184963289 comment Comment How large is the world's smallest 106-foot electri (Score 1) 67 by mick232 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @06:37PM (#66288097) Attached to: World's Largest 106-Foot Electric Plane Takes Maiden Flight In New York Just curious
184470510 comment Comment The pace of vulnerability discovery is changing (Score 1) 77 by mick232 on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @01:22PM (#66240014) Attached to: Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws "The pace of vulnerability discovery is changing with advances in AI" Sadly, this also holds true for the attackers.
184256760 comment Comment Bye bye used games market (Score 1) 79 by mick232 on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:36PM (#66218802) Attached to: Sony PlayStation Will Stop Releasing Games On Discs In 2028 You won't be able to play a game and then sell the disc to someone else. Good for Sony, bad for players.
183721532 comment Comment ! = not (Score 4, Insightful) 34 by mick232 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @04:33PM (#66182880) Attached to: High-Severity Vulnerability In Linux Caused By a Single Errant Character It probably isn't uncommon that bugs are created by erroneously adding or removing a "not" operation from code.
180945674 comment Comment Sounds like a great idea (Score 4, Insightful) 80 by mick232 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:18AM (#66032826) Attached to: Startup Wants To Launch a Space Mirror The planet isn't warm enough yet.
180846816 comment Comment Get rid of all humans then (Score 1) 142 by mick232 on Monday February 23, 2026 @12:45PM (#66005664) Attached to: Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too and let only AI keep running. Saves lots of energy. Probably AI will sooner or later decide this anyway.
180572400 comment Comment Re: I Love This For Them (Score 1) 199 by mick232 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:57AM (#65920202) Attached to: Norway Reaches 97% EV Sales as EVs Now Outnumber Diesels On Its Roads You do know that CO2 in the atmosphere does not respect borders. Right?
180555012 comment Comment They skipped enshittification (Score 3, Insightful) 45 by mick232 on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:42PM (#65912926) Attached to: Craigslist at 30: No Algorithms, No Ads, No Problem yes
180444019 comment Comment What failed was the connection between some of the (Score 1) 63 by mick232 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @06:16AM (#65876959) Attached to: How a Power Outage In Colorado Caused US Official Time To Be 4.8 Microseconds Ok, some clocks were disconnected. But why haven't the remaining clocks been accurate enough? Shouldn't even a single clock suffice? It sounds like the time is only accurate if an average of all clocks can be calculated.
180428811 comment Comment If I don't see the problem (Score 2) 284 by mick232 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @07:33AM (#65870829) Attached to: Trump Dismantling National Center For Atmospheric Research In Colorado it doesn't exist. Trump logic.
180283665 comment Comment It doesn't add up (Score 4, Insightful) 130 by mick232 on Thursday December 04, 2025 @07:14AM (#65834685) Attached to: Top Journal Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Climate Toll How can a small country like Uzbekistan with 0.2% of the global GDP make a 40% difference in global economic output due to climate change?
180186999 comment Comment No safety needed (Score 1) 113 by mick232 on Sunday November 23, 2025 @02:58PM (#65813723) Attached to: One Company's Plan to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground How convenient. If something happens, just bury the whole mess.
179907464 comment Comment I uploaded a 100x100 video (Score 4, Funny) 20 by mick232 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:13PM (#65759238) Attached to: YouTube Plans Automatic Upscaling for Low-Res Videos (duration 90 minutes) of a random white dot on a green area and the AI upscaled it to a soccer World Championships finals match. Best game I ever saw!
179781092 comment Comment Re: Why not OpenDocument Format? (Score 2) 146 by mick232 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @12:21PM (#65724226) Attached to: Beijing Issues Documents Without Word Format Amid US Tensions They don't want to avoid MS but cause annoyance.
179781070 comment Comment Standard US practice for decades (Score -1, Flamebait) 146 by mick232 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @12:19PM (#65724220) Attached to: Beijing Issues Documents Without Word Format Amid US Tensions Welcome to the new world order where others pay it back in kind.