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  • I was reading through hoping they'd show they'd considered the impact on life, but nope. Two to three volts doesn't sound a lot, but if you're a small creature living half in brine it might be a big deal.

    Plus the change in the sand that is the whole point, as you say.

  • After duffing the ball all over the golf course, I sat on my duff, ate some duff, drank too many Duff beers, then some duffer threatened to duff me up because he thought I'd got his sister up the duff. After this duff day, I went into the woods and lay in the duff.

  • Patrick Delaney's salute:

    I know News Corp are evil, but this pic looks more mocking than heartfelt.

  • What connection do Chromebooks have to Android? I thought ChromiumOS was based on Gentoo Linux.

  • I don't think it's even enshittification (probably costs more to run than Assistant), it's just Google desperate to find a use for its new AI.

  • [Truss complained that the British press wasn't] “particularly deferential to politicians”

    Why should they be? Their job should be to inform the public, not suck up to those in power.

  • I'd second Mozilla sync, especially as you can self-host the server.

  • I use that one on Android, since I have a OLED screen and it seems to do wonders for my battery life.

  • "Disney understandably may want to benefit from the privacy and confidentiality that arbitration brings, rather than having a wrongful death suit heard in public with the associated publicity," says Jamie Cartwright, partner at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys.

    -- from the BBC article

    If that's what they want, they clearly never heard of the Streisand Effect. This is disgraceful behaviour from Disney, and I hope they come to severely regret it.

  • Yup, I think a lot of people just use their web browser for everything, and they can definitely just switch. Outside of work, how many non-techies have set up their email to use a native program? Very few, in my experience.

    I think documents are sometimes the exception, since there's a sizable (perhaps older) group that like to use Word for everything.

  • Oh I see - yes, if the seats around the women are automatically reserved then that exploit doesn't work.

  • I was thinking first would be the fake booking to find where the women were sitting, then switch browsers/clear cookies/whatever and book with the real details.

  • The airline's booking process is fairly standard except for the seat map which highlights seats occupied by women with the color pink. This information is not visible to male passengers, according to the airline, CNBC reported.

    What's to stop a man from claiming to be female to see the map of where women are sitting, and then booking an adjacent seat themselves?

  • Oh, that's LAN - I thought you'd put ian and I was trying to get the joke. Stupid sans-serif fonts.

  • It's naïve to think that marketers have any interest in doing things ethically, unless there's a legal or business reason to do so.

  • It's far from my field, so I'll have to take your word on that!

  • [Making cracks visible is] helpful, but what would be ideal is a way to not just find the cracks, but to fix them.

    That's what the article says, they're hardly implying it's nonsense. Or are you saying that the self-healing is nonsense? There are examples of self-healing materials, like Roman concrete.

  • I don't know that I agree - it's worth researching these things because if it works that's great and that paper proves that other people are working on the visibility problem.