Posts by xyz 1236 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Dec 2007
If he has a pile of his old kids' comics in this toilet that he jacks off to. Can't be long before he comes up with Falcon Heavy module for it as well. It doesn't matter how many whizzbangs he nails to his cybertruck... It's a dog, it looks crap and maybe the best way to sell it is to make it kiddy sized, attach pedals and emit ray gun sounds.
The hell of Spanish government websites (and apps) is a thing to behold. Ok, you have your digital cert to get you in, but you're then faced with a civil servant's idea of what should happen and it's baffling. And if you're not quick the bloody things time out and that's if they actually work in the first place. A couple of weeks ago I tried to go through the drone (DJI mini to do an aerial survey of my land) registration process and gave up after about 6 hours of borked sites, huge complex rules and bad links. I didn't even get to the part where I have to register as a data controller because the bloody drone had a camera. And as for the Social Security site... Welcome to fascism.
The AC is right... And Covid showed us one thing... Let people back off the leash and they go mental for their "necessities"... Holidays, cars etc. They act like energy addicts wanting their fixes but then whine like fuck about "climate whatever" at the same time.
I live off grid, don't wash much, grow my own stuff, shit in the woods etc and I'll tell you the amount of time spent in just surviving kinda buggers any ideas about forward planning and I can't see my existence becoming a fashionable lifestyle choice.
So, global whatever it will be, much whining will accompany it, many will die, but I'm sure the green types will still demand their at least 2 showers a day, fairtrade coffee, organic whatevers, solar powered aircon, more EVs and lashing of self righteous pontificating.
As for the petroleum bunch, can't see them cutting their own financial throats anytime soon.
Sent from a smelly bloke via Starlink running off solar.
On Vivaldi mobile... I could remember how to find my bookmarks, they got shot of that stupid "preview" mode, didn't reload a half completed form when I move to another app.. E. G. Email to get a bit of info the form requires and recognises that my Dragino gateway/router was not the spawn of the devil.
Apart from that it's a shite site better than Opera.
I'm in the middle of nowhere Spain. To counteract squirrels and boar I sheath the Starlink cable in polypipe... 18 months on and no problems. And as for 80 quid a month, I pay 65€ so I presume you got Starlink "installed". Saw an ad the other day for Starlink Uk which had about the same prices which included "installation**".
** installation equals take dish out of box and put somewhere where there are no trees, connect router, switch on, get internet. No, there is no content 'cos Starlink is not TV.
Back on the Musk vs FCC thing... On the one hand I'm very wary of govs wanting to control infrastructure things like broadband and on the other, if you want broadband (Starlink), just buy it off the Starlink website.
Finally, remember that Starlink is not an ISP and when you connect to a ground station you get attached to any random ISP that's about, so that's probably where the FCC gets its panties in a bunch. But... it's a definition only public servants would get hung up on whereas everyone else would go "meh."
Can you just imagine BBC news trying to explain a CME buggering the 8:15 from Croydon in words that the BBC thinks its audience would understand, whilst shoehorning in the phrase Climate Emergency ('cos it's natural playin' up innit) and how if we all used bicycles this would never have happened.
1) Where's OneWeb in all this?
2) Why not just do a deal with Starlink?
3) Why not just buy this off Amazon?
4) Is this just HMG trying to get secure MoD comms on the cheap?
5) Whatever happened to the BT/Starlink huddle?
6) Why not just use fibre? Spain fibred up its whole country in months and it's much bigger.
HMG could even pick one solution from the above AND fiddle about with garden shed budget projects to come up with new shit.
Since the Israelis have taken up the "blow the bejesus out your neighbour" mantle and Ukraine is a bit down the news pop charts these days.
I mean Vlad can't bitch about Israel bombing Gaza and then do the same thing to Kyiv and Ukraine a while back tried to nail their colours to the Israeli/US mast only to go "Err..." when viewing the newsfeeds.
It's all a bit sad, but I suppose dodgy news items are a better form of war than the usual masses of body parts.
A neighbour a picture of a planet (can't remember which) from a server in Brazil. Her look of confusion and the "that bloke's nuts" look on her face stopped me mentioning the Internet for a while. I did have another neighbour with a ginger beard and sandals who talked about EPROM and stuff but was clearly mad. Ah, the good old days.
Anyone remember when you could just type a search into Google and get results rather than tailored dross? I've been searching for something specific for weeks and couldn't find it... My device language is English. Local barmaid did the same search, device language Spanish and bingo! Very embarassing.
Come Jan 1 2027 the "UK" will still be in the cack on the gigafactory front, whilst the EU will be gigfactoryed up. They're building one down the road from me which is a bit behind due to Covid stuffing the timing up. Solar panels are being slapped on everything (inc the median of motorways) and the Portugal to Germany hydrogen pipe is due to be ready 2030 (no arguements about it working or not please). The only thing the EU is short of is water due to the drought, so a smart chap might view that as an opportunity, given the "UK" is up to its wellies in the stuff.
