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Associated Press wrote this:

> Belgrade’s emergency hospital has denied reports that many people sought help after the incident and urged legal action against those who “spread untrue information”.

Are there any reputable sources confirming this? So far I've only seen random accounts on social media making the claim. The police, defence ministry and emergency hospital all deny the claim.

Jeez. Getting your comment flagged for asking for a source. I'm out.

> if the main complaint that you have about your politicians is that they sometimes look at their phones

It's just a cheap shot to rile up people that don't know better. Actively listening and arguing with opposition in the Parliament have very little to do with actual politics.

Swedish newspapers do a similar thing every year when they name and shame the politicians that submitted the fewest bills, making no mention of the fact that they are all useless and will be rejected in the current system. Somewhat related, The Social Democrats abuse the system and use AI to generate hundreds of questions each month that the government have to research and give written responses to. It's all a ton of pointless work that have negative impact on actually getting things done.

I'm confident most people can agree that Belgium have worse problems. Without knowing the details, I believe them going two years without a government had more impact than politicians using their phones while waiting for their time to speak or vote.

Maybe an off-topic rant but I ran into a similar feeling when wanting to do a personal PHP project with Laravel.

Even with the backend set, the front still felt like it had to make a choice among Blade, Livewire, Vue and React glued together with Inertia (?). Then you had to pick between several different authentication systems. Unfortunately I wanted app support as well which would require React Native, Flutter or something else which the Laravel documentation doesn't seem to make any mention about.

Naturally one could make it all from scratch with vanilla PHP and JS but that's often not a suitable comparison to a full-fledge framework.

I'm not very knowledgeable about current models but isn't that the whole USP for Nothing Phone? There are multiple lights so you can customize unique patterns for both contacts and apps.

> Why do no android phones have IR blasters anymore?

Both Xiaomi and OnePlus have it on their phones. Personally I never used mine and didn't see the point. It was quicker and more effortless to just click the button on the physical remote next to me than having to navigate through the apps on my phone.

> Or FM Radio support?

You can listen to almost any radio station online nowadays and plenty of countries (EU) have roaming agreements so the benefit of having FM radio must be extremely niche. I know you mentioned it being niche, but I'm talking niche niche.

I assume you have some kind of use case that goes beyond regular consumers.

I use a Fenix 6X Pro and it's a great exercise tracker with notifications. I don't see it as a smartwatch though. You can't reply to messages beyond stock replies or visit an url. I'm yet to find an interesting app and I find the UI cumbersome whenever you want to do something.

I still think it's a great watch and I love the battery life. I just believe it's possible to make something so much better. I don't know if Pebble is the answer but I welcome them trying.

Not a dig at you but I laughed a bit when reading it.

"it's not hard, just pay someone to do it for you"

I get the sentiment though. I've spent countless of hours trying to read up on digitizing our VHS collection while the proper thing would've been to just have a company do it for me. The main concern for me though is that they might just run the most basic settings and I'm telling myself that doing it myself will allow me to future proof the format a bit better.

I read the headlines and was surprised to see the replay of the red card afterwards. There's no intention to harm but he went studs first on the calf and then all the way down to the foot. Red card is harsh but imho not a blatant error. You can't go studs first.

You could write your own OS software that polls your browser for installed extensions and then nukes your internet connection through the host file if you disable the extension. Cold Turkey kinda does this by automatically closing your browser during a blocked session if you disable their extension.

The challenge is that there's always a workaround. The added friction might be enough to fulfil your need though.

I do this as well but find it a bit of a pain to add/remove sources since YouTube doesn't offer any easily accessible RSS feed. Wish there was a way to sync subscriptions with the YouTube account but at the same time I would never allow third party access. I refuse Google login on third party sites.

I assume such a change would heavily impact you as well? 40% of all seriously injured in the traffic are single-bike accidents. Here in Sweden that is.

I had a quick look and apparently it started when he made a video on how to dump Switch games to ROMs and he showed 30 seconds of footage from Super Mario 3D World. Beyond that, almost all of his most recent video thumbnails contain emulators with Nintendo games on them.

The legal question aside, he's obviously trying to drive engagement by using Nintendo IP and it's no surprise that they eventually noticed him with his half a million subscribers. The risk taking surprises me considering what we know about Nintendo and that YouTube is awful do deal with. They even gave LTT a strike despite almost 16 million followers.

It's probably tied to how I use bookmarks but I strive for quality over quantity. Some are just temporary until I get the chance to write down the important information or watch the video - others are more constant, but when I go through and purge bookmarks I want them gone. They will just clutter my bookmarks, waste time and make it difficult to find things. In your example about bookmarking the question I would instead transcribe the knowledge to Obsidian and link to the source.

