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"there are never fewer than 4 eyes on the ballot box" doesn't seem too complex to me
If you read the article it's the worst of both worlds: Keep clock time the same but start work and school 30 minutes later?
Calling canceling a time change mere days before it was going to happen "the voice of reason" is rich
Re:What Should a VAT Calculation Record Contain? on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:48AM (#50016098)
This is a very thinly veiled ad
I think the biggest difference is how the feedback loop used to work when hand coding. The pdf colors being inverted in dark mode is a bug i could see myself accidentally create, but i would've seen that immediately when testing if dark mode works at all
Re:SynthID Detector on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:44AM (#50003365)
> This has got nothing to do with protecting any users, or public.

I don't see another good reason why the EU would force them to do this

Re:Our approach to EU text provenance rules on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:32PM (#49971105)
> And of course, cookies are no longer needed for invasive tracking, fingerprinting, and data disaggregation. Been this for years. But hey, bureaucracies never backtrack, so we will have the cookie consent until the thermal death of the universe.

The exact method of tracking doesn't matter. Under GDPR you have to ask for consent no matter the technology used. So as long as tracking every single movement remains the norm, we will have consent banners

Re:Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:11AM (#49962896)
You do have to request them and the person you requested them for will know you did so
Re:Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:47AM (#49889157)
Why would anyone pay for these tokens?
I wish to have the confidence of an American opinion on anything that's different than the US. Studies show that resocialization works and has worked for decades without a sign of "learning it the hard way" in sight
Re:Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove on Friday August 14, 2026 @02:52AM (#49295445)
> I feel like this is going to end up being like cookie laws

Companies will implement it in the worst way possible? Nowhere in the cookie laws does it say you need to add a banner, you just can't spy on users without their consent.

Re:BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud' on Sunday August 09, 2026 @04:35AM (#49229584)
BOYD is corporate to me, BYOC LANs were common here
Updates? To an ESPHome device?
I heard this one a lot 6+ years ago
Re:A few interesting modern pixel fonts on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:35AM (#48276362)
> Geist Pixel isn’t a novelty font. It’s a system extension.

Okay LLM

Re:Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure on Sunday April 12, 2026 @04:34PM (#47744175)
> So many tech writers seemed to suddenly decide this was a possibility at the same time

Wonder if any large geopolitical rifts happened eh. I soul would not host my application in Russia either for instance

For a specific group of people in the world anything but "USA nr1" is hard to image, I understand. Can the nuanced take be: Europe does it better sometimes? Not the best slogan but you're not in marketing
Re:A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm on Sunday March 15, 2026 @06:20AM (#47385961)
We can all run this through our LLM if choice, why post this?
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @09:32AM (#46886247)
When there was only a single terminal it was common in Europe to just... walk to the counter and pay for the meal card in hand. No other way to type in your PIN
Sometimes you start reading comments like this being like "interesting viewpoint", but then somehow Russia deciding to invade a foreign country is the fault of the west and you're like "ah it's a Russian troll"
This is like being in the 2000s and saying "Why would I use anything but IE5, everything works with it"

The market share is what makes those circumstances exceptionally rare. Meanwhile we're having to use safari specific fixes and refrain from using he newest standards just because of safari

Re:I Accidentally Finished a Filesystem on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:24PM (#46624633)
"No X, no X, no X, just Y"
Re:Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:44PM (#46547575)
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...only to find out they invaded the wrong country! (Nobel peace prizes are awarded in Oslo)
Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:39AM (#46486463)
I don't know how others use LLMs, but once I find the answer to something I'm stuck on I do not tell the LLM that it's fixed. This was a problem in forums as well but I think even fewer people are going to give that feedback to a chatbot
Kessler Syndrome mentioned in the first line? With the air resistance at 400km that seems unlikely
Re:Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @05:37AM (#46056074)
A table is a grid, but a grid does not have to be a table
Re:Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @02:08AM (#45820183)
This is what working in a toxic working culture does to a person. "Because I only have one week of PTO a year and have to be constantly add afraid of being fired, everyone should be!"
Re:Microsoft Azure Outage on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:53PM (#45752876)
If hospitalized on that specific day: Sign the back of the voting card and give your ID to a family member, they can cast your vote
Re:Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways on Saturday October 25, 2025 @06:15AM (#45702654)
I feel like if I wanted to read LLM output I could ask it myself

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