The Octonaut

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No, I talked about putting this energy into convincing others to vote with their wallets, not just “doing nothing”. A boycott is an active campaign. It doesnt just mean not buying a product. It means not buying any associated product. Not even tolerating them in conversation.

I’m basing my opinion on how the commission has responded to similar successfully raised initiatives: “that’s already covered by legislation and up to EU states to manage”, “no that’s something we cant support, but feel free to appeal endlessly”, and in the most effective one, “committing to making a legislative proposal by 2023 but actually if thats ok we’ll make it 2026 and I suppose then if legislation is agreed it may be in place within a decade” (end cage farming, which polls at 86% approval already in the EU).

No you cannot

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Like, ok, I guess you could

lol

OK buddy, cybercrime never happens and interpol will come arrest your python script if it did because you messed with an EU “government” form that might have resulted in them having to get a 60 year old Greek politican to ask what a EULA was

What on earth makes you think an online petition, which has never led to any of the consumer friendly regulation you mention, has the ‘highest’ chance? Or that the alternative to a petition is doing nothing?

All of that regulation came primarily from legal cases.

You need to input a number matching a regex, the format for which is helpfully provided on the page.

Answering doesn’t mean doing anything, and all they have to do is generally wave in the direction of the overwhelming popularity and profitability of the products compared to the online petition that 0.2% of the EU’s adult population will have signed.

If the general public does not care, legislation will not follow. Filling out and promotinh a glorified change.org form is energy wasted on actually popularising your viewpoint instead of trying uselessly to get it in unpopularly.

You know you can just fill in what you want right? And the number goes up? They even put the format right there.

Ask ChatGPT to make you a script to fill in that form with Beautiful Soup. Takes 30 seconds, if you haven’t already.

It’s cool that you led with Estonia, the one that was botted to 100% signatures a couple of days ago.

You’re claiming mutual exclusivity…

No, I’m not. I’m saying this is a waste of time. Like, writing six paragraphs that say nothing new level of wasting time.

Nobody said anything about AI or LLMs.

Flooding online petitions with bots isn’t even a this-century thing let alone anything to do with AI hype.

There is zero scrutiny possible for the form which is 100% based on trust that the signer is who they say they are adults where they say they are. If you want to be John Smith in UK, Paddy Murphy in Ireland and Jurgen Schmidt in Germany, you can be. There’s a reason none of these initiatives have done anything except keep people who care about something busy with dopamine graphing instead of doing something like boycotting relevant games and publishers.

And no, like to the EU, Youtuber noise is not relevant to me. Millions of views is literally nothing. You see the general state of the world, yes?

You guys need to make your bots a little less obvious

Much more likely to just be useful dirt they can keep on people and use it to deny or cancel their visa should they want or need to.

Irish people are very vocally sympathetic towards Palestine and other occupied territories because of our own history (and present).

“No more Irish J1 students” won’t go down well in Boston. “This guy is a Hamas supporter, deport/deny them!” will.

Yes but

• it doesn’t let me charge and play at the same time
• I could hot swap in and out batteries, but it doesn’t report battery percentage
• It also doesn’t auto-pause when the battery dies, like other systems do
• It runs through them quickly
• it acts finicky/unpredictable when the battery is very low, rather than reaching a consistent threshold and stopping working
• In combination with a bug/anti-feature I’ve posted about previously, my Steam Deck sees it as a new controller every time the batteries are replaced, despite the Bluetooth MAC/BDA not changing.

For me, I want one with internal rechargeable (and replaceable) batteries, more reliable Bluetooth, and multi-device targeting (ie those 1,2,3 toggles you see on stuff like mouse/keyboards - I use mine on my Steam Deck and also on my desktop - dont want to mess with pairing each time. Plus if I end up with with a Switch 2, the trackpad would be interesting for mouse mode if those could connect (no idea)).

As as to be said somehow literally every time these headlines are published, nominations for any Nobel prize are kept secret and announcing that you’ve submitted a nomination if anything makes them less likely to be accepted as it harms the nomination by harming the image of the nominator. Anyone can say they’ve nominated anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize and they can’t be proven or disproven for 50 years.

Oh and “Pakistan” can’t nominate anyone for a Nobel Prize. All you need to be a nominator for the Nobel Peace Prize is to be an elected official or a university professor, but you do have to be a person. The likely of a headline not bothering to distinguish between a person and their 250 million people nation seems to increase linearly with distance east from the Greenwich meridian.

https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/questions-and-answers-about-the-nomination-process-for-a-nobel-peace-prize/

Please remember this when that Norwegian ‘scientist’ nominations Trump or Elon or whoever in October like he does every year.

Your code can compile while you’re in a retro, retrospectively looking back at the action items raised in a previous retro but not assigned any sprint time in the current sprint so you just raised a “what went wrong” about it not being planned and now you have more non-sprint work to do because every problem should be presented with a solution and if you could have that for the next retro they’ll review this retro’s action items and see if you have a proposal for fixing retro action items

«¿Que?»

On breast milk

I’m not sure what you interpret from the words “policy changes” but they dont usually refer to a weird feeling.