Nah, I have some standards

my nas.

Wow, talk about missing the point.

your nas is your cold storage provider

Regulation with fines exceeding the profits made on the product.

No more static fines, or fines that are anything less than 100% of the profits made on breaching the regulations.

“Yeah, lets’t get of the knowledge of how our stuff actually works and replace it with a statistics fueled computer, woo, AI all the way!”

This is what pisses me off the most, the willful disregard for knowledge and skills in organizations.

If you don’t have the knowledge or skills, specific to your oranizations needs, then you can’t evaluate if the AI is doing a good job.

I remember back in the early 2000s, when MiniDV cameras got popular.

They were all obviously a camera just based on the look, they had an obvious lens cap, and even a clear record light so that people could see that they were being recorded.

It is insane that we have done away with all of that, and are actively camouflaging cameras in every day items.

Smart glasses should be banned.

Yeah, I am more and more happy that I found my style in Lindberg frames, they are expensive, but damn they look and feel amazing.

Is there a list of the countries affected by this?

Just knowing that I’d never need to hear him speak again would be a huge win for me at this point.

The managers who gave him that access should also be put on trial

I buy the music I want to have track by track on iTunes, I have 800 songs in my library, my thinking is that if I get on hard times, I will at least be able to keep access to my music without any added cost.

Om vi alla skriver på olika språk blir allt mycket svårare att läsa.

Millenial here, I have zero subscriptions, the only thing close to that is that I manually pay for a gift card for Geoguessr once a year.

I do it this way so I don’t forget the cost of the service and should I come onto bad times, it is not something that will automatically renew and keep charging.

I am considering getting a lifetime subscription to Nebula, it is very expensive, but just a single payment that can be budgeted for, and once paid I’ll keep access even through bad times.

I see several US monstrosities every day here in Sweden.

They are absolutely terrible.

It should be illegal to sell cars with a bonnet that is taller than the roof of a normal WV Golf class car.

I saw a Defcon talk about SIM cards a few years ago, really interesting stuff.

Most people treat SIM cards as just an ID to get on a carrier’s network, but they are soo much more.

When SIM cards were developed, they were designed to be the core of your phone, your handset would be just that, handset that would only run the software on the SIM card.

SIM cards are small computers, they have a CPU, RAM and storage, they can run apps on the SIM card itself and only present the UI to the phone.

With my first phones, I remember the contacts being stored on the SIM card itself, it usually took 30-60 sec to load them after a phone restart. But bloody convenient when switching phones, this was way before iCloud and other similar services, and moving your SIM card moved all your contacts as well.

Since SIM cards are controlled by the operator, they can do stuff that might surprise you, they can act as a trusted source for signing/encrypting/storing data, the user does not have direct access to tamper with the chip, so security apps have been developed to run on SIM cards, I don’t know the current status on this, but in countries with limited/older infrastructure, this was used for bank security apps, since the SIM is a locked down system, you can use it to securely store a key, and have the SIM use the key to generate a token, sign requests and even encrypt data, all without the key leaving the SIM.

Here is the talk I mentioned:

https://youtu.be/31D94QOo2gY

Swede here, I am a bit weary of articles like these, Sweden has faced the same kind of attention, and it has mostly shown to be overblown propaganda.

It is true that Sweden specifically has a rather extreme relationship to the state, we trust snd defer to it far more than other countries.

We also have a social services agency, which is not spotless, there are similar cases like the Danish case ongoing.

However, for the vast majority of people, as long as a child is healthy, attends school, and is not abused or denied their rights by their parents they have little to worry about.

It is true that the government focuses on the rights of the child rather than the rights of the parents.

Every child in Sweden get’s the same social benefits, regardless of the families socio-economic status, even if a child is born into wealth, they still get the money from the state, the reason is that this money belongs to the child, the parent is just a trustee managing the money.

That being said, home schooling is prohibited in Sweden, as a parent you are required to send your child to school, this is to preserve the child’s right to an education with a curriculum that meets government standards.

Another example, corporal punishment against children is illegal, it is classified as child abuse, there was a mess a few years ago when a Malaysian parent used corporal punishment on their child in public, and the government reacted.

It became an international incident, but I don’t remember the outcome.

These are just examples of the system works here, and there are plenty of people who hate Scandinavia and create propaganda against us.

I am all for a government having strong protections for the wellfare of children, a child that is endangered by their parents should be protected.

But this talk about how “civilized” a person is and removing a child mere hours after birth after a decision made by a government worker with very limited insight into a culture that differs from their own is dumb.

If this is the standard, then it is just a question of time until children from poor parents are removed due to the parent’s failure to provide a luxurious and civilized environment that an upper class family could provide.

I am glad the system causing this specific crap is scrapped, and I hope that the situation is resolved in the least bad way possible.

Hehe, I ment no disrespect towards you, I just find that to be an excellent expression to explain the importance of testing backups to non tech people.

Repeat after me:

“An untested backup does not exist”

Fucking lol.

Well deserved.

With my Lumix S5 I can mount a 600+mm super telephoto lens and can get the same shot from much further away.