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Kozmik1 commented on EFF launches Age Verification Hub eff.org/press/releases/ef... · Posted by u/iamnothere

In Switzerland you are forced to receive an SMS code to your phone on every portal in every public space everywhere to establish your identity on every network. No SMS = No public wifi anywhere in Switzerland.

Kozmik1 · 9 days ago

That's a funny choice, I thought Europe was done with SMS. I can see this 1-to-1 mapping with other cellphone derived messaging like Whatsapp, etc being an issue for privacy but it's certainly possible to have multiple phones.

Kozmik1 commented on EFF launches Age Verification Hub eff.org/press/releases/ef... · Posted by u/iamnothere

fragmede · 9 days ago

* for the US Internet. Internet access, even on cafe shop wifi, in India is trace backable to the ID of the user already.

Kozmik1 · 9 days ago

How would internet access in a coffee shop be traced to the specific user?

Kozmik1 commented on M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued earthquake.usgs.gov/earth... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

Kozmik1 · 5 months ago

Waves at Midway Atoll and Guam are reported to be 3ft (1m) amplitude by Hawaii Governor Josh Green as of 6:24pm Hawaii Time

Kozmik1 commented on M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued earthquake.usgs.gov/earth... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

supportengineer · 5 months ago

I have family members who were in Hawaii (Haleiwa) today and they are wondering if they should try to beat the tsunami and get back to their hotel in Waikiki.

I am afraid Waikiki will see flooding. I know Duke's and some other restaurants were closing early.

Kozmik1 · 5 months ago

Do not stay in Haleiwa or go to Waikiki. Consult a map, and find some uphill areas above 100ft to drive to. Drive towards Mililani and wait it out in the upland areas.

My kids are at camp right now on the North Shore and are being evacuated by bus to Mililani.

Kozmik1 commented on Radio Garden radio.garden/?2025... · Posted by u/LeoPanthera

Kozmik1 · 6 months ago

I've been using Radio Garden for years.

A tip that took me a while is you have to click the place name for larger locations to get a list of all stations.

Try music from Dakar, Senegal or Guinea-Bissau. Super funky music. There used to be a station called Radio Gumbe, but I can't find it any more.

I'd love a plugin to MS Flight Sim 2020 which would play a local radio station as I fly over any location in the world.

The worst part is having the immersion interrupted by localized ads for a US car dealer, credit card or VPN service. I guess one could pass custom location information to Radio Garden however...

I also find this so good to get context on the opinion on the US from outside the US, listening to call-in radio news shows from the UK, for example.

Kozmik1 commented on Microsoft Is Deleting Old Drivers from Windows Update and It Might Break Your PC nerds.xyz/2025/06/microso... · Posted by u/speckx

Kozmik1 · 6 months ago

As if my ATI video card doesn't lose its Windows driver every other reboot.

Kozmik1 commented on The pigeon whistle: A defining sound of old Beijing (2019) chinatoday.com.cn/ctengli... · Posted by u/NaOH

Kozmik1 · 7 months ago

I saw trained pigeons flying from my hotel rooftop in Wuhan when I visited in 2001. Someone on another building was commanding them to fly in patterns with flags. I don't recall if there were any whistles involved, but it was a really captivating sight to watch that I have never seen since.

Kozmik1 commented on 21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X nietras.com/2025/05/09/se... · Posted by u/zigzag312

sitkack · 7 months ago

That is what Intel does, they build up a market (Optane) and then do a rug pull (Depth Cameras). They continue to do this thing where they do a huge push into a new technology, then don't see the uptake and let it die. Instead of building slowly and then at the right time, doing a big push. Optane support was just getting mature in the Linux kernel when they pulled it. And they focused on some weird cost cutting move when marketing it as a ram replacement for semi-idle VMs, ok.

They keep repeating the same mistakes all the way back to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432

Kozmik1 · 7 months ago

I made the mistake early in our startup of spending several months and quite a bit of cash building our first iot product on the Intel Edison platform, only to get zero support on the bugs in the SPI chip and the non-existent (but advertised) microcontroller. We finally gave up and made our own boards based on another SOM (and eventually stopped building boards entirely) and they rather unceremoniously cancelled the Edison in 2017. I guess nobody else was surprised, but I had naively thought the platform did have potential and a huge company like Intel would support the things they sold.

Kozmik1 commented on My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer gill.net.in/posts/my-ques... · Posted by u/mygnu

kjkjadksj · 7 months ago

Some “militant” urban cycling commuters do things like attach a pool noodle horizontally and vertically to create space and visibility. I’d probably hazard a guess that avoiding highway miles also lowers your risk profile substantially.

Kozmik1 · 7 months ago

I had not heard of/seen the pool noodle idea - looks like a simple and effective way to draw attention to cycling safety.

Here's a video of the NYC Pool Noodle Bike Ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97YJOQRQ4Ds&ab_channel=Stree...

Kozmik1 commented on The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state nber.org/papers/w33697... · Posted by u/imakwana

Kozmik1 · 8 months ago

Weird. There is little that depresses me more than watching my wife sit at the table for hours a day slowly scrolling Facebook while ignoring me and the kids. We have talked about it and she's tried to reduce it to no avail.