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  • They’ve been playing the long game here…encroaching on your Drive storage for years

    • Gmails didn’t used to count towards storage
    • Photos didn’t used to count towards storage (unless stored in “Original” quality)

    I’m wagering “Location Data” will be along soon. Then “number of passwords stored”.

    Next move will be “number of connected devices”, even though that doesn’t impact how much they have to store.

    Finally they will get round to billing you on your number of individual body hairs (shaving in breach of T&Cs).



  • Yes, you’re absolutely right, I’d forgotten about that.

    I think my main point is still valid though - Godzilla is a physical manifestation of the destruction that nuclear activity can cause.

    As I read on another post somewhere: “Ask a Japanese, and radiation creates monsters. Ask an American, and radiation creates superheros.”


  • SuperJetShoes@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzSeriously???
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    I hate that this is even a thing.

    • Godzilla is a metaphor (either intended or simply ingrained in the Japanese psyche) for Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • King Kong is a “Beauty and the Beast” love story

    They are from different eras and are important films in their own way.

    But we end up getting this shite because monsters must fight monsters, apparently.

    It’s all a load of fucking shit and devalues the importance of each movies. It should never have been made.

    Anyway, I haven’t seen the movie but Godzilla would win. Atomic breath. Come on guys, the monkey’s dead meat that you can’t touch for a hundred thousand years.



  • This will be a tough one to fix. There must be millions upon millions of embedded systems out there with 16-bit epoch burned in.

    They’ll all be much tougher to find than “YEAR PIC(99)” in COBOL was.

    Y2K wasn’t a problem because thousands upon thousands of programmers worked on it well in advance (including myself) we had source code and plenty of static analysis tools, often homegrown.

    The 2038 bugs are already out there…in the wild…their source code nothing but a distant dream.



  • If it’s all in writing you can’t just force another company to do what you want. What you can do is wriggle, twist and delay until it becomes too expensive for the smaller company to continue to pursue.

    However judges are more than well aware of this technique and will allow the plaintiff to accrue costs against Legal Aid (paid for by government).

    So what usually happens:

    1. Small co files against large co for using same name
    2. Large co produces huge response document which is all piss and wind
    3. Small co says they can’t afford the costs to answer each point
    4. Judge permits Small Co to use Legal Aid.
    5. Large co offers to settle. (E.g. you’re a 3 person sandwich shop. They offer you £10m. No more work, no more hassle)

    If Small Co is energetic, young and courageous, they may choose to fight to the death. But Legal Aid has a limit…







  • I 100% agree with this. Sadly, rule #3 applies to me (my job involves dealing with banks and lawyers).

    I have had two HP inkjet printers which were unmitigated dogshit. Money-grabbing, thrown together pieces of shit. You get more types of jams than at a craft jam shop.

    Five years ago, moved to a Brother laser printer. Little difference in purchase cost. AND IT NEVER FAILS.

    I’m now on my second (dropped first one downstairs when moving house) and it is just as reliable.

    Each to their own, but for me: Brother Laser Printer every time.






  • He’s going down for a long time, and personally I think he’s an over-confident, misguided fool.

    But I don’t think he’s a crook, in the sense that he originally set out to be dishonest from day one.

    I think his well-intentioned, cocky plans turned to shit when he found himself playing a game of cryptopoly with other people’s real money and landed on the "Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass ‘Go’. Do not collect £200“ square.

    I feel ever so slightly sorry for him. His entire life is now fucked.