In other news today...
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City has trouble with crows:
"We've tried multiple things. In the past, we've had falcons, we've put reflectors in our trees, and nothing seems to help," Klein told KGO-TV.
Next up: city has trouble with laser falcons.
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@JBert I used to live in that city. I hardly ever went downtown, so I'm not sure how bad the crows are, but even around my apartment they could sometimes be really loud.
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Article @JBert quoted in In other news today... said:
thousands of crows have become a public nuisance
Stop feeding the
trollscrows?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
City has trouble with crows:
"We've tried multiple things. In the past, we've had falcons, we've put reflectors in our trees, and nothing seems to help," Klein told KGO-TV.
Next up: city has trouble with laser falcons.
Start giving people $10 per pair of crows feet and they'll soon enough be exterminated. Probably cheaper and faster than lazorz.
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@Carnage That works for two months or so, after that you need to start confiscating crow breeding pairs from unscrupulous reward hunters. /cynicism
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
At least they won't have a problem with bored feral cats any more.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
City has trouble with crows:
"We've tried multiple things. In the past, we've had falcons, we've put reflectors in our trees, and nothing seems to help," Klein told KGO-TV.
Next up: city has trouble with laser falcons.
Lasers are no good against drones. Buckshot!
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@Carnage Weren't Microsoft Game Studios one of the few larger studios that had decent releases this year? Read something like that somewhere, but e.g., the Halo launch went pretty smoothly and seemed to be well-received (from what I've seen).
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Carnage Weren't Microsoft Game Studios one of the few larger studios that had decent releases this year? Read something like that somewhere, but e.g., the Halo launch went pretty smoothly and seemed to be well-received (from what I've seen).
Yeah, and their bosses are probably nowhere near as horrible as the Activision ones.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
City has trouble with crows:
"We've tried multiple things. In the past, we've had falcons, we've put reflectors in our trees, and nothing seems to help," Klein told KGO-TV.
Next up: city has trouble with laser falcons.
Lasers are no good against drones. Buckshot!
Lasers are great against drones, what else is gonna let you shine a laser on it long enough to do anything? Also, they swamp the optics. Maser is better, sure...
However, lasers won't work, long term, against crows. We shouldn't be showing them advanced technology.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Yeah, and their bosses are probably nowhere near as horrible as the Activision ones.
Very few bosses are. You usually need to be in EA or Amazon to be reckoned to be quite that awful.
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
That has to make regulators perk up and ask a few questions.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
That has to make regulators perk up and ask a few questions.
There are quite a lot of other publishers and game studios, and some of those are really very successful across a similar range of platforms and quite large. I doubt that regulators will take any enforcement action to prevent the takeover; insufficient case to be made for stopping things.
Acquisition of Valve would be far more likely to trigger an investigation. But ActivisionBlizzard? No. It'll be like the Zenimax acquisition.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
nowhere near as horrible as the Activision ones.
That bar is so low that it no longer even qualifies as a tripping hazard.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
nowhere near as horrible as the Activision ones.
That bar is so low that it no longer even qualifies as a tripping hazard.
Hard to trip over a bar that's buried 6 feet down in the ground and then covered by concrete.
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@JBert Every once in a while, they pop up in my neighborhood. Thankfully, not often. Usually there's only 2 or 3 hanging around. Usually when the nuts are falling off the trees. They like to pick them up, fly up to the street lights, and drop them (to crack them open)
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@dcon I have seen the same with jackdaws. The trouble is that they also drop nuts on my roof, which means that nearly every morning in autumn I wake up to that lovely sound of "thunk-rumble-rumble-rumble-rumble-thok" as the dropped nuts roll down into the gutter. Then they go to peck the remains in the gutter, making even more noise.
My roof is 20 feet off the ground so they would get far better nut-cracking if they'd just aim for the sidewalk. Maybe it works well enough and they don't like to land on the sidewalk due to cats, but I try to chase these flying rats away if possible.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
City has trouble with crows:
"We've tried multiple things. In the past, we've had falcons, we've put reflectors in our trees, and nothing seems to help," Klein told KGO-TV.
Next up: city has trouble with laser falcons.
Start giving people $10 per pair of crows feet and they'll soon enough be exterminated. Probably cheaper and faster than lazorz.
Poe's law hits. Was or
@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Carnage That works for two months or so, after that you need to start confiscating crow breeding pairs from unscrupulous reward hunters. /cynicism
Indeed. It's been tried. At least two times in history. Always that result.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
And you get loonies like this even with an National Health? Well done, well done.
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I'm calling shenanigans on that story. He 'phoned the government' and got an actual answer that was clear and unambiguous.
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@loopback0 I also saw one with Clippy saying "Do you need help finding a group?" in the WoW gamelauncher, but I closed the browser in disgust.
