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  1. But can you teach Google on IBM Researchers Teach Pac-Man To Do No Harm (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think so. :*)

  2. The trolls get old fast, but there are others on YouTube from the UK that now has entered politics. I have no idea if their combined subscriber base of over 1mil, will be enough to change elections.

  3. It seems that (some) people are beginning to realize the cost of “free” services, but I wonder if they care enough to do anything about it.
    Getting smtp to your home connection could be an issue for many as that port is usually blocked to prevent malware spamming. Sometimes you can request it opened.
    When I ran my own email server, there was a bit of maintenance with spam filters as well as problems with some destinations not accepting emails from servers on xDSL lines.

  4. Re:Facebook, who is it good for? on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it looks like a war zone of stupid on Facebook. I choose not to participate. :)

  5. Facebook, who is it good for? on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Facebook, who is it good for, except for the owner.
    What could go wrong when someone who seems to be anti-social, created a "social" website. :D

  6. I suppose that those who are still using Facebook don’t care and will accept anything.

  7. I can't imagine that I would be bored enough to watch that, even a nap would be more useful.

  8. Did it include a snobby Meryl Streep? on Emmys: Broadcast TV Airs Its Own Funeral As Netflix, HBO, Amazon and FX Dominate (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Did it include a snobby Meryl Streep bitching about how everyone outside Hollywood sucks? :D

  9. Well, you know on Senior Google Scientist Resigns Over 'Forfeiture of Our Values' in China (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The tech world are not all that into free speech anymore, specially not those coming out of Silicon Valley. ;)

  10. or we could show some courage on Google Replaces Its USB-C Headphone Adapter With a More Expensive Version (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    or we could show some courage and include the old 3.5mm connector again.
    If that means the phone gets slightly thicker, they are more than welcome to add more battery capacity.

  11. Re:And smoked pot on Elon Musk Takes a Fatalistic View Toward AI (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes and that seemed to be all that the good old news media cared about, clickbait headlines. It is a bit sad I think.

  12. Re:Not just a perk, it's the law on The No. 1 Office Perk? Natural Light, According To Hundreds of Employees (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    I haven’t been following US politics in detail but I heard that the went a bit further than what’s actually going on in Denmark. :)

    But there are a lot of differences in culture as well, good and bad that can’t just be changed by politics.

    For example, I sense that unions here have quite a bit different reputation and history than in US.

  13. Not just a perk, it's the law on The No. 1 Office Perk? Natural Light, According To Hundreds of Employees (hbr.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now I know that I live in a socialist hell hole worse than Venezuela (According to Fox News). But it is actually the law that you can't build a office where people sit in more than two rows from a window.
    https://arbejdstilsynet.dk/da/...

    Google translated version: https://translate.google.com/t...

  14. Interesting on Procrastination Is More About Managing Emotions Than Time, Says Study (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I’ll have to take a look at that article later

  15. So far, the Bluetooth headset I have used with the iPhone have had the most terrible latency. The audio sometimes is a full second behind. A work I got a Plantronics noise canceling set and they are unusable while watching YouTube videos using Bluetooth. I had another pair from a different manufacturer and it was equally bad.
    The same goes for the Bluetooth connection to my car, a Panasonic head unit.
    Isn’t there someone in the protocol to counter the lag? I thought I read something about that somewhere.

  16. Until one of them folds on Top Genetic Testing Firms Promise Not To Share Data Without Consent (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Until one of them folds and the information gets bought by another company.

  17. Re:You need a big microphone on Logitech Is Acquiring Blue Microphones For $117 Million In Cash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think with today’s cameras a green screen is usable way of keying it. I have just been playing a bit with it for fun and had some problems around hair and a bit of green reflecting back on the shoulders. But when it is just a small window on the stream that is not noticeable at all.
    That being said, I am not an expert at all, I just play with it because it because it is something I don’t know anything about and was curious. It is interesting what you can create with a consumer camera and a computer today. Much more accessible than in the old days with VHS home editing or even 8mm film. :) I have a few of them somewhere I made as a kid, but they have probably degraded now.

  18. You need a big microphone on Logitech Is Acquiring Blue Microphones For $117 Million In Cash (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unlike TV, you need a big microphone if you are going to make a YouTube video, everybody knows that. And it should be placed directly in the middle of FOV.
    Of course that is after you have placed your musical instruments and apple products casually in the background.

  19. Re:Interesting idea on Can Hoover Dam Become a Giant $3B Battery? (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    But the main function of it was water management. The generators are a added bonus.
    The amount of water that can be released are set by the bureau of reclamation.

  20. Oh god please no on Now LinkedIn Will Let You Leave Voicemail Messages (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    another voicemail I will be ignoring.

  21. Oh they did that years ago on Facebook Notification Spam Has Crossed the Line (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    "Now Facebook will nag you when an acquaintance comments on someone else's photo, or when a distant family member"
    They did that years ago. Both Facebook and Twitter. I assumed that it was part of their "conditioning" system to get me to check out facebook all the time.
    After about 24 hours without looking at facebook, it would make those notifications on my phone. And when I turned that off, they arrived as mails. At the time, I could turn off mails, but that ment that I would not get notifications when people DID write directly to me.
    So it ment that I could not use Facebook as a communication channel without getting these constant nagging messages, one way or another.

    I assume that most people won't see this because they have a lot of "friends" on Facebook and so they will get constant notifications from messages and times they have been tagged in a image(there something unsettling about that "being tagged").
    But I had only around 30 "friends" when I closed my account a year and a half ago and the ones I talk to often still calls and uses SMS or email(so old, I know), so it could be weeks between anyone writing to me there, to Facebook, I was still "getting started" on their platform and they needed to "train me" to use it all the time.

  22. How long before we see:”US customers had their iCloud data stored in China by mistake” :D

  23. We are not used to that.
    The whole:” the hotel is 299 pr night”
    But then there’s the:
    Resort fee, that’s another 50 pr night
    Oh the tourist tax, that’s another 10 pr night
    Ah you want to park your car? That’s another 25 or night.
    And of course that’s without taxes.

    And if you are using a hotel search engine, expect only the room price to be listed so you still have to do the calculations yourself.

    I have learned to research it when I plan my vacations so it’s not a problem, just annoying. :)

  24. Re:not by a long shot. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    “coverage black and white” can’t find anything on google about that.

  25. It would have been easier just to omit the x.