Treczoks

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

There are laws regulating how to transport pigs and cows to the slaughterhouse. They have more space than the passengers on this plane.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Have you tried uninstalling this game and play something else?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Back in Ye Olden Days, we probably had the first web interface to order pizza. "We" had been a long-established computer nerd meeting, and this pizza service that normally was closed on Sundays actually opened just for us on that weekend just for the occasion. We had an internal web page to order and organize orders of pizza. But of course, the order did not go out electronically - when our web app saw the need to place the order, is simply sent a fax ;-)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I remember a scene of such a crime movie that was at least funny for people used to computers and progrmmers.

The (old and seasoned) detectives were brought in contact with the new "cyber unit" of the police. Stored away in an otherwise empty office floor somewhere, they were the absolute movie style hackers: cluttered desks, sloppy outfit, beards. The old detectives were quite reluctant to work with those young "computer people" and had a lot of prejudices. Then, one of the detectives found a big red button on the desk and said "I wonder what happens when I press this button" - and presses it. And the "cyber guys": "DON'T!". The detective mocks them, and presses the button several times before he asks what the button actually does. Cyber guy: "That is our 'order pizza' button! I hope you've got enough money to pay for this...". Cut. Next scene: They are all eating pizza together from a desk-high stack of pizza boxes.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Running "top" is also some common thing.

So, when I got a bunch of free serial WYSE terminals ages ago, I propped them up on the shelf, daisy-chained them, wrote a wrapper to be able to address all four screens through one UART, and had them display (and regularly update) system stats. Just because.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Got a bunch of RPIs, some of them retired.

One of the active ones runs a MediaWiki engine (if it detects my home wifi on startup, it acts as a mirror slave to the master installation on the server, if not, it opens a wifi with my home wifi's credentials and offers the wiki as read-only).

Another one runs a DB that controls a number of ESP8266 clients controlling lights, motors, and sensors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If reading the ingredients list of most vegetarian/vegan processed foods don't make you sick, you are blessed with lack of knowledge...

I can understand that people for environmental and ethical reasons don't want to eat meat. What I cannot understand, though, is that they then stuff their faces with super highly processed foods instead of cooking good vegetarian/vegan dishes. There are very good and tasty vegetarian and vegan recipes, but instead a lot of them stay with their old meal plan of potatoes in any form, overcooked vegetables and a "steak" (or whatever) made from wheat structurates, palm oil, binders, emulgators, stabilizers, artificial flavors, preservatives and food coloring agents.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Well, the UK already left the EU, and now they are leaving the internet, too.

No End-to-End encryption? Well, that would mean no HTTPS either if you take it seriously. Which would mean no secure internet for anything: For banking, for shopping, for dealing with any forms requiring privacy, no way to log in to about any site on the internet with basic security enabled.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That, or an easy day off work.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Yea, but it would be good at right-wing slogans and racial slurs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

It's more like a non-privacy policy and should be called that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use "radicale" as calendar server for the family. Thunderbird can talk to it directly, on Androidd, I use DAVX5 to sync them.

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