baggins
@baggins@beehaw.org
At 66, I'm a serious music (mainly prog rock) loving, geeky cat butler living in Ware UK. A lover of all things LOTR, since I first read it over 50 years ago, scifi and what have you. Ex soldier, and other trades ;-)
- Comment on Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future 3 weeks ago:
Going by the thumbnail, it looks like an ad from MAD magazine for spy glasses.
Oh wait…
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I read that. ‘Likely conclusion’ does not equal a ban though.
I’m just being a bit pedantic about the headline - this whole thing is crappy (and unworkable) enough as it is, without jumping to conclusions.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 3 weeks ago:
I can’t see anywhere in the article that says they may be ‘banned’.
They can try though. They can also try and collect water in a sieve.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t Kagi use AI as well now though?
- Comment on ‘It is time to stop this slaughter’ in wake of deadly Israeli strike on Gaza church: Pope Leo 4 weeks ago:
The time to stop was years ago. For both sides.
Sadly I think Taco’s vision may come true.
- Comment on Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? 5 weeks ago:
Yes. Next question.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 5 weeks ago:
I have brambles sprouting up all over the place from where they were left to spread by the previous occupant. And that sodding bindweed stuff.
If it wasn’t for my wife it’d be full of veg.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 month ago:
Surprised nobody mentioned this earlier.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson charged with harassment 2 months ago:
I thought he was inside?
No doubt the suckers that support him will be bleating about the unfairness of it all.
Talk about snowflakes.
- Comment on UK | Commissioner calls for ban on apps that make deepfake nude images of children 3 months ago:
No, there isn’t.
- Comment on Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy 4 months ago:
At this point I’d just call him PINO.
- Comment on NATO believes Russia stockpiling missiles for new strike on Ukraine 4 months ago:
Not just Ukraine - all of Europe is in his sights. We should have dealt with this problem years ago. Now its going to cost more lives, pain and money.
We need to give Ukraine the right tools and with no restrictions. They are currently fighting with one hand tied behind their back.
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 5 months ago:
I meant horse racing courses.
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 5 months ago:
Good idea. Racecourses as well.
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 5 months ago:
Close them down ans solarise them.
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 5 months ago:
Or your name is Trump.
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 5 months ago:
It is. Trump gets this piece. Putin gets this piece. And so on.
Europe needs to stand together on this and cut ties with USA.
Trump is a Russian asset.
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 5 months ago:
Will try it im my car ;-)
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 5 months ago:
Looks good, but unfortunately my car (2019 UK Kia Niro hybrid) only accepts Android Auto - and it’s pretty much the only time I’d use the phone for navigation as it provides the GPS for the car :-(
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 5 months ago:
It stems from General Magic - look them up on WIkipedia. I saw this quote and realised how forward thinking those guys were "In 1990, Porat wrote the following note to Sculley: “A tiny computer, a phone, a very personal object . . . It must be beautiful. It must offer the kind of personal satisfaction that a fine piece of jewelry brings. It will have a perceived value even when it’s not being used… Once you use it you won’t be able to live without it.” Nailed it.
- Comment on Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico 6 months ago:
What sort of person makes almost his first task something so petty? And in front of a crowd of
supporterscultists. I notice he signs with a big sharpie instead of a pen like a normal president. That’ll be so it’s bigger than other signatures and everyone can see it. - Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 6 months ago:
That’s the bit I don’t understand either.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 6 months ago:
There was one in Hertford (near Ginger Indian restaurant) around Christmas, think it had French plates. Remember having a laugh as it was pissing down and they were having trouble turning round in our small streets. Everyone else manages though, even the dustman ;-)
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 7 months ago:
No security or monitoring? No warnings about digging or mining?
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 7 months ago:
And yet I keep hearing from nuclear fans that there’s nothing to worry about and that it’s safe. And how is this cheaper than renewable. That place has to be maintained and secured for 100,000 years.
If we put that onto our timeline, we were just getting out of Africa and using stone tools.
That’s not the sort of gift we should be leaving our descendents. Okay we have to deal with what we have, but we shouldn’t be making any more of the stuff. Because there will be an accident somewhen down the line.
- Comment on Biden warns of ultra-wealthy 'oligarchy' threatening US democracy in farewell address to the nation 7 months ago:
And by his lack of action, let them in. ‘Sleepy Joe’ seems rather an apt moniker, although not for the Mango Mussolini’s reasons.
- Comment on X raises Premium Plus subscription pricing by almost 40 percent 7 months ago:
As someone in the comments pointed out, ‘Grifters gotta grift’.
- Comment on EU could target ultra low-cost e-tailers like Shein and Temu with package handling fee or import tax 8 months ago:
Good, the less cheap tat the better.
- Comment on Trump nominates fracking magnate and climate change skeptic as energy secretary 8 months ago:
Of course it is. They’ve not (yet) been taken over by billionaire fascists.
- Comment on Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them 9 months ago:
Welcome to cable* TV!
*With or without wires.