tony @ tony @lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

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Well that's my saturday night busted..

You think? Look at the ages of the antivaxxers and trumpers..

Given the history of COP either one of two things will happen - (a) it gets rejected completely, citing some technicality like 'a bad comma in paragraph 36 that means the chinese delegate will never sign' or (b) it'll get agreed, then every country will proceed to completely ignore it.

Hands up anyone who is surprised..

In its current state it has basically no chance IMO.

If they'd concentrated in making AP/Highway driving smarter first they might have got that through.. there are already rules for that.. but cities? I'd love to see the autonomous car that could drive through London or Manchester.

Bet it wasn't google, it was something 'xingwang productions' calling themselves google.

Raspberry pi had loads of these during the shortage (still does, I think).. the listing has 'Raspberry Pi model 4B' and 'Visit the raspberry pi store' and '#1 best seller' and you dig a little and find it's a reseller who's shifting at a markup.

Amazon do nothing to prevent companies masquerading as others.

Missed opportunity to talk about tar being a tape format that we just happen to use on disks too (so it's accessed linearly, and in fact if you cat two tar files together they make a valid tar file.. or you can create a multi volume tar file that'll prompt you to change the tape).

In the UK all our questions were things like 'You are about to drive into a wall, do you (a) honk your horn, (b) speed up, (c) stop'.

The rule was if there was a 'stop' answer, use that one, otherwise use the 'slow down' answer. You'd pass easily.

I always wondered if one day they'd throw in a curve ball.. 'you are being chased by a hoard of zombies..'

Pretty much what the UNECE did.. there are standards for these things. Tesla doesn't meet them, which is why FSD 'beta' is still 'seeking regulatory approval' in the rest of the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

If you manage to find an image of the box in high enough resolution it's appykidsco.com

Good call on the mobile mode trick. I initially saw the chinese page (that google couldn't translate so no idea what it was) and there was no porn there.

This is what it used to look like around the end of 2021: https://web.archive.org/web/20211128200225/https://www.appykidsco.com/

It died some time in 2022, was a blank page for some time then presumably expired and started showing chinese at the end of august this year (or at least that's when wayback machine picked it up.. the domain entry was last changed in February).

So the URL wasn't 'compromised' it was abandoned.

Can we not create yet another protocol to do basically the same things as everything else but not quite the same?

I don't really care if eventually we all use activitypub, or whatever bluesky is, or something completely different.. but there's little point in having hundreds of 'decentralised' protocols that don't talk to each other.

You have a positive balance? :o

In most countries trucks have bars between the trailer wheels, precisely because too many car drivers got an unwelcome haircut by not paying attention.

It's a Hitway bk11. One of the most popular on Amazon (well I think the bk6 is).

The display for example is an S866, which are cheap and all over ebay/amazon. Heck, I could even interface an esp32 in there if I can find some documentation for the ubuiquitous 'communication protocol no.2'...

Usually with the exact same wording, too.

And the last comment was 'nvm. Sorted it.'

This has to be a movie plot..

Given the huge popularity of WhatsApp I suspect warning people to not share their phone number is too late...

Phone numbers get recycled all the time. The best thing you can do really is keep the same one rather than changing

This is a guy who was using a glorified cruise control (which is all AP is) at high speed whilst watching a DVD instead of looking at the road.

The software can only help so much. There's a reason why there are laws requiring attentiveness checks now.. people are reckless