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InCityDreams commented on Uganda's surveillance state is built on national ID cards   bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/atlasunshrugged
lotsofpulp · 2 years ago
> I can drive through Oklahoma (several states away) and their system will automatically read my plates at a toll road and a bill will arrive at my home.

I’ve driven a car with USA license plates through tolls in Canada and gotten a bill at home.

Also, passports have existed forever.

InCityDreams · 2 years ago
Good history here (and, you're not incorrect) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport : modern passports 1920s.

"While the United Nations held a travel conference in 1963, no passport guidelines resulted from it. Passport standardization came about in 1980, under the auspices of the ICAO.

ICAO standards include those for machine-readable passports.

Such passports have an area where some of the information otherwise written in textual form is written as strings of alphanumeric characters, printed in a manner suitable for optical character recognition.

This enables border controllers and other law enforcement agents to process these passports more quickly, without having to input the information manually into a computer."

InCityDreams commented on Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life   toaster.llc/photon/... · Posted by u/davekeck
davekeck · 2 years ago
Dang I need to fix that! If you send me an email (support@toaster.llc) I'll let you know when that works.
InCityDreams · 2 years ago
Another EU purchaser here. I've passed the link around - I think there would be many people over here that would be interested.

Also...consider, dare I say it, Windows? Or am I mis-reading "delightful, Mac-tastic software Photon Transfer is designed with love exclusively for your Mac", though I'm sure the usb c is er...bipartisan?

I'd say 30% of the people I know use a mac, the rest windows, all with linux for work etc.

*getting stuff from the states via post is no problem, just gotta check on import fees (relatively easy to circumnavigate, but I'd rather not).

InCityDreams commented on Apple's 'I'm a Mac' guy returns to promote Windows on Arm PCs   theverge.com/2024/6/3/241... · Posted by u/pjmlp
mint2 · 2 years ago
Wonder how this will go for them.

Im sure one’s personal mileage will vary, but this is my experience.

I use windows for work Mac personal, and by far windows is more annoying with pop ups. Both do have a fair number of pop ups, it’s true. But overall the message feels either like gas lighting or wishful thinking, does not resonate at all.

InCityDreams · 2 years ago
>and by far windows is more annoying with pop ups.

I get no pop ups apart from required system messages (confirming deletes, admin account req'd - which is the most stupidest Windows thing ever...I am the administrator).

Do you mean in your browser?

InCityDreams commented on Why Do People Hate Nickelback So Much? A Statistical Analysis   statsignificant.com/p/why... · Posted by u/gmays
fallingfrog · 2 years ago
I think it stems from every one of their songs sounding like an imitation of “smells like teen spirit”. Except that Kurt cobain was- or at least is seen as- authentic, raw and vulnerable, whereas nickelback comes across as a pretentious imitation loaded with macho posturing. Kurt would have hated them, which is why many others do.

Besides that, their music is really boring- in the sense of being extremely predictable. Lots of other music you hear on the radio is boring too, of course. But it’s a double whammy.

InCityDreams · 2 years ago
"Kurt would have hated them, which is why many others do."

I wonder what Dave Grohl would make of that statement?

Kida related - https://www.metalsucks.net/2020/01/22/that-time-chad-kroeger...

InCityDreams commented on Horseshoe crab counting with New York’s citizen scientists   thecity.nyc/2024/05/29/ho... · Posted by u/pausing
yyggvbb · 2 years ago
Why what wrong with the title? Seems clear to me, just try reading out loud.
InCityDreams · 2 years ago
Horseshoe crab-counting...the hyphen makes a [UK English only?] difference.

I found it hard to read - I thought they may have crowd-sourced some telescope buffs.

InCityDreams commented on EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links   patrick-breyer.de/en/majo... · Posted by u/doener
arp242 · 2 years ago
You can't. But like I said: of course it's not 100% foolproof. Going from that to "they think links and text are different things" is quite a leap.
InCityDreams · 2 years ago
First message: p 0 r n, s i 7 e Second message: dot Third message: come on over. Forth message: Sorry my mistake, organising the house.

After a while the second, third and fourth won't be required.

Jeeze...we learned obfuscation fucking years ago (torrenting was punishable then, probably is still, and a few people may be made examples of, by ip tracking etc as subscribing becomes more disliked).

InCityDreams commented on EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links   patrick-breyer.de/en/majo... · Posted by u/doener
wdb · 2 years ago
Always surprised why politicians get exempted from these kind of rules. You would think they would set the good example
InCityDreams · 2 years ago
Always NOT surprised why politicians get exempted from these kind of rules. You would think they would set the good example.

They're not stupid, and they're NOT example-setters (very few exceptions) - for myself.

#never voted, and very proud of it.

InCityDreams commented on Programming Musical Effects 'Live'   youtube.com/@airwindows/v... · Posted by u/InCityDreams
InCityDreams · 2 years ago
Choose your video - some are live programming, others are explanations of effects. Actual website is https://www.airwindows.com/
InCityDreams commented on Tesla 'self-driving' technology failed to detect a moving train ahead of a crash   nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new... · Posted by u/doener
bell-cot · 2 years ago
At least for my elderly brain - in low-visibility conditions, the red flashing lights of an "active" railroad crossing signal are far more distinctive and attention-grabbing than the very thin, kinda-fog-colored gates.
InCityDreams · 2 years ago
I believe it to be more common in the EU to have dangly bits (metal fencing?) that hangs from the barrier to the floor. when the barrier lifts up they 'fold' vertical. This presents a proper barrier (that stops kids, cyclists, pedestrians from getting under the barrier when deployed), the 'struts' are painted red and white so they're very visible. *can't speak for absolutely everywhere, but my ride to work there are two sets of tracks I pass that have barriers that are designed to stop the stupid. Oh, I guess self-driving vehicles, too, now.

u/InCityDreams

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