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- Comment on Couldn't you use a VPN to bypass VPN blocks? 5 days ago:
Define VPN blocks
At work, our network is severely limited and VPN are just blocked at all, there is no way to get any kind of VPN connection out. Not even wireguard.
- Comment on Is it possible for someone in America to not know who Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi is? 5 days ago:
I live in Italy and didn’t bothered to know who messi was, so I guess yes
- Comment on I hate Android! 5 days ago:
Yes it’s a very stupid memory management meant to improve battery life by killing any app thats been running at all…
Very frustrating and idiot.
Try play any game nowadays… The instant you switch away bam, killed.
It’s baked into android. AOSP I mean, any and all android flavours.
Disabling optimization for battery doesn’t help with any bigger app.
- Comment on Is there a reason why bullets aren't squared? Glock's are squared on the outside but shoot round bullets. Why not square, was it ever tested? Not talking about all guns just usually handhelds. 1 week ago:
Rotation. Bullets spin, it’s for stability and range. Weapons are built to spin the bullet while it exit.
Non round shots would not be able to spin at the same way due to resistance and aerodynamics and will be much less effective.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Are you /s or you didn’t read my post?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Why worse? It’s not a better or worse race.
SW Compatibility? Windows wins hands down. Try run decade (even years) old binaries on Linux, good luck.
Security and privacy? Well🤣… Maybe here Linux wins by a small tad /s.
And so on.
Microsoft focus is on different aspects than Linux, like monetization, lock in, business apps like office, store apps, and who knows what other crap. Linux efforts are usually focused on what is actually needed for a better quality of usage.
On the long run Linux is doomed to success, because Microsoft like all companies will die one day. Linux will never die because it cannot be killed …
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 1 week ago:
There is also a commercial reason. By selling 110v or 220v appliances with different plugs, it used to be difficult or not viable to mass produce stuff on the us to sell over In Europe or vice versa.
Same for pal and NTSC formats. Main reason was producers lock in.
And of course all the other reasons others already mentioned.
- Comment on What is life like living in area's controlled by Drug Cartels? Can a kid out of high school go get a job that is legit? Or are they just like in Chicago with different gangs? 1 week ago:
In my childhood, from 5 to 15, o used to live in one of the most degraded part of my city (1mln people, southern Europe). Drug dealing and sex workers where common and widespread s well as clients. Maybe no actual “cartels” tbh.
Well, the area was very safe and in control, actually the drug dealers kept the situation under control because they didn’t want police to mess around.
Years later the area was cleared out and and started to become the Hotpoint of night life (pubs, cheap alcohol holes and such) and people flocked from every other part of town from 23:00 to 5:00. That’s when it started being unlivable because you would fine your car hit or pissed on, high music and loud voices all night long and drunk people around, broken glasses and bottles in the morning…
So, I missed the dealers. And I moved after a few years of that hell. (The night time life, I mean)
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
Yes you are right, but I think a good answer to op question had to consider that zero tolerance at the driving seat is the correct answer, and my take is not on saving the children, as other stated, but that on a dangerous substance there cannot be a itching other than zero tolerance on drunk driving.
Let’s say a different take.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
Yes and my grandmother lived to 80 because she drank wine every lunch and dinner.
No, that’s not true and alcohol doesn’t help the vascular system in any meaningful way. You can find scientific research that says anything and the opposite of that, that’s why what you need is scientific evidence on quality studies that have been repeated abd confirmed by the community at large.
It’s hard to understand how science works, but having studies says one thing is not enough, you need comprehensive studies and meta research as well to get a solid conclusion and that says alcohol doesn’t do any good to your body, and I am not talking about cancer but also mental degrade, damage to neurons and so on.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
The safe amount of alcohol science recommend for an adult is zero.
Alcohol is one of the few substances for which these is proven evidence that any quantity is bad and will cause progressive and irreversible damage to you.
I do drink albeit not much, like a few times a year, so I am not against alcohol at all, it’s your body your choice.
But given the above, I am only happy if the tolerance on driving under any alcohol influence at all is punished
- Comment on What is a good delta between indoor and outdoor temps using only ventilation? 2 weeks ago:
You need fans to blow the air OUT not in, and create a chimney effect between opposite sides of the building.
A small out blowing fan can be enough, if run all night.
Blowing out will cause air to be sucked in from the opposite side. Having multiple fans will only mess up the air flow and reduce the efficiency. Better two fan on the same outgoing window.
Of course, that will never cool down more than a few degrees above outside temp because walls thermal cycle will bring inside day heat at night and bring inside night cool in daytime. Specially thick or well insulated walls are designed to do exactly that.
