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jasec57322 commented on UK's infrastructure is too expensive: Railways, Trams, and Roads all cost more samdumitriu.com/p/britain... · Posted by u/kilotaras

StephenAmar · 3 years ago

It feels that there are fundamental political and cultural issues with English speaking countries (common law?).

jasec57322 · 3 years ago

If you want to begin to understand this I recommend you read two books, in the following order: The Abolition of Britain - Peter Hitchens The Abolition of Liberty - Peter Hitchens

Synopsis: Two worldwide wars led the flower of Britain to be torn to shreds by shrapnel into rat food. The millions of broken homes, (furthered by the subsequent exodus of native Brits which continues somewhat to this day), and society which has never really recovered led to the spivs taking charge. Hence the phrase 'mediocre mafia'.

Things are changing for the better, and will continue to do so. But right now we are seeing the light of the past fade and the lunacy (PR1D3overPrinciples) of a nation only just coming to terms with this loss from 1914 onwards - hence 'special relationship' sucking up to 'USA'/'YU-ES-AY'.

jasec57322 commented on UK's infrastructure is too expensive: Railways, Trams, and Roads all cost more samdumitriu.com/p/britain... · Posted by u/kilotaras

franciscop · 3 years ago

We at Spain are the (western Europeans) kings of corruption and we still build very cheap according to the article, so that doesn't explain it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26014387

jasec57322 · 3 years ago

I'll explain it, since no other local has bothered to.

In the UK, those who know don't call the so-called 'DfT - Department for Transport', we call it Department for Roads, because that's what it is.

But those who actually know are not yet a majority. The majority think 'Dr Beeching' (an mere frontman), destroyed the railways, yet have never heard the name Ernest Marples. Since the Marples creature unleashed carnage decades ago, there hasn't been a single government in Westminster which has not been anti-railways.

Nobody wants 'HS2'. The railway industry does not want it. The PR for it is ridiculous even by Unicorn-chaining HM Gov standards (see: Gareth Dennis), even the contractors admit its a farce.

Not only does 'HS2' reflect the bigotry of UKpolitik against real civilised transport, but it reflects a much greater stagnation and overall decline in the 'yu-kay' formerly Great Britain.

jasec57322 commented on UK's infrastructure is too expensive: Railways, Trams, and Roads all cost more samdumitriu.com/p/britain... · Posted by u/kilotaras

switch007 · 3 years ago

HS2 will never reach Euston, mark my words. All the money so far has just been the design phase of the station rebuild AIUI plus some preparatory work. They’re going to spend £200m just to pause the work. If it were completed at the current budget it would be the most expensive station in the world by some margin. Hence they’ll go for the presumably cheaper option of terminating at Old Oak Common

What an enormous waste of money on the existing work

Edit: I double it’ll ever reach Manchester. It’ll just be Birmingham to turn it in to a commuter hub and for companies to get cheaper office space. I said this from the very beginning. Leeds was a total joke, Manchester somewhat believable if you are the kind of person to trust and believe London would ever fund such a project in the north lol. And here we are

jasec57322 · 3 years ago

double-O says it's not going to reach Birmingham. Word is it will be scrapped. I would have Kim Johngson, Goodun Broon, Warmonger Bliar et al replant every tree they dug up along the route; all whilst singing that old favourite: "all the world's a stage, for ...'

jasec57322 commented on When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option mastodon.gamedev.place/@N... · Posted by u/janandonly

jasec57322 · 3 years ago

Here's an idea: (medium-complexity) port of android to TCB which partitions /hardware/ (cpu-cache, RAM), on a per app basis. Android's app-based permissions API doesn't require too much work to do this.

My perspective: Either cheap-monolithic-SOCs get really cheap, (for low end devices), with long-term-support, and low power, or compartmentalised architectures start to gain the traction that will kill of SOCs.

jasec57322 commented on Google wants you to forget the 10 blue links theverge.com/2023/5/12/23... · Posted by u/rntn

jasec57322 · 3 years ago

Now more than ever a truly independent alternative to Google is needed; (with its aims to improve from what Google left behind circa 2016).

