating companies.
The argument stemmed from an alledge visit he had done to Japan, where he had seen terminals connected to mainframes, and people used those from their house.
I was only able to raise one argument: that is not my computer.
Mind that this man was extremely tech savvy, an experienced and proficient programmer and played the roles of IT solutions an security implementer and supervisor at the company we worked at. And we handled sensitive information.
To him, relegating everything to an outside server was a dream, as removed the hassle and responsability of having to maintain, repair, replace and upgrade hardware. Everything needed should be a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse or trackball.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 2 months ago:
Because lazyness.
I’ve worn down a stove and two electric ovens, about to go on my third, over the course of twenty years, and I always aim for the simplest of the simplest possible.
No pyrolisis function, no steam function.
Just plain convection ovens, ventilated. And if non digital models are to be found, even better.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 months ago:
If this is something I can setup with no need of complex licenses, it would be interesting.
I live in a small town and it could prove as a useful city project for cheap, reliant, local communications.
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 2 months ago:
What you just described has so many possible points of failure that I can only state that I hope any of it breaks and the circus comes falling down.
It will be horrendous to see the aftermath.
I hope we will see RAM at volume discount. I want to see these companies hurting to attempt to liquidate a fraction of the inventory.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 2 months ago:
Colorblind and subtitles are designed to include people, so they can enjoy a game or any other content, that otherwise would not be accessible for such individuals or would be otherwise diminished in quality or reach.
Difficulty tiers were created to extend the longevity, by adding extra challenge or even content to a game. Many games have - or had - content that was only accessible by playing one difficulty setting after the other. I don’t personally agree with it but it is(or was) a thing.
And isn’t Sony putting forward what the company understands is a new and useful feature to their games? AI autoplay? That is their thought on how a game should be enjoyed/played from that point onwards.
And in the chance I haven’t made myself clear enough at this point: I am not on a quest to prove others wrong. This is my take on the feature Sony will be inserting on their future games. If others find it good, good for them. Enjoy.
