karlkloss

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by karlkloss 5y ago
"millions of dollars of cargo sinking to the bottom of the ocean" If only that were true. Many containers are too light to sink to the bottom, instead they float slightly above or below the surface, posing a tremendious danger to
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by karlkloss 5y ago
Better smoke that weed.
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by karlkloss 5y ago
I don't know whether Apple/Google/Facebook-Oculus/Microsoft/Sony, etc. already noticed (most likely not), but I already stopped buying anything from them, for exactly the reason that they might terminate my account
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by karlkloss 5y ago
Call me what you want, but when they started to embed scripts in web pages, I immediately thought that this was a very bad idea. I still think it is, I still use script blockers all the time, and I still think that a webpage that doesn&#x27
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by karlkloss 5y ago
Bugs?
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by karlkloss 6y ago
Maybe a somewhat problematic name choice. When I read the headline, I thought it was meant to simulate a Shadow PC. https://shadow.tech/de
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by karlkloss 6y ago
Well, I want Facebook to just die, is this hypocritical?
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by karlkloss 6y ago
Am I addicted to my can opener, because I use it nearly every day, and I like it because it works so well and seems to last forever? Should designers make can openers that are a pain in the back so people hate it to use them?
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by karlkloss 6y ago
> there is no DNS for telephony. In fact there is: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2332977/lan-wan-what-is... Only most telephony providers sabotage it.
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by karlkloss 6y ago
That would be totally illegal in Germany, and most of the EU. Not only the employee tracking and forcing them to install anything on their private devices, but also the data collection and not disclosing what is collected, where, and how lo
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by karlkloss 6y ago
I gave up on Amazon and Ebay altogether, and deleted my accounts. It's just not worth my time having to deal with dishonest sellers and getting zero help. Those sellers know perfectly how to play the complaint systems of the platforms,
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by karlkloss 7y ago
I used https://beta.trimread.com/
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by karlkloss 7y ago
The thing is, this DRM stuff causes a lot of problems, like performance loss and even crashes. Therefore even honest buyers use the cracks, to get rid of it. Some people even wait until the game appears DRM-free on GOG, because of this.
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by karlkloss 8y ago
Wait till all the chemicals used for fracking finally make the drinking water of big cities unusable. And no, Europe won't take refugees from the US.
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by karlkloss 8y ago
I have my own domain, and can therefore generate as much email addresses as I want. In fact, I use a separate (non existing) email address for every individual or business I communicate with, and their mails all end up on my administrator a
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by karlkloss 8y ago
I never used social media, because of privacy concerns, and because I'm somewhat of a veteran, having started with Fidonet, and continued later with Usenet. These problem are nothing new, they existed back then already, they were only
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by karlkloss 9y ago
I'm sure that radio astronomers will be thrilled. 4425 additional jamming transmitters.
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by karlkloss 9y ago
As it's a naturally occuring mineral, you can't avoid it completely. https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/asbestos-found-nevada-...
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by karlkloss 9y ago
The next thing to ban will be microplastics. It seems to be as dangerous as lead, and it'll be much more complicated to avoid.