In other news today...
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@cvi We could open another sausage and wurst thread...:
near Frankfurt, Wiener Würstchen are called Frankfurter Würstchen, while in Bavaria Frankfurter Würstchen are a different kind of wurst...I think there's a lifestyle thread in the Lounge that's about this.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@cvi We could open another sausage and wurst thread...:
near Frankfurt, Wiener Würstchen are called Frankfurter Würstchen, while in Bavaria Frankfurter Würstchen are a different kind of wurst...I think there's a lifestyle thread in the Lounge that's about this.
Sausagefests? I though that was more of an overall site theme.
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Nice to see the disgraced VW execs found a cushy landing spot:
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Nothing has secured financing of more than $200 million to launch its debut smartphone
Well aren’t you the little engine that could. Trying to take on Apple with what is probably a fifth of their advertising budget.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Nothing has secured financing of more than $200 million to launch its debut smartphone
Well aren’t you the little engine that could. Trying to take on Apple with what is probably a fifth of their advertising budget.
I'm getting "Nobody poked my eye out" vibes from this.
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@DogsB My first impressions:
- "Phone (1)": Oh, a copy.
- "Nothing": Cute. Sucks as a name to take seriously.
- "Essential": Not so much.
- image of phone: Yuck.
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@DogsB On the one hand, those are ridiculously stupid names for the company and phone. But on the other hand, the guy started OnePlus as a niche product for nerds, and turned it into a mainstream success, so maybe he can do the same with this
e: On the other other hand, it could be a totally worthless pile, like the Nothing launcher that I just remembered came out a while ago
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@DogsB On the one hand, those are ridiculously stupid names for the company and phone. But on the other hand, the guy started OnePlus as a niche product for nerds, and turned it into a mainstream success, so maybe he can do the same with this
e: On the other other hand, it could be a totally worthless pile, like the Nothing launcher that I just remembered came out a while ago
I'm actually somewhat interested but Google shat in my cornflakes recently so I'm not buying anything android for the time being unless I can flash it to Lineage.
I welcome the competition but he's trying to take on giants who probably throw billions around in marketing alone. Still going to root for him I just wouldn't invest.
I wish Microsoft didn't exit the phone market. We really could do with a third competitor in the OS space there but do we really want "Windows 11 phone skullfuckery edition". Even I have to admit Windows 11 is god awful but I haven't liked anything after windows 7.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I wish Microsoft didn't exit the phone market. We really could do with a third competitor in the OS space there but do we really want "Windows 11 phone skullfuckery edition". Even I have to admit Windows 11 is god awful but I haven't liked anything after windows 7.
If they hadn't killed Nokia with their windows phone shit ... (I'm still wondering if they really think "Windows" is a "brand" that has positive public perception)
Oh well, would've probably died anyway.
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I generally don't encourage book burnings but for this, I'll make an exception. This book has been nothing but a curse for the Irish people.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I wish Microsoft didn't exit the phone market. We really could do with a third competitor in the OS space
The nature of the global phone market is that there's commercial room for just two ecosystems worldwide. The main driver of this is that it's just too much damn work for third-party providers to support much more than that, and without those apps the users won't stay. Absolutely nobody is big enough to cover everything with first-party apps.
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I'm almost certain this (Edit: the story, not this specific video, which is new) was posted before, when she was convicted, but I can't find it. She has now been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years (when she'll be 96 years old).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMAvhhS5in0
Contrary to much public assumption, the fact that she wrote an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband" was NOT a factor in her conviction. It was not used as evidence at her trial, and most of the video is the lawyer explaining why it was not admissible.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I'm almost certain this was posted before, when she was convicted, but I can't find it.
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If I was on fire and that was all that was available, I’d consider a painful death.
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A woman is charged with felony computer fraud ("Unlawful access to a computer") instead of misdemeanor petty theft for (
allegedly — she hasn't been convicted yet, and innocent until proven guiltyShe was convicted; this is an appeal) switching bar codes at a Walmart self-checkout. Potential penalty: Up to 10 years in prison for shoplifting $80 worth of merchandise.
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@HardwareGeek yet another in a long list of reasons the CFAA or whatever-this-is is insane.
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@HardwareGeek I hope the appeal succeeds. If we go into technicalities, then just about everything contains a computer: Phone. Keyboard. Maybe even your lightbulb, if it's an IoT bulb. Cars...
Imagine if you're charged with unlawfully practicing medicine because you saved someone who was having a heart attack. And you got also charged with "unlawful use of a computer" because the defibrillator happened to have a processor.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
The main driver of this is that it's just too much damn work for third-party providers to support much more than that, and without those apps the users won't stay. Absolutely nobody is big enough to cover everything with first-party apps.
