Viewing profile — jonesjohnson

exactly! I've been wondering about this for quite a while now. Why does everybody automatically assume that I'm using the decimal system when saying "orders of magnitude"?!

> Why should we expect/demand more generosity from only 1% of the population? Maybe everyone should spend 1% of their wealth on these efforts? It’s easy to be magnanimous with some…

I can recommend the other way round: For un-bricking my phone, I had to use some proprietary windows-only software. So I took an old Laptop and installed Windows 10. Installing it …

you know what would save lives? If the top 1% would spend 1% of their wealth on preventing "low-hanging fruits" like * children starving * children dying from diseases whose vaccin…

well, it has a lot to do with people growing up during cold war and german reunification. There were many stories where people lost faith in politics (e.g. after Chernobyl), so peo…

that post made me worry more tbh :(

time to use chaospost to send him a get-well card! :-)

I like your tool, but the schedule in the "hub" can now also filter for "recorded": https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/schedule?mode=lis...

it's because the congress has literally not started yet. opening is tomorrow 10h30 CET

I'm surprised, no one mentioned https://f4pga.org/ yet.

What happened to servo? That looked pretty promising - is it dead?

what do you expect, when the tagline at the end of the page says "In crypto we trust."? Honestly, it's a bit sad. There are many great people on that list, but some seem a bit rand…

Here's a good summary and legal analysis by noyb: https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-first-legal-analysis

They warm up things that a) I don't want to put in a kettle and b) don't want to put in a dedicated pot to put on the stove. Like the remainder of the soup i made yesterday that I'…

Then I propose you should support https://noyb.eu/ Their track record is pretty good.

the issue was never the law. the issue were the 100s of tracking cookies and that websites would use dark patterns or simply not offer a "no to all" button at all (which is against…

like UK, you mean? boy that did really work out well for them!

Nickel Manganese Cobalt - a type of Lithium battery chemistry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_nickel_manganese_cobal...

Proper cooling seems to be the primary thing to do. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259017452... Proper Home Storage systems are pretty safe: https://www.bves.de…

The thought that disposable vapes are still not forbidden in my country (EU) is making me sick.

Took me a while to realize you're talking about the merch.

I really love newpipe[1]. No ads, continue playing with screen switched off, download option, and i appreciate the lack of recommendations (This way I only see news from the channe…

so what? all the specification and all the code is open.