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New comment by brettermeier in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

brettermeier — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:46:31 +0000

Might be, we will see.

New comment by brettermeier in "Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead"

brettermeier — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:54:02 +0000

Oh man, it took a while till i saw the button "Ride along"... but now i understand, nice project!

New comment by brettermeier in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

brettermeier — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:05:33 +0000

There might not be a publicly known area for that protest.

New comment by brettermeier in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

brettermeier — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:36:47 +0000

Facial recognition could be used to identify people who are likely to participate in protests and prevent them from doing so in advance by intercepting them at their boarding station or somewhere near it. You could also scan for persons arriving in a city where a protest might be plannend and arrest them beforehand.

New comment by brettermeier in "Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes"

brettermeier — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:50:10 +0000

You also should not sit in front your PC all day long. And lets not start with living in big cities... ohh the air...

New comment by brettermeier in "Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If"

brettermeier — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:21:32 +0000

Hard to say for me... I use it for programming, but want it to not talk too much. So I've not many experiences with letting it write long texts...

New comment by brettermeier in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

brettermeier — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:14:40 +0000

M-M-M-M-Monsterkill-kill-kill! Different game, but I still can hear that sound playing in my head.

New comment by brettermeier in "Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If"

brettermeier — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:17:17 +0000

I switch languages randomly.

New comment by brettermeier in "Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport"

brettermeier — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:02:05 +0000

In german news it says (translated via deepl): A drone carrying an explosive device was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport. A large-scale operation temporarily shut down the airport. A political motive has not been ruled out. Saxony’s Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) called it a “very serious security incident.”

That sounds more serious, and it seems it is.

(Source: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/sachsen/news-verda...)

New comment by brettermeier in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

brettermeier — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:58:23 +0000

Why is this downvoted? Is it wrong?

New comment by brettermeier in "The true power of regular expressions (2012)"

brettermeier — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:08:49 +0000

Why could external URLs be a problem? And is it still one if you swap https to hxxps or something? What could go wrong with having a URL as a comment in code?

I put URLs there sometimes and think it's very helpful.

New comment by brettermeier in "EU enforces labeling AI generated content"

brettermeier — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:58:17 +0000

What not for? That people can't post AI fake stuff and pretend it's true.

New comment by brettermeier in "Let's make the worst Htmx"

brettermeier — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:47:38 +0000

Nice, I really like this series, this made me really understand those web frameworks much better as before. Thank you.

New comment by brettermeier in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

brettermeier — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:30:03 +0000

Yeah that is true, sadly... I was a little too provocative without acknowledging the complexity behind it.

New comment by brettermeier in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

brettermeier — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:40:30 +0000

Maybe change your location then :P

New comment by brettermeier in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

brettermeier — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:26:40 +0000

> But basically anything that deforms on click related to where you click are nonsense.

Why would you say this? These buttons recognize every click I do on them and I find it very nice that the deformation is different for different click areas. The button still works like a normal button but is nice to look at, or have I misunderstood you?

New comment by brettermeier in "Airport Simulator"

brettermeier — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:57:50 +0000

Not with mine. Are you blocking your JS?

New comment by brettermeier in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

brettermeier — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:21:32 +0000

That is no longer up to date, Windows doesn't do it anymore (forced "random" updates with restart), at least in my experience. And I use it daily.

New comment by brettermeier in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

brettermeier — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:04:27 +0000

That's what I think I get... So few, I don't even bother to look how much more it is...

New comment by brettermeier in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

brettermeier — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:50:35 +0000

Do those AI contributors really think they are helping out? Don't they get, that they are destroying such projects with their "work"? Why do they spend money for stuff nobody wants and gets rejected. I don't get it... Don't these people have any hobbies? Or are these free-roaming OpenClaw instances that have been forgotten by their creator and are now doing their own thing?