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Comment Sensationalist nonsense (Score 3, Insightful) 57

Media are always looking for ways sensationalist ways to falsely inject human relatable behaviours and feelings into unusual behaviours, be it in video clips of animals or stories about faulty AI behaviour. Misinformation is coupled with profitability for news outlets.

Comment Re:what? (Score 1) 49

I'd need more that 100Mbps in my household. with myself and my two kids streaming in 4k and the alarm system and assorted kit also connected. we are struggling just now with a 100down and 20 up connection but thankfully moving to cityfibre based connection and gonna get a 2.5 up and down connection that will be fine for the foreseeable future

Submission + - A letter from Hans Reiser (kernel.org) 2

alanw writes: Hans Reiser (imprisoned for the murder of his wife) has written a letter, asking it to be published to Slashdot.

Comment Or you could go open source instead... (Score 3, Informative) 35

Been able to do this for many years using obs. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fobsproject.com%2F

But there are plenty of apps that turn your phone into a webcam in the various app stores. I had best usage with droidcam, but there's going to be plenty open source app alternatives too. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2F...

Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 258

Because sentimental fools are attached to tradition and conservationism, and wish for things to remain the same for no other reason than to keep them the same.

The thing with “conservativism”, is that it is often called “hæritage” when it would pertain a foreign culture rather than one's own. However to me it is not a foreign culture since I live close to Rotterdam, so it's simply “conservativism”.

What I find interesting is that “progressives” of one culture often ally themselves with the “conservatives” of another, not realizing that in the foreign culture they are often seen as the conservatives who stick to outdated ideals that serve no function any more for it's own sake, simply because they do not wish for things to change.

Oh then please explain the name of the Scottish organisation "Scottish Heritage that looks after the conservation of our erm, what's that word again???oh yeah heritage

Comment Re:London Calling (Score 1) 258

London sold its bridge to some place in Nevada. That's nothing but desert. Gotta be hard up to sell your bridges. And Bozos couldn't find an American shipbuilder... or a Chinese Amazon Basics boat and Prime that same-day?

you dfo realise that the old London bridge was so FUCKED and broken there was a song about it you may have heard of 2 London bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down." So they sold it to and built a new more suitable one that wasn't utterly fucked

Comment Upstream is the only way (Score 4, Interesting) 9

I have just come out of working with Android Automotive for the last 6 years and being the first to deploy it in a real car (whilst also working on lots of other very large OSS platforms previously)
Upstream is the only way, our SOC vendor was having to manage 500+ patches against android and linux which was an awful lot to manage everytime upstream changed.
I see the price of being able to use OSS is to be a good citizen and upstream those patches you have which will also benefit your by reducing your maintenance burden, and as stated in the article keep down fragmentation.

That said, Android will be changing to Fuchsia soon right so Linux will be a dead end for Android soon.

Comment Re:Please name names (Score 0, Troll) 350

Who has he harmed?

The people playing political games to undermine open source software on behalf of large corporations who stand to gain from the lack of competition.

the guy is a toe cheese eating sorta guy, well known for being a dick to a lot of people. When you piss off a lot of people they tend to bite back.

Comment Re:Try looking at all of them. (Score 1) 85

Got Amazon Prime connected to your smart TV? Well now they have your credentials. I'll bet a lot of people would be rather uncomfortable with their shopping and browsing history on Amazon being available to a foreign state. Couple this with possibly similar intrusions on other devices, suddenly there is an uncomfortably complete picture of someones private life for grabs.
When the victims are politicians aides, statesmen, lawmakers etc, this blossoms into significant national security risk.

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