tyfon

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901.
by tyfon 9y ago
Hopefully, we will attain enough collective intelligence eventually that we will be able stop population growth and stop having irrational hatred for other humans. I am however pessimistic.
902.
by tyfon 9y ago
There is also absolutely no will in the marketing departments I've seen to measure negative effects of advertising, only the positive. Myself I have an adverse effect when I see an ad for a product. I will actively try to avoid it as I
903.
by tyfon 9y ago
I'm using Signal on my linux desktop right now. It appears to be a packaged webpage but it works fine and is linked to my phone and laptop. All it require is a phone number, besides it's Snowden approved :)
904.
by tyfon 9y ago
GDPR has been in "preview mode" for two years but it is currently the law in many countries. It will start being enforced in May so you already have had two years to fix the issue if I read you correctly.
905.
by tyfon 9y ago
I bring my IP68 Sony XZs (with minijack) into my bathtub regularly. I wouldn't recommend it though due to warranties etc, who knows what they will say.
906.
by tyfon 9y ago
Yes, but if you have electric only and install a "peis" your rating is increased. There are better options regarding particular pollution like the pellet burning oven, but you do get higher rating from wood alone. The CO2 part is
907.
by tyfon 9y ago
I think it's very dependent on where you live. The way we do it is to walk into the forest with the axe or chainsaw (often electric) and cut down a tree. After that we drag it home and chop it up with an axe using muscle power ;) There
908.
by tyfon 9y ago
Burning wood is also CO2 neutral as the forest has captured this CO2 in the last few decades compared to fossil fuel that is accumulated over many millions of years. In Norway you actually get a higher (greener) energy rating for your house
909.
by tyfon 9y ago
Many countries have laws that prevent media conglomerates like that. Specifically, here in Norway, no entity is allowed to own more than 33% of a media company like a news paper etc.
910.
by tyfon 9y ago
At first I thought the ticket was going to be "stop using JIRA/Confluence". There is so much time wasted on this system where I work it's amazing. Some people sit all day updating JIRA with all kind of crap instead of ac
911.
by tyfon 9y ago
> I'm going to stick with uBlock. Same, and that is on Firefox too (both mobile and pc). I don't understand companies, when I run some ad-block I clearly state that I _do not want to see ads_. Period. It doesn't matter the
912.
by tyfon 9y ago
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I don't live in the countries where this happens, however I only eat meat maybe once or twice a week anymore, rest is vegetarian or fish. Not that our (Norwegian) farmed fish industry is much better. In a
913.
by tyfon 9y ago
Time to bring out the big guns and heavy fines (like the GDPR fines), but it will never happen with the current crop of corrupt politicians. All in the name of profit.
914.
by tyfon 9y ago
Yeah, the the post I replied to claimed there were restrictions on private clinics specifically, but the public clinics/hospitals have to follow the same rules. Also: are there any places that charge for births???? That sounds ridiculo
915.
by tyfon 9y ago
We use facebook all the time in my bank to check on fraud/claims of stolen credit cards. Once a customer claimed a stolen card but it was used every day at a specific parking lot. Said customer would post "Checking into work at xx
916.
by tyfon 9y ago
Strict restrictions? I can chose whatever hospital I want and the government will pay for it regardless as long as a GP has referred me to them. If you want you can just pay out of your pocket as well without going through a GP. There is ev
917.
by tyfon 9y ago
Not by Meltdown which enabled user processes to read kernel memory. And as we've seen in the aftermath, they have not nearly as much trouble with their patches for Spectre as Intel has had.
918.
by tyfon 9y ago
I know in my company this has indeed resulted in a full stop in buying Intel and going AMD instead. There is also an active "project" to replace the Intel servers. I work in a bank and they are terrified of the possibility of user
919.
by tyfon 9y ago
If a doctor is leaking data about their patients they will lose their license extremely fast, at least in Europe. Also, the doctor is one office with maybe 1000 patients. A cloud provider will store data for millions making it much more of
920.
by tyfon 9y ago
So what percent of the transaction number is flagged as fraud, and how many is actual fraud? Losing a customer that is not fraudulent due to aggressive filtering is almost as bad as having a fraudulent one.
921.
by tyfon 9y ago
I think the games I played most in addition to those two is T.E.O.S. (The exploration of space) :) I ran my own on MBBS (Mike's BBS, Norwegian specific software) and later PCBoard. I still have images of the MS-DOS 6.22 floppies and PC
922.
by tyfon 9y ago
"even though modern FE devs end up creating much more code and html and css than "the old days"" And yet, most homepages today can't be viewed without javascript. You are correct, for the end user the complexity has
923.
by tyfon 9y ago
I'm seriously wondering about the education system in the US if you had to learn about lobbyists, donors and special interests from Trump. This is primary school stuff in my country at least, along with the explanation for why politica
924.
by tyfon 9y ago
It's kind of funny when 99% of the games are optimised for PS4 or maybe xbox, and both run the Jaguar cpu and 1.8 tflops cpu (xbox slightly lower) My i7 4770k with a gtx 670 is still running all the games i throw at it, even if i might
925.
by tyfon 9y ago
That's why I wrote I am not that exposed anymore as I pay for what I see and don't visit that many websites. The few I visit a lot I still use ublock origin but donate or have a subscription or something like that (patreon for som
926.
by tyfon 9y ago
And people ask me why I have ad blocker running. It's getting to the point where you have to be tricked into clicking the ad. It's ridiculous. Some of us just don't want to click or _see_ ads but somehow marketing departments
927.
by tyfon 9y ago
Can't you just compile your own code without the mitigations inside the vm?
928.
by tyfon 9y ago
I agree, the correct defense for this (and many other things) is to not buy it. It should however come with a severe warning about what it is doing in a way that my mother would understand. Otherwise she would just see it as a nice thing to
929.
by tyfon 9y ago
That is wonderful. I wish there was a ban on ads in public spaces here as well.
930.
by tyfon 9y ago
I'm surprised anyone wouldn't think so. TVs are the same. And phones. And most web sites. And buses, walls, taxies, public transportation stops, bridges over roads etc etc. One has to work hard to defend against the ad onslaught t

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