I was wondering about the AMI ads on the telly here in Spain; the main message of which is "trust no one but us to tell you the truth".
Now I wouldn't touch anything to do with Mr Z but I also get the smell that the Spanish Media has decided that only the Spanish Media tells the truth and everyone else is a liar, whereas the Spanish Media generally tend to be slightly right of fascist in its views.
So we seem to have an old fashioned turf war kicking off between a lumbering data elephant and a Franco era data fly. I wonder if the elephant will notice?
All I can see is a bunch of 20st century dinosaurs trying to keep their telephony cartel going by sticking their collective oars into something that I can just now buy direct from the manufacturer.
As for "rural" all I really need is for a direct LoRa type (IoT) connection (currently my rural IoT stuff has to go to a LoRaWan gateway connected to my Starlink router) to an LEO constellation (so hint hint Starlink) without some ancient cartel of financial parasites with their paywalled private LoRa type network getting in the way.
Last I heard the FOSS Lacuna constellation had 1 more satellites deployed than Amazon but obviously there's not much of a profitable deal to be done there.
Bunch of Kents.
Hate to say it but I can stream video, whilst GF rabbits away on Teams, whilst my mum is wittering stuff to me via whatsapp and if I had peace and quiet I could order something from Amazon at the same time. 65€ a month via Starlink. (>300mbps up, around 40mbps down, 20ms or so latency)....
And no ads for Prime or constant special offers**
** pretty much guaranteed as part of the Amazon in space T&Cs.
This is brought to you by HMG... it's never going to happen. Just look at the news piece slapped in the middle of the article... Something about auto lane changing by 2021. This is all just gov word crap to make them feel groovy and hip and "to inifinity and beyond". Anyway one S. Braverman got binned today so not a total loss.
If I bluetooth my phone to my car, watch a paid film off Amazon on the phone, does the car retain a copy? If it does is that piracy and should I inform Amazon?
Fun!
My Navarra does some right weird shit all by itself when it thinks I'm not looking and I presume it's sending guff on me back to Nissan. Flattens the battery after a couple of weeks if I don't drive it. In the woods you can hear a parked Nissan whir.
The thought of massed Excel 2.0 warriors makes me shudder, but I've seen enough this past few months to see where data is going and how to get money out of it and it needs skills from all over a business. IT will still provide the backbone but data is now "in yer face" commercial and needs completely different mentalities to fashion it. Even the name "data scientist" seems old in an environment where data value is subjective, fashionable and ever changing and you need experts from various fields to access it and fast.
Governance is the key and there are loads of tools out there now to control all that. This is going to be fun.
I tried to buy a drone the other week.. Just a wee one to survey my land with and OMG. I have to register with some bunch, ok no biggy, then I have to get approval for flight over my land as I'm in a protected natural space (if I wasn't then I have to be at least 8kms away from one), away from people, away from nuclear plants ( 2 nearby) , military places, beaches, airports, have to register as a data controller (because it has a camera), need to apply for approval for each flight (weeks in advance), must maibtain line of sight, cannot fly higher than 120m and have to actually to apply in person at some office somewhere and not online, so good luck Amazon, but you've a cat in hell's chance of flying that thing over Italy because the above rules are new and EU wide from 2020 (maybe 2022, cant remember)
Back in the old days, people used to keep their animals on the ground floor and their body heat warmed the people on the first floor. Suella Braverman has too many immigrants and nowhere to put them, so use them for heating people's homes! No need for tents on the streets or assorted Bibby Stockades, just harvest a fresh batch straight off the Kent beach and plonk them in Acacia Ave. You could even keep them under the floorboards, so you didn't affect property prices. Win win all round I say.
The above is a joke btw so don't go blabbing to Suella as she'd probably go for it.
Bit off topic but... Spanish news has just informed us that electricity is free until 18:00 tonight. If the Spanish can work that (and they have private electricity companies and they have daily fuel/petrol pricing too), then I think your country's companies are shafting you. It all just feels a bit spiv.
I don't know the gubbins but I think the key word here is "federated" as in https://data.world federated type querying, where you leave data where it is (no ETL or multi country data issues) and just link up stuff. The links are all cloudy though. However, I'm mistified why it costs so much when you can just buy off the shelf.
I suppose Palantir gets free data and vast amounts of cash and then replicates that little earner across many countries and suddenly they've got planetary data to play with.
And I suppose suppose that HMG/NHS has to pay Palantir to see its own data.
To give you an idea of how much insulation is required (without the maths), my walls are 60cm thick brick and stone, the roof is 60cms thick concrete and insulation, the building is half underground and I still need a fire in the winter.
The average 1900 terraced house in London with its 9" brick walls wont stand a chance with a heat pump. And IMHO hydrogen is a non starter.
Better get used to one room living and jumpers.
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