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skolima

@skolima@hachyderm.io

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cstross, to random
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Random SF-biology idea:

You know about carcinization, and how there's no such thing as trees, and how mammalian predators seem to evolve into mustelids all the time: but WHAT IF due to some inexplicable evolutionary reverse ferret, mustelidization turns out to be just an intermediate station on the road to platypusification?

The future is monotremes!

skolima,
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@cstross for people lost, like me, to the "no such thing as trees", here's the source I've found: https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/

kravietz, to random Polish
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Lista dokumentów dopuszczonych w UK jako dokument tożsamości uprawniający do głosowania. Jest ich 21, a wśród sporo pozornie dziwacznych obostrzeń - np. akceptowana jest karta do metra Oyster, ale tylko w wersji dla osób 60+. Dlaczego? Dlatego, że tylko karta 60+ faktycznie jest przy wydaniu potwierdzona jakimś dokumentem tożsamości podczas gdy zwykły Oyster można mieć od 11 lat. Wśród dokumentów jest też “EEU identity card” np. polski dowód osobisty ale już nie brytyjski… bo w UK nie ma w ogóle takiego dokumentu.

Pomysł jego stworzenia został odrzucony w 2015 roku jako “naruszający prywatność i prawa obywateli”. W rzeczywistości brak jednolitego dowodu osobistego skutkuje ogromnym chaosem i o rząd wielkość większymi naruszeniami prywatności:

Bo tam gdzie w Polsce wystarcza dowód tożsamości (wynajem lub kupno mieszkania, zatrudnienie itd), Brytyjczycy przynoszą “jakiś dokument ze zdjęciem”, czasem dwa… a do tego stos dokumentów, które je uprawdopodobniają - rachunków za prąd lub wodę, wyciągów z banku itd

W moje branży (infosec) określa się to jako uwierzytelnienie oparte na ryzyku - a więc oparte na założeniu, że o ile można sfałszować jeden dokument to im więcej dokumentów pacjent przyniesie tym mniejsze prawdopodobieństwo, że wszystkie będą sfałszowane.

Skutek? Proste czynności prawne wymagają zdeponowania stosu wysoce wrażliwych dokumentów finansowych w prywatnych firmach, typu agencji nieruchomości. Gdzie one kończą? Zazwyczaj w jednej z kilku gigantycznych prywatnych firm agregujących dane finansowe i behawioralne, typu Experiana.

Najśmieszniejsze jest to, że z Experiana korzystają też… brytyjskie serwisy rządowe bo same nie dysponują żadną jednolitą bazą danych osobowych. Oczywiście mają ich całe mnóstwo (ubezpieczenia społeczne, skarbówka itd) ale nie mogą ich integrować, stąd outsourcing do podmiotów prywatnych.

Ale takie “rozmyte uwierzytelnienie” ma jeszcze jedną przykrą konsekwencję. W Polsce na wyborach sytuacja jest prosta - albo ma się dowód lub/i paszport, albo nie ma. W brytyjskich wyborach regularnie zdarza się, że wyborcom odmawia się prawa do głosowania bo wytyczne dotyczące 21 dopuszczalnych dokumentów źle przeczytał albo wyborca, albo członek komisji wyborczej - o co nie jest trudno bo każdy z tych dokumentów ma swoje niuanse i warianty.

skolima,
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@kravietz Całkiem śmiesznie jest, jak w Londynie na polski dowód daje się otworzyć konto, a Brytyjczyk musi przynosić stosy dokumentów, w tym np. list od proboszcza (albo innej osoby zaufania publicznego). No dobra, z tym listem to przesadzam, to nie do konta było potrzebne, tylko... Do brytyjskiego paszportu.

skolima, to tea
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Turns out , famous for being the oldest UK company (whose directors pushed for the initial legalisation of tea imports into Great Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutation_Act_1784 ) now makes their tea... In , in the suburbs of .

hanse_mina, to China
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Vladimir #Putin’s forces have rehearsed using tactical nuclear weapons at an early stage of conflict with a major world power, according to leaked Russian military files that include training scenarios for an invasion by #China.

