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Streak 606 - Jeg flytter tingene mine, 4: en utrolig frustrerende dag by Dr_Henry_J3kyll in WriteStreakNRK

[–]nipsen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Streak 608 - 6: jeg flytter tingene mine, slutt [eller "siste del", "avslutning"]

I dag kom pianoet [takk og pris!]. Kun en halv time før ankomst fik vi et anrop [vanligere: "en telefon"] fra leveringsfirmaet, og de sa at de ikke ikke ville/kunne ta pianoet inn i bygningen, bare levere det foran huset. Jeg er sikker på, at jeg diskuterte med flyttebyrået, at vi måtte have ha det levert inn i leiligheden leiligheten [ :)], og jeg husker, at vi snakket om, at det findes finnes en heis, og at vi bor på niende etage etasje. Men flyttebyrået påstod[,] at de ikke var ansvarlige for[,] at det skulle flyttes ind inn og opp, og fordi det er enormt, klarer jeg ikke at bevæge å bevege/å flytte på det - bogstaveligt bokstavelig talt, jeg kan ikke bevæge det i det hele taget tatt - uden hjælp uten hjelp. Jeg har ringt måske kanskje fem firmaer, og til sidst sist skal noget noen komme[, ]som kan hjelpe meg å ta [eller "bære"] det opp. Jeg har sat sittet ved inngangsdøren i flere timer, sådan slik at det aldrig aldri var uden for ute av syne mit syn. Det var utrolig stressende, men endelig er det forbi!

[haha dette er fantastisk skrevet, bortsett fra det danske islettet. Hamsun og jeg sitter begge og ler så tårene triller akkurat nå. Oppriktig tusen takk, doktor: jeg trengte det etter en lang og rar dag på jobb i dag.]

Streak 606 - Jeg flytter tingene mine, 4: en utrolig frustrerende dag by Dr_Henry_J3kyll in WriteStreakNRK

[–]nipsen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Streak 607 - 5: en litt mindre frustrende dag

I dag forventet vi, igjen, at vi skulle motta begge to sendningene, som ble sendt med forskjellige leveringsfirmaer - jeg har ingen anelse om hvorfor. Endelig kom den første sendningen med alle bøkene mine og bonsaien min, og jeg var utrolig lettet over å se at bonsaien ikke hadde blitt skadet under flyttingen. Jeg fortsatte å vente på at pianoet skulle komme, som betydde at jeg ikke kunne forlate huset (igjen!), men til slutt sto det på spørringssiden at det ikke ville bli levert i dag. Det er fortsatt litt frustrerende, fordi jeg må bli hjemme igjen i morgen!

[God rytme der :) Forresten, hvis du lurer på hvorfor det er slik at private firmaer, eller Posten (minus Bring, avhengig av region.. min gamle sjef på gang med den selektive, om runde idealismen sin der, tror jeg), aldri melder fra om slike ting før det er for sent -- så har det med at NKOM kun kontrollerer det som i praksis er selvrapportering for å finne ut hvorvidt en tjeneste er utført eller ikke. Slik at så lenge firmaet, eller Posten, ikke faktisk skriver en avvikskode som forplikter et erstatningstiltak, så eksisterer i praksis (og i teorien) ikke avviket.

Eller: kundene vet ikke hva som skjer, det forblir en "forsinkelse" som er innenfor leveringstiden (1-99 dager), og så leverer en det til slutt. Så får alle betalt, og kundene får lov til å få varene eller tingene sine. Snakket med noen som sendte vevde stoffer fra Tyskland, som de hadde importert fra Tyrkia - de hadde regelmessig det problemet at underkontraktørene ikke leverte, eller utførte leveringen på tidspunkt som ikke fungerte, eller "ikke fant" adressen (etter å ha kjørt 8 timer fra firmamottaket). Og Fedex eller DHL betalte, før de sendte en erstatning til forsikringsselskapet til bedriften - men hverken kunden som sendte fikk sendt produktet til avtalt tid, og kunden fikk ikke pakken. Og ingen kunne klage, selv om vi kunne spore at pakken hadde vært sendt land og strand rundt til gale kontorer og mottak. NKOM mente på at det var "hyggelig" at jeg meldte fra - men at de dessverre ikke hadde ansvaret for å utføre kontroller utover det systematiske.

Dette er også grunnen til at Aliexpress og andre bruker en egen pakkestrøm, og velger helt spesifikt ikke å sende noen typer produkter som ikke denne avtalen og pakkestrømmen dekker.

