Password manager is one of the few “free” services that I pay for. Still feeling pretty good about 1password.

That seems like a serious gambit. After all you might be part of the program. Much safer to ask for the arch.

Had they said 100 broken fingers, I would expect fewer deaths, yes. But that’s just for comparison, and they didn’t say broken fingers. My point with saying broken necks was that it’s obvious that it doesn’t matter how many other people were on the train. Common sense can be used, but only if we have reasonable expectations.

This is two trains colliding at a fast enough speed to break bones in 100 people. How does that happen? In the video we don’t see anything like the results of a collision of that magnitude. I doubt anybody had a single broken bone of any sort from the train wreck in that video.

100 people with broken bones, you’re talking about impacts where people are thrown over. People’s heads are smashing into things. You’re talking concussions. You’re talking crushing injuries and rib fractures. You’re talking skull fractures and whiplash. People of all ages could have been in the wreck. With 100 people with broken bones, this was a violent impact.

I agree with you, but also I think 100 people with broken bones is loads. That’s a serious injury.

If your headline said “two people lost an arm” instead of a tooth, that would be an astounding statistic worth printing.

It doesn’t matter how many people were on the train. It matters how many people had broken bones. What if, instead of “broken bones”, it said “broken necks”? If you heard that an incident caused 100 broken necks, but there were zero deaths, would you find it hard to believe?

A broken bone is a serious injury typically caused by a strong impact. The fact that there were so many serious injuries suggests that there would be more deaths.

What if it was 1000 people with broken bones and zero deaths? Would you find that unbelievable? How about a million?

The point is that there is some number of people with broken bones in a single incident that would make a reasonable person believe that somebody must have died. Maybe for you, it’s a billion people or something ridiculous. For me, it’s under 100.

102 people with broken bones and zero deaths. Another completely plausible story coming out of China.

This is a complicated situation, but in my opinion, probably the correct decision.

Given this is the ruling, if you do believe your phone is about to be confiscated, and you don’t want its contents to be used as evidence, it might be a good idea to turn off your phone. Although the police cannot compel a password, a biometric unlock is not a password. If you turn off your phone, it will generally require a password to enable biometric unlock.

This is unlike Garak at all. He would never close for the week. What about all his customers?!

Nobody says giraffe like that.

If you’ve been to Reddit since the API meltdown, it’s pretty clear that large sections of it were fucked by angry moderators, and still remain that way. I don’t think the fediverse was ready to take over, but Reddit very clearly has fewer people working for them for free.

Specifically, there are several subreddits where they used to be strict about submissions, and now they let anything mildly related in.

I’m honestly pretty surprised that they still haven’t recovered. At this point, I’m hoping that their mediocrity will continue to push people away until Lemmy can catch up.

I’d prefer him on Mars.

Well, like I said, the point is that I refuse to believe it until I’ve actually used it myself, because they’ve squandered all credibility with me.

If people actually knew what percentage of tech demos, even by the biggest companies, were at least partially faked, they would be offended.

Unless I can actually use it myself and replicate results, I just assume that tech demos are complete crap.

Remember how maybe a year or two ago, Google showed a demo of a digital assistant independently calling and making an appointment for you with a hair dresser? It even added natural pauses, and "um"s and that sort of thing. If that was real, I think a lot of people would want it. Where is it? They already made it for the demo, right? So it seems like all they need to do is to sell access to it. Why would you put all that effort and make something and then not sell it? It’s almost as if it never existed and the entire demo was fake.

Unfortunately, this is in the UK, where nobody listens to Jesus, so everybody is going to miss their train.

I thought the EU had better laws against this sort of thing.

It should be:

Do Not Kill

Unless you think you can get away with it

In North Korea, the best thing a mother can do for her children is not to have them.

If Regatta was truly committed to zero prison labor and zero slave labor, then they wouldn’t have any products made in China.

Yeah, I wouldn’t put much stock into statistics coming from the Chinese government.