What in the seven hells is this?!
The site insists people are really paying for other people's tweets. I just... what?
What in the seven hells is this?!
The site insists people are really paying for other people's tweets. I just... what?
@JBert Legends say he's riding that van to this day.
That quote at the end, oh my fucking god
Time ceases to exist. Laughter erupts as his first reaction is “Wow, it’s so big”. He rocked our perspective that this is the smallest sophisticated motorized gearing system we’ve seen in a lock. The lab goes quiet as the only sound is the turning of the Otto drivetrain in David’s precise hands. Turn, turn, turn and stop. Repeat. Stillness, thinking, calculating reviewing…this continues with slight turns and then quiet. Ten minutes feels like hours as the turning stops and David peers up from his speciality glasses. There’s a collective pause in breath, waiting for his verdict. David Candaux’s words are as meticulous as his manner, “May I use this design?”
Don't do drugs, kids!
(Don't worry about the language, the video doesn't even have sound)
@lucas1 I thought that was because it's 10 beers and three rums later.
Here's a 19 dollar notebook.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/comp/comp?ref=popular
The project description is unbelievable. They wrote so many words about a fucking notebook. With a video and macro shots and a section for "features". Of a notebook. And a picture of a 90 year old hipster gazing at a notebook. They're rasing almost 80 thousand dollars for a notebook.
Oh, and if you buy 3 or 10, you get the ugliest bag anyone has ever made as a bonus.
I need a smoke...
Well, if you need the 5m, you probably can’t work around that.
You could hide it behind some desks or something...
That’s actually a must for surviving in corporate offices.
At my last job my boss had one of these, except less pretty:
Man, I miss that place.
Alabama man and his methed-out attack squirrel sidekick
Decades after it was introduced, a Škoda Fabia sedan finally finds a purpose: a drain plug
@blek ...on a second thought, make sure the soundbar has absolutely no radios, because I think we're like 2 years from those getting "smart" too and just playing audio ads till you drink a Mountain Dew.
Czech Republic status: The biggest hospital in my town, the one that's treating Kung Flu patients from the area, is currently dealing with an unspecified "cyberattack", and is essentially shut down for the moment. I'm guessing someone picked the best possible time to find out if any hot singles were in the area. Sigh.
In other news, a group of four heavily coughing Italians were found on a train traveling across the country, the conductor called the cops and the geniuses are in quarantine now. The train was allowed to continue its route with everyone other than these four on board after a few hours. These trains usually have an open layout, so now god knows how many other potentially infected people are running around Prague. The cops say they have the identities of everyone on board which is really reassuring
About a thousand different people here had the idea to start making apps to connect people who need help with something with those who can spare time/material/whatever else. The problem is, there really is an absolute shitload of these now, and some of them seem to have a decent amount of volunteers ready to help, but they're fucking apps, the people who need help the most don't know they even exist, and even if they did, they have no way to access them.
Close Atom and go help your family and neighbors, you technology-obsessed autistic shitheads.
@polygeekery said in Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself:
As a man married to a woman who is married to
LOL CUCK
@bb36e Eh, that's perfectly normal. I used to know a guy who bought a BRDM-2 from a company that sells surplus Czech military vehicles:
http://www.excaliburarmy.com/en/military-vehicles[1]
They even used to have an actual catalog, it was basically an e-shop for old military gear. You could "add to cart" anything between a handgun and a tank. Nowadays I guess you have to call them to get a quote.
I also remember that during one of my first driving lessons years ago I almost got t-boned by an OT-64 that just kinda appeared from a side street and didn't seem to care about right of way. (I probably wouldn't care either if I was driving a 15 ton armored vehicle... plus it's not like you can see out of the thing very well)
Oh and maybe a month ago I spotted a RM-70 on the road pretty much in the middle of my city - the whole thing, armored cab, multiple missile launcher, olive green paint, driver's left hand hanging out the window holding a cigarette... the army got rid of them years ago so it must have been privately owned too. One day I'll buy one as well and drive it to work every day.
TIL that the shortcut to add/remove yourself to/from a card in Trello is space. Not something like ctrl+space - just the largest, most easy to hit on accident key on most keyboards, alone. Yes, it works both when you have a card open and when you're just hovering over a card in a list. No, you can't change it.
Facebook does have a hook into plenty of popular e-mail providers, you can agree to it going through your entire e-mail account. I think it even prompts you to do that when you create a new account, or at least it used to. Some people seem to actually do that, hopefully just being unaware of how unbelievably invasive Facebook is being towards themselves as well as anyone they ever got an e-mail from.
You can find it behind the Find Friends link in the top bar:
@topspin It's not itself a total scam, but by my conservative estimate there are roughly one trillion scams built around it. Thinking about it, it's not equivalent to cryptocurrencies, it's equivalent to blockchain. Remember a few years ago when blockchain was going to blockchainize the blockchain revolution, blockchainelly, with even more blockchain than anyone ever blockchained before? Yeah...