Not saying there's a right or wrong. Just down to how people treat bookmarks.

It's an interesting idea but missing vital features for me. For example, the star in Chrome tells me that I have bookmarked this page in the past so I avoid having duplicate bookmarks even after editing the name. The standard synchronization also makes it easy to bookmark a link on my phone and then deal with it once I'm back at my computer. Now I would have to figure out a way to somehow download the URL as a file on my phone so it syncs to my computer. The favicon is another neat thing to have on bookmarks.

Somewhere along the way it just feels like a backup makes more sense.

Which is a can of worms by itself which we saw this year with xz-utils.

Should probably mention that it's your own software and that it cost $5. Not that the money really matters.

There are and you can get cheap noname Chinese ones for as low as $10.

Unfortunately most of them are terrible. I've played with it on and off for years and even gotten individual tools for $100+ but still have issues. It's a bit of a mess with PAL/NTSC, different recommended settings, and at the end of the day you still need a high quality VCR to extract all the data. Those tend to go for hundreds of dollars here. You also need a time base corrector (some VHS have them built in I believe) to avoid dropping frames and causing desync.

A common suggestion is to just get a VHS->DVD recorder and then rip the DVD. You lose out on quality but it usually works and will save you a ton of time.

The suggestion by OP is probably if you truly want to maximize the quality.

That wasn't the average house which is partly why Simpsons had a whole storyline about how they could afford it. A more likely reason is probably the growth of the single-person households which grew from 6.9% in the 60s to 38% now. People live alone and they eat alone.

We don't know what was said between the author and the police. As stated in the article, it's a cold case where the search had been going on for years and they had several witnesses claiming to have seen the car in a different location.

Finding a car isn't that uncommon. I know one youtuber doing these kind of things found three cars at the same location when searching for a missing person. In Sweden we have one talked about waterfilled hole with at least 17 cars but no one wants to deal with it due to the costs and environmental issues if you start pulling them.

I support the message about allowing legal speech but this is ridiculous:

> Three actors have the ability to delete a comment: the user who posted it, the social media platform, or the owner of the channel or page, where the comment was made. This report does not have the capability to distinguish between these three scenarios. [..] Therefore, this report treats the three reasons for comment disappearance as a single phenomenon.

There's no connection at all with EU laws if they include the posts I delete myself.

What is safe and in what way does the Safety Advisory Council improve it? The group that created a very toxic environment around Twitch when it included a political activist identifying as a deer (!) that threatened to silence everyone.

My previous laptop was a $180 Thinkpad that stayed with me for five years. The claim that _most_ IT workers can't afford that and are forced to do their private stuff on a company computer sounds preposterous.

I'm curious if Twitter publishing view count just exposed his account and that caused a personal crisis. He posts about four times a day and I'm yet to find one valuable tweet from the last month. It could all be ai generated reposts from /r/im14andthisisdeep such as:

> Most people are secretly convinced that they are a little bit smarter and a little bit crazier than the average person.

> reminder: the fastest way to get unstuck is to change your environment

> Don't write a book or live a life that can that can be easily summarized.

> Coaching is 99% about listening which is why virtually everyone sucks at it.

Maybe the algorithm isn't the issue in this case.

It gets worse. The latest trend in healthcare is to use AI written patient journals based on the computer listening to the conversation.

Skimming the letter makes it look like another attempt at pushing through their Code of Conduct (RFC98) targeting "ideas rooted in fascism or bigotry", whatever that means. Now going a step further by erasing the people in charge.

Am I reading the article correctly that the "critical safety gap" is the fact that autopilot allows people to lose focus by only nagging them through sounds instead of say, stopping or randomly disengaging autopilot?

Unless I missed it, the article seems to leave out details.

According to previous articles, she seemingly accused Tesla of corruption by placing orders to suppliers based on friendship more than quality and price. The safety issue of mats sliding was just one part of the complaints.

The article also states that Tesla never provided any details about her secret personal project, but in previous articles it was said to be her project with "a way to replace flip-down sun visors with touch-based windshield-dimming technology". This included a paid trip to New York which Tesla supposedly claim wasn't approved.

I'm not saying it makes a difference but especially the second part seems strange to leave out when the whole legal battle seems to center around it.

> Pay $10 for a DRM file on the Amazon and still have to put up with ads.

If you purchase the discounted ad version. Pay the full price or the $20 difference whenever you feel like and you don't get any ads. You can even send them a message saying "hey, I didn't know there would be ads" and the support will remove them for you.

Wrong. He was given stock with a made up hypothetical value. It isn't related to the yearly revenue/costs of the company.