This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media
3mon 23d ago in technology from www.404media.coGNSS isn't really accurate enough for this, especially in urban environments where there is poor line of sight to most of the satellites.
'I can destroy the country': Trump's threat after Supreme Court strikes down his key policy
3mon 24d ago in politics from www.9news.com.auThere never was a sufficient separation of powers. This and the much-vaunted checks and balances, it turns out, only exist if the person in the White House consents to them existing, and consents to being under the rule of law.
Rural drivers to face steepest bills under UK’s mileage-based electric vehicle tax
3mon 29d ago in unitedkingdom@feddit.uk from www.theguardian.comThis is a bit of red herring. From the POV of the driver of a petrol car, you're paying tax to someone - it doesn't matter who - you're still paying fuel duty. If you don't refuel abroad, you paid all the fuel duty in the UK. If you did refuel abroad, you're not exempt from the fuel duty abroad, you still pay someone for fuel duty even if it's not the UK - so from your point of view, you're still paying roughly the same to someone (taxes on fuel aren't that grossly different between countries a British driver may drive in).
So a mileage tax on electric cars, then you're no worse off than the petrol car driver, you're paying tax to someone, you don't care who is running up the additional cost you have to pay, you're still paying it. If significant miles are driven by UK drivers in France (e.g. a significant imbalance between how much UK drivers drive in France compared to French drivers driving in the UK) then the French and British governments can decide how that gets divvied up after they have received the tax money from their respective drivers without involving the driver themselves. If in reality UK drivers drive in France about as much as French drivers drive in the UK, then really there's no need to worry about it.
Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead
4mon 2d ago in technology from www.tweaktown.comBackblaze, for one (remote backup and storage service). They buy masses of spinning rust drives to provide large amounts of remote storage at low prices. (They also publish reliability statistics, and do a quarterly report on reliability of various drive types, which is useful).
UK in secret talks over financial turmoil at IT giant - that could hit benefits and NHS
1y 11mon ago in unitedkingdom@feddit.uk from inews.co.ukSurprised it's not Crapita.
Life Wirral School - Post Panorama Airing
1y 11mon ago in unitedkingdom@feddit.uk from www.lifewirral.comAnd if the school hadn't been run like this for years and it being known it was like this for years there wouldn't have been a TV programme to make. I think you'd have to be pretty gullible to believe their statement.
General election: Tories announce 'Triple Lock Plus' pension allowance
2y 1d ago in uk_politics@feddit.uk from www.bbc.co.ukSuch a shameless and brazen attempt to bribe the older electorate.
Register to vote for the General Election
2y 6d ago in uk_politics@feddit.uk from www.gov.ukOn that site:
Our electoral system needs upgrading, and if you join us then collectively we can influence the next government to upgrade our democracy so that every vote counts.
It's extreme wishful thinking to expect the next Labour government to change a voting system that just gave them a landslide to one that would have them governing in coalition.
What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?
2y 1mon ago in linux@lemmy.mlAn older friend of mine told me years back about an incident that happened on a university VAX running Unix. In those days, everyone was using vt100 terminals, and the disk drives weren't all that quick. He was working on his own terminal when without warning, he got this error when trying to run a common command (e.g. ls)
$ ls -l
sh: ls: command not found
So he went on over to the system admin's office, where he found the sysadmin and his assistant, staring at their terminal in frozen horror. Their screen had something like:
# rm -rf / tmp/*.log
^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C
# ls -l
sh: ls: command not found
# stat /bin/ls
sh: stat: command not found
A few seconds after hitting return, and the rm command not finishing immediately, he realised about the errant space, and then madly hammered Ctrl-C to try to stop it. It turns out that the disk was slow enough that not everything was lost, and by careful use of the commands that hadn't been deleted, managed to copy the executables off another server without having to reinstall the OS.
Brit passengers on four-hour flight to Turkey drink entire plane dry in 25 minutes
2y 1mon ago in andfinally@feddit.uk from www.lbc.co.ukThe chances of an accident while flying on an airline are probably a lot lower than the chances of having an accident going to and from the pub.
Today on "But I neeeed a car for heavy items" - a literal boat anchor
2y 10mon ago in casual_cycle_uk@feddit.uk from feddit.ukChristmas ads and it's barely mid-July
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