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Comment pox (Score 4, Funny) 91

by pahles on Saturday April 19, 2025 @03:25AM (#65316497) Attached to: China Develops Flash Memory 10,000x Faster With 400-Picosecond Speed

first covid, now pox...

Comment Chicago (Score 1) 29

by pahles on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:03AM (#65260297) Attached to: Chicago-Sized Iceberg Hid Ancient Ecosystem, Scientists Reveal

How many football fields is that?

Comment Not for long (Score 2) 27

by pahles on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:16AM (#65247125) Attached to: Pebble Founder Warns of Limited iPhone Compatibility for Revived Smartwatch

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fsto...

Comment News? (Score 1) 134

by pahles on Monday January 27, 2025 @09:19AM (#65121537) Attached to: Internet-Connected 'Smart' Products for Babies Suddenly Start Charging Subscription Fees

This story is months old: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2F...

Comment Re:Microsoft lost another long time customer (Score 2) 133

by pahles on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:24PM (#65090851) Attached to: Microsoft Will Not Support Office on Windows 10 After October 14

and from Office to Thunderbird

I didn't know Thunderbird could do word processing, spreadsheets and presentations!

Comment Re:fucking awful arrticle (Score 1) 22

by pahles on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @04:22AM (#65071965) Attached to: Thailand Bans Imports of Plastic Waste To Curb Toxic Pollution

Indeed bad mix of units. The SI uses 'm' for milli, and 'kg' for kilogram. So 50m kg could be read as 50 milli kilogram, which would be 50 gram.

Comment Why does Apple have to do with this? (Score 1) 123

by pahles on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:26AM (#65007453) Attached to: Russia Tests Cutting Off Access To Global Web, and VPNs Can't Get Around It

Apple has to comply with Russian law as long as they do business there. If asked to remove VPN apps from the Russian app store they will do so. What does this have to do with the issue at hand? If the Russians block VPN access then any VPN app still in the app store can't be used anyway. That is not on Apple.

Comment Snowpiercer anyone? (Score 1) 149

by pahles on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @04:36AM (#65002761) Attached to: Scientists Advise EU To Halt Solar Geoengineering

What can I say...

Comment Re:There already have been several large experimen (Score 1) 149

by pahles on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @04:35AM (#65002759) Attached to: Scientists Advise EU To Halt Solar Geoengineering

The EU switching to diesel? Please educate me.

Comment Re:EU vs US (Score 0) 149

by pahles on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @04:33AM (#65002757) Attached to: Scientists Advise EU To Halt Solar Geoengineering

Sometimes? Any examples?

Comment Re: Opting Out (Score 1) 34

by pahles on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @05:16AM (#64972933) Attached to: Google's iOS App Now Injects Links On Third-Party Websites That Go Back To Search

LTR

Comment one word? (Score 3, Informative) 8

by pahles on Thursday November 07, 2024 @06:40AM (#64927241) Attached to: OpenAI Acquires Chat.com

CHAT DOT COM

Comment including 627m cables (Score 2, Funny) 110

by pahles on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @11:43AM (#64848513) Attached to: Britons Urged To Dig Out Unwanted Electricals To Tackle Copper Shortage

I thought: what are they going to gain with 627 meters of cable? Then it dawned on me: the SI system remains difficult in the English speaking part of the world...

Comment Re:No one wants the Epic store (Score 1) 45

by pahles on Monday September 30, 2024 @10:33AM (#64828311) Attached to: Epic Games Sues Google and Samsung Over App Store Restrictions

Indeed, this is just one rich guy shouting to another rich guy 'I want to be richer than you'.

Comment all the countries (Score 1) 10

by pahles on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @03:38AM (#64815391) Attached to: ByteDance Is Shutting Down TikTok Music Globally

in all the countries it currently operates in, including Indonesia, Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and Mexico

Why the "including ..." if they will stop in ALL the countries it currently operates in?

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