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katbyte··on Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law
The current Goverment voted against this and is not the ones trying to pass it.
katbyte··on Australia to ban engineered stone
Ppe is available and the dangers known and in a short time there was a huge spike in sick workers starting shortly after it’s introduction . It’s clearly more dangerous stuff to work with then other materials that were in use.

It’s not short sighted to save lives

katbyte··on Australia to ban engineered stone
> then they get what they deserve.

It doesn’t just affect them. Everyone nearby gets exposed. People who come later to clean get exposed. Customers can get exposed.

asbestos was banned for similar reasons, or are you saying that it shouldn’t have been banned either because of “people cutting corners with ppe” - it too is perfectly safe when handled safely

katbyte··on Australia to ban engineered stone
It’s not weird. Natural stone has been used forever and it was only after engineered stone entered the market they started to see a sharp rise in silicosis cases. Why ban a product that wasn’t causing the problem?
katbyte··on Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
The one I hate is “unlimited bandwidth” by ISPs that then throttle and then aregue it’s unlimited because they throttled not cut off - no it’s not it’s data caps in a round about way
katbyte··on Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
They did? I have a bunch of encrypted files on gdrive
katbyte··on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
Turning on advanced data protection is not hard.
katbyte··on A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
and for those who don't there are a bunch of photo apps that allow far more control & iphones can shoot raw now
katbyte··on Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the European Union
No I imagine not as mid day and midnight have meaning and that changes them from roughly 12 and 12
katbyte··on U.S. GDP Grew at a 5.2% Rate in the Third Quarter, Even Stronger Than Indicated
You didn’t address the main issue asked about: what happens with all the people out of work?
katbyte··on Who makes the most reliable new cars?
Some new vehicles come way to bright too, the absolute worst for this seem to be teslas and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was poor qa on bulb alignment
katbyte··on Who makes the most reliable new cars?
went from a MT 3rd gen 4runner to a MT 3rd gen 2022 tacoma - aside from the 4wd shifter being electronic no complains!
katbyte··on It's Still Funny That 1k People Gave Tesla $250k for a Roadster Six Years Ago
They sound like they have worked out terribly for Pepsi.

They can both be “real” and completely unsuitable for the task

katbyte··on Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership
mastercard in canada too
katbyte··on Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating
I hate dials on microwaves, it’s annoying to enter an exact time. Keypad and start/stop buttons please.

If we are going to get fancy wifi/Ethernet just for ntp so the time is always right.

katbyte··on Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating
I got a brother B+w laser printer 4 years ago, plugged it into a switch and all my macs and iPhones found it, can print to it, and it just sits there waiting for a thing to print. Still on the original toner.

Couldn’t be happier with it

katbyte··on AI Art Generators Can Be Fooled into Making NSFW Images
It’s already happening with photoshop, ai just makes it easier. You can’t stop the creation of these images only deal with the result.
katbyte··on The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see
HBOmax - removed a ton of shows (some well regarded) for the tax write offs
katbyte··on Two dead in attempted terror attack on Rainbow Bridge
This is not true/incorrect title. it has been determined it was not a terror attack: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-say-no-evidence-of-terr...
katbyte··on VMware is now part of Broadcom
Fair bit of that can be done with Proxmox now. What esxi has going for it from what I hear is the ability to deal with 100/1000s of hosts over many many nodes and Proxmox struggles with that
katbyte··on Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
There is none except hydro and nuclear for base load. Unless you want to burn gas (co2) or coal (co2 and radioactive emissions that cause more cancers in the us then nuclear has world wide)

Renewables outside hydro cannot, and will never, be able to provide a a stable base load for the grid, battery storage isn’t there and has all sorts of issues, pumped storage requires even more rare conditions then hydro, as does geothermal, so we are left with nuclear as the only real clean and reasonable path forward that we would have done decades ago if not for oil and gas doing everything to prevent it.

So what is YOUR proposal to provide a stable base load?

katbyte··on I visited over 120 EV chargers: why so many were broken
Unless you don’t own a home/live in a house. Apartments do not have a charger for every parking stall generally
katbyte··on Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
The us healthcare system is also insanely expensive, highest spend per person on the planet by a large margin
katbyte··on Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
Define “worse” - in the eu they work less, have more vacation, better social safety net, great food transit, less crime less rape less murder, better healrhcare outcomes, and I think rank higher on happiness

In the us they might have more money (to then spend on healrhcare etc)

Which is “better”?

katbyte··on Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
When your friends, family, kids, are sick and unable to afford treatment or go bankrupt because of medical bills you may be singing a different tune unless you are either so totally selfish to ignore their plight or rich beyond millions to pay
katbyte··on Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck
That sounds like the job of management to do..
katbyte··on Preview of CLion Nova, which uses the ReSharper C++/Rider C++ language engine
Well pr reviews are usually don’t in gh or other web platform so, many people?
katbyte··on Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
Same reason I don’t want to have a half dozen streaming providers. I don’t want to have a bunch of different stores and launchers with different games on each.

Plus it’s a terrible store front from all I’ve heard and I do not wish to support it

katbyte··on The coolest robot I've ever built [video]
That’s your perspective- I hate tictok videos because they are just so ungodly short and compressed to the point of being in enjoyable - I don’t care how much information they convey. I enjoy longer form videos that indulge, it’s a better production and more enjoyable

Like your argument boils down to why watch planet earth when you could look at a few photos and read the wiki

It’s not just about conveying information here

katbyte··on Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
Shame I won’t be able to play it as it’s only on the epic game store, which I refuse to use
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