The classified papers, seen by the FT, describe a threshold for using tactical nuclear weapons that is lower than Russia has ever publicly admitted, according to experts who reviewed and verified the documents.

https://www.ft.com/content/f18e6e1f-5c3d-4554-aee5-50a730b306b7

#Ukraine #Russia #US #NATO #EU

skolima,
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@hanse_mina non-paywalled version: https://archive.is/20240228070359/https://www.ft.com/content/f18e6e1f-5c3d-4554-aee5-50a730b306b7

jacekstaszczuk, to random Polish
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W niemieckim Löbau pod siedzibą CDU nieznani sprawcy rozładowali bele słomy i umieścili transparenty: "Ci, którzy chcą pokoju, nie dostarczają broni". Jak widać w formie… cc @kravietz

skolima,
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@jacekstaszczuk @kravietz Si vis pacem, para bellum.

skolima, to TeslaMotors
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2300 km over 3 days, from through and finally to

Everything went splendid 😀 I was a bit afraid how the charging would work out, we had no issues at all. Mostly using , some to improve coverage near the end; one in Germany.

Tesla Supercharger parking lot, from left there's a Spanish Lynk & Co 01, Spanish Tesla Model 3, Norwegian Tesla Model S and a Polish Kia EV6
EnBW charging curve summary with 134 kW average power

randahl, to random
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While Elon Musk shut down Starlink, so Ukraine could not use the satellite internet system in certain areas, the Russian soldiers are now going online using Musk's satellite internet system.

I wonder what the Pentagon thinks of that development.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-starlink-ukraine-war-elon-musk-1868125

skolima,
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@randahl Selling military technology to a sanctioned, direct enemy. Cool, cool, cool.

skolima, to random
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Vertical garden, from today's dog walk.

Lichens and moss growing on a wet vertical trunk of an old robinia. Lichens are blooming, presenting a lovely ladder of little cups.

MennoOng, to random Dutch
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Groeiproces.

skolima,
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@MennoOng @cstross funny enough, the fuel consumption on those two is the same.

And perhaps not so funny, Countryman is only a few cm larger than the modern Golf. It's definitely not a big car by modern standards. Heck I don't **fit **in the current Mini (haven't tried the Countryman). I can't imagine squeezing into the original.

skolima,
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@cstross @MennoOng I mean, as a kid in Poland, I've been driven in Fiat 126p. There were no other cars. Trying to get into it as an adult though, not so much. And the crumple zone, well. There's an old joke: in German cars the crumple zone ends at the engine. In Fiat 126p, too.

(It's a rear engined car)

Tried recently: I don't fit into a modern Fiat 500 or the Mini Cooper. Toyota Yaris is fine, though.

Migueldeicaza, (edited ) to random
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This Q&A is so clear, simple and easy to understand that it would be a crime for you not to take this economics crash course.

It will take you 10 minutes, and it will feel like upgrading from doing accounting on clay tablets to using Excel:

https://on.ft.com/41TONWe

Non paywall version: https://archive.is/2024.01.11-185719/https://www.ft.com/content/5a7297a0-7ee9-4be0-882b-617d8d9b0cef

skolima,
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@jwz @Migueldeicaza non-paywall https://archive.is/20240111185719/https://www.ft.com/content/5a7297a0-7ee9-4be0-882b-617d8d9b0cef

skolima,
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@Migueldeicaza @ahornby I do enjoy this as a very contrarian look at government spending, but I am aware why it terrifies many economists: they immediately see runaway spending, currency crashing, country with huge foreign debt (that can't be simply abolished or the country would find itself cut away from all international markets).

I don't think there's a single example of a modern world country trying this approach and succeeding, is there?

skolima,
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@Migueldeicaza @ahornby Yeah, fair. But the stakes are incredibly high for trying out anything that's even slightly beyond dogma. And I don't really see how it could be tried out "a bit" or in a controlled manner. A revolutionary government might try it, but, well, that's a whole other kettle of fish, as they say.

It makes sense in philosophical terms, in the sense of what money is. It's also not how most politicians think about money and that feels like a huge barrier.

skolima, to dotnet
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I'm looking for a new position/contract, preferably . Timezone: CET.

I'm a software , architect, and team lead with almost 20 years of practical experience building and modernizing scalable and maintainable systems, specializing in and APIs. Comfortable with architectures running at scale, designing CI/CD pipelines and running distributed systems in the cloud. Happy to take ownership, train teams and learn new business domains.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Drop one of your family secrets.

skolima,
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@BlackAzizAnansi My grandfather got executed - shot trough his neck - and survived. Woke up in a pile of corpses, climbed a 4m high prison wall, broke his leg, hid in a church, escaped. Spent the war using a duplicate of his brother's documents (brother didn't make it - died near the end of the war, from getting injured while poaching).