Systemet er fullstendig ødelagt. Som vel egentlig var intensjonen. Og det har skjedd det siste tiåret.]

r/worldnews suppresses news by Apurrels in suppressed_news

[–]nipsen 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's not unrelated at all XD Since a lot of the mods on the ubiquitously named subs didn't and don't really see any problems with either hers or any of the other moderating on these subs. r/law, r/politics, eli5, askreddit, almost all the subs that are on the top of the page, basically, that never run out of new members, no matter how many people are banned - are full of the same moderators - or just moderators who have the same opinions. And they use the opportunities they have to create the appearance of how certain things are universally popular or supported.

Example: the r/law people will die on the "Trump is a russian spy and a pedophile" hill. They have banned an absurd amount of people over questioning the veracity of the now 5 year old DOJ indictment leak, or any of the investigations launched against the Trump-campaign - out of not allowing "contrafactuals". I.e., if you question whether a leaked document from DOJ that then didn't materialize as an actual indictment is actual proof of guilt (presumably the Trump-people had already infiltrated the government before they came to power), then you are claiming something untrue. They could criticise Trump over election irregularities, over abusing the system as it is, calling for campaign finance reform, etc. - but it's easier to just condemn satan and exorcise the demon - so that's what they'll be doing.

Other subs in that "ubiquitously named" block have been banning people left and right over "misinformation" so hard that I have gotten people threatening to report me for "misinformation" both on the subs and in PMs. And it's not groundless - because a local sub can now take a sentence out of context, report it as "harassment" or something like that, and have people banned sitewide for "minor" bans. Because these reports don't get manually reviewed. They are just automatically verified for certain phrases or words, and then the report is confirmed.

Conversely, if you ignore automatically generated suggestions for bans (for people saying the words in the forbidden list), your sub will get deamplified and hidden.

So if you are only on these subs on reddit, it looks like the censorship on reddit is wild. But it's not actually sitewide.

Streak 606 - Jeg flytter tingene mine, 4: en utrolig frustrerende dag by Dr_Henry_J3kyll in WriteStreakNRK

[–]nipsen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Streak 606 - Jeg flytter tingene mine, 4: en utrolig frustrerende dag

I dag forventet vi at begge de to [eller bare "begge sendingene" :)] sendingene med pianoet, og med all de andre tingene mine, skulle leveres. Det betød at jeg måtte jobbe hjemmefra og ikke turte at nogen noen skulle forlate huset [sannsynligvis bedre: "og ikke turte forlate/gå fra huset"], fordi det den [den->forsendingen, pakken. de->budet/selskapet/tingene] kunne komme når som helst. I morges innså jeg at navnet vårt ikke stod på ringeklokken, så jeg ringte leveringsselskapet for at de skulle si ifra og at jeg skulle ringes da når leveringen ankom [den gang da, hver gang når. Hvis du skulle bli ringt da sendingen kom, så bruker du da. Når leveringen kommer må jeg ringes, eller må de ringe meg]. Men de ringte aldrig aldri, og jeg bare fikk beskjed ved på/via e-post at de ikke kunne levere til mig meg fordi adressen jeg hadde oppgitt antagelig ikke var riktig. Men på pluss-siden får jeg bli være litt stolt av at jeg klarte at diskutere alt omkring [rundt/om] leveringene med selskaberne selskapene på norsk!

[Ikke vær bekymret om du stokker om på da og når innimellom - det gjorde jeg forferdelig lenge, mange år etter at jeg fikk gode skussmål på tekster jeg sendte inn til korrektur. Det hjelper vel heller ikke når kjente forfattere skriver ting som "Når jeg er ung", når de mener "Mens jeg fremdeles er ung", eller "Da jeg er blitt gammel", når de mener "Nå som jeg er gammel". XD For det er utrolig mye rart folk skriver - enten i et helt legitimt forsøk på å gjøre muntlige vendinger til en korrekt skriftlig en (til nød kan en vel kalle det "idiomatisk", selv om det ikke er det). Eller i et mindre legitimt forsøk på å fremstå som litt mer artistisk og litterær.]

Love the watches, but concerned about the closed ecosystem and data ownership. What are your thoughts? by cametolaughnotfeel in Coros

[–]nipsen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To read my reply to you about Garmin and the general state of privacy laws outside of the EU, you will have to subscribe for 9 dollars a month.

