I’m the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.
This is the world most of us want to live in I would think.
He is not the one to deliver it. He doesn’t really want that. If he did, he wouldn’t want $1t let alone fight to get it. Let alone all the other vile shit he has done, and will do.
Of course not. As the merovingian in the matrix says. French is a fantastic language, especially to curse with.
Ahh so a trojan horse. Inside is a klingon bird of prey?
So far I’ve mostly avoided the whole “things that don’t need to be on the Internet” situation.
Non smart TV (well that period when they started adding smart features but they’re all out of date now so not even connected to the Internet)
All kitchen stuff is just kitchen stuff. No Internet.
Car is still offline.
Only real exception is smart thermostat, and that’s just because when the boiler was installed that’s what they put in.
Now, and yet also at any point in history, and also likely the future.
Regret is such a long word, when I’m so, so tired.
Well I’d also be very weary of getting that close to the sun too.
Huh. I am sure you could search for individual books. For sure you could do it by goodreads ID I think? Yes, adding an entire author as the primary way to do things is a bit much for some. I know for sure I have managed to do individual books before now.
Well it is. If you get fined £50 a day for leaving your car parked in a no parking zone. And you get a notice your parking is being investigated. Do you a) Move your car to mean you “at worst” get the fine for the time you were there or b) Just leave it there, because “they’ve already got me”?
Just because there’s a POTENTIAL for some comeback from prior infringements, doesn’t mean a good financial decision isn’t to pull out of the market to avoid future infringement actions. This is ESPECIALLY so, when there’s a new law with stricter enforcement available to the state regulator.
My whole point has been from the start “Just trying to avoid being fined” is a financial business decision. They have multiple options. But the ones that matter are:
One carries less financial risk than the other. They chose the option with lower financial risk to them.
I’m from the UK and it’s not a great situation for us. But, I also think businesses that have a genuine fear of ending up in Ofcom’s sights need to start making this kind of decision to the extent that normal people begin to feel the effect of the Online Safety act. Because that’s the only time they’re going to get the kind of backlash they need to respond to.
But, that’s still the same thing. It’s a commercial decision to withdraw from the market rather than fight a legal battle. It’s entirely based on financial risk.
Like I say, the ICO and Ofcom are letting that fact pull a lot more weight than it should. But it’s technically a correct assessment.
Yep, same. Well I actually remember finding the best ways to copy a game on a tape error free first. Some, without protection you could just save back to tape for a digital reproduction (and this also allowed tape to disk conversion). Actually those with non destructive copy protection could kinda be copied too if you knew a little Z80 ASM. Others, you needed to copy tape to tape and hope the quality turned out OK.
But yes, then bringing your box of copied disks (Amiga in my case) into school and swapping with your friends was the way to go.
Which whether you like it or not, is a commercial decision. They cannot realistically vet people for age, because 99% of requests are unauthenticated. Who is going to make an imgur account just so they can see imgur images?
So they made the commercial choice to avoid losing money through fines vs whatever revenue (ad based? I don’t know their model) they would earn from UK users.
Now, ICO and Ofcom have their own reasons to play it down in this way. But, they’re also technically correct.
That’s fine. I’ll make my own internet. With blackjack, and hookers. In fact, forget the internet!
It’s a real shame because Readarr did work and they really just needed to fix their own metadata servers. No? Or were there other problems I’m not aware of?
Yeah, no prices. I move on. Same with job ads, no salary no application. If I get an intrusive ad, I’m not buying that product, I’ll deliberately seek out another brand in fact.
Is that a weird attitude to have? I thought it just made sense. We shouldn’t be rewarding this BS.
I’m wondering what combination of features would use 25w on a phone. On flagship models the battery would last less than an hour at that consumption (and might even melt :P).
Your point still stands by the way, sensors take next to nothing in terms of power. I guess the point of the article is perhaps the processing of the signals is more efficient with this hybrid chip? Again though in real terms it’s a nothing-burger in terms of power consumption.
I don’t think there’s ground even for an arrest in my (non professional mind you) opinion.
The act requires that a message be sent by any electronic means (including transmission) so, this meets that part. But the message must be indecent or grossly offensive. I would argue some pictures of a couple of buddies together shouldn’t be grossly offensive.
Unless it’s the police’s view that it is offensive because of what Trump may, or may not have done with said now deceased criminal friend. In which case, they should be arresting someone else too.
Yes, it’s a common police tactic to make arrests around the time of a visit like this. But, they really do need to be grounded in a realistic application of the law.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure it would be nice. It just feels like there’s a constant resistance to our lives, in total improving too much.
I have a theory, and it ties in with Agent Smith’s theory from the Matrix. Mine is, that as soon as we remove one cause of stress in our lives, we add at least one new one to replace it.
Maybe we’re just not meant to live in a utopia.
Thanks AI. Remind me how many megawatt hours your model consumed to create?