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  1. Re: WTF USA? on Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well if it's any help I'm 39 and kinda have figured I can't really afford a car so I haven't had one =P
    Vegan since 20+ years and live in an apartment without useful life so I don't use public transport and it's heated mostly by burning forest products. The electricity is mostly hydro power and nuclear. Also as 39 year old virgin maybe my offspring won't dent things either. Though I wish they did ;D

  2. Re: WTF USA? on Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There are also people in other countries, mind you.

    Correct. The difference however is that they don't claim that it doesn't care how much fossil fuel you use because it's all just a hoax anyway.

    Others use it but they know it's a problem and hence are willing to make changes whereas Trump conveniently denies it's a thing to help his friends.

  3. Re: I feel it in my gut that this is a hoax on Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    More like big oil knowing the facts too they just don't want to admit to it in public.

    Like the tobacco companies.

  4. Re: Blaming others. on Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just much less responsible.

  5. Re: WTF USA? on Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah but in this case I'd agree they have the world's traitor Trump in charge.
    While I want each people to have sovereignty and be able to keep being themselves I definitely don't agree with him on that the wealth of those owning fossil resources is worth more than the earth itself.

  6. Re:I bought a Huawei scale. on Europe Should Be Afraid of Huawei, EU Tech Official Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It also measure resistance in the body or whatever and hence give some estimates of body fat, muscle mass, bone mass (?) and such and transfer those over BlueTooth to an app (but their stupid app doesn't work with their own Mi Band if you own one nor does it link to Google Fit or Apple Health or if they are named the other way around.) It also can guess who are using the scale in a household with multiple persons and hence track different individuals values. Also the mechanical house-hold weight scales are very inaccurate.

    The Body+ have WiFi so doesn't need the phone I suppose. But it also cost twice as much. This scale is cheap and easy to find but of course it doesn't need access to my bookmarks, web history or installed applications to do it's measurements. Their support told me it was to be able to update it but that's completely bullshit. Other apps can update themselves without having those permissions, it also want access to your pictures, videos and files and there I can't understand why the applications can't just get access to their own directory why to all the files? Anyway that could possibly be for saving some firmware to send over to the scale. Maybe.

    Yeah the smart-phone user-interfaces suck and it's a shame we only have Google and Apple doing them. Apple seem to make the better product really considering the spying and shit. I want buttons like only in the middle of the display or something so I don't end up doing things just because I hold the phone or put it in my pocket. Also Google are assholes by not letting us return to lock screen and still have the audio playing from a YouTube video without paying for that. Phone becomes completely useless by some water spray too.

    I assume a wrist band ("smart watch") could develop sensors good enough to tell which fingers you are moving so you say could type on your leg or table and enter text that way.

  7. Re: Sounds like Mobil Oil ... on Apple Store Employees Aren't Allowed To Say 'Crash', 'Bug', or 'Problem' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Here in Sweden all the shit the politicians has created are called challenges. And supposedly we need more politicians to solve their shit. Gas them all.

  8. To be fair the moderation points isn't there for "I disagree" but rather for "this comment is off-topic or here to only cause trouble" which shouldn't be taken as the same. That doesn't change that the modern way to moderate content is to focus on removing what you don't agree with. Sadly. But it may be too late to try to change that now. If you stop it just mean the other side wins.

  9. Re: Why??? on Europe Should Be Afraid of Huawei, EU Tech Official Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But my government will demand access to that data or grab it anyway so there really isn't.

  10. I bought a Huawei scale. on Europe Should Be Afraid of Huawei, EU Tech Official Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The app want to know my web history, bookmarks and installed apps.
    I think I'll return it even though it's cheaper.

    Also bought their semi-broken tablet, I have no idea how that spy or whatever it will be fixed (breaks apps + shit antenna) may return that too.
    S3 32 GB 3999 SEK
    Vs
    Mediapad M5 64 GB 3333 SEK.
    Scale AH100? 290 SEK Vs Nokia Body+ for 590ish or beuer bf700/750 for 400-500ish or possibly Amazon but I live in Scandinavia.

  11. Originally he wasn't famous though. I assume he become famous for people enjoying watching he play games and possibly for thinking he was cute.

    I don't see how it matter why you are famous though. He definitely is famous.

  12. Re: Wrong problem on Steam is Finally Coming To China But Chinese Gamers Don't Want It (abacusnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't we all?