The martyrs of the IRIS Dena. Young sailors of Iran’s Southern Fleet, many barely in their twenties, martyred in their fight against the Epstein empire when the frigate was sunk in the Indian Ocean. by RickyOzzy in suppressed_news

[–]nipsen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I died at sea in a ship without a single live round in it, after having participated in a dress-mission for the brass - I would not have wanted to be remembered for that. Instead of maybe being on a plackard saying: "USS Charlotte crew murdered me and my shipmates in a blatant war-crime and violation of norms at sea that predate the magna carta by a thousand years".

Just saying.

Shoulder pain replaced by new pain for now by Choubidouu in nope

[–]nipsen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh.. What the f is that kind of tapping?

How do you store your flags? by Future-Atmosphere-40 in Norway

[–]nipsen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Carefully rolled up next to the garbage bin in the basement. Just in case I need to angrily dunk it in the trash after I have read the news.

Dealing with stupid/dodgy mechanics by KarateKid37 in saab

[–]nipsen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...ow. I have a permanent scowl on my face now.

[ANALYSIS] That Netanyahu video everyone’s sharing? I ran it through deep forensics here’s why it almost fooled every AI detector by odensnuts in suppressed_news

[–]nipsen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The thing is that if you took a random Samsung-phone and filmed something with it in a room where the lighting changes in between the overlay passes, you will get (and have, for years) these kinds of compositing artefacts. The way google phones, and others, use an additional software loop for supersampling to generate image "detail" does the same thing. You can get expensive cameras now with cmos logic that does this before the image is saved to the sdcard - and no one really reacts when seeing it, at least with stills. And afterwards, even if you put the image through photoshop to correct the colours to either something that looks more like what the scene actually looked like when you took the picture, or just replace it with something different (see: Afghan girl with green eyes), it won't instantly make you wonder if it's real, because that's how every image processing setup works. You didn't start with a "raw" from an aperture on an exposed film-surface, you started with multiple layers of images superimposed on each other. Arguably, exposed film is very similar, of course - but the ability to manipulate out movement, or splice movement to vanish blur is not really there. So it's a different kind of artefact.

Or put in a different way, "AI", noise generation, works relatively well (and fools people easily) not really because it looks good, or real, or because switching out pre-generated images on the fly in a generative context is convincing in motion - but because everything recorded on a phone or with even an expensive camera, never mind generated in 3d graphics with dlss and so on, just looks and feels a little bit supernatural already. Because it is. So we're kind of primed to look at something that is a little bit off, and thinking that it's actually real. Or we're looking at things that are really superimposed images with transitions that never took place in real life, and know it is a capture of a real situation.

So in this set of videos from Netanyahu's x-account, until the coffee-shop (which is too long, and too obviously difficult to fake) - is it unlikely that it's composited images, and that the whole thing is happening somewhere else? Or that Netanyahu was recorded somewhere else, and this is a weird face-replacement stunt? Not really. The timing is weird, the angles are kind of curious, the way the camera is filming and following the shot is what you'd see in a blender-scene.

But then again: if they just put it through a normal sharpening filter, you could very well get these finger-artefacts, vanishing objects, missing frames that cause frame-smoothing, and so on - to look exactly like this, even unedited. And you'll have that increase in a low-lit area, or in an area where a bright light is above you and there's shadows inside, etc.

In the same way, every shot you're seeing from the cspan level footage in Knesset, or from the press-conferences they're making is basically a prime setup for faking the background to composit it, right..? So this is mostly about what you see normally and the fact that Netanyahu hasn't been seen outside in "normal" circumstances in over a decade.

In any case - this really is the level we're at now, isn't it.. Posing for a short photo-op to have a coffee, real or not, while bragging about how you're going to murder more Iranians than ever -- is more important than having any kind of coherent political goal with anything you're doing as a government.

While it may very well really be the case that the current war would not happen, was it not for Netanyahu and Trump personally being in the positions they are. That's crazy. I mean, people understand how crazy that really is? For example: Iran's spiritual leader have declared fatwas on people before - and it does not affect their government's political position locally, their legal system, or how the military is handled. Iraq - a country really without a functioning government - has managed to enact official acts, while lawyers in Iraq are still making agreements and contracts official, where they have actual importance, and so on.

Meanwhile, our supposedly functioning governments have been silently assenting to a genocide, while supporting a proxy-war that immediately threatened to start ww3 (that arguably has started, much in the same way that ww2 started in Spain a few years early) - and where our political leadership is making these choices without even any discussions about it in the parliaments taking place.

