FJW

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[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, a good self-checkout is amazing and a competely different category from the garbage you see elsewhere.

In the Netherlands at Albert Heijn the only verification consists pretty much of occasional random checks and in the one closes to me they replaced two of the manual counters with eight self-checkouts, meaning that the queues are pretty much gone. You can also self-scan while shopping, if you want with your own phone in which case payment is 90% of the time just scanning a barcode and paying at a debit-card terminal.

And while you are not supposed to, nobody ever cares if you use your own backpack instead of a shopping basket/car, in which case you don’t even have to pack up your stuff. If you do get a random check with it, you just open it up wide and let the employee pick a few random items to scan and they won’t even say a word.

The only other delay is age-verification if you buy alcohol, which in my case means that an employee looks over from across the room and sadly decides that I’m an old enough fuck to not need my ID inspected. (Then again, being trans without legal stuff having happened yet (soon though!), it does make things easier.)

Could you steal? Of course, but you can do the same with regular counters!

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

do you have any idea how quickly that shit would fucking go viral if it were true

But it was true! Just not in the way that was claimed: They had these litterboxes in case they had to barricade in the classroom for extended periods of time due to a school-shooter that the police didn’t bother to stop quickly…

So yes, it really is a fucked up story, just in a very different way from what republicans claimed.

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago

You don’t need quantum computers for that.

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

I don’t think I’ve ever met a vegan who talked about it in contexts outside of organizing food for multiple people or in response to others asking about it.

I think it’s mostly that non-vegetarians (of whom I am one) know deep down that at least the vegetarians[1] are right and that they don’t like being reminded of their moral failings. Thus every time they plan getting food for a group and the vegans mention their culinary restrictions, they feel attacked and try to compensate for it by blaming the vegans.

[1] I’ve encountered to many people reporting that they experienced serious health issues with going full vegan, so I’m very much not convinced that veganism is something that works for everyone long term. The same issues do however clearly not apply to vegetarianism.

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On Arch you can easily uninstall Linux.

The fun part is that there are even legit reasons to do so, the by far most likely one being that you want to use a different package that provides you with a kernel, such as linux-lts or linux-hardened. Definitely know what you are doing in that case though!

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

AI not, but I’d be less certain about LLMs.

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

Women are you doing today and how much more likely to be clear this is the queue for the vrouwen cafe stated that the zugbindung is een van de kleine Berg en Dal van de kleine Berg en Dal van de kleine Berg…

When you are German, live in the Netherlands, communicate mostly in English and hate typing on your phone…

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The backup-generator seems to be the one semi-legit use-case that keeps coming up where few people have been able to present a significantly better alternative.

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, that looks like it!

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

IIRC the funny thing was actually that no, this wasn’t just generic enough to cover every megalomaniacal tyrant but was in some places actually oddly specific.

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

There was an article a while a go where someone looked into how the bible describes the anti-christ and while they initially did it just for fun, it became a bit more eerie, when Trump started hitting checkbox after checkbox after checkbox, leaving out pretty much none of them…

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