smeg

joined 1 year ago

To improve road safety, Utrecht will lower the speed limit from 50 to 30 km/h on approximately 240 streets in c/europe@feddit.org

[–] smeg 1 points 2 months ago

Here in Haarlem we did the same. It's great!

[Epic for Android] Dumb Ways to Die in c/freegames@feddit.uk

[–] smeg 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Great info, smeg!

Hadn't noticed the reference since last I watched it in c/tenforward@lemmy.world

[–] smeg 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In interviews, they said this was intentional

Trump Threatens Martial Law in Blue State in Wild Morning Rage Post in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] smeg 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But you're preventing the obligatory comment about paywalls!

What's the dumbest/silliest reason you got in trouble for in school? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] smeg 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I got beat up by a guy twice my size who was just in a pissy mood. "Participated in a fight, in school suspension"

Days after rebuking Trump on Venezuela, Senate may back down in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] smeg 1 points 2 months ago

RACO

UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] smeg 56 points 2 months ago

Police have little intelligence of their own

Musk’s AI tool Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] smeg 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Department of Pedophile Defense

Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] smeg 0 points 2 months ago

My setup is an old Dell Wyse thin client and 4 external USB drives. The thin client is basically silent. The drives only make sound when they're active, and spin down when idle. The thin client has an Intel CPU with QuickSync so it can even transcode with Plex. For data redundancy between the hard drives, I use lsyncd to make a poor man's mirror setup.

Works great. Lives in a cabinet in my living room.

GOP Senators, Including Close Allies, Break With Trump on Criminal Probe Into Powell in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] smeg 9 points 2 months ago

Some press statements and hand wringing, no action.

How the 2026 World Cup Will Embarrass the United States in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

[–] smeg 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sports fans will still show up. No group is predictably unmotivated by anything principled as avid sports fans.

Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] smeg 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And in 10 years they'll agree to a small website that suggests that maybe Europe might want to open a place to store source code that's European hosted... In another five years.