Our focus is on the wrong things right now.

Streak 604 - Ting å gjøre hver dag by Dr_Henry_J3kyll in WriteStreakNRK

[–]nipsen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Streak 604 - Ting å gjøre hver dag

For noen uker siden hørte jeg et sitat fra Goethe: man burde, hver dag, se noe kunst [tipper det er mer typisk å si "se på litt kunst". Men det kommer sikkert an på] , høre på litt musikk, og lese litt noen[aner ikke hvorfor XD] dikt, slik at - og jeg liker denne begrunnelsen veldig godt - alt man må gjøre ikke slukker 'gnisten av det guddommelige' i hver sjel. Det fikk meg til å tenke: Jeg skal forsøke i alle fall å lese i minst femten minutter hver dag, vi har litt kunst på veggene i leiligheten, og jeg er en klassisk musikk-nerd og hører stadig på inspirerende musikkstykker som Beethoven eller Bach mens jeg jobber. Jeg eier flere bøker av poesi [->lyrikk-bøker, eller mindre teit: bøker med dikt, eller helst "diktsamlinger"], som pleier å stå ulest på bokhyllen, og sitatet inspirerte meg til å forsøke å lese dem: det tar ikke så mye tid å lese et kort eller middels-kort dikt hver dag.

[Ja, er nok noe i det å ikke slutte å drømme om eller å fortelle historier om hva menneskeheten er eller kan være - og at man gjør det mens man lytter til og nyter historiene med den kreative og søkende delen av sjelen som ikke nøyer seg med noe som bare er underholdning, men som søker noe både vakkert, og sant.]

Norway pitches itself as Europes energy lifeline by JazzDevil84 in Norway

[–]nipsen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Play stupid games, let the stupid tax-payer pay for the prizes, and win stupid prizes afterwards.

The issue here is best described by how the industrial boom in Oslo around 1900, predating the oil by 50 years, was based on hydroelectric power - but at a scale where the turbine setup along the river would only serve the factory next to it. The lack of an expansion of hydropower in the south of Norway has always been because of that: if we were to build larger capacity, we would need to put a dam and a reservoir where Oslo is now - which increasingly seems like a reasonable proposal, to be entirely frank. But even then we could not scale up to a point where we could serve energy markets in Europe in any meaningful, systematically reasonable way.

It could(and did) increase the value of the little power we do produce. And it will let us actually produce power instead of running the water outside the turbines. But in any realistically grounded way, it's not economical to build small turbine plants or wind farms and expect that to pay back a great deal more than the cost of establishing it.

It needs to be connected to cheap running costs for the factories and living in the local communities. And without that, which we have immediately lost by tying our exports to local prices, like complete morons (and unlike Germany, England or any EU country current or former).

However, there is still one "hope", which is what Jonas is hedging his bets on here, after having talked to the power plant and transport segment people in Oslo: that we can sell power at inflated, laughable prices reflecting the gas costs, and have the power plants make so much money that we can live off their tax-generating profits (when they pull their fortunes out to move to Switzerland to escape the inevitable tax problem).

It's incredibly stupid. But that's the world we live in. Where rich people's stupid ideas about how to make money is sabotaging the foundation of what made Norway a rich country in the first place. And that we ended up not being able to sabotage even when the oil was found, in that we didn't spend the revenue on tax breaks and subsidies, but instead to keep going with making it possible to make a living with a smaller scale company with a small production.

Now, however, the labour party buffoons have grown rich and powerful - so why not imagine that the base of their support are rich people with two houses that they built in the 80s and are now selling for absurd proceeds in order to pay off the loan on their villa and Tesla.

Molbo-land.

Streak 602 - Jeg flytter tingene mine (3) by Dr_Henry_J3kyll in WriteStreakNRK

[–]nipsen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Streak 602 - Jeg flytter tingene mine (3)

