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New comment by ooterness in "Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear"

ooterness — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:47:45 +0000

Systems built into the landing gear do exist, but they're not very common. There are also ground-based systems (i.e., scale-on-a-cart for each wheel).

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16307/how-does-...

New comment by ooterness in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

ooterness — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:32:42 +0000

Valuable, sure. Most valuable on Earth? Ridiculous.

New comment by ooterness in "Everyone Against Us (2023)"

ooterness — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:36:27 +0000

Everybody gets the same constitutional rights, and for good reason.

If the cops can violate those rights at will, lie through their teeth to cover it up, and get away with it, then nobody has any rights.

New comment by ooterness in "White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems"

ooterness — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:24:20 +0000

Two-way time transfer measures the round-trip propagation time. As a result, it's not directly relevant to the accuracy.

New comment by ooterness in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

ooterness — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:56:49 +0000

Functionally, biometrics are closer to a username than a password.

Fingerprints, DNA, iris scans, gait patterns, etc. are all something you can't change (much like a permanent account ID) and are constantly being presented to the world (much like an email address). In addition under US law, police can compel presentation of fingerprints, but passwords are protected under the 5th amendment.

New comment by ooterness in "Let's talk space toilets"

ooterness — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:29:44 +0000

Is it simpler to build a better space toilet, or to build a ship with centrifugal gravity and use a regular toilet?

New comment by ooterness in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

ooterness — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:12:37 +0000

Too little, too late. I switched to Linux and I'm never looking back. Good riddance, Microsoft.

New comment by ooterness in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"

ooterness — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:16:09 +0000

So you gave up everyone's privacy for no benefit at all?

New comment by ooterness in "Nepal's Mountainside Teahouses Elevate the Experience for Trekkers"

ooterness — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:38:00 +0000

It took me a minute to realize that "Trekkers" in this headline is not referring to fans of Star Trek.

New comment by ooterness in "The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"

ooterness — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:57:36 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy

1. Do you know anybody from "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"?

2. Have you ever been to "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"?

3. Do you know anybody who has ever been to "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"?

New comment by ooterness in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

ooterness — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:05:25 +0000

Sounds like a great plugin.

New comment by ooterness in "'If you aren't lying, you aren't flying.' Pilots hide mental health struggles"

ooterness — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:06:22 +0000

No, it really hasn't. Sweeping the problem under the rug has already resulted in at least 150 deaths, which could have been prevented by allowing pilots to seek mental health care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

New comment by ooterness in "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton"

ooterness — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:34:02 +0000

Actually, ProtonDB indicates Crysis runs just fine on Linux.

https://www.protondb.com/app/17300

New comment by ooterness in "Meow.camera"

ooterness — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:21:43 +0000

It depends on the cat. Some will self-regulate, others will not.

New comment by ooterness in "Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach"

ooterness — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:33:10 +0000

> passed some level of authorised audit in order to be able to store government ID cards.

In a perfect world, maybe. Not in this one.

New comment by ooterness in "Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?"

ooterness — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:12:07 +0000

It's so the billions of disgruntled former workers can't storm the castle.

New comment by ooterness in "Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ"

ooterness — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:14:30 +0000

Who could have predicted that drones flying outside during the day might have to deal with direct sunlight?

New comment by ooterness in "How to draw construction equipment for kids"

ooterness — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:03:57 +0000

If you've ever wanted to try this, I highly recommend "Dig This" in Las Vegas. They'll teach you the basics and then put you in a an excavator or bulldozer, with an open course full of big heavy things to move around. It's great fun.

https://digthisvegas.com/

New comment by ooterness in "Flipper Zero Geiger Counter"

ooterness — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:40:31 +0000

Geiger counter with built-in taser. It's a feature, not a bug.

New comment by ooterness in "Wind turbine blade transportation challenges"

ooterness — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:32:09 +0000

> Wind turbines are noisy up close...

Citation needed. I toured a wind farm a few months ago, and they were barely audible at ground level.