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@JBert Have you tried putting some kind of netting or grille over the gutters? Something sparse enough to let the nuts through, but not the birds? After a few lost nuts, they might get the point.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 I also saw one with Clippy saying "Do you need help finding a group?" in the WoW gamelauncher, but I closed the browser in disgust.
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Would ye like me to help you avoid making wounds with your formatting?
Doubt MS would add a feature where they recommend switching over to LaTeX...
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Would ye like me to help you avoid making
woundsWOONZ with your formatting?
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
switching over to LaTeX
I thought you were trying not to make wounds.
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Starts off well enough and then becomes very European. Fiver says bureaucratic nonsense means it never gets off the ground.
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@HardwareGeek I'll take LaTeX over Word any day. Screw Word the tragedies in layout that it creates.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Starts off well enough and then becomes very European. Fiver says bureaucratic nonsense means it never gets off the ground.
Nowadays, there are several large DNS resolvers. Many ISPs operate their own but third-party DNS services are very popular too.
I don't think there's much money in operating DNS servers. And blocking sites from yours just means nobody will use it.
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Via slashdot:
I must have missed the decade where cloning pets became a thing you could do (assuming you had the ridiculous amount of €€€ that it takes).
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Starts off well enough and then becomes very European. Fiver says bureaucratic nonsense means it never gets off the ground.
Nowadays, there are several large DNS resolvers. Many ISPs operate their own but third-party DNS services are very popular too.
I don't think there's much money in operating DNS servers. And blocking sites from yours just means nobody will use it.
Except if you outlaw the others, and have foreign ones blocked at the border. Like some non-European countries do already.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Starts off well enough and then becomes very European. Fiver says bureaucratic nonsense means it never gets off the ground.
Nowadays, there are several large DNS resolvers. Many ISPs operate their own but third-party DNS services are very popular too.
I don't think there's much money in operating DNS servers. And blocking sites from yours just means nobody will use it.
Except if you outlaw the others, and have foreign ones blocked at the border. Like some non-European countries do already.
… that's why we got DNS-over-HTTPS. If the DNS service is co-hosted with something really important, like CloudFlare CDN, then it becomes nearly impossible to block without breaking half of the internet with it.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Starts off well enough and then becomes very European. Fiver says bureaucratic nonsense means it never gets off the ground.
Nowadays, there are several large DNS resolvers. Many ISPs operate their own but third-party DNS services are very popular too.
I don't think there's much money in operating DNS servers. And blocking sites from yours just means nobody will use it.
Except if you outlaw the others, and have foreign ones blocked at the border. Like some non-European countries do already.
… that's why we got DNS-over-HTTPS. If the DNS service is co-hosted with something really important, like CloudFlare CDN, then it becomes nearly impossible to block without breaking half of the internet with it.
A bill was almost passed in English parliament once that would have banned encryption for ordinary folk.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
I must have missed the decade where cloning pets became a thing you could do (assuming you had the ridiculous amount of €€€ that it takes).
There was a lot of talk a while back. It turns out that some species are far easier to clone than others (with humans being firmly in the “technically very difficult” camp). It's not done much because there's really no point in most cases, and clones are not copies, just (at best) non-contemporaneous twins.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
It's not done much because there's really no point in most cases, and clones are not copies, just (at best) non-contemporaneous twins.
None of which matters if you're an "influencer" looking to spend lots of money on something you can show lots of people you spent money on.
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@loopback0 Yes, but some people having more money than sense isn't news.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
It's not done much because there's really no point in most cases, and clones are not copies, just (at best) non-contemporaneous twins.
None of which matters if you're an "influencer" looking to spend lots of money on something you can show lots of people you spent money on.
Some of us buy winrar licenses and leave it at that.
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That's what happens when you give antibiotics to everyone with a cold, and feed it to livestock by the truckload.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Starts off well enough and then becomes very European. Fiver says bureaucratic nonsense means it never gets off the ground.
Nowadays, there are several large DNS resolvers. Many ISPs operate their own but third-party DNS services are very popular too.
I don't think there's much money in operating DNS servers. And blocking sites from yours just means nobody will use it.
Except if you outlaw the others, and have foreign ones blocked at the border. Like some non-European countries do already.
… that's why we got DNS-over-HTTPS. If the DNS service is co-hosted with something really important, like CloudFlare CDN, then it becomes nearly impossible to block without breaking half of the internet with it.
A bill was almost passed in English parliament once that would have banned encryption for ordinary folk.
Possibly after a series of bills that had done so, and then one than made it no longer so, even. Assuming a proper bank-grade legislative process.
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We've had Xerox copiers that silently change 6s to 8s before, now we get Google QR code readers that silently change the data.
For maximum irony, linked via Google translate. (Translation may be shitty. No refunds)
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Luckily its "total surface area of 452 square inches" didn't break the bank. (0.292 square meters, which is slightly larger than a RyanAir seat)
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@Boner said in In other news today...: