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Treczoks

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Treczoks ,

Are they not happy when they got back what they thought was lost? :-)

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

Treczoks ,

You don't own anything that is not on your own system and/or without any DRM.

Treczoks ,

Catchall - the new spam bin ;-) It's soooo good to have your own domain for mail...

Treczoks ,

And on top of it, the commute is costing money, too. Either public transport tickets or fuel and wear an tear on car.

I can so much understand my former coworker. He switched jobs because not only did they pay more, but now he has a five minute commute instead of a one hour one.

Treczoks ,

In a similar fashion I got my sons old netbook. It has 32GB flash as storage medium. 27GB were in use by Windows, Office, and Firefox. User file size was neglectable. Then it ran into problems because it wanted to download an 8GB update.

Now it runs Kubuntu, which uses about 4GB with LibreOffice and a load of other things.

Treczoks ,

but there’s no logical reason to be against EVs.

There is, if you get paid by the Koch mafia.

Treczoks ,

If we can get the idiots off the net by them getting ripped off, maybe the internet will get better again.

Treczoks ,

First of all, it will make cold calling way, way worse. Time to ramp up restrictions, fines and other penalties for that kind of stuff.

When it comes to tech support call centers, some may actually improve. Not because the technology is so superior, but just because the current support simply sucks, and any change would be an improvement. And then they must actually work, i.e. solve the customers problems. On top of that, there is that case where an AI call center made expensive promises (IIRC if promised a car for $1 or something like that), and the judge made the company uphold this deal.

Treczoks ,

Could they please pull from Europe, too?

Treczoks ,

I, as a European, want a PROTECTING EUROPEANS’ DATA FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARIES ACT OF 2024.

Sell or dissolve X, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Instagram, Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Treczoks , (edited )

Yes, the EU has such regulations, but does not enforce them, especially not against US companies. So, having an explicit law in the European Union that would force it to finally get the asses moving in Brussels would be a nice thing.

Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)

When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...

Treczoks ,

Since Musk outed himself as pro-right-wing idiot with his X fiasco, the mostly left leaning electric vehicle crowd is looking for untainted brands.

Treczoks , (edited )

Whoever uses Microsoft products should be aware from the start that security is a low priority for them. If you can accept the risk, fine. If you can't, think about the consequences.

Treczoks ,

I removed and sold the wheels of my car, now it does not move.

Treczoks ,

Well, one more reason to ignore that platform on it's way to obsolescence.

Treczoks ,

Well, you can invest money to get rid of bots, or you can try to make money to get rid of bots. He tries the latter, and will kill the platform doing that.

Treczoks ,

As I said repeatedly: Wake me up on Quantum computers once they are capable to do something actually useful, and not just random worthless quantum benchmarks.

Treczoks ,

While I am convinced that fusion will get somewhere practical in the near future, I have serious doubts on the practical viability of quantum computing.

Treczoks ,

I'm quite convinced that quantum computing will lead to exacly nothing. My bet is that the error factor will grow larger than the result scope, and not a single thing they try to stabilize will ultimatively make it viable.

What would you like to see in a house IT setup?

Currently remodeling a domicile, with the sweet and expensive ability to add anything I want within reason. I plan on modernizing the place to bring it into the 21st century because this house deserves it (just a great structure with lots of history and nearing it's centennial birthday)....

Treczoks ,

Wired links to doors and windows for wired contacts/sensors. The cheap wireless burgler alarms can easily be jammed. Also wires for automatic shutters (if you have shutters).

Metereological sensors (wind/rain/temperature) for e.g. retracting an awning if it rains or the wind gets to strong. Can also be used for control the heating/AC.

Network sockets (or at least tubes to run them through) basically everywhere. Have you thought of having an outlet where the big mirror in the corridor/entrance area is, so you can one day turn set up a magic mirror there?

Have you thought or wiring up motion sensors throughout the house to automate lighting (and get additional input for the burgler alarm)?

Wired links for any kind of camera is vital, be it the door cam, or anything watching the place for security reasons.

Wired smoke alarms! Not only will they be connected, so they all start beeping when smoke or fire is detected, but you don't have to change batteries every other year, and you can integrate the output inot he home automation system and get a mail or SMS is case of an emergency-

What kind of smart appliances could you imagine? Smart fridge, smart washing machine? Even if there is a non-smart device, you can rig a raspberry pi or even an arduino to detect the beeping of your dryer and send you an email.

Well, and more network sockets...

Do you have some outdoors (patio, garden)? Does it have wifi coverage?

That's just of the top of my head...

Treczoks ,

When companies protest against regulation while claiming that they already adhere to the same rules, then something is clearly off, and one better gets regulation through, because they plan to ditch that adherence as soon as the governmental regulations are off the table.