Is anybody aware of a search engine which would prioritise results properly, i.e: 1) works without JS 2) first-party JS 3) 3rd party verified libraries 4) any JS a) No ads b) non-JS, non targeted ads etc

The business model would be the ability to run advanced searches and a live-search (instead of cached index), as a premium product (say varying from 2gbp/month upwards). And given the relative simplicity of the operation compared to Google - I think it would be profitable.

jasec57322 commented on Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month engadget.com/mozilla-vpn-... · Posted by u/ksec

AtNightWeCode · 3 years ago

The one and only thing a VPN does is that it switches your IP to another. It has absolutely nothing to do with privacy or security. An IP-address is just a single metric among hundreds that are used on the web to track users. IPs are also typically not equal to a user. It is common that an IP is a set of users and IPs often change when it comes to consumer ISPs. VPN makes sense in TCP-scenarios like Bittorrent but for web it is pretty much useless in itself.

jasec57322 · 3 years ago

You are incorrect.

If you use any currently standard protocol such as wireguard, openvpn, IPSEC with Suite-B ciphers you are getting 'enhanced-privacy'* from eavesdroppers on your local network, which eliminates alot of low-tier/easy MiTM attacks.

A two-layer/double tunnel is pretty-good for mitigating against most commercial data collection by eavesdroppers. (Though your tunnel-exit/last-VPN-hop, (varying by client-destination protocol), and the destination IPs/sites will still be able to collect data of course).

*Consider privacy a vector. Suite-B ciphers are not perfect, letalone their freely-available implementations.

jasec57322 commented on Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10B this year arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/arunbahl

pocketarc · 3 years ago

I think the problem is that they have no consent to collect or use any of that data, and if they were caught collecting/using it, they’d end up in massive legal trouble.

Just because it’s technically possible doesn’t mean it’s actually possible.

jasec57322 · 3 years ago

When you say 'any of that data', you are incorrect. Simply to function (voice recognition) the echo microphone is constantly on, in the same way that any input device needs to be on to function.

You're not only incorrect, but your comment goes on to be incoherent, did you think before writing this comment?: 'Just because it’s technically possible doesn’t mean it’s actually possible.'

jasec57322 commented on Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10B this year arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/arunbahl

jasec57322 · 3 years ago

How is it a "colossal failure"? Amazon has tens of millions of these devices which are a 24/7 microphone, and with the wireless transceivers even more data-collection capabilities.

THe data is worth more than $10-billion alone.

jasec57322 commented on Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks twitter.com/pnikosis/stat... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

htgb · 3 years ago

Counterpoint: open source software, of which there are many great works without anyone being forced or pressured into making it. There are many more ways of getting motivation than applying "some pressure". Indeed, people are inherently curious and motivated, but it can easily be suppressed by environmental factors. In particular "stick and carrot"-type reward systems.

For a (much more) elaborate expansion on this, see the book Drive by Daniel H. Pink.

jasec57322 · 3 years ago

All this musk-style motivation 101 BS is direct from the CIA's manual on domestic espionage - frustration from within.

The means define the ends. If you treat people like shit, or as morons who need BS pressure techniques, you'll get a demoralised company.

Treat people well, set them clear targets and say it without fluff when they're slacking. If you can't tell somebody they're not good enough, you cannot help them to be good enough. None of this psychobabble BS where you're constantly second-guessing in a failed attempt to retain them on the rat-race for the rest of their life. Stop building ratrace companies.

jasec57322 commented on Accelerated forgetting of a trauma event after a single dose of hydrocortisone nature.com/articles/s4139... · Posted by u/rntn

jasec57322 · 3 years ago

Why is stress after trauma a 'disorder'? And how is it a solution to drug people up, making them forget this?