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- Comment on Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body 2 weeks ago:
Great, just make sure this never gets near some elevator control logic like in the movies “The Lift” (1983) or “The Shaft” aka. “Down” (2001).
- Comment on How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones 2 weeks ago:
Yes, for years. Proudly presented by Google’s datacentres. It’s not Apple inventing it again, it’s Apple making it possible completely on-device.
- Comment on How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones 2 weeks ago:
What I hate about these AI-comparison articles is that nobody of those so-called “journalists” understands, that Apple’s AI runs locally on the device. Whereas Gemini runs in Google’s cloud - which in turn means that Google get’s a copy of every single request/prompt. Also, no mention of iOS 26’s new call screening feature - which asks unknown callers for their name and purpose of the call and displays this on the screen before your phone starts to ring. And, again, it’s all happening on-device.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 3 weeks ago:
Don’t tell your friends! They WILL push that button the moment you’re not looking.
- Comment on Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks 1 month ago:
I’ve entered the serial number of my Germany-bought model and it said it’s not from the affected batch and safe to use.
- Comment on Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 2 months ago:
At least in Germany you vote for parties. These parties then create coalitions which water down most of the reasons why they were elected in the first place.
The guy in the EU council is supposed to be the highest leader of each country. In Germany that’s the Chancellor. Which is elected by those parties/coalitions. You as a normal person have no say in who it’s going to be.
Same for the EU commission. You have no real influence on who’s going.
Then those parties/coalitions create lists of candidates for becoming MEPs. You vote for those lists. There’s no way to vote for specific people to go to the EU parliament. And those lists are basically suggestions as people can be crossed out or exchanged on those lists even after the elections are over.
- Comment on Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 2 months ago:
Nobody voted for the people sitting in lovely Brussels and making decisions that impact all member countries in all their different situations. It was good when it was still the EEC and meant to improve trading between member countries. And trading only. How we ended up with this monster of EU trying to dictate things like you can’t sell cucumbers which are curved more than X degrees, or banning incandescent and halogen light bulbs, and stuff like that… I don’t know. But I don’t like it.
- Comment on Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 2 months ago:
Central to the agreement is the new agrifoods deal, known as an SPS agreement, which removes red tape on food and drink exports, removing some routine checks on animal and plant products completely. In return, the UK will accept some dynamic alignment on EU food standards and a role for the European court of justice in policing the deal.
- Comment on Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 2 months ago:
Yeah but we’re not exactly living in the utopian society that we were promised. If anything brexit has proven to be as disastrous as everyone who opposed it predicted.
Have you looked at other European countries lately? They’re no utopian societies either. And things like the EU probably going to demand 34 billion Euros from Germany for not quite reaching the arbitrary climate goals the EU made up… make me very happy that the UK isn’t a part of those shenanigans anymore.
- Comment on Google Wallet lets UK users turn their passport into digital IDs 3 months ago:
these digital IDs are not a replacement for the original physical ones
So, it’s basically the same as taking a photo of your passport and keeping that on your phone.
- Comment on Does anyone know what happened to Babylon/GPAtHand/eMed? 3 months ago:
You should now use the NHS App for viewing your medical records, viewing test results and documents, and requesting repeat prescriptions. Appointments can be booked using our website. We are no longer using the eMed app.
- Comment on Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone 3 months ago:
I’ve recently watched this video on YT about some guy that replaced all his social interactions with AI models for for a while. And he, too, said that his ChatGPT “best friend” was too friendly and later in the test preferred some Character.AI “dominatrix” model instead.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 4 months ago:
They don’t have to lose full control. They could be following too closely and swerve onto the sidewalk to avoid a collision with a car and end up striking a pedestrian.
This is a matter of the human factor - and you can never make that disappear. There will always be the odd idiot driver.
The reduced speed limit should also be accompanied by lane narrowing, speed humps, and other traffic calming techniques.
This is totally fine for housing areas, but definitely not for through-roads. There’s no one-for-all solution in the same way our bodies don’t have only one size of blood vessel.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 4 months ago:
If these drivers don’t obey the rules now, what makes you think they will obey them if you lower the speed limit?
And you don’t just lose control of your car at 30mph or even 50. Especially not in today’s cars with all their safety features.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 4 months ago:
Shooting someone or throwing someone off a cliff is a deliberate act to hurt/kill someone else. No driver wants to kill someone. (Well, apart from these extremists that occasionally drive into German Christmas markets…)
People mindlessly walking into traffic, because that funny video on Instagram is more important than watching their surroundings, they are the problem.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 4 months ago:
Don’t worry, the intelligent ones will survive.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 4 months ago:
I’m all for survival of the fittest. If people are too stupid to stay on the pavement, it’s on them. Why let drivers suffer to protect those idiots that blindly run into traffic?
Maybe we should ban ALL cars to get traffic related injuries to 0… 🤦♂️
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 4 months ago:
Of the EU possibly, not Britain.
- Comment on Private parking rules review prompted by £2,000 five-minute fine 6 months ago:
It says the £2000 were accumulated over 10 different events. So, it’s more like £200 fine for 5 minutes - which still seems ridiculous.
- Comment on Apple Intelligence is for the Stupid Ones 8 months ago:
I like the summaries of notifications. This way, I don’t have to guess what an email is about from the first few words which usually are “Hi mbirth, I hope this email reaches you well”.
The rest of the Apple Intelligence is stuff I can live without. However, Image Playground is nice to create contact pictures or some funny sticker. The newer proofing and grammatical suggestions are nice for second languages. So, it’s not all useless.
- Comment on Apple Intelligence is for the Stupid Ones 8 months ago:
It will, starting with 18.2 which is to be released next week.
- Comment on Revolut customers say e-money firm failed them after being scammed - BBC News 9 months ago:
They’re in the process of getting a proper UK license, though.
Also, Revolut has a European banking license for some years now.
And I’m not sure whether, after handing out your 2FA and other security details, your money is still covered under that 85k insurance. I know that German banks have a clause in their contract about this.
- Comment on Why Google Search is Falling Apart. - YouTube 9 months ago:
There was a discussion about this topic on Hacker News a few months ago:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976
One ex-Googler pointed out that due to the machine learning stuff and every new employee trying out the latest “AI” stuff on top of it, no human can understand and thus debug the search engine properly anymore.
- Comment on It’s too late to save Britain from overheating, says UN climate chief 9 months ago:
It will save so many £££s heating costs, though!