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Comment Add Arlo to the enshitification list (Score 2) 126

Installed 2 houses (not mine) with Arlo motion-activated cameras. You get a cloud link for each camera with real-time vids. And also a week of storage. But after a year we can't connect anymore and the shit smell seem to imply that problems would stop with the 10$/mo subscription. Fuckers. I know bandwidth and storage ain't free, but that's what it says when you buy them.

Comment Re:Hydroelectric dams (Score 1) 24

What part of "8 years" did you skip ? It means that after that there won't be much ice left and the flow of water will go down. So just the time left and they will be useless. In reality the water that feed the dams is seasonal: the winter snow that melts in spring and the autumn/spring rains; melting old glacier ice is a drop in the bucket compared to that. In the Alps in the last few years they've actually been removing more dams than building new ones: mainly small unproductive ones, but also in order to have fish come back to the rivers.

Comment Re:“Country” (Score 4, Insightful) 270

I lived in the US in the past, and I still come for vacation and to climb in Yosemite and Utah every once in a while, but you can bet your ass I won't show up if I have to give my passwords and prove I did not disparage 'Dear Leader'. Indeed, I'll even say it here for the record: Trump is a piece of shit, a pedo, a conman, a rapist, a felon; and his entire administration is corrupt to the bone. Here.

Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 201

It should be easier to change the font and font size on a website. Yeah, I know you can force a custom CSS and shit, but it's complicated and often doesn't work. It doesn't really matter on desktop, but it pisses me off on phone browsers when characters are so tiny you can't read them and can't enlarge them.

Comment Re: Why was the older version better? (Score 1) 75

cosmic rays are what you blame when you can't find the bug

Sometimes you can prove it was a bit flip [caused by cosmic ray, local radioactivity or a glitch in the Matrix], you just need to find the exact bit. A friend of that managed to do exactly that after an error in his monthly accounting software. He proved you could only get the resulting sum if you flipped bit Nth of a certain value during the summation. It took him a while and he had written the software himself.

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