It's technically fraud, but there aren't any damages.
In the UK at least Fraud doesn't require any damages, just an intent to gain something of value on the criminals side.
Readit Newsdarreninthenet commented on 'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them bbc.com/news/articles/cly... · Posted by u/1659447091
darreninthenet commented on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? louplummer.lol/nice-stran... · Posted by u/speckx
The heart attack danger is a perfect storm of two factors that do not normally occur together:
1) Extreme physical exertion - sudden, intense arm-heavy exercise often as a Valsalva maneuver (straining and holding the breath). This dramatically increases blood pressure, which puts acute stress on the heart and arteries.
2) Exposure to cold air exacerbating the strain on the heart with vasoconstriction (blood vessel constriction). Cold temperatures cause peripheral blood vessels (arteries and veins) to narrow. This forces the heart to work harder to pump blood through the constricted vessels to keep the body warm, leading to an increase in blood pressure. The combination of constricted vessels and high physical exertion means the heart needs significantly more oxygen to function, but the cold and high pressure can limit the blood and oxygen flow (myocardial oxygen demand is increased). Breathing cold air can also trigger constriction in the coronary arteries that supply the heart muscle itself, further increasing the risk of reduced blood flow and a heart attack.
I remember a friend who was really into his skiing telling me that ski instructors take bets on which overweight 50+ year old first time skiing city person would have the a heart attack first.
darreninthenet commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
It's not about saving a few bucks on a door. It's about discouraging you and your friends from sharing a single room. Hotel sees the money they're leaving on the table and will trade you for it for the low price of watching your buddies do their business.
But how would you know until it's too late and you've already checked in? Doesn't seem to be a very effective way of achieving this... Just means my mate and I wouldn't go back to that hotel again.
Many years ago, all organisations - "Hey we can cut costs by getting rid of all of our expensive experts and not running our own data centres!"
Many years later - "Oh no! Not running our own data centres means our data is no longer fully in our control!"
Who would have thought it!
darreninthenet commented on Firefox is the best mobile browser kelvinjps.com/blog/firefo... · Posted by u/kelvinjps10
From last I read, Kagi allows installing of all manner of plugins, but very few actually work.
I use Orion for my daily mobile web browser and it works fine, the plugin support is generally very good in my experience and you can always post any bugs and they do get looked at. It's worth a shot anyway.
darreninthenet commented on Choose Your Own Adventure filfre.net/2025/09/choose... · Posted by u/naves
I miss the old late 1980’s/early 1990’s choose your own adventure phone games. They had an early 1940’s radio show vibe to them with sound effects and voice actors. The felt like old laser disk arcade games too. No one seems to remember them and I can’t find them online.
The most famous one in the UK was called FIST (Fantasy Ihteractive ?Stories? by Telephone or something) written by Steve Jackson (of Fighting Fantasy fame, not the American Steve Jackson)... premium rate telephone number got me into trouble more times than I can remember as a kid
darreninthenet commented on 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind derekthompson.org/p/1910-... · Posted by u/purgator
A man called Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.
Baldrick!
I need this! I am struggling to grow carnivorous plants in New Zealand. I think I am giving them what they supposedly need but I just can’t win.
Just to reiterate what's already been said - don't use tap water. We have a carnivorous plant expert/dealer local to us and he just collects and uses rainwater, as he says tap water will kill them.
Simple waterbutt attached to the drain pipe off the guttering and you get infinite free water for them
darreninthenet commented on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety reuters.com/business/reta... · Posted by u/vinhnx
Playing cards. With no devices and screens. Multi-player. Lots of fun.
If it must be computer, then I go for good old Microsoft games - sweekend puzzle, motorbike madness or midtown madness (I have a Win7 PC with no internet). I also enjoy driving around with Forza and enjoying the scenery of the country side.
I can't even dare to look at the title imagery of these new games on xbox while scrolling through list of games on app store. It's gory, weirdness and insanity being portrayed as high quality.
I guess, humanity in the West craved for some excitement in their lives, due to post-war peace time being devoid of any survival struggle. And the media - movies, music, internet - kept on dumping loads of it. Even the music, which is supposed to flow with soft, pleasant and melodious tunes and beats, has turned into a cacophony of loud shouting and hysteric expressions and acts of the artists.
Similar to how a military band is designed to dispense alert and agility, western music appear to have evolved to dispense fear and anxiety which was missing in their daily lives.
Not only that. Lack of such frantic craziness is seen as boring (I never heard of this word boring in my childhood). Slow life in general is being viewed as socially unacceptable. We are frogs in a boiling pot.
You don't have to join the mad crowd running around ferociously. Just sit back, power on your old computer, pull out the internet cable, enjoy the slow, old games.
Which Forza would you recommend for doing that?
darreninthenet commented on Why Do Domestic Prices Rise with Tarriffs? marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/paulpauper
I'm not in EVs, but I'm already seeing a "don't import anything to the US if you can avoid it" message at work.
Datacenter space in Canada is now suddenly very appealing, you can put machines there directly from Asia without paying tarrifs, but still get good network latency into the US
The Great Cheeto will be demanding network latency tariffs next