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- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 1 day ago:
I’m glad that had a happy ending and sorry that happen. Autolock is so dangerous.
- Comment on Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads 5 weeks ago:
They think they have a captured market. They aren’t completely wrong. Normies don’t know how to sail the high seas.
- Comment on Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads 5 weeks ago:
The problem is power dynamic. It is a DRM service built round closed app. You will take what you are given and like it. You can view their cultural work without agreeing to these terms. The deal will keep getting worse until it starts losing money.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 1 month ago:
Also depends on the country. It isn’t everywhere. Non-commercial file-sharing is legal in a number of European countries and I’m sure elsewhere.
It could be taken as a sign of the health of the democracy’s function and technically literacy of the population. In a society of tech heads with a highly functional democracy, it would be DRM measures that would be illegal…
- Comment on Eurovision viewing parties in England cancelled over Israel’s participation 1 month ago:
Yet the UK’s popular vote give Israel 12. The song wasn’t strong and I did think Israel wasn’t popular here.
- Comment on UK's O2 network is blocking duckdns.org domains 1 month ago:
Just a follow up to this.
So I never ended up contacting O2 to say “please stop this”, I just used Wireguard to home and ignored it. Until the local Morrison’s wifi started doing the same thing but worse and I couldn’t event Wireguard round it.
So I finally just bought a domain and setup my Apache to redirect the old duckdns to the new domain.
So far this all seams to be working great.
- Comment on #justgradschoolthings 1 month ago:
You can do it, but you also need to test it all.
- Comment on #justgradschoolthings 1 month ago:
Not just ADHD folk. I’ve had programmers like that, swinging from “I can’t do it” to “I don’t need to test that”.
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 1 month ago:
Even modern cars don’t all have self drive and collision avoidance. I’ve driven a few new cars recently and none do more than flash messages and beep when they forsee a crash.
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 1 month ago:
What? No, I want people to be responsible because that is what works.
Search “car slams breaks in false positive collision detection”. There are loads of stories. Mine beeps sometimes, but thankfully doesn’t apply the breaks itself.
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 1 month ago:
Even those are riddled with proprietary devices. Cars have had a CAN bus network of devices for decades. These closed smarts alone have caused things like the emissions scandal. These alone interfere with right to repair and competition. What is new is the spying and direct control, but the problem is older than that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Nope. The vandalism is by the troll farms and a weapon of the quiet information war waging against reality.
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 1 month ago:
Unfortunately there is no car that isn’t proprietary and even ones without “auto pilot” have things like collision detection that can slam on the breaks for you.
- Comment on UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds 1 month ago:
This is any consumtion at any level. This whole story hangs on if any alcohol consumption, at all, under 13 leads to harm. Something they have one quote on.
“People tend to have this perception that introducing children to moderate drinking is a good way of teaching them safer drinking habits. This is untrue. The earlier a child drinks, the more likely they are to develop problems with alcohol in later life.”
To date, in recent decades, each generation in UK, and elsewhere, drinks less alchole issue than the previous.
academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/31/2/424/5981990
statista.com/…/alcohol-units-consumed-by-gender-a…
…biomedcentral.com/…/s12889-022-14760-y
I did find:
alcoholchange.org.uk/…/alcohol-and-your-child
“There is no clear answer as to which approach is best but, overall, there is little evidence that letting children try alcohol makes them less likely to develop problems with it later on. In fact, research has found that children, whose parents allow them to drink at home and/or provide them with alcohol, are probably more likely to drink more heavily when they are older.”
So it could be we are heading for a fresh boozing generation after years of decline. But it is not clear.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 2 months ago:
Some of car industry. Some are dumb or corrupt. Then a lot people/consumers just see the range and zero ‘direct’ emissions. They don’t look at cost per mile, total energy efficiency, fuel storage and distribution, etc.
- Comment on What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part) 2 months ago:
Enshittification of stuff wired into your brain is a bit terrifying.
- Comment on What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part) 2 months ago:
Yep. This stuff must be open source. The owner should be the actual owner, with full administration rights, and source and schematic.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
Guess we need to be careful what we give a name!
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
Enshitification gold rush continues. It’s like now there is a word for, all these companies are exploring how they can do it.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 2 months ago:
We have established this already. More money for a long time.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 2 months ago:
Tax wealthy people and corporations more. There is a lot of wealth untapped and obscene levels of wealth.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 2 months ago:
All of this won’t fix things (and may well make it worse). What is needed more that anything else is more money. And because it been starved for a decade, a lot more money.
The NHS is not the only thing that was false-economy cut. Lots of services got cut and the result where people ended up, in a worse state, falling into the NHS.
One thing that would help the NHS is to restore those other services, and deal with people before things get so bad it’s their health failing when the state helps them. Spent money on mental health and other care services to take load off the NHS.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 2 months ago:
Money is clearly the big issue. It’s been underfunded for a long time, so will need more to catch up.
Anything else is almost just fiddling round the edges, or worse, an excuse to sell it to Tory’s funders. Other European more private systems are just a bait and switch because it’s US companies who’ll come in.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 2 months ago:
Because it’s nearly always done disingenuously. The Tories say this and then get US health companies ready for a fire sale. They have been running down the NHS, “starving the beast”, to try and reduce public support for it so they can sell it. (To their US mates)
The reality is France and Germany have put more in for longer, so got more.
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- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 2 months ago:
That always the argument made, while possible contracted are lined up with big US private health companies.
- Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable 2 months ago:
2008 crash then austerity. Austerity was politically motivated. Most economists I’ve read/heard follow Maynard Keynes. That who country’s credit card nonsense has got to go. Educate the electorate, don’t pander to ignorance.
- Comment on UK secretly softens policy on Chinese firms accused of human rights abuse 2 months ago:
The Tory don’t want to be limited by human right. They want the UK out of human right rules. So this doesn’t surprise.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 3 months ago:
It only taking one asshole is why it doesn’t work. You just never going to have no assholes. So you need a justice system, and a way of policing the policing of it.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 3 months ago:
Exactly. Without rules and enforcement, you just get a cesspit. Anarchy just doesn’t work.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 3 months ago:
Yes! That’s the one!