@Benjamin-Hall I don't think the Garage is a cause of anything. It's a containment board, and at least as far as I can tell, it's been fulfilling its purpose pretty well. I've seen some questionable posts, especially in The Official Funny Stuff Thread, but they're rare and generally seem to be quickly forgotten, and other than that it seems like the only people who make the Garage spill out are people who swear they'll never post in the Garage...
@el_heffe said in Pacific Rim robots are less advanced because they aren't designed the way we design robots.:
Nobody thought of that when they were being designed?
The Trello card for that has been stuck in the backlog for ages, but hey, we're aware of the problem!
@TimeBandit Right.
You'll be pleased to know that these people apparently run multiple nuclear powerplants through a subsidiary. I wonder if they shut down the control systems for months at a time too.
A few years ago some absolute gigachad got caught on video driving a Formula 1 monopost on a public highway. Which is of course wildly illegal. He didn't get caught in the act, and he was wearing a full helmet, so he wasn't recognizable on the video, so after the police found him they just gave him a stern talking to. That was in 2018-2019.
A few years passed, and now guess who's back!
The really funny part is that he faces a fine of up to 10k CZK. That's $421. He could also get his license revoked for 6-12 months if he got caught, but somehow I don't think a guy who drives this thing cares very much.
Just spotted this in a grocery store parking lot
Friday morning on the busiest highway in the country. "Traffic collapse" on a 25+ km stretch.
Apparently this was caused by an accident that blocked the whole road in one direction. And then, ELEVEN MINUTES after it was cleared and traffic resumed, there was another one 11km further in the same direction.
The really funny part is that if you e-mailed the backup file(s) to your gmail address, I'm sure it would stay in your inbox potentially indefinitely.
@hungrier I'm convinced that there's an unexplored part of human anatomy where some kind of nerve absolutely vital to higher reasoning actually runs down your spine and through your ass, and bicycle seats compress or crimp it or something like that, which turns them into raging morons.
I saw a video a while ago where a cyclist was slooooowly riding up a hill on tram tracks, with a tram full of people stuck behind him going at a walking pace. That one refused to get out of the way too.
I'd also like to remind everyone that @Polygeekery has a running joke around him that involves setting people's houses on fire, which seems a bit harsher than supporting, but not actually perpetuating eugenics, but noone's ever had a problem with that.
I'm sure authorities all over the world will punish Google harshly and decisively for this massive privacy violation. Like that time years ago when Google "accidentally" intercepted traffic on unsecured wireless networks with Street View cars. I think they got something like 10 minutes' worth of profit in fines.
@topspin It's even displaying some random nonsense instead of normal text!
I'm not sure if this was crowdfunded, but it's so fucking stupid it just must have been. It's a device that you stuff in your underwear so it can pretend to track your breathing and spam your phone with notifications like "You seem distressed, time to clear your mind?", which is so very much not creepy, I bet less than 50% of the people who were ever involved in this project are child molesters. Half the page reads totally doesn't look like a fucking cult pamphlet. "Over 50 million minutes of calm discovered!"
The one single testimonial on the page also totes doesn't look like there's a hidden plea for help embedded in it somehow. "Spire is one piece of wearable technology that actually benefits you. It's not just there to look pretty or cute or for a novelty. It's there to help you. Utilize it and it will benefit you." - yes, please, I beg of you, utilize it, it will benefit you and they won't sacrifice my child to Belzebub.
Edit:
Spire offers a solution to a very real problem of forgetting to breathe properly.
Apparently, someone was paid actual real world money to write this sentence.
To be fair, that turned out to be just me being blind. Now that I've written some more posts I have more severe issues with the system: wonky oneboxing, wonky notifications, and the fact that this thing seems to consume an inordirnate amount of resources.
I have to restart Firefox after spending half an hour here and writing a few (less than 10) posts if I want to stop it from lagging horribly. What the Belgium. I've never seen this happen before.
I dunno, it seems like a perfectly normal conversation with a Polish person
So, I just opened Google and the results were covered with this:
I guess it's some EU thing or whatever, I don't care. However it won't go away till you say you hit "I agree" on one of the subsequent pages the dialog leads to. Fine, let's take a look to make sure they're not trying to pull some shady shit and make it go away.
So I went forward to review my privacy settings. There are four links, three of them open in the same window, one is external (to google ad settings). All is good so far. What isn't good is that the link that's supposed to go to Youtube settings just results in a white box still covering the page - no back button, no way to close with it or interact with it in any way, it's 100% reproducible, and if you reload the page the whole dialog shows up again and you're back where you started.
GOOOOOOGLEEEEEEEEEEE!
Morning's gone
Echoes of dawn
Shaking my soul
All but done
Delirium
The rain with the cold
With nowhere to go