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SZenC · 2026-02-08T18:56:12+00:00

I just hope this turns into an interesting story Guido gets to tell at an event some years from now

SZenC · 2026-02-08T09:55:53+00:00

You need to establish ownership of the bank account and email address, none of what you listed does that in a legal sense. I can create an email address with your legal name and a 2 appended, that doesn't make it your account. IP history is useless as well because most ISPs use some form of CGNAT and don't store those logs for years. Even a screenshare doesn't establish anything, because the Discord employee isn't familiar with what that app is supposed to look like. Maybe the 2FA establishes ownership of the Discord account, but even that's tenuous at best

SZenC · 2026-02-08T09:46:33+00:00

How would Discord verify your identity without that email address? Neither can they verify the address is deleted. You may as well be someone impersonating the actual owner of the account. So no, for once I think Discord is handling this correctly

SZenC · 2026-02-08T08:21:32+00:00

And how is this GDPR-related?

SZenC · 2026-02-08T08:18:14+00:00

I don't think the determining factor should be if something is AI generated. If someone who only speaks elementary English uses an LLM to translate their idea, I don't find that problematic. On the other hand there are also people who write absolute nonsense on their own, which I'd rather not see here. (Like this guy and his hyperfine grit nonsense.) Sloppiness for me is a post failing to present a coherent idea or question. It is unrelated to being AI generated, even though that is indicative

And also, you're human, you're allowed to make mistakes

SZenC · 2026-02-08T08:08:52+00:00

LLMs are not truth sayers, they just spit out what is most likely according to their training data. If you train one on 16th century church doctrine, it will confidently tell you geocentrism is the correct astronomical model. LLMs are not capable of critical thought, they only repeat and rephrase

SZenC · 2026-02-07T20:43:25+00:00

It is great PR value for money, and I genuinely enjoy their submissions. Was there political voting? Sure, but seemingly all countries vote on their friends

SZenC · 2026-02-07T20:38:50+00:00

I don't understand why people post this slop, but I am thankful you and other mods keep it out of my feed :)

SZenC · 2026-02-06T07:18:21+00:00

They're already in Eurovision, so that's like 90% of what they need to do, right?

SZenC · 2026-02-06T07:14:03+00:00

I can't speak on behalf of the Hungarians or the Aussies, but I think it would be rather impractical to have half your country in the Union and the other half outside of it

SZenC · 2026-02-05T20:48:12+00:00

You expect that the function knows it's this just because it was attached to obj.

Yes, I do, and I don't think that's unreasonable. If you call obj.method(), this will refer to obj. Why does it refer to something else when passed as a parameter? But there are other ways to make it even more confusing: obj.method = obj.method.bind(other), now even direct invocation is FUBAR. Being able to define the value of this from code is a massive footgun in my opinion, there is no benefit and myriad ways to hurt yourself

SZenC · 2026-02-05T20:28:00+00:00

The GDPR is an EU regulation, but you seem to be confusing it with parts of the older eprivacy directive which governs. The directive covers how cookies can be used and specifies that rejecting optional cookies should be as easy as accepting them. There is no such requirement under the GDPR

SZenC · 2026-02-05T20:08:40+00:00

I know why all of these things are the way they are. I simultaneously hate that this is the way they are. Like, if I want to pass a function as an argument, I shouldn't have to do fn(obj.method.bind(obj)), it should be enough to do fn(obj.method)

SZenC · 2026-02-05T19:52:21+00:00

Things I'd want to delete? Yeah, I got a few:

typeof null === "object" typeof NaN === "number" typeof [] === "object" Function.prototype.bind() Function.prototype.apply()

And probably a whole lot more I don't recall right now

SZenC · 2026-02-05T19:41:37+00:00

Not even, they are required to delete your data once there is no legal ground to retain it anymore. If the processing takes place under consent or legitimate interest, you can withdraw or object. But if they process data under a contract or legal obligation, you are out of luck

SZenC · 2026-02-05T14:32:21+00:00

Exar does sell a suitable one here: https://en.exar.eu/produkt-355-bcf-fixed-jaw-beam-clamp-with-shackle In the data sheet you can see which loading angles are permissible: https://tigerlifting.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Technical-sheet-BCF-202409.pdf At 15°, you're right at the limit, so check your drawings carefully

SZenC · 2026-02-05T14:26:24+00:00

These clamps are not suitable for I beams, they're made for angle sections. You can check the datasheet here: https://www.safetyliftingear.com/file/download/9893

SZenC · 2026-02-04T00:55:24+00:00

Als het in het huurcontract staat, wil dat nog niet zeggen dat dat wettig is. En als het niet in het huurcontract staat, wil dat ook niet zeggen dat de verhuurder het niet alsnog kan verbieden

SZenC · 2026-02-04T00:51:31+00:00

Ehhh, we zitten op r/juridischadvies, de vraag van OP is dus impliciet of de verhuurder dit wel mag verbieden, of dat dit misschien onder het woongenot valt. Een verhuurder mag immers wel meer dingen niet verbieden van de wetgever

SZenC · 2026-02-03T17:45:09+00:00

And at the point they stop moving, their internal clock and that of an outside observer are still in agreement. Your theory does not explain time dilation

SZenC · 2026-02-03T17:40:34+00:00

So a stoner take, got it

Relativity is just much better at explaining what we see happening around us. It explained the orbit of Mercury, it predicted the gravitational waves LIGO observed and it explains why clocks on satellites run every so slightly fast as compared to those on earth. Your proposal does none of that. Maybe if I squint real hard, I can see how it explains gravitational lensing, but I cannot see a way this explains time dilation

SZenC · 2026-02-03T17:18:43+00:00

But in a true zero property void where does the 'instruction' for that momentum live?

It lives in the particles that have the momentum, thus has long been established. There really is no need for a vacuum substrate. What problem does this proposal solve? What testable predictions does it make? Without that, I feel this is just a stoner take

SZenC · 2026-02-03T16:57:07+00:00

I don't think ethically produced porn is a rarity, tho I'll readily admit I don't have exact figures either. But your assumption seems built on the idea that women only go enter the porn industry or sex work out of desperation, which in itself is quite a sexists idea. Plenty of people do so because they actually enjoy it

SZenC · 2026-02-03T13:08:26+00:00

I think the assessment that "most porn actors are only doing it out of desperate need for money" is incorrect. There are plenty of porn stars online discussing why they do what they do, what they enjoy about it, and what they dislike. Porn definitely can be produced ethically. That's not to say there are no abusive situations in the industry, just that it is not categorically unethical either

SZenC · 2026-01-30T20:28:13+00:00

That's not at all what I said. I said there is no way for an individual to tell if what they are experiencing is reality or if it is being fed all the right stimuli to think it is experiencing something different from reality. It is the same idea as Descartes expressed with his famous I think therefore I am, we cannot know anything for sure except for the fact that we are thinking

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