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New comment by cccbbbaaa in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

cccbbbaaa — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:17:24 +0000

If they are strictly increasing our already unsustainable emissions level, yes. Eg. I am very much in favour of replacing coal and gas power stations with nuclear power stations, banning cars from city centres, etc.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

cccbbbaaa — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:38:40 +0000

Our current emissions level is causing climate change.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

cccbbbaaa — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:11:20 +0000

Well, FIFA is also an European organization. Swiss, to be exact.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

cccbbbaaa — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:53:38 +0000

And that data must be held for a limited amount of time under GDPR article 5(1)e. Sony’s policy is very much a consequence of this.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

cccbbbaaa — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:48:09 +0000

No need to wait for the courts’ opinions: controllers must keep the data for a limited amount of time (which can be something like “3 years after the last connection”) under GDPR article 5(1)e.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

cccbbbaaa — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:09:11 +0000

There is no copyright assignment on wikipedia. You are required to license your work under CC-BY-SA 4.0, so the WMF can distribute it, and other editors can reuse and modify it.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

cccbbbaaa — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:38:29 +0000

Authors and revisions are available in the history tab. Editing an article is permitted by the license.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

cccbbbaaa — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:04:14 +0000

> (It exempts military and national-security uses.)

The EU cannot legislate on national security matters.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

cccbbbaaa — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:31:39 +0000

> It seem like the normal mode (protected flight envelope) is just encouraging bad habits?

Maybe, but at the same time it helps avoiding crashes like Sriwijaya 182 or Flydubai 981. Airbus has shown that planes with fly-by-wire and any kind of flight envelope protection (A320 and newer, A220, B777 and 787, etc.) experience less fatal accidents and less hull losses than planes with traditional controls (A300, A310, B737, etc.), even today: https://accidentstats.airbus.com/fatal-accidents/

Unfortunately, these safety improvements mean that we only hear about cases where automation fail to help, like in the case of AF447, but not cases where it prevented an accident.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

cccbbbaaa — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:47:39 +0000

GP claimed “there doesn't exist any situation, in any plane in any conditions, where holding the stick back the entire time would be an appropriate input. Literally doesn't exist.” That's what I was replying to.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

cccbbbaaa — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:07:56 +0000

The same thing happens on the 777 and 787: if too much opposite force is applied on both yokes, they lose their linkage and are averaged. There is no warning or priority button, unlike on Airbus planes.

Older Boeing planes also have a mechanism to unlink the controls if too much opposite force is applied. The left yoke would control the left side of the plane, the right yoke would control the right side.

Interestingly, the dual-input rate is roughly the same on Airbus and Boeing planes: 0.44 per 1000 flights and 0.4 per 1000 flights, respectively: https://bea.aero/fileadmin/user_upload/F-GSQJ_finalreport_EN... pages 45 and 47.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

cccbbbaaa — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:08:54 +0000

> There aren’t any flying conditions where that’s an appropriate input.

It's the procedure for various GPWS cautions and warnings on Airbus planes, and can also be done in a windshear.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

cccbbbaaa — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:01:03 +0000

On Airbus, the GPWS “pull up” escape maneuver requires full backstick until clear of obstacle. It can also be done for a windshear escape maneuver.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "OpenBSD 7.9"

cccbbbaaa — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:53:01 +0000

Going by CVEs, Haiku is more secure than OpenBSD. Linux has had strong kernel-level crypto enabled by default on major distributions for years, see AF_ALG or LUKS.

On the wiki page you provided, the only thing that really stands out at the kernel level is KARL, which has a dubious utility: https://isopenbsdsecu.re/mitigations/karl/ It is not even up to date: strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) were implemented in glibc 3 years ago.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

cccbbbaaa — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:50:41 +0000

Yeah, I also expect better than amateur-level redaction from a system that OpenAI marketing sells as a team of PhD in your pocket.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Consent-O-Matic"

cccbbbaaa — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:38:50 +0000

Login, preferences, or shopping cart cookies (aka “functional cookies”) do not need consent. I never saw a banner that allowed me to disable them.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence"

cccbbbaaa — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:10:42 +0000

> It needs to be noted that it's not the norm in France either.

85% of prison sentences of more than two years also carry “exécution provisoire”: https://www.justice.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/migrations/p... (page 2). Sentences of more than 2 years are not the norm though.

> He will most likely ask the courts to review the execution of the sentence until the appeal in the next few days.

He already did.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees"

cccbbbaaa — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:56:23 +0000

I did. It worked without issues on my end.

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Fight Chat Control"

cccbbbaaa — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:16:01 +0000

> I guess US doesn't have a body like the EU Commission, that is not elected and that represents the interests of the "deep state".

The Commission is the executive branch, so maybe an equivalent would be the Executive Departments?

New comment by cccbbbaaa in "Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy?"

cccbbbaaa — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:27:43 +0000

> Though I'm not sure if the GDPR allows for data to be stationed in Switzerland.

There is a treaty between the EU and Switzerland for this. Full list of countries here: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/i...