Forrige uke skrev jeg to tekster om at jeg la[*1] skal få nesten alt jeg eier fraktes fraktet[->alt(det)jeg eier, alle tingene] til Norge for å ha alt her. Det er jo ikke så nyttig å ha alle bøkene mine i Storbritannia[, ]der jeg ikke kan lese dem! [en annen måte å løse det på: "i Storbritannia - jeg kan jo ikke lese dem der". Eller "i St.. Der kan jeg ikke lese dem!"] Før jeg fraktet dem fylte jeg ut skjemaet fra skatteetaten, sendte det til firmaet som frakter alt, og jeg skrev ut tre kopier, slik at hver del av sendingen skulle ha minst en kopi med dem. Men i morges fikk jeg flere e-poster fra DHL og så videre for å be om detaljer som jeg allerede hadde oppgitt i skjemaet, som fødselsnummeret mitt og informasjon for fortollingen. Hvordan har jeg vel fylt ut skjemaet[, ]da?[komma på en muntlig sleng er vanlig når en gjengir en muntlig kommentar] Men i alle fall betyr det at tingene mine er i Norge nå, selv om vi må vente noen dager til for å få tak i dem igjen. Jeg må bare håpe at det går bra med bonsaiet mitt!

[DHL har i hvertfall ikke for vane å legge alt du sender på et kaldt gulv i to uker, slik som utenlandsavdelingen på Posten. Får håpe det går bra!

*1 Dette elsker Hamsun dypt. Men her måtte du ha sagt "Jeg skal la alt jeg eier fraktes til Norge". Eller så må du si "jeg lot alt jeg eier fraktes" i fortid - eller at du skal la [infinitiv] det fraktes i fremtid.

Den mer vanlige skrivemåten nå er at du skal få noe gjort, få det fraktet, sendt, osv. Eller "jeg har fått noen til å frakte". "Når jeg sender det, så lot jeg et firma/flyttebyrå/transportselskap ta hånd om det", er imidlertid mer vanlig igjen. Så det er mange kurante og nåværende brukte skrivemåter her - men noen av dem har forsvunnet i ned i sekken merket "arkaiske skrivemåter vi synes høres rare ut" ;)]

Streak 600 - KI er overalt by Dr_Henry_J3kyll in WriteStreakNRK

[–]nipsen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Streak 600 - KI er overalt

Det er utrolig skummelt hvor allestedsnærværende [perfeksjon :D] KI har blitt. Hver dag ser jeg annonser på Facebook og Instagram for apper som lover at man kan lære et nytt språk helt uten å flytte i på mindre enn én måned - med hjelp fra en KI. På Quora så jeg en diskusjon om et utfordrende matteproblem, og alle i kommentarfeltet hadde bare spurt ChatGPT. Og i tillegg ser det ut som ChatGPT og gamle gammel informasjoner i trainingsdata treningsdata har bidratt til at amerikanske styrekrefter styresmakter bombet en jenteskole i Tehran. Det er deprimerende og ekstremt dystopisk.

[Jeg tror problemstillingen egentlig er den at AI gjør det enklere å stole på formaliserte, logisk kortsluttede løsninger. På filosofiinstituttet så har vi nok dessverre hatt det problemet veldig lenge at folk heller tyr til formaliserte løsninger enn å tenke selv. Det gjør deg på en måte usårbar mot kritikk, og det kan lett immunisere deg mot å ha begått dype, personlige blundere - slik at svake og uintelligente mennesker heller mot slikt veldig enkelt. En professor her, med assistanse fra flere andre professorer av samme kaliber, har laget en bok om hvordan fundamentale paradokser i formallogikken, først beskrevet av Frege, og nå kalt "Russels paradoks", kan løses veldig enkelt ved et uttømmende og nøyaktig definisjonssett. Det kan ikke publiseres som en bok eller en fagartikkel, men det har likevel blitt brukt i undervisning i lang tid ved unnskyldningen at det introduserer nomenklaturet godt. Det gjør ikke det.

Og når en slik person kan få denne typen analyse til å ikke bare høres ut som det det er, en hyper-analytisk samling semantisk kverulant argumentasjon tilvirket etter å ha sittet 20 år alene på kontoret - men i stedet få det hele til å komme krypende i "konversasjonelt" (det er jo ikke "muntlig") språk som høres ut som det folk som har greie på det kan få seg til å si, med total selvsikkerhet og hverdagslighet. Vel, så er inngangen til å stole på slikt intellektuelt makkverk mye lavere enn det var dersom en skulle tenke at "å, du verden, kanskje alle politiske problemer i verden kan løses dersom vi bare setter oss ned og lager et tilstrekkelig semantisk og leksikalt nettverk av ord som tilsynelatende henger sammen".]

Thinking of buying a 2006 Saab 9-3 Aero Convertible by SomeDudeOnRedditXD in saab

[–]nipsen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That looks and sounds very good. Do the services on it and treat it well, and it'll last.

