sunbeam60
@sunbeam60@feddit.uk
- Comment on 6 hours ago:
Cries in European.
- Comment on 21 hours ago:
The EU doesn’t have laws. It has directives and regulation. These are converted into law by member states.
The EU doesn’t have any regulation or directives about the inadmissibility of evidence; that is a national concern. The only area the EU has directives for regarding evidence is the cross-border admissibility of evidence from one country being accepted in another.
This is technically correct, the best kind of correct.
- Comment on 22 hours ago:
“Oh you’re Danish! You should meet my friend Geert Van den Berg, he’s also from Dutchland!”
If I had a penny for every time, I’d have at least three fiddy.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 3 days ago:
You can read more about lock down mode here: support.apple.com/en-gb/105120
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 3 days ago:
Big claims require big proof. But I bet all you have is a hunch.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 4 days ago:
I’ve been in software my whole life.
My two oldest daughters are pursuing performing arts and I’m backing them all the way.
And it’s not that software/STEM jobs will disappear completely but clearly there’ll be less of them.
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 1 week ago:
“Well, you see, I was in fact in the process of resuscitating this female, as she had feinted after getting off from a sofa in a rather fun party game. The skill of resuscitation is, of course, something I picked up while being a WAR HERO!! in the Falklands WAR”
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 1 week ago:
But to be fair, not being able to sweat and having perfect Pizza Express date recall are pretty sweet buffs.
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 1 week ago:
If Andrew Mountwhatshisface decides to sue the BBC, claiming the pictures are AI generated or something, or done by an imposter, then “appears to” shields the BBC against lawsuit and political fallout.
The BBC are treading on eggshells here, being publically funded and with the oncoming majority in parliament being ready to privatise the lot (shudder!).
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 1 week ago:
Did you definitely take your meds this morning?
- Comment on This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry 1 week ago:
Work often issues work phones. They’re likely to be quite swayed by something focused on communication.
- Comment on Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes 3 weeks ago:
I hope this forces an Affinity build for Linux.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 weeks ago:
As someone with a 20 year old Reddit account, I have to say I agree. The character of Reddit did change noticeably when digg users came over. And that’s fine. But it definitely happened.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 3 weeks ago:
Set up your own emergency grid. I’ve got a couple solar powered nodes around so I can contact my wife even from the villages that aren’t in mobile coverage.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 3 weeks ago:
You’d be surprised.
- Comment on Taiwan chipmaker TSMC begins 2nm chip volume production 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t this all marketing mumbo jumbo by now?
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 5 weeks ago:
Yes I know what’s on a SIM card. But if it’s physical I can move it to another phone in a flash. With an eSIM I had to ask pretty please of the phone companies.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 5 weeks ago:
I can move my phone number to another phone in 2 minutes without involving the phone company. The same is definitely not true with an eSIM.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 5 weeks ago:
In a world of corporate control over everything, I’ll take my globally defined, physical interface standard thank you.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 month ago:
The way the old Norse gods intended it to!
- Comment on Does he think he is The King? 1 month ago:
I’ve given you an update, only because I’d like to encourage a diversity of opinions here.
But can I ask you some questions:
- Does Farage’s connections to Russian money concern you?
- Do you genuinely believe Farage cares or understand everyday people’s concerns and situation?
- What changes is it you seek that you feel only Reform will deliver?
Cheers
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 month ago:
That’s a hell of a lot better than most other systems. If true, and if scalable, this is a huge innovation.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 month ago:
And if there is a known high wind coming, the plant can forcefully go through the compression cycle to remove the bubble.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 1 month ago:
Depending on where you are in China, I agree. But the benefits are very unevenly distributed.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 month ago:
They’re like kids trying to damn up the stream in the forest. They’re all enthusiastic at the start and then they realise the power of water and quickly give up. Still, for a few moments, it gives them a sense of control.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 1 month ago:
Same here.
I self host photo storage, which leaves originals untouched. It’s got a parity drive. There’s a hot spare. Every night it gets backed to up two different cloud providers that both host their own hardware, on two different continents (OVH, Germany and Backblaze, US East). The entire thing gets written to two offline disks every six months, for worm protection. I run recovery exercises a couple of times a year.
It would take a dinosaur killer asteroid for me to lose access to this data.
Imagine giving all that to Apple?!
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 month ago:
Totally. This is the data equivalent of a “new battery tech will revolutionise your phone” post.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 month ago:
Tbh my own personal use case is getting buried with all of my data and become some kind of data-“Tollund man” in the year 4000, when they dig up my data cube and study it endlessly.
I expect them to build a reading device to do this; it’s the least I would expect if they want to study the holiday I was on in Bergen, or completely misunderstand the two hotdog pictures I happen to have as some kind of fellatio training device.
“Myes, we do believe family structures were loosely organised around the remote picture beaming devices that used to be called “te levision”
- Comment on What DDNS providers you guys recommend? 1 month ago:
I’ve used duckDNS for years. A couple of years ago it started flaking out every couple of months so I migrated off it.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 1 month ago:
Well you can of course do that. Then if it discovered that you’ve lied on an entry form, you’ll be denied entry forever.