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Most of the time the system is compromised before being in an air gapped setup, for instance in the supply chain.

Adobe, a company of the past, playing tricks because they never will understand - or be - SaaS.

I’m in the Netherlands. I just did a Google search for electric cars and checked the top 3 results (Polestar, Hyundai Ionic, Mini) and all three of them list the kW numbers first / large and then the pk number between brackets or small. So we can safely assume that kW is dominant where I am.

The text in the article says “ For scale, that's a 330-mL energy drink in the pictures seen throughout.”

Originally, a meter was defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance between the equator and the North Pole. The circumference of the earth is now 40,075.017 km instead of 40,000 km but it was a pretty good estimate for 1795.

True. Bit at least mens shoe sizes are the same as womens shoe sizes here in Europe.

Good addition / correction. So the amount of people that is unable to follow the article without too much effort went down from 95% to 80% of the audience.

I was born 48 years ago.

The advantage is not having to remember all those funny constants and being able to do math in your head that actually makes sense?

Or more important, to be able to write an article that the entire planet can just read without 95% of them (everybody outside the US, UK and Myanmar) having to resort to Google to find out if those numbers are impressive or not?

Yeah that one ;) But gladly I just realized that litres are not an SI unit either.

It keeps surprising me that “you Americans” are still not using the SI system. As an European, it feels like I am reading an article from 1830, with hp instead of kW and lb-ft instead of Nm.

But - out of curiosity - why is the soda can measured in ml and not in fl oz?

I had an employee who used to tell me: “there are only two people in my life that I have explicitly chosen to be with: my wife - and you”

I sent you a message via LinkedIn, I would love to partner with you on this.

Maybe I need to explain what I said, I realize I came across a bit rude. I called it a failure because the emphasis in the article was completely on the sales/“exit” process and not on the product. I wouldn’t have called it a failure if the article was about how they built a cool product, how they marketed it and how much they learned while doing all that.

So basically it was not worth their time. Why is this framed as a success and not a failure?

This is what happened to Dutch startup Watermelon in 2016. They were providing Whatsapp bindings for around 800 - mostly Dutch - companies that were using Whatsapp for customer support. TL;DR Whatsapp blocked and sued them even while there was no alternative available back then.

https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/2019-08-08---chatbot-maker...

You mean just like when someone thought it was a cool feature to have JNDI lookups in Log4J ?

Out of principle maybe?

Download logo’s, see how a statement would look, and create one yourself. Print it, fold it and make a photo. Always works for me when I am asked for a statement from a full digital service.

My energy provider used to perform an immediate change of address which would be visible on your latest downloadable PDF invoice. This allowed even people without the most basic computer skills to validate _any_ address.

Long story short, all those processes eventually depend on “proof” that is really easy to fabricate.

Dutch banks invented the iDin standard, some kind of oAuth with your bank that provides third parties with validated personal information, but it is not widely used and I am not aware of an international standard or initiative for this.

So is this a bot or a brand new user who decided to spill his frustration about society online and accepted the default username suggestion that Twitter offered him?

“ Published: 19 November 2021”

You seem to have a very strong opinion about Ansible while you keep emphasizing that you don’t know anything about Ansible at the same time.

As a result, all your arguments against Ansible seem to be based upon assumptions, some of them completely false.

> Not everything needs to be of high quality.

But stuff connected to the internet needs to be or it will be compromised before you even finished installing it.

It adds the lack of another reason, i.e. there is no mention of for instance a pilot shortage or vaccination restrictions.

You should really mention / give attribution / emphasize more that this is a fork of https://spotty.cloud and you took a lot from https://github.com/nimbo-sh/nimbo as well.

This is a completely incorrect interpretation of the concept of “personal data”. This is about information _concerning_ an identifiable person. See recital 26, https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-26/

They don’t just share info with authorities, they also leak to the press:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/email-bomb-threat-sent-...

A dead man’s switch should be fail-close, and enable operation when functioning, not disable operation upon disfunction. The latter is vulnerable to double failures, the former is not.

A dead man’s switch should be fail-close, and enable operation when functioning, not disable operation upon disfunction. The latter is vulnerable to double failures, the former is not.

I am surprised there apparently is no dead man’s switch in these locomotives.

So you want to translate this into how much infections it _prevented_ and then compare it against the cost of a COVID-19 infection for society.

I don’t have the numbers but my gut feeling says that 56€ is a bargain.