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GDPR is the reason why we have cookie popups, and don't have companies driving through cities to scan number plates and sell everyone's movement records to the highest bidder. And …

I envision a scenario where the foundation just tries to drag out the process as long as possible because that's the best they can do in the situation they're in. I envision this b…

They followed the process for forming a union in the US. The claim that the Foundation totally supports the right to unionize but wants to hold a secret election would be a lot mor…

Remember that this is what your money funds when you donate to it...

This is probably an F-Droid issue, but as a user, what matters for me is the end-to-end experience, and the end-to-end experience is "I can't play it": Tried installing it from F-D…

Because I dislike the taste of coffee and people look at you weirdly when you pull out a 1 kg bag of caffeine and a portable precision scale.

Is there a comprehensive overview of a) multi-bank elevator algorithms that are out there, b) the config parameters that the elevator tech/company can set on an elevator system? Fo…

For any game that is able to procedurally generate a "random" puzzle, you can simply seed a deterministic PRNG with a seed derived from the date. No AI or hand-generation required.…

For everyone: Whenever you think you have to guess, use the hint feature. In the more advanced levels you essentially have to "guess" then check whether the guess (e.g. using "penc…

Datacenters are full of metal. Warehouses are full of cardboard boxes and styrofoam. A rack of 14 $5k servers is worth $70k. A half-pallet stacked two meters high with $50 rubber d…

I suspect in both cases the primary motivation is "there's a huge box full of expensive stuff and if we get a drone inside the whole box burns to the ground".

Passkeys are a nightmare for techies that want to understand and manage their stuff. They were optimized for people who neither can nor want to understand, they just press the butt…

If you pop my machine and use it to route 100 MBit/s, I might not notice for months. If I hear the fan spinning at night, you're probably getting caught immediately. If you pop my …

Does it really? Every time I heard the "we'll run out of space" FUD argument it was followed by a drastic increase of satellites in orbit with no issue...

Change is inevitable. I love seeing artificial objects in space, because it shows that we, humanity, are finally getting there. Elon doesn't own space, he just happens to be the on…

They even put a "/s" at the end of their comment...

I notice this pretty consistently with elevators: If you press the button for a short amount of time, it visibly lights up while pressed but doesn't actually register the button-pr…

Of course, and it's essentially an over-the-top parody of what's really happening: People aren't literally running the tool, but running pointless agentic queries where the primary…

I wonder when (if ever) the companies realize that demoralizing your workforce (and destroying that sector of the job market) doesn't have only advantages. I know plenty of people …

The question is, what do they do when they see a tagged prompt? Do they flag/ban the account, or serve a degraded response? Are there some well-documented methods of serving a resp…

Only in theory. If I remember correctly, the "penalty of perjury" is applied to only some small part of the claim, which makes it easy for all but the most blatantly malicious clai…

I think you missed the point - when the outside temperature doesn't go below 23, you can't really get the inside temperature below 26 or so, because as the difference gets smaller,…

I get rage when I hear those "5 clever tips to stay cool without A/C". Many buildings already have shades, but please tell me more how those shades and "properly ventilating during…

"Simply cannot have AC" is a problem we did to ourselves, or rather, the "its not so bad just suffer a bit" people are doing to the rest of the population. What are the reasons "mo…

How do you suggest to keep buildings livable during the decades that it takes to (as you suggest) essentially rebuild cities?