[-] zik@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Traffic was close to zero here during covid lockdowns. It was bliss - it was quiet and serene like I've never experienced before.

Is it wrong to be wistful about the car-free depths of a pandemic?

[-] zik@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is mostly wrong: while she did invent what would later be called Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS), it isn't used in modern WiFi or in GPS. It is used in Bluetooth though.

I should point out that techniques like FHSS are only a part of what makes up a radio communication method. You can't say it was "the basis of Bluetooth" just because FHSS is one of the many technologies used in Bluetooth. She certainly contributed though.

[-] zik@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

We should treat them like snipers? ie. We should rush them and neutralise the threat they pose?

[-] zik@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of Gazans who are starving to death as a result of the actions of the Israeli army.

[-] zik@lemmy.world 105 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Most likely it's got poor security and has been compromised to use as part of a DDOS network. ie. Someone has taken it over to use your bandwidth (and tens of thousands of other people's) to sell on the dark web as a service to attack others on the internet.

[-] zik@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hey Prince Andrew, if the truth hurts then maybe it's you that's in the wrong?

[-] zik@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago

Yeah but think of all the bacteria it's putting out of work.

[-] zik@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago

Sounds like treason to me.

When's someone going to have the balls to charge him with it, and then sentence him to death for it?

[-] zik@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

Smoking's already dramatically fallen out of popularity with younger people, being replaced by vaping. So I don't think it really matters what they do at this point - smoking's a dinosaur waiting to die.

[-] zik@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago

It's almost like people are incapable of comprehending that all types of pollution are important, not just one or the other. Exhaust emissions are bad. Tyre pollution is also bad. Reducing one is a good step. Reducing both would be even better.

[-] zik@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So it turns out that it's not a lack of women giving them a bad attitude - it's their bad attitude giving them a lack of women. Who'd have thought.

[-] zik@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

"Personal reasons". If they continue to pry just say it's extemely personal and hopefully they'll back off.

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