CameronDev
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- Comment on How would legal procedure change if every citizen eligible for jury duty was aware of jury nullification? 2 days ago:
Probably would make prosecutors think twice about bringing certain cases to trial. Any “sympathetic” defendants would likely just get a plea deal, and probably a lax one.
Influencers/Famous people could also do what they like, because prosecuting means risking that a jury could just side with them, regardless of the seriousness of the crime.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 30 🍙 April 2025 1 week ago:
2tb is heaps for a laptop, do you need that much?
If you drop down to gen 3, it’ll still be plenty fast and slightly cheaper: …com.au/…/silicon-power-2tb-p34a60-gen3x4-tlc-r-w…
But gen4 from the same site is not much more: …com.au/…/klevv-2tb-cras-c910-k02tbm2sp0-c91-pcie…
Never heard of klevv though, could be sketchy
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 30 🍙 April 2025 1 week ago:
SSDs are getting pretty dirt cheap, you can get a 240gb for $29. Is it SATA or NVME?
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 1 week ago:
If I am understanding right, when you say “can’t be bothered”, you mean “can’t be compelled/forced”?
Seems pretty reasonable, albeit slightly reliant on honesty. At least for scammers, they aren’t likely to want it back, as that would deanonymise them, so if its definitely a scam, your pretty safe to keep it.
Thanks for the info :)
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 1 week ago:
Do you know of any countries that have different laws? I’m curious as to how it would work?
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 1 week ago:
That makes even more sense, they probably dont stand out in the crowded market place, but for a few dollars in shipping and lost product, they can get a glowing review to push them up.
Its important to realise that while the item might list for $$$$$, it probably only costs $ to manufacture.
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 1 week ago:
It may be a fake item, but also remember that the cost to make jewelry is usually far less than what they are sold for, so it probably wasn’t hundreds of dollars.
I’ll update when I find the video, but there was a woman who gave a blackhat talk about it, and she got a coffee machine, so its not without precedence to spend hundreds.
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 1 week ago:
This is probably a scam:
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 2 weeks ago:
Depends if your name is Khaleesi, and how made on power they get. Im willing to risk it though.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry :( tell you what, when you run for president of the world, on a platform of “rename all Khaleesi’s to Daenerys”, I’ll vote for you :)
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 2 weeks ago:
They probably dont know that its a title, but it doesn’t really matter. The character is colloquially known as Khaleesi, and thats what they are naming their kid after.
I don’t think its a good name either, given the TV series has largely fizzled, so its connection won’t make sense in a few years time, but being a title first doesn’t exclude it by itself (IMHO).
- Comment on This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards. 2 weeks ago:
Mmmm, no, very mammalian.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 2 weeks ago:
That isn’t really that unusual, King and Queen are both used as names, so its not that weird. Steven King, Queen Latifah (stage name, but still), King C Gillete (inventor of the safety razor)
- Comment on Jack joined a social media group to find online support. Instead he found a culture of toxic masculinity 2 weeks ago:
members were required to post a photo of a woman
“A bit misogynistic” - hell of an understatement
- Comment on Is there a way to get a massive dump of memory stuff off my laptop by uploading it to a torrent? If so how and can I make it private just for my access? 3 weeks ago:
As others have said, torrents won’t work as a backup. This is because when you create a torrent, it isnt uploaded to a server somewhere, other users download directly from you. So if you have it as a torrent, until someone else downloads it, you only have 1 copy.
If you want to use it to upload stuff from your laptop to another PC, then this would actually work, and the only thing needed to avoid it being public is to not share the torrent file itself publically. But there are better tools for this, such as SyncThing. Torrents will work once, but any changes to the files will break the torrent.
- Comment on UBC Engineers Develop Stir Stick to Detect GHB & Spiked Drinks in Seconds 5 weeks ago:
From the 3rd link:
The team is in the process of speaking with a large manufacturer to bring Smart Straws to the market, Baigorri said, and plan to make it “very affordable and cheap enough to dispose.”
Laudible goal, but I do wonder why other teams failed. The bulk price (on amazon) seems to be about $2.30 each, which definitely isnt super cheap.
The downside of “every drink gets a stick” is that it becomes much easier for a would-be rapist to replace the stick with a fake at the same time as inserting the drug. If you cant trust the integrity of the drink, you can’t trust the stick either.
I wonder if having a “Free drink replacement, no questions asked” policy might be easier/cheaper answer. If you think your drink was tampered with, return it to the bar for a replacement. Bar can increase their prices a bit to cover the wasted drinks.