Treczoks ,

Just because way too many sites have a security that more or less non-existent, this should not be an excuse. Every breach should be severely punished. The only way corporations learn to take customer data safety seriously is through their wallets.

As long as customer data safety is just a cost factor, and penalties are just a mild slap on the wrist, there is no incentive to consider this as "just another cost of running business issue".

Treczoks ,

My first Linux machine crashing. This was way before Redhat, Ubuntu, Arch, or OpenSUSE. This was installed from 60+ floppy disks on a 386-40 with 8MB of RAM.

This machine ran happily, but it crashed under heavy load. I checked out causing the load by using different applications, but could not nail it to a certain software. So the next thing I checked was the RAM. Memtest86 ran for a day without any problems. But the crashes still came. So I got the infrared camera from the lab to see if some hardware overheats. Nope, this went nowhere, either.

Then I tested the harddisk. Read test of the whole HD went without problems. I copied the data on a backup medium and did a write and read test by dd'ing /dev/zero over the whole disk, and then dd'ing the disk to /dev/null. Nothing did show up.

I reinstalled the Linux, and it crashed again. But this time, I noticed that something was odd with the harddisk. I added a second swap partition, disabled the first, and the machine ran without problems. Strange...

So I wrote a small program that tested the part of the disk occupied by the old swap space: Write data, read data, and log everything with timestamps. And there was the culprit: There was an area on the HD where I could write any data, but when I read blocks from that area, a) It took a very long time for the read, b) the blocks I read were containing all zero, regardless of what I had written, and worst of all c) there was no error indication whatsoever from the controller or drive. Down at the kernel level, the zeroed blocks were happily served by the HD with an "OK". And the faulty area was right in the middle of the original swap partition.

Treczoks ,

I took no risks and binned the disk. I wanted to buy a bigger one, anyway.

Treczoks ,

Here, too, in just a few weeks (at the moment I still have the 100mbit contract). And we are more or less out in the country, the next field is maybe 50m from our doorstep.

Treczoks ,

How many millions fat will his golden parachute be for sending hundreds of passengers to death?

Treczoks ,

Nice payout for a complete failure on the job.

Treczoks ,

I simply avoid this issue by not starting vim in the first place.

Treczoks ,

Same with SD cards and similar interfaces.

Treczoks ,

Do they at least require insurance on anything that goes faster than 15 mph or similar?

Treczoks ,

How many people can really control a bike at 28mph?

Treczoks ,

So, are you insured in case you run someone over?

Treczoks ,

Yes, you can easily get that fast, but can you also brake fast and reliably enough, too, so humanity is safe around you?

Treczoks ,

The braking characteristics are not all that different from a normal bike to an ebike

That's the point. That's what makes them dangerous.

And: If cyclists only did 28 meters per hour, they would actually be quite safe :-)

Treczoks ,

Yes. Way before that.

Treczoks ,

I never dienied that some states are terminally stupid. I mean, some states in the US don't even require regular safety checks for cars.

Treczoks ,

It is not the brakes as such, but braking, which has a number of factors. One key factor is friction between wheel and surface. Your brakes might bring your wheels to a quick standstill, but that might not stop the bike.

And the 28mph stem from the point that there are electric bikes that go up to that speed.

Treczoks ,

What is a "class 3"? Is that an American classification?

Treczoks ,

Thanks. How far does it take you to brake down from top speed to standstill?

Treczoks ,

Cars don't care around here.

That's what they say about bikers (especially electrical) here in the pedestrian zone and the sidewalks, too.

Treczoks ,

Central Europe. Most roads in the city are narrow two-lanes, a few main roads have four or even six lanes. Mayor just sacrificed two of the four lanes of one of the main arteries of the city center to bike lanes which are only sparsely used. Extensive pedestrian zone in the city center.

Car speed limits are 35mph in the city, with select roads limiting to 20mph.

Treczoks ,

And with such an abomination, they would have to state how much honey is in there.

Treczoks ,

I, to my daughter: "For (this and that reason), you have to reboot your laptop." Daughter: "But then I have to close the browser!!!" - she basically uses hundreds of browser tabs as temporary bookmarks, having pages open for weeks occasionally. Having to close down the browser is a panic-inducing thing for her...

Treczoks ,

Delivering ads to people who are armed up to the teeth with adblockers requires quite some research effort.

Treczoks ,

And pigs will fly next year, too!

Treczoks ,

That's what some hotels offer for their "Tea making facilities". We bring tea bags from home which are prefectly recyclable, even better since they don't use a metal clip anymore, but use stiching to connect the thread to the tea bag and the label.

Treczoks ,

They have stolen mine as well. It was a nice game, but it was not worth getting a Microsoft account for it.

Treczoks ,

Other developers have nice software, too!

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