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Re:The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:50PM (#49662442)
Ever heard of that rather unheard of franchise, called Terminator, with that one rather not well known actor, Arnold something. ;-) We‘ve had so many movies and series with that theme already.
Re:Can Claude Fly a Plane? on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @08:59AM (#47765098)
I‘d say the same holds true for other use cases and should not only target vibe coders. Eg self driving cars. Level 2 is fine and level 5 is good, it‘s in between these two where I‘m afraid of as people are distracted enough and not able enough to gather what‘s happening around them to react in every situation.
Re: on Monday November 03, 2025 @02:32AM (#45796680)
The ecological impact of AI for me is one of the biggest reasons to use it sparingly, even though I like technology. It‘s not as if we weren‘t in dire straights before its advent, but with all the additional datacenters being built and additional power and water required, we are just accelerating down the slope. Then come the ethical implications. And most of it, just to make more profit… profit for the few > well being of the many (now & for future generations)
Re:Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @06:27PM (#45662531)
How could it ruin somebodys sleep, when they could just simply pull the plug? And in case of the preheated matress just lay it outside or put some ice on it. Seems like constructed problems to me.

And: whoever buys products that can only be run when it connects to a foreign server is an idiot. There should be laws preventing cloud-only physical products, as this causes unnecessary waste as soon as the companies stop offering the service (for whatever reason). They should at least habe to offer containerized versions of the backend service that can be run locally.

Thank you.
Re:ICE test train reaches speeds of up to 405.0 km/h on Monday June 30, 2025 @04:32AM (#44420853)
And with the introduction of ETCS the number of trains can theoretically be increased even more, as the distance for safe operation between the trains can be reduced thanks to it. I agree on all points though: the German Railway is in a predicted crisis and has very little to do with problems inside DB itself but from regulations stemming from the owners (the German Government). Without money to invest in new infrastructure and its maintenance nothing can get better, no matter what DB does.
Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @06:16AM (#27352505)
Or it could be: „Just get yourself organized“.

I don‘t know how many times I sat in a meeting or worked with somebody and the presenter/user could‘t find the document(s) they wanted to present because of the endless apps and tabs open at once or the endless stream of unorganized files on the desktop or working folders. Same goes for disorganized shared folders (like Sharepoint) or Confluence-spaces without clear organization. Then when information is required the people responsible for the mess start to search in said mess and can‘t find their stuff. And mostly it‘s not because there is no decent search, mostly it‘s because they never wrote down/ saved/ filed the information because they lost track of it or thought they could remember not to close a tab in between 100 others or simply can‘t figure out how to use the search in the first place.

Re:A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started with Bitcoin on Saturday February 13, 2021 @10:46AM (#26124229)
Thank you very much.
Re:A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started with Bitcoin on Saturday February 13, 2021 @07:04AM (#26123144)
Does anyone by chance have an article on hand comparing the carbon footprint of BitCoins (or any other crypto currency) vs. physical money. Physical money needs to be producef, distributed, collected, transferred, stored etc. I would just like to know the delta between both forms of currency. In my mind at least, without such facts, I have the feeling that cryptocurrencies are much worde for the environment and wouldn‘t want to support them, hence why I want something factual to support/disprove this. Thank you very much and please forgive my mediocre English.