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- Comment on Law enforcement can now use Flock’s software to directly request doorbell videos from Ring users 14 hours ago:
How do you know they honour your decision to deny them the footage, instead of taking it without your knowledge or consent?
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 14 hours ago:
Except your GPU fans will start screaming when you press skip.
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 15 hours ago:
They hope
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 23 hours ago:
Yeah, you’re right, I looked it up.
Apparently that’s the “Chinese characteristics” in “socialism with Chinese characteristics”.
- Comment on 23 hours ago:
Some idiot with too much money is already on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Games
Athletes are adults … and they have a right to do with their body what they wish - my body, my choice; your body, your choice, … And no government, no paternalistic sports federation, should be making those decisions for athletes
Except for living as their gender dictates apparently, as:
According to D’Souza, athletes should also be categorised based on their chromosomal sex.
That said, if I understand this correctly, they are basically making, letting and forcing (select the one you like) trans men to compete in women’s sports.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 23 hours ago:
Buy a Framework, I have 4 slots that can be everything from USB-A to C to RJ45 to card readers when I need it, and I can charge the thing from any port.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 23 hours ago:
It’s setting expectations. Just because I can wear a clip on my nose, I won’t stop telling the local idiot to stop farting loudly in the elevator.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 23 hours ago:
I think you’re misunderstanding. I think what the person above is saying is that if Youtube can go back to skippable ads and not pull out of Vietnam or go bankrupt (lol), then places like the EU or even individual EU countries have more than enough leverage to demand this.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 23 hours ago:
No, but some public transit services, random service providers, random SMEs whose services I use communicate solely through Whatsapp.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 23 hours ago:
I’d love that, but I need Whatsapp to participate in society. Several companies, mostly SMEs in fact but also big ones won’t talk to me if not through Whatsapp.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 23 hours ago:
I guess the alternative is locking their people out of Youtube by effectively banning it. Even this is a gutsy move TBH.
It’s the same deal when “how is it that you’re paying taxes if you’re a libertarian”?
- Comment on If it fits... 1 day ago:
At least in my area where the rules are the sane, motorbikes just exist outside the law. You park them wherever, but nobody gets in trouble when someone on a motorbike dies.
- Comment on genius 1 day ago:
Not likely, this would get ripped apart on engine start.
For a crash, you need to at least get to the part where you attempt a takeoff.
- Comment on The Wagon 3 days ago:
I don’t see this as that.
My reading is that “I want to touch my GFs butt but I won’t since she’ll get mad, but I really want to”.
Nothing wrong with really wanting to. Maybe don’t call your SO a bitch though.
- Comment on Is Maduro our generations Norega? 4 days ago:
But Diaper Donnie does what bad people command.
It’s not like Trump has a plan. The people behind him do.
To quote Elon Musk, “we coup whoever we want”.
- Comment on wisdom 6 days ago:
It’s not even ECC, OpenAI bought up unfinished stuff just so that others can’t have it.
It will just not get made.
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 1 week ago:
The question did too, it isn’t immediately apparent why you’d write to disk to calculate pi if you haven’t worked in a place that churned a lot of numbers before.
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 1 week ago:
I imagine it’s about checkpointing the calculation as it’s very long.
Point is, if the system crashes, you want to be able to resume the calculation without losing too much progress, so you want to periodically write progress to disk.
That takes some CPU cycles away from the calculation, and if your disk driver is inefficient, it will take away more.
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 1 week ago:
I guess the Windows disk drivers are shit compared to Linux ones.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 2 weeks ago:
That’d block google and youtube, even outside a VPN.
- Comment on What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema? 2 weeks ago:
So in folk tales from Eastern Europe or Germany I know, most “magic words” are either rhyming nonsense or just specific sentences in the same local language. Think “abracadabra”, ours in Hungary is “csiribú-csiribá”, you’d pronounce it like “chiribooh-chiribaah”.
- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 3 weeks ago:
Really depends on the kind of paper. Used to habe to do technical drawings, and there is indeed a distinct smell to certain kinds of paper, but not your usual copy-grade sheets.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 3 weeks ago:
The candy shop guy where I grew up was apparently a Serbian specops deserter of the Yugoslavian war.
So yeah, probs.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 3 weeks ago:
I would rather guess colonialism. Germans living 150 km from each other not understanding each other is because their languages were organically evolving from some 1000 year old protolanguage with barely any communication.
The reason the world speaks English is because a relatively small group of speakers from within England colonised the world and kept communications up with those past colonies to this date.
India or the US didn’t have as much time to diverge from old colonial English as Bayern had time to do so from proto-German. Add to it that a sizeable chunk of the colonies are still Commonwealth.
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 1 month ago:
The PC-12 is a turboprop, not a jet, though.
It’s a leech hauler alright, but not a jet.
- Comment on Walker S1 humanoid robot starts factory work at BYD 1 month ago:
I guess the idea is that humanoid robots ideally require no adjustment to the factory, they can just use the tools made for human workers.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 month ago:
I’m feeling we’ll end up going over it whether we row or not.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
When the USSR came to Hungary, they literally exhausted the syphilis medicine supply of the country for two years with the amount of rape, and the country has had collective PTSD from it for generations.
I’m sure others can bring up other countries, I’m more familiar and am more in touch with the culture of specifically Hungary. It is widely researched and not debated actually that it was so bad, suicides and misogyny spiked in the aftermath, as the people who couldn’t defend their loved ones from often repeated often gang rape either committed suicide, or just internalised that “rape is not so bad” to cope.
600 thousand people were also kidnapped (from a country of less than 10 million) and forced into labour camps for decades, with a third never coming home. This also specifically targeted the local German-Hungarian population (which had nothing to do with Germany, it was a diaspora dating back long into medieval times), so it can also qualify as genocide.
There were also examples of brutal torture, keeping people in cells small enough they couldn’t even sit down, and so on. Had nothing to do with communism, some of the direst things were actually done against communists who wanted to be free from Soviet occupation. It was pure Russian imperialism.
And truth be told, we got off easy compared to some other countries.
And finally, colonialism being “western” in an inherently racist way to view the world. East Asian empires also had colonies, so did most empires around the world.
- Comment on Aeroplane 1 month ago:
(at foot pedals) “Push both to brake (after you land), push one or the other to turn”
Doesn’t the 737 have toe brakes?
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
I mean in the current dictatorships, where it’s a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie by Marxist terms, it is usually one dictator and the setup is fairly hierarchical.
Why is it called a dictatorship then?