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New comment by zuppy in "U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs"

zuppy — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:48:04 +0000

because you get to keep most of them with a really small investment. isn't that obvious?

New comment by zuppy in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

zuppy — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:04:47 +0000

i quite like you idea. floppies are pretty easy to destroy, especially by kids. i wouldn’t trust that to last that long.

New comment by zuppy in "Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far"

zuppy — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:35:10 +0000

that is a guarantee for less sales, not sure it makes business sense. for example, i don't buy generic products, i want specific properties from them. and sometimes i don't know what i want, i look at the isle and only then decide. and let's not forget about impulse shopping.

honestly, i wouldn't shop at this store, i want to get the items myself, without any interaction. interactions add delays.

New comment by zuppy in "A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S."

zuppy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:33:49 +0000

what about the poor people? the ones that can't really afford insurance. i've heard multiple times that epipen prices are crazy expensive and that's a really basic drug.

New comment by zuppy in "A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat"

zuppy — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:13:38 +0000

by the glass transition temperature, i'm willing to bet it was printed with pla (probably pla-cf).

New comment by zuppy in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

zuppy — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:32:49 +0000

They surely can and this has been done. On one the flights that I took with Turkish Airlines they had a few video streams from different sides of the airplane. One was from the top of the tail and you could see the entire plane.

Now... not sure how much that is helpful in this kind of emergency, they really didn't have time to do much.

New comment by zuppy in "You don't want to hire "the best engineers""

zuppy — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:34:20 +0000

it's more like short term gain vs long term gain. experienced engineers can design an architecture that will allow you to scale cheaper and faster in the future, at the high initial cost. it will be cheaper to maintain, better for security.

depends at what point your business is at the moment of hiring and what you plan to do with the product. do you need volume or quality (both variants are right)?

New comment by zuppy in "Dyson, techno-centric design and social consumption"

zuppy — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:26:42 +0000

that is totally not my experience. you don't have to buy the latest and greatest, I've bought a V8 a few years ago. it does it's job perfectly fine like in the first day. it's the only vacuum (of the ones I've owned) that is capable of cleaning the cat hair from my sofa. maybe there are other products capable of that now, some years have passed, but the quality of dyson is pretty top notch.

New comment by zuppy in "Apple Will Transition from the CTF to the CTC for EU Businesses"

zuppy — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:31:09 +0000

If a cracked Spotify can still play music from their service, that’s on Spotify. The security should not be on the client, but on the backend.

New comment by zuppy in "Apple Will Transition from the CTF to the CTC for EU Businesses"

zuppy — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:02:56 +0000

I don’t think this will end well. EU is slow to move, but they will and it’s obvious that Apple is not acting in good faith. Whether the request of EU is right or not, they can legally impose some rules and they are binding as long as you are willing to sell in that market.

New comment by zuppy in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

zuppy — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:31:31 +0000

these guys don’t use their own product. everyone i know uses only 2 things: direct message and group chats.

everything else is just noise.

New comment by zuppy in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

zuppy — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:20:13 +0000

Infomaniak did request my personal id or passport for creating a company account. I'm not going to provide any extra source for you, this is what happened to me, you can either believe it or not.

New comment by zuppy in "Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law"

zuppy — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:42:41 +0000

That has been obvious to me after they requested me to upload my passport/id in order to unblock the newly paid and created account. But that happened only after the payment page, of course.

I'm a little bitter, but for what I need it, I'll let it pass this time.

edit: it is a business account, but I have never been asked for this anywhere else. you have all the company required data, all my required data, why do you need my id? maybe personal accounts are treated differently.

New comment by zuppy in "Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users"

zuppy — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:36:10 +0000

because they can’t support the same functionality. apple would add something new, they would want no constraints to what they can do.

New comment by zuppy in "The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks"

zuppy — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 09:17:37 +0000

Yet, my mother and my grandfather participated in the Romanian revolution, where real bullets have being shot against the people. I was almost 8 years old and I will be forever grateful for what they did. There is no other way, there is nobody else to help you if you accept what is happening. It's not on the same level, of course, but my anecdotal experience does not align with what you said. You can't fight lawless with law, but you can at least protest.

New comment by zuppy in "German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility"

zuppy — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:28:33 +0000

if you think that holding someone in solitary confinement plus another month in jail is a valid response for her case, i think you are a bad person.

i’m sorry that german border control treated you badly, but that woman did nothing wrong to you.

New comment by zuppy in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

zuppy — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:33:28 +0000

oh, that’s nice. tell me what country was the only one who invoked article 5 of the nato treaty? and which countries helped them? and now the the situation has reversed what does that country do?

New comment by zuppy in "Toyota completes phase 1 construction of futuristic city"

zuppy — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:20:59 +0000

those places are nice for vacations, but without denser apartment buildings the city tends to expand a lot horizontally and after a while it's very expensive to have a decent public transportation system. it's mostly impractical for large cities to be built this way. i've seen very few cities that managed to make this work.

New comment by zuppy in "All Kindles can now be jailbroken"

zuppy — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:27:26 +0000

thanks, i researched into this and bought a boox go color 7. now i can have both the kindle app (for books i can't buy anywhere else or already purchased) and new books outside of kindle app. bonus, it has text to speech which kindle doesn't really want to let you do so it won't lower audible purchases. not the same quality as audoble, of course, but free.

New comment by zuppy in "All Kindles can now be jailbroken"

zuppy — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:27:38 +0000

... but this does not replicate the kindle one-stop store experience. and looking on the kobo store doesn't help either, i wanted the experience for someone who actually migrated from kindle. i may find the books i'm looking for now, but what are the struggles for people who actually used it? do they come later than kindle, are they using multiple shops, etc.

edit; yes, i know about the pirating options. i'm not talking about those.