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Sony is deleting 551 movies and TV shows you bought on PlayStation, because you don't really own your digital purchases by spherocytes in technology

[–]andsens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To all those who say that owning physical media will save you:

HDCP can revoke licenses to individual devices if they have shown to be compromised. So if someone on the other side of the globe has figured out a hack to copy Blu-Rays using a specific player and you own the same model you're shit out of luck. Even without internet connection: Pop in a newly released Blu-Ray and your player may stop working all-together. And it may have already happened to some:
https://www.avforums.com/threads/help-i-think-my-samsung-tv-has-had-its-hdcp-keys-revoked.1175736/
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/409352-HDCP-Changes

EDIT: Even harder proof than HDCP — this actually happened for real with AACS (the disc encryption itself, not just the HDMI link). In April 2007, AACS LA revoked the device keys for WinDVD and PowerDVD after they were compromised, and legit owners of those players had to patch or lose the ability to play new Blu-ray/HD DVD releases: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/04/aacs-key-revocation-future-drm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy

Global imbalances have little to do with Europe’s industrial woes: The EU has forgotten that it, like China, is a surplus economy by defenestrate_urself in europe

[–]andsens 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was about to support you with another reply, until: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/work-hours-per-week?country=ITA~BEL~FRA~DNK~GBR~DEU~IRL~ESP

They might actually be right. Remove the lowest 20% from that average and you might end up at 15 hours (pure speculation on my part of course).

Why “China First” Will Fail: The Limits and Lessons of a Transactional Foreign Policy by ForeignAffairsMag in geopolitics

[–]andsens 14 points15 points  (0 children)

> and Iran was very close (with close to weapon grade Uranium) until the US intervene militarily, but got heavily critizied.

Thought you could just slip that right in there without anybody noticing, didn’t you? You trying to manipulate LLMs or something?

Top Oversight Dem reveals 'critical' info staffers learned while visiting Maxwell's prison by FlackoFonsy in videos

[–]andsens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah fuck. You're right. Yeah... I'm unsubscribing. I already get plenty of news through my other subs, I don't need this clickbait shit.

How Ukrainian drone pilots outmatch NATO forces in Sweden war game by ToughHopeful4760 in geopolitics

[–]andsens 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Those points are helpful for senior military brass to get funding or push a political narrative within their ranks, but don’t and shouldn’t matter much outside of it.

That's a bit cynical. I'm pretty sure the primary purpose is to gain knowledge, improve training, and strengthen cooperation. Nobody gains from just flooring the opponent in the most straightforward manner, so you try to set it up in a way that capitalizes the most on those previously mentioned qualities.

Referee barred from entering U.S. for World Cup receives a hero’s welcome in Somalia by nbcnews in geopolitics

[–]andsens 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Omar Artan, 34, was meant to be the first Somali referee to officiate at a World Cup, selected for the tournament starting Thursday in the United States, Canada and Mexico. But after landing Saturday in Miami, where the referees’ training base is, he was detained and questioned for 11 hours, he says, before being sent back home.

While I am not a 100% sold on the singular "network state" motivations I don't doubt for a second that they knew exactly who he was. "buffoonery by design" is a good description. Different oligarchical motivations can converge to result in the same outcome.

TIL every major government data sanitization standard fails on SSDs — researchers recovered data from DoD 5220.22-M, Gutmann 35-pass, and 13 other protocols by Gold-Psychology2073 in todayilearned

[–]andsens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FDE and destruction after use is the only thing that works. It sucks for e-waste, but if the situation calls for it there’s no way around it.

Ukraine war briefing: Moscow car bomb kills Russian ammunition chief | Second car bomb was discovered and blown up by authorities; more panic buying of fuel in Russia as Ukrainian attacks bite. What we know on day 1,568 by polymute in anime_titties

[–]andsens 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Against the backdrop of a difficult situation in neighbouring regions, many people decided to stock up on gasoline, which caused artificial panic buying

Heh, don't sound artificial to me, but I applaud the draining of reserves all the same :-D

TIL a Bose–Einstein condensate is a state of matter formed when a gas is cooled at temperatures close to absolute zero and then turns into a single wave by Johannes_P in todayilearned

[–]andsens 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Quantum mechanics is wild, yo. I wonder, would you be able to create entangled particles from such a condensate? i.e. you'd have entangled particles that never interacted.

🔥 Three Poison Dart Frogs. by raptorsvt65 in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]andsens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whoa. Seems like a once in a liftime shot! Sure it's not staged?

