Venezuela has more oil than Russia and yet it's irrelevant because the US actually enforces sanctions against Venezuela.
Venezuela does not have the capacity to extract that much oil and it is also quite expensive.
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cc81 commented on European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security npr.org/2026/01/15/g-s1-1... · Posted by u/geox
There are already 10 times more US soldiers present on Greenland's Pittufik Space Base.
Question is, to whom this fact is more embarrasing: EU politicians or the US admin?
Why would it be embarrassing for Europe? It is a symbolic/tripwire force to show that Denmark does not stand alone.
cc81 commented on European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security npr.org/2026/01/15/g-s1-1... · Posted by u/geox
With 15 French mountain soldiers and 13 Germans?
I think we've all allowed our emotions to blind us to the realities of arctic defense. Setting aside the fact that most of the business to be done so to speak would be offshore in any potential confrontation, Russia-US or EU-US. The very thought of defending a landmass as large and sparsely populated as Greenland with a handful of soldiers is laughable.
The Europeans are obviously just trying to make a point. Will it work. My bet is no. It's only going to irk people in Washington. But it's clear this is not a serious attempt at Greenland's defense.
That is a tripwire deployment.
If there is a need to redesign the defense of Greenland I assume that would take more time.
cc81 commented on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/... · Posted by u/mchro
I tried to look for a 'dumb' tv for a long time to get to a setup like this. The ultimate setup would be 1) a totally dumb and stupid tv + 2) a streaming box like Apple TV or whatever. I just want the audio/visual aspect of the screen, nothing else.
You don't need to connect it to the Internet or use the built in OS for anything else than just navigate to your box. I just use my NVIDIA Shield for everything.
cc81 commented on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws csoonline.com/article/407... · Posted by u/zdw
It is funny, that even a Slack Huddle, something that's not even the core of Slack's function, is better than anything one gets with MS Teams. MS Teams is so laughably bad, I think I have never used a worse chat/voice chat/video chat program. Probably not even Skype in its single core days was worse, even though it ate one third of my single core CPU, just to have a call back then.
What is it that is bad about it these days?
cc81 commented on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws csoonline.com/article/407... · Posted by u/zdw
Teams is just so much more horrible than Slack and Zoom, and dev teams use Slack and/or Zoom.
When it was introduced Teams was pretty bad but these days it works just fine. I don't see that it being a decider really more than just historical preference.
I'd say that it started with heartbleed.
Maybe Linus has a point
>"It looks like the IT security world has hit a new low," Torvalds begins. "If you work in security, and think you have some morals, I think you might want to add the tag-line: "No, really, I'm not a whore. Pinky promise" to your business card. Because I thought the whole industry was corrupt before, but it's getting ridiculous," he continues. "At what point will security people admit they have an attention-whoring problem?"
https://www.techpowerup.com/242340/linus-torvalds-slams-secu...
cc81 commented on How Europe crushes innovation economist.com/europe/2025... · Posted by u/taylorbuley
Sweden is relatively good at creating innovative companies but is pretty friendly towards small companies especially.
Europe does lag behind though for many different reasons. One big is that the single market of EU is on paper large but in practice it is a lot of different countries with very different cultures and languages.
cc81 commented on Gemini figured out my nephew’s name blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025... · Posted by u/BeetleB
I asked Gemini and Gemini thinks even knowing Ken's uncle is a junior Ken's father is more likely to be named "John" or "James".
If Gemini is correct ChatGPT is dumb and simply got lucky.
Could absolutely be that. Or it is so smart that it realizes that the author believes they have given enough information and that it should not have to land on a low chance guess. So that pattern is the only one that make sense in that case.
Maybe unlikely that is that smart though
cc81 commented on Gemini figured out my nephew’s name blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025... · Posted by u/BeetleB
Unfortunately I feel like the fact that your dad's name is the same as yours somewhat diminishes that accomplishment.
I think that is the accomplishment. It progressed from not being able to give an answer because it did not have the direct knowledge to being able to make a guess based on a pattern of naming of others in the family and a clue.