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What’s the point of intimidation if your target thinks someone else did it?

Meanwhile the Dutch police department suspects that it’s farmers who are angry at government plans to stop funding their excessive meat exports.

If it was Russia they sure picked a bad day to do it, because it’s the “state of the union”-ish day in NL and there are a bunch of unhappy activists who would love to disrupt that independently of any foreign government influence.

That was supposed to be a secret

I’ve driven the Renault 4 a couple of times now as a rental, and it has the absolute worst combination of driver attention detection and beeps. It’ll beep randomly for … something, you look at the dash and then it’ll beep because you’re not looking at the road. Or god forbid you look in the mirror, instant warning beeps. Definitely never getting a Renault after dealing with that.

Nijmegen is specifically called out as less affected in the article, but I’m in the Amsterdam area so I’m unfortunately very affected.

EDIT: this is build into the card readers by the way.

It’s on the card readers, around me it’s on almost all machines. Getting a sandwich to go? It’ll ask you to tip 15%. Getting a bag of coffee beans, same question.

That’s a false comparison. You can very easily spy on your users and choose not to do anything if they do something illegal. Or better yet, if they do something illegal in a country you don’t like. You can even encourage them in that situation.

It’s enforceable if you want to. The real question is if companies want to be evil enough to just ban NY residents over this, or if they just allow everyone to easily cancel.

Feedback is welcome:

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116890420439476219

A lot of sidewalks in major cities don’t have room for these. Especially if you account for traffic, light, and power poles, street signs, bus and trolley stops, subway and El entrances, sidewalk trees, garbage, trash and recycling bins, sidewalk grates, cellar entries, cracked sidewalks, etc, etc, etc.

That’s pretty awful because it seems to me they take about the same space as a wheelchair.

Seems like it would have been a good moment to split the database from the many web servers and reduce the single point of failure.

Looks fun and I’ve been looking for something like Fortnite on my steam deck for some casual games. Also cool that it’s made by a Ukrainian company.

I would be in favour of ray-banning every owner from public life.

The decision was made according to the report after the Commission became aware of the group’s existence last month and deemed the risk of compromise too high. While there is no evidence yet that communication has actually been intercepted, the threat situation has escalated.

It’s always been clear Trump had a thing for children. But this is a new low

No, they invented mastodon. Which is the thing they’re adjusting.

They didn’t invent HTTP either, which they’re not claiming ownership of by using it in mastodon.

I don’t think it’s too much for the company that makes mastodon to claim mastodon is “it’s decentralised social network”. The way I read it they don’t claim ownership, they claim to be the author.

Not if you ask them it isn’t 😅

And he should know…

https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/ has a good overview how bad it really is