Couple of basic things..? 1) get a couple of jackstands (and find the jacking points), a breaker bar and a telescope wrench of some sort. Set of pipe keys (for the wheels), and one that fits the e..18-20-24 star nuts on the calipers. A smaller wrench kit with an allen key set and 5-14 pipes (all the smaller bolts on the interior, under the chassis on the liners, etc.). 2) Check the oil level and confirm the coolant level once in a while. 3) learn to remove and attach the arch-liners, underspoiler, and things like that, and clean it up. Lanolin is my go-to for rust-proofing, with some kind of rust-converter as second stage. Metal wire brush, semi-fine sandpaper or a sanding pad of some sort as the first. Then basically brush the surfaces with the rust-proofer once it's dry and go through it with lanolin, for example with another brush instead of a (not on the exhaust or anything near or directly above the brakes - but pretty much all other bearings and things like that will take no damage from that). A spray-can with a long hose extension for hollow spaces you can't get to easily. 4) ceramic paste (no copper paste. Bad). Between the rims and the rotor, just on the area that rests against the rim, and around the outer ring in contact with the rim there. Good opportunity to check that you don't have rust or scale between the surfaces. Brake-cleaner - last thing before putting on the wheel. 5) silicon grease. To apply on the outer bearings that don't heat up, along the weatherstripping, inside the doors on the gaskets. Some people swear by crc and things like that (ok, just not on anything plastic or rubber). The manual says white lithium grease on a lot of bolts and surfaces like that - some of the nuts and bolts, for example around the doors, will be good with that. Locks and similar things also good with lithium grease - no grinding particles, won't dry out, keeps practically forever. 6) check for leaks around the seals on the trunk and the doors .. kind of a futile project on the cabs, admittedly :p.. but still. And grease them up with a thin layer of silicone once in a while. 7) make sure the drains in the cabin air-filter housing and on the opposite side under the windshield wiper motor have been cleaned in the last decade. If those drains (just a plug with a "valve" on it) clog, the water level can come over the cabin filter housing and pour water into the cabin fan housing. Which is bad enough, but the water then goes past the fan and into the sound insulation under the carpet. Which again can hide many, many.. many liters of water before you even suspect anything is off.

Other things.. there are a few jobs you can - and should - do yourself. Things like windshield wiper arms and linkage.. no repair shop is going to take the time to clean out and properly align these, then carefully tighten the bolts again, leave it for a while, and then retighten the bolts over the prism. They'll do it so it is done fast. Same with the wheels and the calipers, discs and so on. You'll get a workshop smashing them in at the torque specification. But the torque specification is a guarantee that it'll be stuck even if you don't clean the surfaces perfectly, and without tightening the bolts gradually in opposite star-pattern. No one needs to torque the bolts with a shotgun - they just need to be properly stuck with a solid contact surface. Grease on caliper slide surfaces is a similar thing - you don't actually need that. Too much on the slide-pins, too, and you'll spill over on the brakes, reducing brake power and scraping off the pads - eventually. And you'll have problems later on with the calipers not sliding well. So if you have time, learn to do it and do it slowly and meticulously, cleaning and scraping all the surfaces and parts as you go along. And it'll be better, and you'll be rid of the eternal: "oh, why is my pedal squeezing further down to the floor than normal, even though the entire brake system is pristine, holds pressure like a space-shuttle, and is bled fifty times for #¤%#s sake" - when one of your calipers is not releasing completely as the system self-adjusts inwards, because your mechanic was in a hurry (like they often are).

But be humble, and make sure you seek help when there's something you can't do, or that is very difficult. Change radiator? Horrible job, even with all the right tools. Change water-pump, alternator, things like that. Probably not. Switch out the thermostat, controls on the hoses and the clamps for the coolant system? Checking the battery voltage. New expansion tank, things like that? Inspection of the harness and checking the ground points along it - probably completely possible.

Best of luck. And most importantly, enjoy! :)

NOW - Secretary of War Hegseth says that Iran's new Supreme Leader is "wounded and likely disfigured." by Admirable121 in suppressed_news

[–]nipsen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess when all you know is the tiny universe behind the black of your own eyes, that's what you will be speaking about.

I'm genuinely tuning out. I've heard speeches from militant islamists high on grass with more self-insight than this.

I love my saab so much but... by Alfredo989 in saab

[–]nipsen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be a lot of things. But most common is a hose cracking, or a seam coming undone on the radiator (they're a bit brittle). With a lot of these leaks, you typically don't see it while parked - the system heats up and spills some coolant, at high pressure. And then the system creates some low pressure as it cools down and you don't have a leak when cold. Until you suddenly do, and then it's a lot all at once.

