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I'll just leave this little NSA intercepting Cisco products reminder here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

The hazard perception test was a great addition in my opinion. (Basically a video plays and you have to press a button when something dangerous has happened). I passed my driving t…

If a president flaps his arms on one side of the planet does this cause a hurricane of chaos on the other side of the world? And everywhere else.

This sounds reasonable. However there was a study showing major economic benefits if was free. These benefits came from more people implementing it, time saved by all those additio…

Their "paint" advert wasn't bad either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ut_2GWIm4 though it can't compete with the music.

It's a sad indictment that it took all this effort, in 2019, to convince a world "leader" that climate change was real.

I wish companies were more environmentally conscious and stopped churning out swag. It's such a waste. Much of it you would never have bought, most is low quality. We don't need it…

I've asked them: a) _what_ details may have been involved. Currently the criminals know more than we do. b) why EBT had any data if Wise stopped working with then in 2023. I'd exce…

I still remember playing Quake on Linux - with the X display being displayed on a different computer over the network. The different computer was running HP-UX (HP's Unix) on a PA-…

I'm not sure it can replace non-trivial setups - sudo/doas looks set to stay. e.g when you need to restrict a set of users to run only certain applications with certain other users…

No major spoilers that I noticed. Really recommend reading the books, each was pretty mind blowing to me in a different way. The best kind of sci-fi - that which makes you think an…

I've only seen this behaviour once. Someone very publicly shouted at and then privately apologised to. Needless to say the shouter lost any respect I had for them - firstly for bla…

Google weather desperately needs this whenever it reports weather from "The Sun" (awful awful "newspaper"). Today: "Brits to bask in 20C sun" (that's 68F) Yesterday: "Yellow thunde…

It's even worse - under RIP act not only can you be "forced" to reveal any passwords: - the onus is on _you_ to "prove" that you don't know it or have forgotten it - you can be tol…

No doubt this will lead to complaints that foreigners are coming over stealing our secrets _and_ our jobs at the same time :-)

IIRC they did something related a long time ago when you could get a 8 CPU box which was physically restricted to 6 CPUs purely so that it didn't fit into the "can have 8 CPU" Orac…

GeForce Now was/is great. Bethesda though (amongst others) have lost a formerly loyal fan due to pulling their games. Why? I own the games, I paid for them. If I had my old PC stil…

Might want to change the subtitles from "that was sick" to "that was disgusting" just to prevent anyone misinterpreting that (unintentionally or otherwise) as "sick" is slang for "…

It's particularly silly when you consider the number of offices and timezones. Not only is a large amount of interaction via video call, when on site there'll be a shortage of room…

I think there's a better idea: how should you become a better you. Attempting to be 100x better "than the rest" strikes me as a _very_ unhealthy approach. To paraphrase an answer I…

What's worked for me: - Try and become a child again (when I didn't have these worries/frustration). Concentrate on what's in my control. Don't worry about things outside my contro…

You comparison with building bridges without adequate testing is unfair. It's about increasing control, not giving permission to lower quality. In terms of rollout it's more like r…

I did this in two different houses and it does depend on if you have bad culprits. By far the worst for me was a Zanussi washer/dryer with an on/off that went "clunk/click" and pop…

I wonder what systems the ISP has in place to avoid such networks becoming sthe source of DDoS attacks. Given the generally dire security of home routers (and understandably low se…

Some of these are pasting over product weaknesses: - inability to change private channels to public "as you might accidentally reveal secret info". Yes, but that's _my_ decision, n…