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Comment Interesting experiment (Score 1) 195

This will be an interesting experiment. The fertility rate in Switzerland is below replacement rate, so this implies that the population will age.

Who will work to support pensions of the large number of retired people? Who will take care of the elderly?

If this comes to pass, it will be interesting to see how well (or poorly) Switzerland fares, because the entire world is going to go through the same thing in 50-100 years at most.

Comment Business opportunity (Score 1) 256

There's a business opportunity for a company to create thousands of innocuous social media accounts and post photos of food and cats. Build up nice histories of blandness and then sell them to people who need innocuous history.

Heck, someone could even create their own social media site and pre-populate it with 5 years of innocuousness and sell those account details. "Why yes, my only social media is FaceTok!"

Comment USA is going down the crapper (Score 1) 256

Theoretically, if I wanted to visit the USA, I would not be subject to this rule because it doesn't apply to Canadian citizens.

But of course, I have no desire whatsoever to visit such a shithole country running headlong down the path to fascism. And pay 3x for the privilege of visiting a national park. I guess Trump just hates the tourism industry.

Comment LOL (Score 2) 54

Well, OK, apart from the gratuitous use of AI to make it, I think the commercial is quite subversive and funny. Also, it's clearly intended for the Dutch market, and quite a bit of Dutch humour is subversive and a bit rude.

If they'd have made it without AI, I'd give it a 10/10 for creativity.

Comment I rolled my own (Score 1) 143

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 running motion and this USB camera. The camera uses visible light when there's enough light and switches to IR automatically when there isn't.

This setup also lets me use wired Ethernet (though you could still use WiFi if you prefer that route.) I have a post-motion-detection script that automatically copies the footage to an off-site server so even if a burglar destroys my pi4, the pictures are safely preserved.

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