Posts by That Badger

Artist formerly known as Indian Business Machines pledges $150B for US ops, R&D

A bit longer before that, they "helped" organize nazi concentration camps.

Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a $2 USB key

Re: Nostagia Overload

I have an old Wang keyboard where they added a little speaker to the back that produces a "clack" every time you press a key. Apparently people missed the sound.

HP settles fake discount lawsuit for just $4M. Don’t expect much of a payout

So, pre-Carly Fiorina...

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Re: Down votes for the obvious?

Clearly you haven't fully read the article, especially the text under "Tesla's popularity tumbles". It mentions The Netherlands (and other countries). My post was relevant.

Subsidies in NL ending.

Sales of electic cars in The Netherlands are down because subsidies and exemption from road tax are ending. These cars are much heavier than the average petrol car, too, so the road tax is going to be high. Not many people would have been buying electric cars if it weren't for the government helping them along.

Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI

Re: Datacentres will emit CO2?

It says GreenHouse Gases, not specifically CO2. Datacentres need cooling, and Water Vapour is a much stronger Greenhouse Gas than CO2, for example.

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

Re: Buy Shares In Hoodies.....ASAP......

Ireland to ban balaclavas after anti-immigration violence

"In response to wave of disturbances, wearing of masks will be made illegal when there is clear ‘intent to intimidate’"

The UK may not be far behind...

Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike's patch failure is messing up the world

Re: WTF?

The elevator display probably "needs" to show advertisements...

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'

Re: Let's throw out the concept of systemd on the dump of bad Linux ideas.

Ian Murdock (the Ian in DebIan) probably said something similar, before being taken out of the equation...

Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams

Re: Should move to Yorkshire

No, that is not what i meant, more like the Saxons. Language spoken in England and Frisia/Netherlands used to be the same/similar.

Re: Should move to Yorkshire

Same as Dutch "retegoed", then. Reet means "arse", by the way. Must be a language leftover from before the Norman invasion.

IKEA: Cameras were hidden in the ceiling above warehouse toilets for 'health and safety'

What will they call these cameras in the catalog?

I suggest "Poopensnoopen".

Since it's the only way to differentiate in a Chromium-dominated market, Vivaldi 4.1 introduces 'Accordion' tabs

Re: Orchestra

Imagine two of them at the same time. I sure can, since i'm listening to "Biscaya" by James Last right now.

Are you a 1%er? Windows 11 turns up in the usage figures

Re: Insiders

Everyone running Windows 10 have already been (unwilling) beta testers, since Microsoft got rid of most of its internal testing team...

EU court rules in Telenet copyright case: ISPs can be forced to hand over some customer data use details

Re: the what ?

"Enterprise Court". It really sounds like a fake thing, but then again, so is Belgium.

Chinese web giant Baidu unveils Level 4 robo-taxi that costs $75k to make

I've seen enough videos from China of people getting run over, that they probably didn't bother doing anything about pedestrian avoidance with this thing...

Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request

Re: Pedant alert.

The Dutch band "BZN" (Band without (a) name) predates "The Band". They formed in 1966.

Ca-caw-caw: Pigeon poops on tot's face as tempers fray at siege of Lincoln flats

Barn Owls are not that large and hunt mostly mice, voles and shrews. You may mean you have an Eagle Owl.

My hoard of obsolete hardware might be useful… one day

Re: assuming you know what it is

That's an Apple MacIntosh DB25 SCSI connector. It was probably hooked up to a scanner at one point.