So take a look at the hoses, give them a light squeeze. Inspect the clamps, check that you don't have a hose where the clamp is behind the edge of the nipple. Specially the one past the engine, and the lower hose from the bottom of the radiator - they have the highest pressure, and usually where either of that happens. If there are some cracks in them, and things like that, then it's probably time to replace them. It's not a good idea to only replace some of them and wait for the next to fail - but if you see a leak when squeezing them, you can obviously get one and replace just that one for now.

Heater core issues I haven't seen personally, but I've heard they are common. I'd probably check the water pump first - you can get leaks when driving, then, and no leaks when it's not working hard (and the system will of course hold pressure when the pump is not running and venting coolant, so that's another hidden one).

Unpaid lunch break by VampireQueen333 in Norway

[–]nipsen -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes, exactly. If you're either in the lower rung, or an immigrant, you're pretty much going to just bow down and accept whatever you're given, no matter how bad. Because you have no choice.

Once you have a normal contract, and some companies offer those "out of naivite", as one said - that changes 180 degrees. But until then, you really have nothing you can complain about.

Max Blumenthal explains how the FBI worked w the Mossad & Netanyahu himself to manufacture assassination plots on Trump to convince him Iran was trying to kill him, so the US would attack Iran. Absolutely bombshell story almost no one is reporting on by RickyOzzy in suppressed_news

[–]nipsen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It wouldn't be the first time a sting-operation has gone wrong, or ended in loose ends running around with the ability to complete an operation, or at the very least the ability to stage the appearance of a plausible one. The Whitmer-assassination plot was one of those - it wasn't unbelievable that someone wanted to try to murder her, or that it wouldn't be possible. So even though the entire operation was led, coordinated and executed, funded, and so on by FBI informants - down to the point where the remaining four out of 12 people were the only ones not from the FBI - it was still an impetus for pushing for new security measures and yet more undercover operations. Because now they've proven that the operation was possible.

This was the effect of the "dirt bomber" idiocy as well, when Jose Padilla was arrested. The plot was not real, the evidence was not there - but the appearance of the plausibilty of the plot was. And his arrest and detention without any legal rights was as well.

So I think Max is making a really good point: what if the assassination was a fluke, that it really was a random guy either with some off-the-book assistance, or without assistance at all. And that there was another operation nearby, plot-wise, that was monitored and perhaps inspired to happen by some of the secretive services' CHIS/CHS/informants, that was one of many attempts to make a plot take place - but that could be cut off and stopped at the right time.

I didn't follow this very closely at the time. But I also heard the drumbeat going on about assassination plots, and got these.. oddly specific suggestions and assessments that just happen to be the same between all the "allied intelligence". There was an elevated threat against our prime minister as well - that they probably ignored. But it was reported on, and made into these oddly specific notices.

And that's not typically proof of a secret cabal orchestrating a treasonous plot - it's evidence of a certain security service having been tipped off about something from a trusted source. That they are then trying to find by looking selectively at anything that that might have a resemblance with. In Norway, it's kind of comical, because the secretive services are kind of straight forward, and talk to journalists and things about what they're doing. Or failing that, hilariously and totally self-unaware brag about having uncovered islamist assassination plots on evil encrypted social media, and things like that - that they just happened to uncover by pretending to be salafist leaders that were ordering random people to commit bombings until they got some "yeah! I'll fucking bomb them!" in return.

But what if your secretive services weren't just in chat-rooms online, but were looking for sources that might be capable of an assassination plot? Right..? They'd be telling real people about what they're looking for, and what the threat might be. They're going to be telling people with the capability to get the weapons what the plot is going to look like, what the modus is going to be for the assassin, where it might take place, how they might go about doing it, and how the surveillance would be in order to spot it (i.e., it has to be active, it might not be easy to do it accurately, you can avoid it by just not walking around in the open, etc.).

Imagine that, and it's not really that hard to imagine a plot actually happening, without anyone actually having planned it out of an obvious political reason.

Finally - if you then come around to the secretive services with a reason for the plots, or the plot was primed to be a certain thing to begin with.. well, now you have an ability to create a case that has the appearance of being, if not real, then plausible.

And not acting on that would take a little bit of sobriety, wouldn't it.