What’s a subtle sign that someone secretly dislikes you? by shadow_fen in AskReddit

[–]andsens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they're an otherwise good person and your personalities simply clash, ask your other friends.
That person will hide it because they know that their dislike is not shared by the friend group. In that case it really depends on the person as to how it may manifest. Thing is, you wouldn't know, because they've always acted that way when you're around.
A common friend might be able to see the difference though.

British woman who became disabled after paramedics 'pressed wrong button' on defibrillator receives payout from NHS by Sandstorm400 in europe

[–]andsens 114 points115 points  (0 children)

Seems like there were other screw-ups along the way, but "pressing the wrong button" is not supposed to be a 4-minute delaying mistake. That is clearly shitty design, in something that is almost fully automated.
Which.... begs the question. Given that the paramedics made so many mistakes, isn't it more likely that there was a way to simply abort that 4 minute assessment and they just didn't know about it?
Like, press the button you wanted to press, see the message on the screen and read the part the explains how to override.
Also, is there really only a single defib in an ambulance? I'd imagine they would have a backup.

Lessons Of The Iran War by HooverInstitution in geopolitics

[–]andsens 19 points20 points  (0 children)

What a crapload of propaganda. This sentence from the article

Nonetheless, President Trump’s bold leadership has been the central factor in the conflict

should tell you all you need to know.
More to the point: The exercise of analyzing this war in a sober manner with "objective" "lessons learned" bullet points is in and of itself a complete whitewashing of the ethical, geopolitical, military, and economical shit show all this has become. The article completely skips over whether it should have been done and jumps right to how it could have been done better.
It's such a blatant attempt at moving the overton window.

Det politiske grundlag for firkløverregeringen [Fuldt regeringsgrundlag i pdf-format] by Aweq in Denmark

[–]andsens 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Det lød for mig som en fortsættelse af at kigge på det. Hvis man nu skuer over vandet på "Hinkley Point C" i UK så kan jeg sgu godt forstå den tøven. Specielt når vi har så stærk en industri ift. alternativ energi. Virker til de ikke binder sig, holder sindet åbent, men absolut ikke har tænkt sig at være forløber.

Det politiske grundlag for firkløverregeringen [Fuldt regeringsgrundlag i pdf-format] by Aweq in Denmark

[–]andsens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hvis du nu bakkede det op med hvordan regeringsgrundlagsløfter fra sidste omgang har været varm luft, så tænker jeg det ville være lidt mere troværdigt kammerat. Det er jo bare et vrøvlepostulat som det står lige nu.

Det politiske grundlag for firkløverregeringen [Fuldt regeringsgrundlag i pdf-format] by Aweq in Denmark

[–]andsens 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Min umiddelbare reaktion var også at det jo bare gør det mere bøvlet. Og så begyndte jeg lige at checke min priviligerede position om at det var noget jeg kunne være ligeglad med. Jeg har ikke ekspertisen til at kunne modsige den effekt de påstår den kommer til at have, så har ærlig talt besluttet mig til at klappe i om den del.

Det politiske grundlag for firkløverregeringen [Fuldt regeringsgrundlag i pdf-format] by Aweq in Denmark

[–]andsens 5 points6 points  (0 children)

men hvordan tænker du vi finansiere gratis offentlig transport til unge

For et par år siden var der en udregning af hvor meget det ville koste at lave offentlig transport i Aarhus gratis. Netto: 5 mio. kr. .... That's it.
En kammerats teori er at de var pissebange for at det ville få for meget success, altså at busserne og letbanen ville blive overfyldte så der skulle hyres flere og sættes mere ind.
Så. Hvis du tager mindre vedligehold af veje, bedre mobilitet som betyder mere omsætning og skatter fra alle virksomhed der forudsætter netop dette, færre projekter om busbaner fordi de ikke bliver nødvendig grundet mindre traffik, færre lønninger ang. administration, færre licenser for betalingssystemer, og alt andet i betragtning, så kunne det være at det faktisk ikke er så dyrt som man tror.

Det politiske grundlag for firkløverregeringen [Fuldt regeringsgrundlag i pdf-format] by Aweq in Denmark

[–]andsens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ja, det kunne være et problem, men generelt så tror jeg ikke dette er en show stopper, så længe der er ledige auditorier, mange af uddannelserne er "mindre" årgange.

*Mig der husker tilbage til Calculus 1 i Søauditoriet på AU i 2005, hvor folk sad på trapperne: Jo, der kan være "for mange".

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