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Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:48PM (#50332105)
Quark is not intended to be an upstanding role model.
Re:YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera ...
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:08AM (#50032573)
Oh, they solved one crime. That is definitely worth turning the entire country into a 24/7 panopticon forever, with no meaningful oversight, so that cops can stalk whoever they like without consequence.
Re:500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:53AM (#49894382)
Source please. This does not sound credible. How does scanning license plates stop people from breaking into parked cars?
Re:Flip Fluid on Flip Dots
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:25AM (#49866910)
The performer in the Eurovision video is "Look Mum No Computer", aka Sam James Bartle, who runs the museum that was the source for the flip-dot panels. There was a brief call-out near the start of mitxela's video.
Re:Toyota is finally taking its best-seller electric
on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:34AM (#49843742)
Sorry, best anyone can do in 2026 is spyware on wheels.
Re:Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control...
on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:11PM (#49661805)
Is it perhaps time to ackowledge that cabinets where everyone is buddies can't actually do their jobs, yet they get given obscene amounts of power?
Re:The Amazon Tax
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @11:08AM (#49346777)
Amazon has turned the search ranking into a contest for who can give Jeff Bezos the most money. How is that an improvement on anything?
Re:Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @12:38PM (#49288529)
Megawatt-hours (MWh) are one billion times larger than milliwatt-hours (mWh).
Re:uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @09:38PM (#49280870)
This argument makes no sense, because the CPU and disk resources required to serve up a modern ad (and the megabytes of JavaScript that come with it) are 100-1000x more expensive than just serving up the content.
Re:Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA ...
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @12:16AM (#49218849)
CISA was one of the first agencies gutted by the DOGE purge.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cybersecurity-agencys-top-recru...
Re:Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @05:53PM (#49175721)
Agent Smith was right when he was explaining The Matrix. Human civilization peaked in the 90's.
Re:Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1
on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:40AM (#49151612)
I always liked the archaic form, "You are hereby requested and required to [insert naval orders here]." It's asking very politely, for now, but also making it clear that declining will result in jail or worse.
I don't know if it's apocryphal, but it shows up in the Hornblower novels and at least one episode of Star Trek.
Re:Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of ...
on Thursday July 30, 2026 @10:55AM (#49110954)
Buy a separate tablet and a roll of duct tape. If you're careful, you can completely cover whatever obsolete nonsense is built into the car.
Re:MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH
on Monday July 27, 2026 @07:48PM (#49077239)
All these different names and version numbers are too confusing. Just name every single model "Copilot". /s
Re:The small, real, original web
on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:17PM (#49041689)
Previous discussion: "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"
Re:Em dashes are fucking amazing
on Friday July 24, 2026 @12:17PM (#49037818)
You might enjoy this song by Lonely Island:
https://youtu.be/M94ii6MVilw?si=VUEIm_VVEHQIn9Y3
Re:The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter
on Monday July 13, 2026 @10:06AM (#48892946)
Energy and velocity are science terms because they have very specific meanings. If you use them in a completely different way, that's not science, that's just science-themed marketing vibes.
Re:If You Can't Hold It, You Don't Own It
on Saturday June 27, 2026 @11:19AM (#48699020)
If the disc is an abstract license, surely the seller will replace the disc if it's scratched. I already bought the license, so what is the real purpose of the physical token?
Somehow the concept of ownership has been twisted to so that obligations only flow in one direction. Rules for thee, not for me.
Re:Never Give Them Your Face
on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:00PM (#48632023)
I was in a similar situation this year. Miapplied a rule, overpaid slightly, IRS owed a refund on the difference. It took a while, but they did eventually send me a physical check.
Re:Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @12:47PM (#48338225)
Systems built into the landing gear do exist, but they're not very common. There are also ground-based systems (i.e., scale-on-a-cart for each wheel).
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16307/how-does-...
Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @12:32PM (#48338037)
Valuable, sure. Most valuable on Earth? Ridiculous.
Re:Everyone Against Us (2023)
on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:36PM (#48273599)
Everybody gets the same constitutional rights, and for good reason.
If the cops can violate those rights at will, lie through their teeth to cover it up, and get away with it, then nobody has any rights.
Re:White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed...
on Sunday May 24, 2026 @11:24PM (#48263143)
Two-way time transfer measures the round-trip propagation time. As a result, it's not directly relevant to the accuracy.
Re:4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
on Monday April 27, 2026 @11:56AM (#47923278)
Functionally, biometrics are closer to a username than a password.
Fingerprints, DNA, iris scans, gait patterns, etc. are all something you can't change (much like a permanent account ID) and are constantly being presented to the world (much like an email address). In addition under US law, police can compel presentation of fingerprints, but passwords are protected under the 5th amendment.
Re:Let's Talk Space Toilets
on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @02:29PM (#47769387)
Is it simpler to build a better space toilet, or to build a ship with centrifugal gravity and use a regular toilet?
Re:People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Ac...
on Friday March 27, 2026 @11:12AM (#47543630)
Too little, too late. I switched to Linux and I'm never looking back. Good riddance, Microsoft.
Re:Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
on Monday February 09, 2026 @07:16PM (#46953570)
So you gave up everyone's privacy for no benefit at all?
Re:Nepal's Mountainside Teahouses Elevate the Experience for Trekkers
on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:38AM (#46681004)
It took me a minute to realize that "Trekkers" in this headline is not referring to fans of Star Trek.
Re:The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:57AM (#46612823)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy
1. Do you know anybody from "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"?
2. Have you ever been to "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"?
3. Do you know anybody who has ever been to "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"?
Re:Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:05PM (#46317910)
Sounds like a great plugin.