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stirlo commented on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit   bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/robotsliketea
pelagicAustral · 18 days ago
If you think you had it bad all these years, you should come and visit the Falkland Islands. I will be brief, but I will explain what going through the Mount Pleasant Airport (MPN) feel like for the average visitor.

For added context: Only one flight by a commercial airline a week on Saturday, comes in around 1300, departs around 1500. You miss it, you wait another week.

- The terminal is extremely small, the plane that comes around can probably fit around 180 pax, you could not fit that many people on the check-in lounge, which means a lot of times people have to queue outside, even in the winter.

- Check in is sluggish, with the Airline representatives in the Falklands calling for check in 4 hours in advance when a flight is full.

- After getting your ticket, security will check your bags and you will be asked to wait an undetermined amount of time, to see if a "random" check need to take place, again, the terminal is tiny, people often crowds waiting forever for their name the be shouted by some security person.

- If you manage to get passed this part, you are still not safe, security can still call your name when passing through or after immigration. Even if you are already in the wait lounge. Someone might still show up and shout your name.

- Immigration will scan your passport and charge you £40 for leaving the country.

- Now you are actually commit to the security checkpoint (these are the same guys that scan the bags on check-in). At any given time there is at least 10 in a 5m2 area. You are forced to take your shoes, no liquids are allowed, no toothpaste, take all electronics out of your bag, take jacket off.

- You are randomly tested for drug and explosive traces (GOING OFF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS)

- You may be patted

- All your belongings might be checked at this point as well.

All in all, you could be looking at a 2-hour ordeal from start to finish.

Do yourself a favor. Go to Maldives instead.

stirlo · 17 days ago
Tiny airport, on island with tiny population, thats not a major tourist destination, thats subject to competing territorial claims, that had a major war fought over it in living memory, has extra security requirements and a poor terminal...

I'm flabbergasted, this is absolutely shocking and outrageous!!!

I would much rather see the penguins in the maldives!!!

stirlo commented on Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev   ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/... · Posted by u/thomasjb
speedgoose · 4 months ago
I admire the courage to store data on refurbished Seagate hard drives. I prefer SSD storage with some backups using cloud cold storage, because I’m not the one replacing the failing hard drives.
stirlo · 4 months ago
And I prefer to have a healthy bank account balance.

Storing 18TB (let alone with raid) on SSDs is something only those earning Silicon Valley tech wages can afford.

stirlo commented on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads   github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/... · Posted by u/phewlink
aeyes · 5 months ago
I use yt-dlp inside of a-shell on iOS, then play files using VLC.
stirlo · 5 months ago
Doesn’t solve VLCs suckiness on iOS. No PiP support when it’s been in iOS for years now…
stirlo commented on Where does iOS's on device model get its information from?   reddit.com/r/shortcuts/s/... · Posted by u/stirlo
stirlo · 5 months ago
This comment sums up the current state of Apple’s LLMs perfectly.
stirlo commented on The time picker on the iPhone's alarm app isn't circular, it's just a long list   old.reddit.com/r/interest... · Posted by u/oidar
stirlo · 5 months ago
I wonder if this is because the code was just never looked at again after it was written or if it actually survived rewrites?

Back in the day the iPhone was notorious for messing up alarm timezones and failing to activate with DST changes… https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-01-03/alarm-failure-leaves-...

stirlo commented on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting   lazyadmin.nl/home-network... · Posted by u/speckx
amluto · 6 months ago
My general impression is that it “Just Works” if you don’t do anything remotely interesting with it.

Want to create a VLAN with no Internet connectivity? Better test that it actually has no Internet connectivity because the setting doesn’t actually work.

Want to use the firewall? Better test all the rules — it’s amazingly buggy.

Want to change a WiFi setting without WiFi going down for a minute or two? Good luck — UniFi doesn’t seem to care about making it work.

Want to find information (MAC, switch port, DHCP reservation, etc) about a device that uses the same MAC address on multiple VLANs? Good luck — it looks like UniFi utterly flubbed either their database schema or whatever interface their front end uses to talk to their backend about it, and it’s very, very broken.

Want to find basically any setting based on online docs? Too bad — they keep moving the settings and not updating the docs.

stirlo · 6 months ago
This. They make excellent access points and their lite beam/air fibre products are great.

But UniFi has serious limitations when it comes to anything beyond the basics. An off the self Asus all in one home router actually has more features and capabilities.

stirlo commented on Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought   phys.org/news/2025-05-uni... · Posted by u/pseudolus
immibis · 9 months ago
It's actually a 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% reduction and yes that is the correct number of 9's.
stirlo · 9 months ago
Yep the difference between 10^78 and 10^1100 is approximately 10^1100…
stirlo commented on UK bans fake reviews and sneaky fees   theguardian.com/money/202... · Posted by u/charlieirish
riffraff · 10 months ago
well done UK! Airlines and car rental companies are crazily misleading with their sneaky fees.

I hope the EU outlaws this too (which I thought it did at some point, but Ryanair and Wizzair keep doing it anyway so I may have been mistaken).

stirlo · 10 months ago
Ryanair doesn’t have sneaky feees. It’s entirely possible to book a flight with them for the price advertised and first quoted when you search. They do prompt you to pay for heaps of extras but there are none that are unavoidable.

The real offenders are ticketing companies that charge mandatory service fees or convenience fees without providing a way to purchase the item at the advertised cost.

stirlo commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU   bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
Gasp0de · 10 months ago
Why not? Multiple politicians have already mentioned IP as a possible method of retaliation. Also, the goal is to hurt Trump, his voters and his allies. Tech Bro's are Trumps allies nowadays.
stirlo · 10 months ago
Denmarks largest export is Ozempic. Ignoring IP rules will hurt EU producers too.

How do you plan to ignore IP to hurt American tech companies. I guess if you allow piracy of all of netflixs content that would work (but same thing would hurt spotify).

Most tech companies are not protected by IP but by network effects and vendor lock in. It would be far simpler to simply implement a minimum tax on revenue or advertising spend in country to extract value.

u/stirlo

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