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- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 week ago:
If anyone’s interested, here’s what it looks like in Europe. The good news: this is the first time I’ve had to use Google Maps in a loooong time (ignoring embedded maps in other sites). OpenStreetMap is wonderful and there are some superb apps powered by it, including the ever-excellent Organic Maps.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 2 weeks ago:
Right, because if that’s what they wanted to do this is how they’d go about doing it rather than, let’s say, using any one of the dozen or so Google-controlled device administrator apps already on your phone.
- Comment on Makes your jaw drop in amazement 2 weeks ago:
When I get my own place there will be a urinal in the bathroom. Why wouldn’t there be one? So efficient.
- Comment on Dozens of WhatsApp Users Targeted by Israeli Spyware Company 2 weeks ago:
“Dozens”? Like, what, thirty or so? At that point, just use the actual fucking number.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 months ago:
An answer to a different question, but if he gets caught I hope that the media gives him the same treatment as school shooters; plastering his image everywhere, distributing his manifesto and transforming him into an antihero.
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
Yo mama’s like exFAT; she’s got no permissions so anyone can access anything and her low requirements mean she gets embedded everywhere.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 3 months ago:
Good guy The Guardian. For my fellow Brits, here is your regular reminder that there are only two major independent news outlets in the UK: The Guardian and the BBC.
- Comment on Smoking ban introduced to protect children and most vulnerable 3 months ago:
Sounds good. Tell you what, why don’t you write a complete list of every problem that needs sorting, objectively ranked in order of importance, and we can make sure no-one addresses problem #2 until problem #1 is fixed.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 months ago:
“Federation” is like “non-fungible token”. Everyone knows what it is, but they’ve never heard it called that.
- Comment on Uniting for Internet Freedom: Tor Project & Tails Join Forces | Tor Project 4 months ago:
Tgese Nuts lmao gottem
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 5 months ago:
Wow. For real, I always just assumed that .com was the commercial arm of .org. Holy shit.
- Comment on ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy 5 months ago:
Refresh abdomen
- Comment on Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government 6 months ago:
Ah’m nut yuh bruf, meeit.
- Comment on that's it that's the whole show 6 months ago:
- Comment on Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say | Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners. 6 months ago:
Demand GDPR. No ifs, no buts. Its even written in several languages.
- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 6 months ago:
I mean, joking aside, isn’t that how parity calculations used to work? “Got more uppy bits than downy bits - that’s a paddlin’” or something.
- Comment on The app that promised to ‘use AI to weed out daters with STIs’ has been shut down 7 months ago:
I read “daters” as “dealers” and I ran the whole gamut of emotions in about a half second.
- Comment on Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times? 7 months ago:
No. Yes. Kind of.
My home setup is three ProLiant towers in a ProxMox cluster. One box handles all-the-time stuff like OpenWRT, file server, email, backups, and - crucially - Home Assistant and is UPS protected because of how important it’s jobs are. The other two are powered up based on energy costs; Home Assistant turns them on for the cheapest six hours of the day or when energy costs are negative and they perform intensive things like sailing the high seas, preemptive video transcoding, BOINC workloads and such. The other boxes in the photo are also on all the time basically being used as disk enclosures for the file server and they are full of mismatched hard disks that spend virtually all their time asleep. At rest the whole setup pulls about 35-40W.
- Comment on "Hey Google, Turn my balls off" 7 months ago:
Flip them on and off repeatedly to put them in pairing mode.
- Comment on Babe, wake up. Polls are open 7 months ago:
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- Comment on The internet connects people 7 months ago:
I’m glad your typo was “start trek” and not “start wars” because rambling is a noble hobby and warmongering is… not so much.
- Comment on VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture 7 months ago:
See, the thing is, I hate the styling of it, but I absolutely love that car makers - freed from the rigid designs demanded by huge combustion engines, transmissions and fuel tanks - are actually trying stuff out.
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- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 7 months ago:
Sire!
Tony Ladruzo?
Huzzah!
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 7 months ago:
ITT: Have you heard the good news about our lord and saviour, Jellyfin?
- Comment on Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand? 9 months ago:
I use these from IKEA:
- Comment on Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand? 9 months ago:
A stand for my phone, a stand for my ereader, and two buttons for my smart home setup: one turns everything in the house off, the other toggles the reading lamp.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 9 months ago:
They’re scanned by the sorting equipment. When a stamp is issued with a particular number that number can then be used exactly once, at least in theory.
- Comment on It's getting hot in here 9 months ago:
Closest thing I can think of is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstem.
And now the only thing I can think of is youtu.be/snO68aJTOpM
- Comment on How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math 9 months ago:
Kashmir Hill sounds like the name of a newly-built neighbourhood of McMansions.
I have nothing more to add.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 10 months ago:
Did you know there is an industry-standard mounting system for strap-on dildos? Just saying.
