Elton John had one of those. I think it even blew smoke for some reason!

I dont have a current one, but my old Xtorm power bank was great quality, and in retrospect definitely worth the price. I don’t know if they still have it, but the magnetic storage of the matching cable was a brilliant piece of design.

Ah, thanks for jogging my memory

On a quick read, I didn’t see the struck motorcycles listed. Last I heard, a few years ago, was that this mainly affected motorcycles with two rear lights that are spaced apart and fairly low to the ground. I believe this is mostly true for Harleys.

The theory I recall was that this rear light configuration made the Tesla assume it was looking (remember, only cameras without depth data) at a car that was further down the road - and acceleration was safe as a result. It miscategorised the motorcycle so badly that it misjudged it’s position entirely.

Thanks for the link! Too bad they’re stupid expensive in comparison to my old CCAs ;(

“Huge row erupts” […] “However, this is no surprise as we knew they had XY chromosomes already” is quite a 180, especially for such a short text. Also, is their body really our collective business?

I am surprised it’s called “America’s celebrated work ethic” - from my (Dutch) perspective, it’s notoriously terribly exploitative and bordering on dystopian for many. Is it true that people celebrate American work practices?!

Thank you kind person!

The article did mention them as “registered”, so I don’t think this applies.

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According to Wikipedia it’s not, so you’re safe

I’m loving the puns quoted in the article haha

“Setting up a base in Vietnam” for a US company sounds like slightly painful wording to me…

I’m wondering if it’s tied to how status symbols differ per culture. Its been 20 years, but I don’t remember status symbols mattering much to my environment when I was a teenager in the Netherlands. I wonder how that is now.

I find their statements a bit on the sweeping side.

Out of more than 1.8 million administrator credentials analyzed, over 40,000 entries were “admin,” showing that the default password is widely accepted by IT administrators.

That’s just over 2 percent. “Widely accepted” in my book is a much larger percentage…

That makes sense, thanks

I wonder what would happen to the works were the museum to go bankrupt instead - then they would be sold for their “monetary value” as well, right? Then this seems more like protest for protest sake, as it’s a last resort damage control measure that can hardly be avoided from the sound of it.

“up to 1% of 2100 planes could be affected” followed by “based on our calculations, as many as 21 planes could be affected” made me chuckle.

They did, but they didn’t see as sharp of an energy price increase as far as I know. Our energy bill has increased so much that we had to not only deal with project (and thus payment) delays due to the shortages, but also with projects suddenly not bringing in money but costing us. This had a compounding effect on many small businesses.

It might be overstating some things, but I’ve heard quite a few hardware startups fail the past years due to parts shortage, rising parts costs, energy costs, etc.

On the large industry scale the machine is ticking away just fine, but I’ve experienced first hand how those factors have decimated any reserves small players have over the past few years. And large companies don’t innovate nearly as much as small ones can - competitive advantages for the future are definitely lost here. While that may not be a problem today, that does mean Germany will be behind on innovation in 5 - 10 years.