martijnvds

Familiarity, convenience and habit.

Familiarity: "I've used MS Word/Excel/Teams before so I can use it here"

Convenience: "We have MS Entra, might as well go all-in"

Habit: "We never really investigated alternatives, this is just what 'everyone' uses."

IBM PS2?

To the end user, this looks exactly the same as "updating".

If replacing a "regular" program that's just an executable and then restarting it is "updating", why isn't it the same for containers? Except theb the "executable" is the container image and the "running program" is the actual container.

Another level would be "immutable" distributions: would you say they don't "update", they just "download a fresh image to boot from"?

In the Netherlands, bike lights _must not_ flash. The law very explicitly states that they need to be "always on" (in the dark).

The main reason seems to be that it's hard for others to to gauge your speed when your lights are flashing.

This probably explains why paying for street parking in Cologne by phone/web didn't work (eternal spinner) then

Motherboard audio started to become more common with the AC'97 spec/standard.

So that makes sense.

This is getting a lot better with Flatpaks and Wayland (and its "portal" system to access resources).

The Energy Star logo tended to be made up of custom characters in text mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAHGKanqO6s

"Asking consent" is the popup that comes up to ask you if you'd like to be tracked.

"Opt-in" is an option hidden somewhere in your "user preferences" page you have to actively go looking for.

Sadly, yes.

The "S" in AI stands for "security".

Living expenses for the devs?

I think there are similar rules (or there will soon be) in all of Europe.

The Grenfell tower fire comes to mind regarding flammable cladding. Not "new" but "renovated".

It killed more than 70 people.

SFPDIF

Adaptive lighting isn't the best solution either.

Here in the Netherlands there are lots of complaints from people on bicycles who get blinded by "adaptive" lights that don't adapt, or don't do so quickly enough, probably because they dont recognise the "profile" or shape of a bicycle.

The problem is even worse when coming over a hill.

You could call it.. l33terate

You could call it the very definition of "un-hinged". :)

The X32 ABI is not the same as the 32-bit mode used to run "i686" binaries on x86_64 (that would be the i386 ABI).

They've also started replacing AON with XGS-PON in some areas, by putting all the fiber combining/muxing devices you need for that inside the AON POP building (and sending out new devices etc.)

A bunch of my SD cards have a write protect slider on them.

Also one of the SD/microSD adapters in my drawer has it.

Kind of sad that this isn't an implementation of Perl 5 in JS

I read it, but I don't get why it's needed, because everyone has USB cables to charge the device anyway, that can be used to attach it to a computer.

Isn't this already supported using PTP since basically forever?

I've been copying files to/from my phone for years. In recent Android versions you need to explicitly set the "USB mode" for security reasons, but if you do it works.

Sure it's wired but how is that the problem?

Except for AWS ;)

I'd add "tracking people's private information just to sell it" to that list.

Traffic analysis also exists.

"Every time a message goes from X to Y, suddenly Y does (thing) a day later"

And then investigate from there.

The anti-EU parties are generally in favor of this kind of stuff.

My guess? The connection to the database can't be established.