It also depends on how well the platform supports existing code and how much it is a . Because that was a major mistake Microsoft made—when they came up with Windows Phone 7, there were apps for Windows CE, but WP7 did not support anything, because it didn't support native code, only .нет, and that would mean rewriting everything. Yeah, not third time. So when they fixed that in WP8, world no longer cared.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This book has been nothing but a curse for the Irish people.
Some researchers believe this may be due to Joyce having been sober during its writing, although I myself don't believe this possible.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Move to Bavaria.
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie near Frankfurt for the record.
I stumbled across this recently:
I wonder what kind of misunderstanding of geography led to that particular choice of product naming.
Bologna!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Nothing has secured financing of more than $200 million to launch its debut smartphone
Well aren’t you the little engine that could. Trying to take on Apple with what is probably a fifth of their advertising budget.
I was wondering. I hadn't yet opened my email I got about it.
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@dcon
So now Canada and Denmark will share a land border? funwithmaps
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Today in great but misleading headlines
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Birds on power lines go boooommmm... We've seen that here a couple of times.
But that comes with a danger: fire.
"Falling to the floor like winged Molotov cocktails, birds can spark an inferno if they hit an especially dry, tindered patch of earth."
https://www.science.org/content/article/electrocuted-birds-are-sparking-wildfires
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Birds on power lines go boooommmm... We've seen that here a couple of times.
But that comes with a danger: fire.
"Falling to the floor like winged Molotov cocktails, birds can spark an inferno if they hit an especially dry, tindered patch of earth."
https://www.science.org/content/article/electrocuted-birds-are-sparking-wildfiresCheck out "crazy ants", yo. They're a very small species, attracted to electrical fields.
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@boomzilla Can it detect when the user is thinking of Winnie the Pooh?
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Can it detect when the user is thinking of
Winnie the Poohanthropomorphic ponies?FTFYKW
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Can it detect when the user is thinking of Winnie the Pooh?
That’s probably in version 1 already, they’re just not admitting to it.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Can it detect when the user is thinking of Winnie the Pooh?
If they're thinking about any kind of poo, I'd rather not know.
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@DogsB we’re world beating!
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Today in misreporting the news...
A motorcyclist had a narrow escape after he fell into a huge sinkhole which had opened up in a road, according to shocked neighbours.
The hole began to open up on Tuesday evening but as residents stood and watched, a motorcyclist came along the road - spotted the hole and tried top jump it like famous American stunt man "Evel Knievel" - but fell into the 8ft deep void.
He didn't fall into the hole! He drove into it!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
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The hole began to open up on Tuesday evening but as residents stood and watched, a motorcyclist came along the road - spotted the hole and tried top jump it like famous American stunt man "Evel Knievel" - but fell into the 8ft deep void.
He didn't fall into the hole! He drove into it!
He also fell into it. Separating axis theorem.
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Was that really necessary? Whatever your stance on whether the guy is funny or not (I personally like him), if you are offended by a joke in a gig, do you need to report it to police?
(NB some speculated this is a PR stunt. The relevant police authority has confirmed that a complaint was made, investigated and found to be of no issue.)
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Was that really necessary? Whatever your stance on whether the guy is funny or not (I personally like him), if you are offended by a joke in a gig, do you need to report it to police?
(NB some speculated this is a PR stunt. The relevant police authority has confirmed that a complaint was made, investigated and found to be of no issue.)
Joe Lycett is a terrible comedian and I'm only surprised I didn't think of this first.
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Hadn't heard about this yet (article from June 9)
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@dcon says, exploited system ends with a
d
... will I be surprised?...
Well, no direct mention but it won't stop me from assigning blame.
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@Gribnit That's okay. If it turns out it ends in
kit
it still counts.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
says, exploited system ends with a d... will I be surprised?
LD_PRELOAD.
Yeah, I guess that works.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Hadn't heard about this yet (article from June 9)
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/28511/many-eyes-make-security-vulnerabilities-shallow
@izzion said in Many eyes make security vulnerabilities shallow:
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Haha. When I was getting out of middle school and going into high school, one of our teachers had us write "notes" or "letters" to our class. I don't remeber what all I wrote, but it was basically this
F ...
U ...
C ...
K ...You all!
Some of the idiots tried SO HARD to get me in trouble over it. The teacher was like "Nah I don't see it :-}"
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@boomzilla did they really have to pixelate those letters?
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@topspin I don't get it. What's wrong with ONHN OFF? Why is that so offensive. Doesn't make any sense.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@topspin I don't get it. What's wrong with ONHN OFF? Why is that so offensive. Doesn't make any sense.
They don't want to encourage onhnism, clearly.
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Have you already enjoyed your cup of tea?
Anyway, read that:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0091
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