- Comment on UBC Engineers Develop Stir Stick to Detect GHB & Spiked Drinks in Seconds 5 weeks ago:
Is this one of those “my first chemistry project” kinda things? I swear I have heard of heaps of these kind of things coming out of unis, and nothing about this seems different to all the ones from ages ago.
- Comment on Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown | CNN Business 5 weeks ago:
No one forced apple to announce AI. They could have just waited until they had something ready.
- Comment on A highly integrated, high end, open source laptop. Attempt the impossible. 5 weeks ago:
I dont think a rockchip SOC is high end, but the rest of it looks interesting.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 month ago:
I think its a matter of perspective though. I have all the physical buttons I need, and even ones I dont need, so im happy. For you, yours doesn’t have all the functions you need, so obviously your not happy.
Both versions have delay, but I did lose half load and delicate. Gained some other programs though, but those aren’t useful. Funnily enough, neither version has a dedicated rinse.
Series 6 Integrated incase anyone else is interested:
- Comment on Discussion Thread: 🎨🪴Tuesday, 25 March 2025 1 month ago:
That is very irresponsible of them, that shouldn’t have happened over land.
I saw the shadow of a Chinook out of the office window, disappointed that I didn’t see it properly :(
- Comment on Australia on alert after UK detects world's first case of bird flu in sheep 1 month ago:
Bad time to start a Lamb Tartare restaurant :(
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 month ago:
The feature removal is nuanced thing worthy of more discussion. If Bosch had sold the dishwasher with a rinse button, and then disabled it via a firmware patch, I would be pissed as well. If Bosch are advertising a cloud only featured without making it clear its cloud only, also pissed. But Bosch shipping a dishwasher without a rinse button, that is less clear. Not all offline dishwashers have a rinse (I had an IKEA without a rinse cycle), so whether it is a standard feature or not is open for debate. It could be as simple as Bosch deciding to prioritise a difference cycle button instead? Features being removed from products is unfortunately nothing new, in all industries there are numerous examples, the only difference here is that with their app, Bosch can add it back in.
Remote start is the main reason for having it networked. They also advertise it with home assistant/homekit/googlehome/alexa connectivity, which isnt for everyone, but for some, that is a sellable feature. So its not necessarily true that the app directly makes money, it could simply be a feature that helps sell more machines.
Bosch are EU based, so any collected data should be protected by GDPR, although Im not EU, so they could be screwing me if they want. (I am also not a gdpr lawyer, so correct me if i am wrong here). I’d trust Bosch a lot more than a Chinese/US manufacturer, but I isolate it out of an abundance of paranoia.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 month ago:
I still think its unnecessarily rude to call someone’s opinion/experience “pathetic”.
The rest, I absolutely agree with. Its not a Bosch problem, its that specific model of dishwasher for that specific user problem. If I were in their situation, I would return the dishwasher.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 month ago:
Removing buttons definitely sucks. In my case, its a built in dishwasher, so space is already limited for buttons, and all the ones I need are there. So the cloud is 100% value add. I’d hate it as well if the app was my only choice for a feature.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 month ago:
No need for name calling.
My dishwasher is completely fine without the cloud. Period. Full stop.
There is no need to put it on the network, but if you want to, and are paranoid, you can connect it to an isolated network. If you dont want to, dont, and the dishwasher will work.
There are valid use cases for the networking, beyond data collection, if you dont like it, dont use it. I do like it, and I’d rather support companies that do provide first party homeassistant support.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 month ago:
The line between “optional add”, and “base features” will differ per user, so personally, mine can do everything I need it to on the controls, and the cloud stuff is value add.
My only complaint with Bosch is that my washing machine from the same vintage doesn’t have any remote start features, so i can’t run it via homeassistant.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 month ago:
The one way issue is very easily solved (isolated network), and on my model at least, all functionality is available. The app gives more, but everything I need is available on the buttons if I need it.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 month ago:
I actually really like my Bosch dishwasher + home connect. You can hook it up with home assistant, and use that to run the dishwasher when solar is working.
Local access would be nice, but homeconnect isnt that bad, and has been improving.
- Comment on Why can’t HVAC be made smarter? 1 month ago:
If your willing to get into the weeds, most HVACs are very basic, and you can easily make your own thermostat with a cheap relay board. That plus a microcontroller and some code (and/or homeassistant) and you can make it as smart as you like.
There are smarter thermostats, but they are usually more expensive.