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- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 day ago:
Wow, you are soo cool and unique to realize that the consumer is not the customer, noone has ever figured out that before!
No one asked about the status of smart home devices in your home.
- Comment on Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says 4 days ago:
Obviously not, compound interest is a hell of boost, but require a starting capital.
- Comment on Microsoft triples down and blocks even more Microsoft Account bypasses on Windows 11 — an online account is non-negotiable 5 days ago:
I did it this last weekend for my parents, neither of the computers prompted me to add a Microsoft account.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 5 days ago:
It was replaced by GDPR, probably to make it easier to conform to just one set of laws.
- Comment on Microsoft triples down and blocks even more Microsoft Account bypasses on Windows 11 — an online account is non-negotiable 5 days ago:
Meh, install Windows 10 with a local account, then immediately “upgrade” to Windows 11
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 5 days ago:
Yes they do exist, the areas are clearly signed when the cameras are used for surveilence, we also have traffic monitoring cameras to get info of how the traffic flows, they are publicly viewable and fairly low resolution so you can see the traffic flow but can’t really identify a specific license plate.
There are cameras that do do that though, they are put up to automatically bill you for the congestion charge.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 6 days ago:
Before GDPR came, we had PUL, PersonUppgiftsLagen, The Law of Personal Information.
It was stricter than GDPR is now.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 6 days ago:
Normal cameras and video cameras are fine, the key point is that the camera should not be fixed for continuous monitoring of public spaces.
Dashcams were a grey area, most are fixed mounted to a car with the capability to continously record so at first only cameras you manually place and trigger when about to drive were permitted, then the law was loosened further, and now I believe they are permitted.
Now here we have an interesting fact about the Swedish court system, you can present any evidence regardless of if it was collected through legal or illegal means, and the court will decide on if they will accept it or not.
The illegal part only comes into play in a separate case where you have to stand trial for whatever illegal act you did.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 6 days ago:
Swede here, our laws disallow private security cameras from filming public areas.
The law is so broad that it interfered with dashcams, disallowing them for years.
- Comment on Block chain to stop AI scams. 1 week ago:
Anything that relies on external factors for flagging AI images is doomed to fail.
There will quickly be tools created to strip the metadata from the image, or to create AI pictures but skipping adding the blockchain stuff
- Comment on Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 1 week ago:
I get what you mean, for me a confirmation would be if the CPU meta data was signed with an Intel key that could be verified.
- Comment on Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 1 week ago:
I am a bit confused as to how CPU-Z can confirm anything.
Doesn’t it just read values that has been written to the chip and present the to the user? How does it confirm anything?
- Comment on UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home 1 week ago:
IT guy here, the problem here is not the slacking-off, but the fact that security was deactivated
- Comment on Starmer claims that America under Donald Trump 'keeps us safe' 1 week ago:
When the King of NATO pays attention to you, you speak softly, especially when the King of NATO has a massive fragile ego.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
I buy my music from iTunes, I also buy my audiobooks from Apple Books.
I do not rent my music library.
If I go into deep depression I don’t want to have to worry about having to keep paying to access my music, same with my audiobooks.
- Comment on A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side 1 week ago:
A LITTLE BIT OF SANDRA IN THE SUN
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 1 week ago:
I remember getting caught up in the trap of buying shark cards for GTA Online back in the early 2010s, I spent about a thousand SEK on them every month for a few months.
Then I got more and more pissed off, as I realized what a ripoff it was, and one day I uninstalled that shit, I was angry and am so glad that GTA uses soo much space that it takes a long time to download so it was easy to step away.
If it was a phone app that could be reinstalled in 10 sec, I could see myself being stuck for longer
- Comment on Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space 2 weeks ago:
That is dumb, space is extremely expensive to get to, power is fairly limited, cooling is a nightmare, and micro meteorite impacts can not only dammage the data center, but possibly initiate Kessler syndrome.
Now a few years ago I read an old article about Microsoft experimenting with submerged data centers which is a way better idea, it is relatively cheap to get to, power is easy to deal with, cooling is trivial, and you don’t need to worry about micro meteorites or Kessler syndrome.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s a rickroll…
Takes a few min to get to it though, meh story, 2/5 I guess
- Comment on Mars First Logistics, an open world Mars colonization game where you can develop and control vehicles (rovers, flying vehicles) to make money completing construction projects, released on Steam. 2 weeks ago:
Just had a look, and while I don’t have any issues with my eyes and the style, I really hate the style.
I am sorry, but I need some shadows or some texture, not just flat planes of matt colours…
- Comment on Bro 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Ok, so every slice gets a part of the mediteranean kitchen?
Should be fine with most of the northern slices, include Italy, Spain or Greece and I am happy
- Comment on Parents outraged as Meta [Facebook] uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man 3 weeks ago:
I was in trade school just when Facebook started, plenty of my classmates got on it, I never did.
- Comment on Vi undrar, är ni redo att vara med? 3 weeks ago:
Nope, that is the speedycake remix of Caramelldansen
- Comment on offline e-mails 3 weeks ago:
Yes, you can, you have a user profile in Thunderbird, that is where your emails are stored locally.
You should first look up downloading your emails locally, this depends on the connection to the mail server.
If you are running POP3, it normally downloads your emails directly to your computer automatically, if you are using IMAP, then it normally doesn’t.
Thunderbird is a popular email client, there are plenty of guides…
- Comment on offline e-mails 3 weeks ago:
IT guy here.
You can save individual emails as .msg or .eml files, way easier to work with if you only have a few emails to export.
- Comment on The facists are right! 3 weeks ago:
The larger bottles are bottles I got from work a few years ago, they probably suck, I may just get a Plantation Planetray gift box with small bottles of rum and use those instead…
It would look cool to have the bottles prepared in the giftbox with ribbons tied to them…
Yeah, I’ll change over to that, and post a pic when I get the chance
- Comment on The facists are right! 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I hardly ever drink, but I am perfectly willing to make exceptions for these dickheads.
- Comment on The facists are right! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I can think of a few more as well
- Comment on ‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but where is the general outcry and black headlines?