At 38C3, there was a talk about Volkswagen - a German car manufacturer - that didn’t correctly secure the data it collected from its vehicles and what you can „learn“ from this data. The talk can be found here, it’s in German but there’s also an English translation in another audio layer

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen

Strange way to write “hours”

Also, depending on which device you use to watch: if you download the movie/episode and play it, you won’t see ads. Not every of their apps lets you download, but depending on which app (on which device) you can use, that’s also a neat workaround for non-children-titles

That’s exactly why I set a custom, selfrecorded ringtone as my on call ringtone. I had used a default one prior, but after a few small heart attacks, it was a no brainer.

Relevant xkcd

ASCII is short for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. And as another commenter already pointed out, only the A for America is capitalized. It was just a joke playing on the way it’s written (and the fact that there’s the MAGA movement)

Hey why is it orange?

America great, the other things not ;)

Still 3.4 to high…

It makes scents!

Casual sex […] has no survival value

I wonder how many people less of our species were on earth w/o casual sex. It doesn’t have survival value for one personally, though.

If it’s loud, moving, can chase you and honks at you, then it’s an obnoxious goose a car

I connected it once, then set it in the router as „enable child protection -> disable internet access“, gave it a static IP address and also blacklisted that address on my pi hole so that DNS won’t work for it. Then I immediately disconnected it. The router recognizes the TV with its MAC address when it gets reconnected and immediately bans internet access when it gets reconnected.

Another example of a false friend:

German: Bekommen (to get), English: Become (werden)

Hence a joke I often heard while learning English:

Guest: “I become a steak.”

Waiter: “Well, I do hope you won’t, but I could ask the chef, if you insist…”

I just host my own searxng instance. Bonus: I get to tweak the config to my liking.

While I’m totally with you, many people may be affected by the orange one, even if their not from the US. US politics influences a lot of places globally.

The earth’s diameter is about 12.700km. that’s 12.700.000m.

Assuming it were a perfect sphere (it isn’t, but that shold give an estimate), the distance on the surface “to the other side of the world” would be 180°/360°*pi*12.700.000m=19.949.113m - also assuming not using satellite communications.

Phone signals will either travel as electric fields in copper cables, as radio waves or as light waves in a fiber channel. All cases travel with speed of light c=299.792.458 m/s

That means, that the time to send the signal to the other end of the world takes about 19.949.113m/299.792.458 m/s = 0,0667s. Now add a few electronic components on there to refresh the signal or transfer it from one medium to another (e.g. the radio tower receiving the RF signal and sending it via fibre out). All of these add a few milliseconds - that’s in the range of 0,001s to 0,01s.

You usually start to notice that sound is delayed for movies when it’s more than 0,2s delayed - and that’s with the visual cues. While calling someone, you cannot see them which gives even more leeway. So you probably won’t really notice the delay in those calls.

Also that wallpaper…

So, what did you do?

We just refilled the blinker fluid.

Calling the garage

“Yeah, so I’ve got a strange green light on iny car… Wait, now it’s off again…
Now it’s back on…
And off…
And on…”