And it leads to a neverending stream of newly invented hype words.

We even have a yearly word of the year tradition, where the organisation behind our most famous dictionary picks one of these newly invented words based on coverage in media.

Last year's word was "graaiflatie", a combination between "graaien" (no direct translation, means to grab, but in a greedy way), and "inflatie" (inflation).

So your system knows the exact situation and still is slowing down my bike, just at the moment I need to accelerate to avoid being overrun by that large truck heading into me.

After reading the article, it seems like the system is supposed to temporarily jam pedal assist, turning your ebike into a regular bike. And the system would need to be installed in all street legal ebikes for that to happen. Since you're still free to accelerate by pedaling like a normal bike user, that significantly reduces the amount of situations where the pedal assist would actually save you. If you can't avoid collision by pedaling harder, you probably had no chance in the first place.

Considering most of the inner city's roads now have a 30 km/h speed limit for cars, collision safety is probably even less of a concern now.

I do share the concern of others in the comments that such a system would probably be broken on day one, and you have a bunch of script kiddies with flipper zeros running around bricking ebikes.

The only way for that not to happen is to use proper encryption for any wireless signals being used to control this system. Considering the Dutch governmental reputation for IT failures, this is probably not going to go well.

Simple counter: Don't be French.

It was a big mistake by Google to base the Android Framework entirely on Java. Pivoting to Kotlin because you've discovered that working in Java produces nothing but garbage does nothing to fix the situation either.

Can't wait for generic Linux phones to be a (more popular) thing so we won't have to deal with this clown world nonsense anymore.

Can confirm, society needs more women in tech, for equality reasons of course. Definitely not for any other reasons...

Joking aside, one step up from a woman troubleshooting her own tech problems is a woman troubleshooting my tech problems.

Had the exact same experience the other day. Fuck these machines, fuck printers, fuck microwave ovens, fuck software updates and fuck time estimates in general.

Ik zie het nog niet zo somber in. De PVV mag nu gaan bewijzen dat ze ook echt met oplossingen gaan komen die reëel zijn. Dat is iets wat in hun rethoriek de afgelopen jaren nog niet gelukt is.

Nu ze het moeten gaan bewijzen betekent dat ook een test of de partij bij elkaar kan blijven als ze serieus aan de bak moeten. Het kan best wel eens zijn dat ze het intern oneens worden over hoe de agenda moet worden uitgevoerd.

We moeten het vertrouwen hebben dat de rechtstaat nog altijd beschermt tegen de extreme standpunten en dat de overige partijen Wilders niet in staat zullen stellen om zijn extreme standpunten in een regeerakkoord te krijgen.

Voorlopig zal hij toch echt eerst een formatieproces moeten doorlopen met verdacht weinig èchte bondgenoten. De enige coalitie die voor de hand ligt is afhankelijk van VVD en NSC, en beiden zullen hun huid duur verkopen.

Ja, Wilders voert een ideologie die buitenproportioneel veel schuld zoekt in de verkeerde dingen. Nu zal hij milder moeten worden om ook echt dingen gedaan te krijgen. Doet hij dat niet dan gaan we veel eerder weer naar de stembus en zal hij ook zijn mandaat verliezen.

The problem is mostly a lack of competition in specific fields. And the companies that own the monopoly in their respective niches make it so that any form of competition is either...

• immediately acquired and killed
• handicapped by market dependencies on pantented features
• unable to generate business because customer processes are completely dependant on proprietary solutions

Most of these applications have codebases that are FUCKING ANCIENT. Let's take a look at Solidworks for example, which is the industry standard for Computer Aided Design for the manufacturing industry. Under the hood, it's still the same software from the 1990's. And there is no incentive for Dassault Systemes to rewrite the codebase.

Lots of these giant monopolistic software products have turned into frankenstein-esque monstrosities over the years. I often tell people they are built like backyard playhouses that have been expanded over the years by building an extra story on top, adding a swingset, adding a slide, extending the roof and attaching a rope ladder to the side.

All of this makes for more functionality, but they haven't really thought about the structural integrity of the original playhouse. In a direct parallel many of these programs have unmaintainable code that no one dares touch because "hey it works, and we need to keep it that way because if we break it we're no longer getting payed".

These companies unintentionally hold their businessmodel hostage by choosing profits over innovation and investment in an adaptable codebase.

Which is why it is near impossible for them to support technologies that are different from their original install base. And this is also why they have incentives to make sure they stay in the lead becuase they know damn well that open source movements that get some support and take flight are dangerous to their market share, and by extension their profits.

Blender is probably one of the best examples of what good open source software will do to an industry. The day someone develops a parametric CAD solution that's platform agnostic and based on open standards we'll see a lot of engineers ditch Windows for Linux.

If anything, torrents have a region boost. Provided no one has servers or seedboxes set up, you're going to benefit hugely from seeders near your location.

It's not quite a trend, it's a hidden lifestyle aspect of men in general.

Men have never quite felt the need to explain because it has never been brought up in this capacity before. But there's a whole stick-centric world out there you can get lost in, if you just keep an open mind.

That's exactly why you tell Defender to keep their greedy fingers out of specific folders and install specific things to dedicated paths.

Let Defender do its thing protecting critical system paths and don't run any executables you don't trust. Defender never touches anything I don't want it to touch and runs rampant on any anomalities. This unfortunately also results in things like Tor browser being flagged and removed randomly happening sometimes. Heuristic analysis is not perfect.

Then again, unless you've gone through hash checks, certificate verification for signed software and in the worst case decompiling your software to make sure it doesn't do anything fishy, you're always taking a risk.

The Linux ecosystem arguably has way better systems in place foe software distribution than "just run this .exe, trust me bro". But common sense goes a long way within Windows.

Of course they do, people also prefer being told lies that put a positive spin on things over being told the truth. That's human nature.