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- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
I already did… There’s some subscription stuff where you can read pretty much all available magazines and papers, it’s been a long time since I’ve been reading that much “news” and reports
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
Nah. The issue is way more complex than that and begins in proper training for drivers and ends in some proper road worthy inspections of vehicles so that they at least have their lights correctly aligned and aimed.
There are no such issues in Europe. Sure, you get the occasional double blink from matrix led system, but I’d take those systems any day of the week over some who just forgot to turn off their high beams or has their lights aimed incorrectly
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
That would need proper training - meaning a drivers license that’s worth the plastic it occupies. Which it isn’t. Compared to the EU, a north American driver’s license is like letting a paper plane flyer in an A380 and saying “There’s the light switch, there’s the Autopilot, go fly”.
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
So… You want to turn off the sun? This has nothing to do with climate change, the sun hasn’t changed intensity in a few 100 years, so sun makes things warm
- Comment on Security Firm Discovers Remote Worker Is Really a North Korean Hacker 3 months ago:
As someone managing KnowBe4 for our Clients, I’d actually let you pass with it… ;D
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
I’ve been, too. Even though I’m neither in the US, nor a US citizen… It’s scary right now…
- Comment on I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck 4 months ago:
Why on another continent? Except maybe VDI, some direct calls to some LLM or some insane scales, there’s nothing really that needs those round trip times.
- Comment on I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck 4 months ago:
I would say it’s a very bad metric though in this context.
Full-ACK.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
Luckily “the West” isn’t just the U.S. - it’s also France, the U.K., Mexico and even Australia…
- Comment on I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck 4 months ago:
the storage is built so it doesn’t break so easily. I trust AWS engineers more than Mike, no matter how cool Mike is to hang out with. Additionally, if the storage breaks while Mike is on vacation we’re screwed, with the cloud you get a whole team 24/7 on it.
That’s easily mitigated just following established standards. Redundancy is cheaper than anything else in the aftermath and documentation can be done easy with automation.
you can prevent data loss with backups or multi-region setups with a few clicks/terraform lines. Try telling the PO that you need to rent datacenter space in Helsinki and Singapore for redundancy…
You don’t, you rent rack space in a location far enough away but close enough to get the data in a few hours.
It’s neither superior, easier or less risky, it’s just a shift in responsibility. And in most cases, it’s so expensive that a second or third on site engineer is payed for.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
The west does not have a monopoly on innovation.
Nope - but it does look like we have the “monopoly” of being able to call out bullshit openly and not fear falling out of a window. Or being stabbed.
- Comment on Anyone running Zoraxy v3, the reverse proxy for networking noobs? 6 months ago:
Yes, I did. But I couldn’t get my Homeassistant to work routing through it, so I switched back to Proxy Manager…
- Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 6 months ago:
I finally switched my gaming rig two weeks ago. Been great so far, except VR and I’ll admit, the Xbox Game Pass missing…I wish gog or someone would come up with something like it, because there have been a lot of games I started and didn’t finish because they just haven’t been my cup of tea…
Now if Autodesk would get their shit together as well, things could be happening at work as well.
- Comment on Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI 7 months ago:
“AI” is probably simple machine learning?
reads article
Yes, it is.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Google is just the complete opposite and empowers global surveillance.
I disagree with that. Yes, they enable it, but you can turn (nearly) everything off in the settings and with a few ground rules things are quite good.
Take TikTok, Meta or something like that…you can’t turn off most of the data harvesting and profiling.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
It is. And I personally commend Google for this - they are pretty much the last manufacturer to truly give your the freedom, without crippling the device to hell and back. Sony and Samsung cripple the cameras when you unlock the boot loaded, nearly all Chinese manufacturers don’t even give you the choice, Xiaomi has a “wait list”.
Say what you want about Google - they still aren’t as terrible as others.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
for example production of base chemicals that are used in various other follow up products, lot’s of efficiency due to special membranes and so on.
- Comment on Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers 8 months ago:
Smaller corporations have it easier, IF they took IT Security serious. For the simple fact, that there are just a lot less entry points and way less whack amole playing.
And Microsoft never took security as serious as they should have.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
Well, since working in the industry, i can say with a very high confidence: There will be substitutes, but not for everything - at least at this point in time. There may soon very well be a breakthrough in material science, but at this point there is no alternative in some use cases (like gaskets, that have to sustain extreme temperatures and pressures…).
But i absolutely do agree with you.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
I’ve been wondering for quite some time why everything is going to shit. Now I think I get the picture. Thanks for the enlightenment.
And yes, I fucking expect people to think about their decisions and take responsibility serious - even if they don’t have the means to get caviar or Champagne all the time. But hey, I’ll probably be labeled as boomer in the next few years, so whatever floats your boat!
Judging by all these downvotes, I guess that ship has sailed a long time and maybe I shouldn’t care so much 🤔
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
Oh i absolutely agree with you. Especially in cosmetics and other “day to day” products that are disposable.
But that’s also exactly the argument - make companies and customers dispose of these products correctly, because banning PFAS outright will have devastating consequences. (Like 3M just shifting production to China from Europe. Europe had the highest safety and production standards for PTFE - now they are going to be produced in china with absolutely no standards )
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
Maybe in the U.S., but not in Europe. We got the Nutri-Score, we got the animal wellfare labeling and we have open source databanks where you scan the barcode and get all the information about a product so you can actually make a decision.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
And you are arguing that customers become mindless drones that don’t need to think about any consequences when they consume. Which is exactly why we have fucked up the climate.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
Is there really no alternative in shampoo & disposable coffee cups?
There is - but i personally think it’s up to customers to not just grab what’s on the shelf and do at least some basic research, because PFAS generally have to be marked on the bottle. Disposable coffee cups are just stupid all together.
This could have been done years ago but if industry can’t self regulate then bans it is.
I get the sentiment, but why not regulate stuff, before just banning it? And while we’re at it, how about educating the customer?
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
You do realize, many of those “forever chemicals” have no alternative? PFOA for example is essential for modern production, because there is no other material known to withstand the temperatures and pressures needed in the production processes? So the alternative is either not to use them at all, with ALL the consequences - or we have use a proper way to dispose them.
Purification Plants are the same argument.
- Comment on Modeling shows green roofs can cool cities and save energy 8 months ago:
Spain and Portugal laughing from their benches on their roofs…surrounded by lush green plants…
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 8 months ago:
I’m German. How about you go f-yourself.
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 8 months ago:
As a customer of both Telekom and O2, i highly disagree…the Telekom net most of the times is shittier than the O2 one - even though the O2 one sometimes looses connection all together, in those cases the Telekom connection doesn’t have Internet at all either.
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 8 months ago:
It has absolutely nothing to do with the lines, but the headends. Coax is very capable of transmitting lots of Data fast. Due to the tree topology of cable however, the headends have to be extremely fast. If everyone on the tree of 100 has 1000 Mbit, that headend needs to have 100 Gbit of capacity. Most of those headends however cap out at 10 Gbit and sometimes service up to 300-500 ports. German cable providers cheaped out and didn’t upgrade their infrastructure for quite a while. The coax line technology didn’t change in the last 30 years.
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 8 months ago:
What kind of ridiculous argument is that? You can pinch your dick in a zipper - are zippers unsafe?