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swarnie··on US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock
Come on, you can't keep trying to interrupt the intentions of some blokes who have been dead for 200 years.

This isn't 40k.

swarnie··on 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
A large amount of work has been done this year alone to reduce botting to levels i didn't think was possible.

Obviously we only get the details JMods are willing to give away but some of their techniques can be seen in various reddit Smackdown posts like this one from six days ago - https://preview.redd.it/prx0s0qp2hlh1.png?width=355&format=p...

swarnie··on Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA
It wasn't lost or even taken, people voluntarily paid to have it taken away.

Would accepting these cameras be easier if you all paid $25 a month for it?

swarnie··on Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA
From the original thread:

> Why would you want to live in an area that has that creepy of a tech product facing the pool? I wouldn’t want the hoa or an enterprising creep of a cop spying on my kids or myself either.

You've all spent two decades strapping microphone/camera/gps combos to the side of your head and filling your homes/cars/tvs/fridges with big tech cameras and microphones but this is the line apparently.

I'm not well versed in American privacy expectations but it seems kind of arbitrary from an outsiders perspective.

swarnie··on Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base
Just a couple thousand years of ground/wheel based infrastructure to rework in that few years.

Better get to it.

swarnie··on AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
I'm not familiar with 401k rules but presumably they get a choice of markets and products?

If one is over concentrated its easily avoided.

swarnie··on Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed
I doubt it, these kids are never getting clearance.

I expect to find them at an MSP with a firm equal opportunities policy.

swarnie··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
I do good price for you my Amerifriend

For 500m i'll make all the gloves you want, we can slap as many X's on the size as you desire/require.

Let me know. Waiting for your call.

swarnie··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
I'm not claiming they dont pay everything they legally have to, I'm saying the laws are wrong.

Nick 30 ans is tired and wants someone else to pick up the slack for once.

swarnie··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
I'm happy to vote for anyone who can put an extra 0 on that, it would be nice for these companies to pay more tax than me one of these years....
swarnie··on Bitcoin hits 20-month low as market sentiment sours
Still buying, currently 12.5 billys underwater.

If they sold today it would be comparable to the largest banking losses from the 2008 kerfuffle

swarnie··on Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)
Listen Citizen, how else do you expect to soften Cuba up for democratic liberation?

An ICE officer has been dispatched to your location

swarnie··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
Our cars are getting pretty big too.

A BMW X5 is only slightly narrower than an F150, a range rover vogue only another inch off that.

All fun and games with road infrastructure built for 108s and clios.....

swarnie··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
Do drunk people regularly wonder around in the countryside or is driving massive trucks around population centres common?

I'm confused by this question.

swarnie··on Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct
Sure from an efficiency point of view its fantastic, personally i like some texture from my meal deal.
swarnie··on Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct
Mechanically reclaimed meat and a half gallon of high fructose corn water isn't much of a comparison.
swarnie··on Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
I'm surprised by this, maybe its industry specific.

An 80:20 split of windows server to everything else has been pretty common in the areas I've worked both as a <10 day contactor and as a FTE.

swarnie··on Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
Really simple.

I read the prerequisites of whatever software im asked to install and do what it says.

I'm not spending the next 3 years of my life trying to make some monitoring platform run on WebLogic i have other jobs to do in 4-8-12 hours.

swarnie··on Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
I would say 75% of my webservers are IIS.

Nothing internet facing mind.

swarnie··on Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists
The exact same argument can be made for cars.

Doesn't stop the government wasting half my Saturday and stealing £100 every couple of years.

We should congratulate cyclist on becoming fully fledged (oppressed) road users.

swarnie··on Job: Head of Stonehenge
Just a smidge over $63k after tax and before gibbs.

The job market over here is shocking.

swarnie··on Ex-girlfriend of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt ordered to pay him $10M
Someone should look in to that, seems illogical.
swarnie··on Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
You can understand why - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgpqeq82rvo

They bought a country for pocket change.

Jeff will be president within 20 years imo.

swarnie··on FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack
Why does the FBI director have a merch store...?
swarnie··on Google changes its search box
Allow? Deep down, do you think you have a choice?

Mechanisms might exist to make you think you have one, the same way copywrite should prevent millions of books being gobbled up by TheZuck but ultimately do you really have a choice?

Rules and laws don't exists for you.

swarnie··on Ebola outbreak with uncommon strain erupts in Congo and Uganda; 65 deaths
Providing you aren't manhandling the dead or in to some degenerate sexual practises you'll be fine.
swarnie··on What British people mean when they say 'sorry'
"I beg your pardon" like "Sorry" can have multiple meanings based on the situation and inflection.

It can be used to excuse not hearing something, to get someone to repeat something preposterous or to generally reply to something shocking without actually expecting the other person to reiterate.

I hear it most days in corporate tech.....

swarnie··on What British people mean when they say 'sorry'
> One day I was on the tube. My bag was on the seat next to me

Presumably you also said sorry in return?

swarnie··on Grok 4.3
How do you save money on taxes?

The taxes you owe is a mathematical solve which is always the same....

swarnie··on U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official
Maybe they expect this not war to last 7x longer?

Have any of the not objectives for the not war been accomplished yet?

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