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  • EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

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  • Currently, a lot of the discarding is done by individual shops/resellers. I know of a few instances where basically all customer returns and unsold merchandise was slashed at the orders of the manufacturer to make them unusable, and then thrown in the bin.

    If that is made illegal and everything would have to be returned, stored, processed and then sent somewhere else anyway, the chance that it's going to end up with destruction greatly diminishes - opening that outlet section/shop or selling them to a local outlet company suddenly makes a lot more finacial sense.

  • BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair

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  • neither the bit nor the screw head can withstand the torque of a standard Torx or Hex fastener

    Which "standard" Torx head? Maximum torque of 0.43Nm of a T5? Or maybe 10.5Nm of a T20? 132Nm of a T50? T60 is rated for 437Nm.

    If you need a bolt that can handle 50Nm, you put a head that's sized to that on the bolt.If it's a Torx, you put a T40. If it's Hex, you put an 8mm on it. And if it's a stupid BMW one, you pick the size that can handle 50Nm. The shape doesn't matter.

  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • Though Reddit is a publicly traded company now, so they currently own only 30%.

  • Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say

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  • There kinda is, as at some point the heating hits a stage where the oceans will warm up enough, and as warm water can't hold on to as much Co2, it will be released into the atmosphere, which causes the oceans to warm up, which releases Co2, which causes... And so on.Add in some ice melting and stuff like that, and once the feedback loop starts properly, there's not much we can do to stop it.

    We are a frog in a pot where we know someone is going to put a lid on it eventually, and we keep arguing and contemplating about when and how soon it might happen, instead of working on getting out of the pot before it does.

  • The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

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  • Though any competent manufacturer, especially when talking about laptops, would still have the application key under FN (as is shown in that example image), and give the ability for users to select which one is the default function in the BIOS.

  • The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

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  • When was the last time you on purpose used the application key on your keyboard to open the right-click context menu so you could navigate it using the arrow keys? Because that is the key it replaced - Microsoft has demanded for the last 32 years that the two spaces between CTRL and ALT on Windows compatible keyboards are used for the Windows key, and the Application Key, so that people using one-button mice (or no mice) can use the Windows GUI.

  • The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

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  • They (Microsoft) did actually also originally implement it, the application key was added to Microsoft keyboards in 1994 along with the Windows key. It's meant to give compatibility to the Windows user interface when your PC had a mouse with only one button. Don't remember those being very relevant in the recent years.

    So it's Microsoft deciding that their right-click button isn't necessary any more after 32 years, and swapping it for a Co-Pilot/Windows Search button.

  • Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers

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  • We also partly ended up with the 5k 5090 because it's just the TITAN RTX of the 50xx generation - the absolute top of the line a card where you pay 200% extra for that last +10% performance.nVidia just realized few generations back that naming those cards the xx90 gets a bunch of more people to buy them, because they always desperately need to have the shiniest newest xx90 cards, no matter the cost.

  • This legendary Nokia phone is being brought back to life in 2026

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  • They've been thinking about doing that here in Finland too, but so much non-phone stuff is using the older networks that while 3G is mostly gone, 2G for calls and texts is still going to be supported to at least 2029.

    Systems like the EU mandatory eCall car emergency call thingy.

  • This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts

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  • Though defamation requires the claim to be both a lie, and made publicly (and have caused "legally redressable injury", whatever that means, IANAL). The tool needs to be run locally, and specifically tells you that it's searching by name and that others with the same name will be found in the results, and that's why it gives the context and lists where in the files it came up.

    So the tool itself most likely isn't defamatory, but anyone that uses is better be damn sure that they have the correct person if they start publicly talking or writing about what it finds.

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • You'd think the few global AWS and Cloudflare outages would have worked as a warning, but most people just went from "nah it couldn't ever happen" to "well, it did happen, but surely it wouldn't ever last all too long".

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • I have over 200 logins overall, but most of them are to forums that have been dead for a decade.

    The internet used to be quite a different place back in the day, people had separated communities and everything wasn't just on a handful of massive platforms.

  • Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant

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  • Many did. One common thing is to store some important data on a dongle.I remember a game called DJ Max Trilogy that stores your entire save data on it, so even if you bypass the dongle check to get the game to boot, you'd have to rewrite the entire save/load system too.

  • New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

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  • Come run it in Finland during the summer months, we have too much solar and wind generation then and electricity is often free or even goes negative every once in a while.

  • Some PCs are failing to boot after this month's Windows Update

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  • Bah, first people complain when suddenly they can't turn their computers off, now they complain when they can't turn them on...

  • Tents pitched indoors for warmth and makeshift radiators: Ukrainians are freezing to death | Janine di Giovanni

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  • Though if you are in extremely cold weather areas, like Alaska, it actually doesn't help at all as the permafrost keeps the basement walls and floor frozen all year round down hundreds of metres (~3 times as many hundreds of feet)

    But anywhere the ground isn't frozen, go down a few floors and it usually stabilizes somewhere around 15C/60F no matter the ambient air temperature. Fantastic for geothermal heatpumps - warmth in the winter, cooling in the summer.

  • Inside Xiaomi’s near-fully automated factory that assembles a smartphone in 6 seconds

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  • My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.

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  • Spring assisted switchblades are illegal in quite a few countries, so I imagine they are in Italy as well. Still completely ridiculous, as these are plastic toy replicas, and not actual knives.

  • OpenSplitDeck - An open source steam controller

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  • It's using a whole bunch of Steam Deck spare parts bought from iFixit, and a few after market upgrades like hall effect sticks and an extremerate shell replacement. Buying a single trigger (just the plastic R2/L2 trigger, mind you) for $20 to fix a broken $500 Deck isn't too bad, but trying to build an entire controller from spares is really not economically sensible.

    But if you did indeed have those parts already for some reason, the rest is all rather cheap, common components. Cannibalize a Deck, and the extra cost would probably be well under $50....plus the $500 to buy a replacement Deck, so don't actually do it.

  • Which software license for research/academic work?

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  • If you want to make it singular like he/she/it, then make it singular.

    He has a car, she has a car, they has a car.He was friendly, she was friendly, they was friendly.He sounds fine, she sounds fine, they sounds fine.

    Notice the issue?A singular they is an okay concept, but you then have actually allow it to be singular, in every use - a direct replacement for he/she with no other word or sentence changes necessary.

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    OLED is nice and all, but the upgrade I really want is this.