This was an unbelievable family story until a few years ago a documentary film crew showed up, asking if we have any photos of him.

skolima, to microsoft
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That's interesting - is feeling confident enough about their client generator that they are replacing the SDK libraries for and with ones generated automatically. https://github.blog/2024-01-03-our-move-to-generated-sdks/

kravietz, to random
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Why there’s a required gap separating wind turbines? Ayrshire, Scotland, 28 December 2023 during storm Gerrit a wind turbine lost its wings as result of overspeeding during strong wind. The debris was flying at hundreds of meters.

Source: https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/wind/uk-wind/544496/ayrshire-wind-turbine-sheds-blades-in-storm-gerrit-gales/

Last year there was a similar case in South Wales and it came out that wind turbine needs electricity to turn its wings into a neutral position. If power is cut off, the turbine is unable to go neutral and this may result in such overspeeding and ultimately breaking the wings by inertial force or, as it happened in South Wales, collapsing of the tower.

Source: https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/440479/turbine-collapse-in-wales-chalked-up-to-overspeed/

A wind turbine at distance turning very fast until ultimately wings break down and fly in different directions

skolima,
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@nf3xn @kravietz for big turbines, the tips are going at a third of the speed of sound during normal operation

khalidabuhakmeh, to dotnet
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Hey folks, I need your help.

In your opinion, what are the core concepts of memory management in the .NET space?

Please boost for reach.

skolima,
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@mfe_ @darrel_miller @khalidabuhakmeh Deserialize directly from the stream/span.

ericboots, to TeslaMotors

I'm looking for owners. Yesterday announced a push to get everyone into EVs by 2025, one point stating that the price difference EV and a gas powered was a few thousand dollars difference, is that really the case? I'm comparing the price of common cars like Honda Civics and Hyundai IONIQ and the MSRP is nearly 20K difference. I know gas savings and maintenance costs are lower, but not 20K, what am I missing from an affordability aspect. I ask this as someone who'd love an EV.

skolima,
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@ericboots There's a gap: there's almost no class B/C non-SUV electric models available. There's plenty of C and D SUVs and in that range the prices are getting somewhat close. But for smaller cars, there's some models planned for Q1 2024. It's been a slow start.

So right now there's no equivalent of en electric Civic.

voitech, to threads Polish
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vs

> na Threads możesz wstawić tylko jeden hashtag, tutaj ile chcesz
> na Threads wpis może mieć maksymalnie 500 znaków, tutaj nawet 10 tys (w zależności od instancji)
> na Threads możesz edytować wpis do 5 minut od opublikowania, tutaj kiedy chcesz, nawet rok później
> na Threads nie da się usunąć konta bez usuwania IG, tutaj możesz mieć ile kont chcesz lub wcale
> na Threads zbierane są wszelkie twoje dane, tutaj nie
> wybierz świadomie!

skolima,
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@m0bi13 @wariat @warroza @mustang_ex @voitech @kolejnylewackipej Jako profesjonalnie umiejący w komputery muszę zaprotestować. Z moim zdrowiem byłoby dużo lepiej, gdybym nie umiał.

ryanc, to random

Airline: cancels my flight
Me: I took uber to a friends home for the night and bought them and their partner breakfast to thank them, you should cover it because a hotel would have been more expensive.
Airline: Okay.
Me: I know that your policy is to limit... wait, really?

skolima,
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@ryanc No invoice required? They must not be German...

skolima,
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@ryanc Ah fair enough. I remember someone giving me a fix repayment for delay overnight, with no need for invoices. Thought it was like that perhaps.

nick_tune, to random
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Today I've switched to https://elk.zone/ as my default Mastodon UI.

I did try it before but only briefly and never gave it a real chance. But now I'm going to give it an extended period.

So far, it looks great.

skolima,
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@tymwol @nick_tune I'm currently torn between elk and phanpy.social (as the second one handles quote toots and does threads brilliantly).

skolima, to random Polish
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Czy jest jakieś działające rozwiązanie do transkrypcji mowy z plików audio w języku polskim na tekst? Może być płatne (rozsądnie), byle działało, jak na razie każde, które sprawdziłem, tworzy więcej pracy niż oszczędza.

Nie musi być idealnie dokładne, tekst jest do późniejszej edycji, ale żeby chociaż zupełnych bzdur nie tworzyło.

skolima,
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@m0bi13 @ftdl O tym słyszałem, pewnie od Ciebie, ale właśnie na razie jest tajne 😉

Materiał na moje potrzeby, rodzinne wspominki zbieram. Przy czym jak w końcu do tego usiadłem ręcznie, to 1 minutę nagrania w 2-3 minuty przepisuję, automatyzacja wiele nie poprawi 😅

Ale z ciekawości bym chętnie spojrzał. Link via DM? Signal?

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