There is a big double standard where heterosexual posts and queer posts depicting the same things get treated differently.
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At least they can read QR codes.
In germany, they're switching to parcel lockers without display and camera, only bluetooth. So you're forced to install an app on your phone to get or send a parcel, that comes with several evil trackers that send your position to whomever.
Here in Belgium too. Somehow they don’t properly work if you have other Bluetooth devices connected, so the app forces you to disconnect other devices. Then it needs access to precise geolocation, and not just because Bluetooth requires it - I have to turn on location services.
In the old system, I could just punch in the code or scan the QR code, but now I have to do this dance of “why won’t it connect?” every time
dalben commented on 200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/07/... · Posted by u/svenfaw
What are the privacy concerns relating to ambulances?
The concern was related to being able to know where emergency vehicles were. If you build a system that announces to traffic light “I’m police/fire/EMS, coming through”, you also build an early warning system for criminals and terrorists who either want to avoid or target you.
dalben commented on 200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/07/... · Posted by u/svenfaw
I have no idea why the app is required here. Cars & bikes are massive, hot, & mobile objects. They're perfect for a modest-cost IR sensor atop the traffic light to detect them and adjust the lights accordingly. This type of system is commonplace in cities in the UK and works effectively.
Having drivers reach for their phone when they're approaching traffic lights - common pedestrian crossing points - is categorically moronic.
That's not how it works - the idea is your navigation app signals the lights in advance. If you will reach red lights in 1km, the app signals this and the lights will be green before you're there, so you don't need to slow down.
dalben commented on 200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/07/... · Posted by u/svenfaw
Flemish EMT here. There were a lot of privacy concerns for emergency services when this came out, and my service is in fact not using it on most ambulances. The same concerns were hand-waved away when it came to apps for regular drivers. It would not surprise me if that played a role for Google Maps/Waze not to support it. Or the market is too small here to be worth implementing.
Recently watched the Netflix docu series on this, J&J claimed that cyanide was not present in the factory, so there is no way the pills could have been contaminated at the factory.
Then later on one of the doctors asked J&J if a test for cyanide is done for each batch in QA at the factory. J&J said yes, each batch was tested for the presence of cyanide.
The doctor then asked, "Why were they testing for it(cyanide)?", kinda blew my mind. Implying that J&J knew cyanide contamination was a possibility at the factory itself.
This is my brother's job, testing for contaminants. He says it can be very boring. For example, they always test for lead, and it's always negative. But it's a necessary precaution when you're making medicine.
This is absolutely fantastic! I have been looking on and off for something like this for years (some of the things I have used are CouchDB, command/event sourcing, and ditto.live).
I have not been able to read the docs fully, but some questions:
* How do you handle state that is too big to send to the client fully? In a chat application, does the client need to have the whole channel history, or is syncing a subset of that supported? * Does permissioning support partial CoValues? For example, "You can edit the contents but not the title of the 'blog post #11' object" * Do you have resources about the suggested data modelling? Things like how granular should a CoValue be and what the trade-offs are. * How do you handle deletion? Do you tombstone? Is there a way to fully scrub a value from history (to support, for example, GDPR's right to erasure)?
With respect from Canada, I doubt you are seeing many incidents with 200+ gunshot victims in Belgium
We do not! The US is a loved destination for training placements and exchanges because you can see so many stabbings and shootings in one shift.
However, a shooting is just one type of mass casualty event.
There is a rather large difference to having plans and dealing with an actual incident. Not to bicker, but a dedicated command room sounds like a fun plan but the opposite of what was needed in the incident described in this story.
Events like this are much more common than you may think, though rarely as severe as this shooting. From fires at retirement homes and even at an ED once, bus crashes, WWII bombs surfacing during construction, floods… it almost becomes routine. I can assure you the plans are not built not academics but are refined through experience. And in a weird way, disaster response almost becomes routine.
Do paramedics/ambulances shard across hospitals?
It looks like there’s 3 hospitals within 15 minutes of the Las Vegas strip, I’m curious if there’s any attempt to allocate patients equally so that no single hospital becomes overwhelemed.
Can't say for Las Vegas, but we do here (in Belgium). There's a dedicated responsibility during mass casualties to distribute leaving ambulances over hospitals, also taking into account hospital specialties and facilities, such as a burn unit. The closest hospital is usually skipped because victims who self-transport will usually go there.