  13. Re: Goodbye, my Chinese friends. on Steam is Finally Coming To China But Chinese Gamers Don't Want It (abacusnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Lorelei.

  14. He do have 70 million subscribers.
    More than that know about his existence.
    If 100+ million people know who you are how isn't that famous?
    Maybe not Michael Jackson famous but still pretty famous.

  15. Re: Environmental impact of a tunnel? WTF? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    If they never get to build it he's right.

  16. Re:Whiskey Lake on Two Linux Kernels Revert Performance-Killing Spectre Patches (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Cannon lake definitely doesn't have mitigations for everything.

    Intel has claimed that software and hardware mitigations together would defend against the much more resent found flaws too I don't know whatever that's correct or not.

  17. Re:this is the wrong call on Two Linux Kernels Revert Performance-Killing Spectre Patches (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree one shouldn't ship in an insecure state (possibly locally like if granting video and audio access require extra permissions / could be locked down then I'm fine with that being usable from the start) but I'm well aware most distributions and operating systems doesn't do so.

    I used to use the BSDs quite often and then installed Fedora or something and for root password I used "ok" because whatever just that the machine ran SSH and allowed remote root logins by default. I guess someone may find that "convenient" but I don't see why it should be that way by default. (I don't think SSH need to run by default (unless the alternative is to run telnet by default instead :D) either but at-least with a username you've got obscurity.)

  18. Reminds me of these clips:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    I've seen others too with say booting the machine, launch word processor, type something, save or print and then turning it off again where the much older machine did it quicker.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  19. Send those APK and Trump spammers to Mars on Elon Musk Renames Big Falcon Rocket To 'Starship' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Their comments is everywhere.
    5 billion to save /.?
    Well there's that and the mod down stuff you don't agree with. Are those less than 100 all in all?

  20. Re: As someone who bought the original... on Half-Life Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Fan-Made 'Black Mesa: Xen' Trailer (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The multiplayer titles sure last longer and maybe sell better but that doesn't make the single player game bad.
    Also it's modded quake(1) engine right?
    And we had TF in Quake already.

  21. This one has been in development for lots of years.
    Does it really have any competition?
    Except for 420 blaze it or whatever it's called?

  22. Re: What is WIndows? on 'Windows Isn't a Service, It's an Operating System' (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    The value of windows.

  23. Re:How is fusion sustainable? on China's Fusion Reactor Reaches 100 Million Degrees Celsius (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Helium got a full shell of electrons and isn't all that keen in hooking up with something else. It's also light so it easily escapes.

    Mean-while hydrogen and oxygen aren't all that uninterested and clearly the couple is more down to earth.

  24. Why should the one running the medium on 86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    ... of communication have that capability at all?

    Google and Facebook are so important for expressing themselves that it should be a right to participate and as for the speech a court could decide that. Then again I don't think we should have the hate speech laws whatsoever.

    "It's a private owned product we do what we want!" shouldn't necessarily be valid when you kinda have a monopoly on communication.

    Then again since Germany, France and the EU want the destruction of all Europeans (possibly GB too) they put demands on the companies in the opposite direction,

    You don't have much freedom of speech of you have no place to actually express yourself. You definitely doesn't have freedom of speech to the same degree / power as others. Then again I know in the US supposedly it's fine that you lose your freedom & rights once you actually has been sentenced as a criminal.

    I don't think they should lock down accounts. I also assume they keep the data and still use and benefit from it themselves? Or do they eventually remove it and then it's gone?
    By now my Facebook account is close to 20 years old and the post and images and wall and so on contain a large part of my life and it's fucking terrible with any single thread or post they remove because they alter history, stories and messages by doing so but I think at most they should remove single breaking posts (preferably just the part/sentence breaking their rules) and possibly silence serial offenders. I don't really think they should hide all content but even if they did that they could let the owner still be able to login and see it as it was up until then.

    I lost my cat at just about the same time I lost the account and because of that I both lost the capability to tell those who know me I had lost her but also the capability to look at my images and see my posts about her and get the reminders about posts from x years ago which was about her. Those were posts of love not hate.

  25. How is fusion sustainable? on China's Fusion Reactor Reaches 100 Million Degrees Celsius (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Sure the raw material may be plentiful but how do you get new hydrogen?