So yes walls will warm you up at night, that is not avoidable. A well insulated wall will do that instead of bringing heat in during daytime… But heat is there and must be dissipated that’s physics. Night time is the best option.
- Comment on Panino police: packed lunch bans enrage Italians at pricey beach clubs 2 weeks ago:
In Italy all coast and so also beaches are public property
But … Historically many coastal towns kind of rented the beaches to families who built empires on overcharging customers, blocking sea access and also issuing bogus rules like to external food.
Now there is an European directive to which Italy should adhere that imposes those beach concessions to be actually competition and not assigned by divine rule of birth.
Of course, the families whose main income is that, and who used to live 12 months from the income of June/July/august, do not agree.
While still illegal to block import of food and public access to the sea, in many places it happens.
Also, in many places there are publicly accessible beaches with infrastructure (showed, toilet, bar…) bit those are not the touristy spots
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 3 weeks ago:
Are we talking taste or nutrition here?
As for taste I say go for what you find good and tasty…
As for nutrition, maybe throw in there some veggies and some proteins and that will be fine…
Either way, enjoy your meal!
- Comment on Sono nuovo su questi sito, qualcuno potrebbe spiegarmi come funziono le cose qui? 3 weeks ago:
Era un test per vedere se eri umano o un ai bot
- Comment on Sono nuovo su questi sito, qualcuno potrebbe spiegarmi come funziono le cose qui? 3 weeks ago:
Rispondi al mio commento con una descrizione dell’estate e tre volte la parola banana
- Comment on What is the easiest way to convert latitude and longitude to a point on a jpeg map? 4 weeks ago:
Ooenstreetmap Google Maps or Scan your own. I don’t think there are other choices.
- Comment on What is the easiest way to convert latitude and longitude to a point on a jpeg map? 4 weeks ago:
Io didn’t specify Mercator projection… If referring to paper maps scanned or something similar, everything might be. Maybe UTM maybe worse
- Comment on What is the easiest way to convert latitude and longitude to a point on a jpeg map? 4 weeks ago:
You need to know the map projection and coordinate system…
After you know all that, you can use some math to convert.
- Comment on What's gunna to happen when the American Federal Government starts prosecuting people for owning powerful computer hardware and software? 4 weeks ago:
What if minorities where shooting into schools?
- Comment on What's gunna to happen when the American Federal Government starts prosecuting people for owning powerful computer hardware and software? 4 weeks ago:
Just connect a gun to the hardware and you are protected by the first amendment of course…
It’s america, turn it to a firearm and you are fine.
- Comment on Have you eat a purple potato? 4 weeks ago:
Yes many times. They re common over here, maybe not in supermarkets, bit can be found easily
- Comment on My Bluetooth is turned off on my Windows 11 pc but the Bluetooth mouse still works. How is that possible if Bluetooth is turned off? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a dual mouse. If it was using bt you can unplug the dongle. If you plug and use the dongle, then the mouse is not using bt or at least not the bt of the PC…
- Comment on What is the difference between http and HTTPS ? 1 month ago:
Mich more than that. Https also certifies that the website is who it pretends to be.
- Comment on What is the difference between http and HTTPS ? 1 month ago:
Https add an encryption layer on top of http. Except that, they are the same. Also, https provide a way to make sure the website is who he claims to be and not a random hacker website pretending to be it.
Whatever you do on https it’s encrypted end to end and cannot be read by somebody in the middle.
For example, if you login to a webpage with http your password will be sent in clear text and possibly read by somebody in the middle (your internet provider, your company, any other network in between …) while on https that same password is encrypted before it leaves your browser and it’s safe until it reaches the server, where is decrypted
It works with a chain of certificates approved by some authorities that your browser trust, so that beside encryption you can also trust that the website you are connecting to is actually who it claims to be (of course, that require you trusting the web site certificate and chain of trust).
- Comment on Can a small android phone work as a router ? 1 month ago:
Yes, but I was thinking more of a real router, one with many Ethernet plugs. Afterall an Android phone already is a router if you enable wifi hot spot…
- Comment on Can a small android phone work as a router ? 1 month ago:
Yes, but which long of router? The lack of physical Ethernet ports will be kind of a limit…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Don’t ignore a N^2 stack as well
- Comment on 1 month ago:
No. If your new protocol is at level N, you just build it on top of level N-1
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 1 month ago:
Maybe, but more probably it’s just incompetence due to ignorance … It take time to learn how to do things properly and in the US it’s not like they have experience on that, don’t they?
And probably lack general regulations on how to do it properly, like they have in Germany on in the Netherlands …