Just a guy from 🇫🇮 Finland. Full-stack web developer and Scrum Master by trade, but more into server-side programming, networking, and sysadmin stuff.
During the summer, I love trekking, camping, and going on long hiking adventures. Also somewhat of an avgeek and a huge Lego fanatic.
I was going to give the example of the Carnival cruise ship that sank in the 2010s (I think) largely due to the captain’s incompetence[…]
That’s Costa Concordia. It received extra media attention and is mostly known due to the awful behavior of the captain who first directly caused the accident and then fled the ship before most of his passengers.
Telegram has a builtin support for proxies and the authorities probably won’t be able to block all of them
I don’t remember the exact article I was reading but doing a quick google search yields this one for example. And here’s the actual research paper: https://www.miyashita.com/researches/1hFnR7TlUO4OXNpQFeuN30
I remember reading an article about how we’re already able to simulate basic tastes, like sweetness and sourness, digitally. So just you wait, we might have lickable HTML elements in the future
So nice to be able to play more Portal after all these years
Nokia E71 with the full QWERTY keyboard. Loved it, even though the keys were too small to comfortable use. I guess technically speaking that’s still a smartphone so before that I had some Samsung flip phone, can’t remember the exact model
Good luck, because last time they tried to replace the Start menu with a new UI went so well…
A robot vacuum. Just a cheap no-brand one and it’s by no means perfect but does actually help with day-to-day cleaning. Meaning I can get away manually vacuuming way less often.
They recently added it as a experimental feature and it has been working fairly well, at least for Java. As far as I recall, each user needs to activate it themselves via settings. Far from optimal but better than nothing.
Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber
This was the book that got me to stop hating books.
I didn’t like reading as a child or teenager until I was forced to read this one for a mandatory book report in high school and really, really liked it. I don’t know why, I don’t even remember that much about the book, but it got me interested in science fiction and reading in general.
That or live cd (well, most likely live usb nowadays)