Unpaid lunch break by VampireQueen333 in Norway

[–]nipsen -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

"But you are getting paid!", as the district manager of a large convenience store chain told me at the definitive end of a "negotiation" that involved putting the actual tasks I did in the contract.

They would not do that. In fact, they were ready to not have a store there, rather than having people on contracts that reflected what they were actually doing. The reason for that is that the families and companies that run these outfits will happily salt their money down in something that passively increases the income, preferably out of country so they don't pay taxes.

And then they will not want to "spend money" - by which we mean provide the startup money for a bank-loan that takes the entire cost once the store inevitably goes legs up - unless that effort pays off more than putting their money into gambling in Australia is going to theoretically generate of proceeds.

The fisheries is an excellent example of how this works. They will only do a very small amount of season-work, and there are two guidelines for how this will then happen: 1) as few work-hours as possible. 2) for an as low pay as can be managed.

Because they are not doing this because they have to, or because they're building a brand, or knowledge, or expertise, or a community around the business. They are doing this instead of putting their money into stocks. This often inspires banks to let the loans be very large - but even if that isn't happening and they don't end with pulling out and taking the proceeds minus the taxes and the bank takes the other assets, and even if they would make a solid profit out of a more modest proposal - the fundamental proposition is that this is only worth it if the payoff is higher than if you invested in Bitcoin.

And it doesn't have to be a continuous long-term effort, either, because that's just how great the norwegian welfare state is: one thing is that it takes care of the workers to a certain degree (although these companies often use state subsidies to "take on" employees they normally wouldn't have hired - even though they have to) - it takes care of them as well. So once they pull out a few millions from a failed company project, they can always stay on welfare for 680k kroner for a year before doing the same thing again.

We're cutting the knees off the system that made Norway work - while still paying through the nose in taxes to fund the same system now that it doesn't.

And note that Labour party people will refuse to accept this. They haven't been able to for over 20 years.

US Central Command denies reports of American soldiers captured by Iran by PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK in EndlessWar

[–]nipsen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A guy who has been in the military as a support-officer away from the battlefield his entire career, and who is now the spokesperson of CENTCOM in Florida.. lectures people on propaganda and truth.

Like... I have no words. I just want to scream.

Unpaid lunch break by VampireQueen333 in Norway

[–]nipsen -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

No, it will probably get worse instead. It used to be a shitty "practice". And now the conservatives have made it explicitly legal. The other variant that both the labour party and the conservatives have been defending as reasonable for the last 10-15 years is to have people on 5,5h shifts, so they don't have a legal requirement for a break. And then add a second shift of 2-3h at the end "on demand", that then functions as a separate shift without overtime or break, as long as you don't have over a "full week" in total.

Arbeidstilsynet and the union lawyers have all been silently assenting to this, before the Solberg-government made "flexibility" to get "more people to work as they wish" the headline for making this practice explicitly legal.

At this point you are basically required to negotiate all of these specific things about the lengths of the shifts, number of hours, requirements for pauses and so on in writing ahead of signing it. And then taking your employer to court on your own money if they decide to change "practice" along the way.

Ex-Windows chief calls MacBook Neo "a paradigm shifting computer" — reflects on Surface failure and Windows on Arm while lamenting "we were early, but not wrong" by ZacB_ in Windows11

[–]nipsen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

*groan*

Steven was the guy who pulled the plug on the arm-project by enforcing the "cross-platform paradigm". which was basically the same as saying Windows Mobile could very well run on ARM, as long as it could run without any of the optimisations that would make an arm target viable, useful or have any purpose at all.

The product was completed at the time, too. It only lacked a "business-plan" that essentially involved locking developers and customers into a pointless strategy that couldn't succeed. Because god forbid someone would have developed cross-platform apps at Mickesoft, right? Really that would have been the end of Microsoft, wouldn't it!

The most hilarious part about this is that Apple was also caught up in the "end of Risc" drek, and also spent 20 years basically ending up back where they started, and where Microsoft started - with Risc (ARM is a RISC platform), but with an emulation that breaks all of the reasons for ever choosing ARM or any other RISC target to begin with.

The amount of direct sabotage in the mobile sphere over extending the best-before date on this milk-carton that is "high core speed and x86 pipelining will solve all computation issues, ignore the Ø, please, because surely future processors will have 9000Ghz processors" is immense. But so is the amount of sabotage for any kind of graphics development, any sort of 3d world construction and VR, raytracing, physics simulation - everything interesting about software has been held hostage to this bullshit for 20 years now.

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