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New comment by lkramer in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

lkramer — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:12:16 +0000

Because even the UK is getting fed up with Trump? They literally started preparing to deploy on of the carriers to the Gulf and Trump basically told them to fuck off because they were "late" to the war? Now he's changed his mind again, who gives a damn? He can reap what he has sowed.

New comment by lkramer in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

lkramer — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:04:49 +0000

They will have an app that asks to scan you passport with your phone's NFC reader. It's pretty common for Identity Verification.

New comment by lkramer in "I Like GitLab"

lkramer — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:03:03 +0000

For a long time I self hosted Gitlab, and was always quite happy with it, but I recently moved my VPS and decided to give Forgejo a try, and I have to say it's refreshing. It's really fast and takes a fraction of the resources Gitlab does. I'm sure Gitlab have more features, but frankly, I wasn't using them. I still like Gitlab, we use it at work and it does a good job, but for my own needs I don't see myself switching back any time soon.

New comment by lkramer in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

lkramer — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:43:31 +0000

It's infuriating, the other day I had to download an app to pay for parking. What the fuck do I need the top choice to be a competing parking app? That won't do me any good when the place I'm parking need the one I searched for and who the hell goes "oh, an exciting new parking app? I'm gonna drive around until I can find a place that uses it so I can park there!"

New comment by lkramer in "Librarians tired of being accused of hiding secret books that were made up by AI"

lkramer — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:04:58 +0000

it shows there is a demand!

New comment by lkramer in "Backing up Spotify"

lkramer — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:37:41 +0000

They have also arbitrarily decided not to pay out if you fall below a certain threshold, which hits smaller artists as well. Of course part of the problem is that the pay out is so low, so if you don't have millions of streams it's not worth it.

New comment by lkramer in "Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs"

lkramer — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:34:09 +0000

The one I found most devious was the ATMs in Stansted that offers to pay out Euro. I was going to Spain and knew I would need some cash on arrival, so I thought I could save a bit of time. They had cleverly swapped the exchange rate so in big letters they showed a reasonable figure, like 0.85 and then in smaller type in the corner showed that actually it was in favour of Euros, so you would pay over 350 pounds for 300 euros. I luckily realised in time, but I expect a lot of people don't. Also it's drilled in from the bad old days that you need to take out cash before going on holiday to avoid being scammed. A whole exploitive service industry seems to exist solely on that misconception.

The only place in I've had any troubles paying with card (or easily find a cashmachine) in recent time have been Turkey outside the big cities.

New comment by lkramer in "Backing up Spotify"

lkramer — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:55:50 +0000

And Joe Rogan...

New comment by lkramer in "I'm just having fun"

lkramer — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:21:25 +0000

Interesting, I think for the older generation me included at the age of 45, it can be jarring to miss the visual marker of the capital letter in the beginning of a sentence. I have been online for 30 years and have certainly written my fair share of poor grammar, missing punctuation and probably missing capitalisation as well. I think the surprise comes from this being an article on the internet and seems like a design choice.

New comment by lkramer in "Backing up Spotify"

lkramer — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:09:19 +0000

Which is how Spotify started... And is still carrying on. So nothing has changed.

New comment by lkramer in "Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan"

lkramer — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:16:16 +0000

According to the article, there is a defence invoking that exact sentiment if a merger is about to be blocked, bu iRobot decided not to invoke it (likely because it would have caused the price to be lower).

New comment by lkramer in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

lkramer — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:09:15 +0000

Is that not literally what everyone has to do in order to consume alcohol?

New comment by lkramer in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

lkramer — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:00:51 +0000

Try go get a beer as an 18 year old then :)

New comment by lkramer in "After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death"

lkramer — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:48:49 +0000

Well, he did. He made Monkey Island 5 and he was part of the Kickstarter wave which I think is what truly revived the nostalgia for older games (first by being tangentially involved with Broken Age, and later by making Thimbleweed Park).

I think the headline, and to some extend the article is wildly misleading. Ron Gilbert have never limited himself to Adventure games. After he left LucasArts, he made educational games and was a producer for Total Annihilation. He also made Death Spank and The Cave.

New comment by lkramer in "The rapid growth of data centres is delaying new homes in London"

lkramer — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:13:49 +0000

I was thinking of this: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rolls-royce-smr-selected-...

New comment by lkramer in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

lkramer — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:08:48 +0000

To be honest, this actually sounds kinda healthy.

New comment by lkramer in "The rapid growth of data centres is delaying new homes in London"

lkramer — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:05:02 +0000

Didn't the gov just announce new reactors were being built? In any case UK has a lot of windpower.

New comment by lkramer in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

lkramer — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:01:47 +0000

I moved (from selfhost gitlab) to forgejo recently, and for my needs it's a lot better, with a lot less hassle. It also seems a lot more performant (again probably because I don't need a lot of the advanced features of gitlab).

New comment by lkramer in "Be Like Clippy"

lkramer — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:16:19 +0000

This feels like making horse armor a mascot for less exploitative DLC...

New comment by lkramer in "Disney Lost Roger Rabbit"

lkramer — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:51:05 +0000

The 8 most terrifying words in the English language are "Let us turn this movie into a franchise"