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- Comment on From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good. 1 day ago:
Yep, what plenty of people don’t understand, or don’t want to understand is that a good public transport system is seldom directly profitable.
Instead, the profits comes from taxes, public transport enable more people to work in a far greater area, meaning that you get more money through income tax, people earning money also get to spend it, generating more money from sales tax, and so on.
This is also why privately funded public transport systems are less common than state/city funded systems.
- Comment on Nuclear Nightmare is worth every cent (sci-fi horror inspired by The Thing, co-op) 2 days ago:
I litterarly just posted a comment about the brilliant BBC documentary Nuclear Nightmares, a documentary about our fear of radiation, you can watch it here:
- Comment on YSK that risks to exposure of nuclear radition are often over exaggerated by considering a Linear No Threshold (LNT), which does not match with many studies. 2 days ago:
This is a brilliant documentary from 2006, made by the BBC, on the topic of our fear of radiation, at the end it explains the LNT model and talks about the issues with it.
Please enjoy:
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 2 days ago:
Are you sure it was the T800? I can only find the P800 when googling.
I checks as I had never heard about the T800, but remembered my dad having a P800 for a few years
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 2 days ago:
Why would you not include the most epic of Nokia phones, the 3310?
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 1 week ago:
Top tip, see if you can get a present box like this, with the printed ribbons it looks really professional.
To print the ribbons I used a Brother label maker with cloth bands you can print on.
One mistake I made was using a sans serif font, a proper serif font like Times New Roman would have looked way classies
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 1 week ago:
Well thats what I get when I wake up way too early…
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 1 week ago:
The antagonist of the Garfield comic?
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 1 week ago:
This is my prepared bottles of rum, dedicated to when I no longer needs to share a planet with these bastards
Currently I have bottles for:
Trump, Putin, Musk, Murdoch and Orban.
The last one is what has been declared “The bottle of the unknown bad guy”, it is meant for when I find out about a person dying and my immediate feeling is “Good riddance”.
- Comment on Condiment udders 1 week ago:
I remember having these types of dispensers back in grade school, 30 or do years ago.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 week ago:
You had to monitor the computer, if any program started or did anything weird, it could cause the entrie disk to be destroyed
- Comment on Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond 1 week ago:
Ok, so you should simply pretend to accidentaly drop the cup next time…
The coffee will end up in the same place, but you won’t be punnished.
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 2 weeks ago:
Eh, it only showed up when I plugged it in the first time, but you can find the dll loaded even after.
It doesn’t use a lot of RAM or CPU, but for me it is the principle, don’t install software without asking me.
Drivers are another matter.
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 2 weeks ago:
It adds a dll that can’t really be uninstalled easily.
This thread has a lot of information:
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 2 weeks ago:
They silently install Logitech Download Assistant through Windows Update as soon as you plug a logitech device in.
Then you get a an ad to download their software as a popup message by the clock.
Since I saw it on a work machine pre pandemic, I have boycotted Logitech, I now mainly use Pulsar mice and Ducky Keyboards.
- Comment on US | Titan sub imploded due to engineering flaws — NTSB report 2 weeks ago:
This seems to be the investigation at NTSB, it does not look like it is fully updated as the status still says “ongoing”…
- Comment on US | Titan sub imploded due to engineering flaws — NTSB report 2 weeks ago:
How has the NTSB weathered the current regime?
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 2 weeks ago:
I remember reading that drug cartells in South America are using disused military communications satellites.
These satellites simply takes a signal recieved on one band and rebroadcast it on another band over a wide area, so as long as the satellite can pick up your signal you can basically talk to an entire continent at once, all while remaining anonymous.
- Comment on Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quake 2 weeks ago:
90s Unix workstations are so damn COOL!
SGI Indigo, Sun Sparc station, NeXT Cube, IBM RS6000 and others are just so COOL!
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 weeks ago:
I buy individual songs on iTunes, I can back them up without DRM to my NAS.
I dislike the entire concept of renting my music.
Since I started using an iPhone back in 2016, I have bought 781 songs, songs that I don’t have to pay to access.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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... 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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... 3 weeks 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... 3 weeks 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... 3 weeks 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... 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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
