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bykarmawarrior
01, 2026 @02:10PM
(#65962786)
Attached to: UK's First Rapid-Charging Battery Train Ready For Boarding
Cabooses are not really a part of modern rail, and they've always been a freight thing.
Now that's not to say the idea of having a dedicated railcar that's batteries is a bad idea, but it's almost certainly not necessary. Single floored passenger railcars generally have a lot of space underneath the main carriage - and Britain's loading gauge is too restricted for double decker trains (before anyone comments, no, Bullied's odd interlaced thing isn't really double decker and doesn't disprove the point! Plus it was cramped and claustrophobic... there's a reason it was decommissioned decades ago and nobody has tried to do the same thing since.) For the US... well, they're still using dedicated locomotives and think multiple units are some crazy thing nobody uses really, so don't expect it to be necessary there either. But there may be nice applications for which an added battery car is a good idea.
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bykarmawarrior
30, 2026 @08:46PM
(#65960276)
Attached to: Videogame Stocks Slide On Google's AI Model That Turns Prompts Into Playable Worlds
I suspect game makers will indeed do that, and will see their profits flat-line as gamers avoid their slop because it's slop, regardless of what the reason is.
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bykarmawarrior
30, 2026 @11:39AM
(#65959176)
Attached to: Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data
They abolished overages a year or two ago, thank god.
Honestly the only issues I have with them are their reputation for making it impossible to leave (haven't tried to yet though), and their constantly rising prices.
I have some other issues but these are cases where other ISPs aren't any better:
- Not able to unblock port 25 (not against it being blocked by default, but there's no reason I shouldn't be able to receive email)
- Vague rules about "servers" which completely undermine the point of the Internet. I'm fine with "No commercial servers" or something like that, but why the hell can't I host my own blog according to the T&Cs?
- Absurdly asymmetric bandwidth although TBF less of an issue now than it was in the past (it's high enough to be able to do video conferencing, it used to be too low for anything like that.)
They are more reliable than the T-Mo service I have as a back-up despite the latter in theory requiring less infrastructure and being invulnerable to backhoes. I wonder if a lot of the complaints we see here reflect massive geographic disparity with how well they provide services?
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bykarmawarrior
30, 2026 @10:10AM
(#65958908)
Attached to: Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data
> they make it all but impossible to bring your own devices (cable modems)
I've never had a problem FWIW. I've been using my own devices since I started with them nearly 15 years ago. Never even had a Comcast rep try to get me to switch to one of their's. I'm not sure where you're getting this from.
The prices rises, sure. The outages... compared to who? They don't seem to be worse than my old DSL service, and they're definitely better than my T-Mobile Home Internet backup service, which crashes regularly.
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bykarmawarrior
y 29, 2026 @11:49PM
(#65958224)
Attached to: Urban Expansion in the Age of Liberalism
To be honest, that's putting the cart before the horse.
Public transport has been intentionally run down because a sizable number of those in power are so car obsessed they find it impossible to believe not everyone is like them. You can actually see the attitude on Slashdot, whenever walkability comes up there are people who absolutely refuse to believe anyone else would want to live in a walkable society with good public transport when there are cars to be driven, and literally want such lifestyles banned.
Those people get into power, start closing parks, making boneheaded decisions about public transport (usually under the assumption they're for "poor people"), and fuck up everything for the rest of us.
So, no, it's not a matter of public transport being improved to somehow turn car fellators into bus riders. It's a matter of getting car fellators out of office so we might be able to improve public transport.
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bykarmawarrior
y 29, 2026 @06:37PM
(#65957794)
Attached to: County Pays $600,000 To Pentesters It Arrested For Assessing Courthouse Security
> Probably some sheriff up for reelection looking to get his name in the news for "protecting the county".
More likely a power trip. TFA and linked TFA article even suggests the Sheriff was blaming the state saying it had no authority to order pen testing in the first place.
Good faith and a lack of physical damage should be a consideration before arresting anyone if it's obvious at the time. And honestly, I suspect however bad the GOOJF letter was, it was written expecting everyone would be reasonable, and that any questions of whether the pen testers had themselves overstepped their boundaries would be handled as a typical contract situation, not a crime. To me, this is 100% on a power tripping sheriff, not on the state, nor on the pen testers' managers.
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bykarmawarrior
y 29, 2026 @06:02PM
(#65957744)
Attached to: Waymo Robotaxi Hits a Child Near an Elementary School in Santa Monica
A six miles per hour collision when the collision is unavoidable is, arguably, the best possible outcome given it's unlikely to have caused any injuries at all.
Are you trolling? You're seriously implying all collisions are the same?
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bykarmawarrior
y 29, 2026 @06:01PM
(#65957740)
Attached to: Waymo Robotaxi Hits a Child Near an Elementary School in Santa Monica
And what would they have done? My guess is reduce speed to under 25mph. You know, like the Robotaxi did.
There's a lot to dislike about Waymo, but this doesn't seem like a failure on their part to me. The car drove as safely as it could in an area with hazards, and reacted accordingly when even that wasn't enough. The really interesting part will be if self driving technology becomes powerful enough to avoid even this kind of accident, not just anticipating a kid running out in front of it, but knowing what kids might and how to avoid them.
If self driving can be better than human, it'll be ready for prime time.
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bykarmawarrior
y 29, 2026 @05:45PM
(#65957710)
Attached to: County Pays $600,000 To Pentesters It Arrested For Assessing Courthouse Security
Are you saying you read the article as if they'd intentionally tripped the alarm? 'cos no, that's not what happened.
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bykarmawarrior
y 29, 2026 @01:46PM
(#65957154)
Attached to: Windows 11 Has Reached 1 Billion Users Faster Than Windows 10
> A comment that ignores the fact that forced upgrades have been the Windows mainstay since computing started.
That would be wrong
> Literally everyone "upgraded" Windows by having the latest version automatically on their new hardware.
Buying a new computer is somewhat different from upgrading only your OS. That's what the subject is about.
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bykarmawarrior
y 29, 2026 @01:44PM
(#65957152)
Attached to: Windows 11 Has Reached 1 Billion Users Faster Than Windows 10
None of them except Windows? What other commercial OSes do that?
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bykarmawarrior
y 29, 2026 @01:40PM
(#65957140)
Attached to: Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video
Look at the big brave AC claiming we don't have a legal right to peacefully protest without ICE agents murdering us!
Fucking Nazi.
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bykarmawarrior
ry 28, 2026 @04:33PM
(#65955236)
Attached to: Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us To Take Back the Internet
Also "AI remains a force for good" suggests he's seriously out of touch at this point. And didn't he bless the DRM proposal that effectively destroyed cross platform video?
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bykarmawarrior
ry 28, 2026 @11:48AM
(#65954564)
Attached to: Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video
How is this modded up given it deliberately quotes the summary out of context (the words immediately following the quoted portion literally render the AC's point irrelevant) in order to make an obviously false point?
Here's the words directly after it:
> video tape service provider" defined to include providers of "prerecorded video cassette tapes or similar audio visual materials," and thus arguably applies to more than just sellers of tapes.
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bykarmawarrior
ry 28, 2026 @11:44AM
(#65954556)
Attached to: Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video
How is this law irrelevant? Privacy has never been more under attack, and the law was deliberately written so it wouldn't apply to a single technology. What is your problem with it?
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