There is no enforcement mechanism when the organizations supposed to do the enforcing are compromised. Looking at this from the outside, it is frightening how quickly the rule of law has collapsed in the U.S. (And wondering if the safeguards in my country would work any better).
03.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks. Fascinating! I don't have recollections about this, not being into video games at that time (also never had a C64 or Spectrum). I did know about the Harlin film being banned, that felt only natural then. Everyone knew you must not upset the Soviets.
03.11.2025 11:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why would they need huge floating cranes for constructing ships? Aren't they built in dry docks, then launched?
31.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You can see this in real life in the spelling of names in those West African countries that were French colonies. Like Ouagadougou. A Finnish colonial adminstration from an alternate timeline would have spelled it something like Vagadugu.
31.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
That's also my recollection from long ago conscription days, where tear gas was used to simulate a gas attack. You really have to fit the mask snuggly, and if it were actually poison gas, I suspect many would be dead, gas mask or no.
30.10.2025 10:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I guess that happened because the airspace violations made the Soviets eager to sell the MIGs to us.
27.10.2025 09:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Similar to some Finnish and Baltic airports having to again install old-style radio beacons, because of Russian GPS interference.
26.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Huonoa suomea oleva teksti Microsoft Onedriven asetuksista jotka koskevat "digitaalista perintöä".
#microsoft näköjään käyttää AI-konekäännöksia jo ilman että kukaan kohdekieltä osaava tarkistaa. Tuosta ehkä saa selvän mitä tarkoitetaan (varma en ole), mutta kökköä kieltä. Parempi olisi jättää tällainen lokalisoimatta ellei ole natiivipuhujaa tarkistamassa.
26.10.2025 16:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Updating my LEGO White House
23.10.2025 02:51 — 👍 47404 🔁 11124 💬 785 📌 438
1/ The constant presence of drones has fundamentally changed the nature of the war in Ukraine, according to Russian warblogger Alexander Kharchenko. The only way to survive is to stay underground, and it can take days to travel just a few kilometres. ⬇️
21.10.2025 07:27 — 👍 199 🔁 39 💬 3 📌 8
As it happens, I saw a much, much smaller scale drone show as a part of a circus performance yesterday. Maybe 20 drones. These flew around and changed colours in a presumably pre-programmed pattern.
20.10.2025 12:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It looks like the drones are used as 3d pixels (voxels). The hard part is flying and keeping the thousands of drones in a grid formation, the rest is basically the same as drawing on a computer display.
19.10.2025 08:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1700-luvulla ideat matkustivat enintään hevosvetoisten vaunujen vauhdilla. Kuten myös kulkutaudit, joten ei ihme jos näyttää samanlaiselta. Nykyään luulisi ideoiden kulkevan paljon nopeammin, internetissä, ja voivat hypätä merien yli.
07.10.2025 11:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
jolloin Venäjä ja Kiina sanovat kiitos, ja panevat vauhtia omiin sotilaallisiin seikkailuihinsa sillä välin kun USA tappelee itseään vastaan. Samaan aikaan Ranska ei saa pystyyn hallitusta, ja Saksassa ja itäisessä Euroopassa venäjämieliset populistit valtaavat alaa. Vaarallisia aikoja...
06.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
I missed that piece of Finnish culture entirely: This toy did not yet exist when I might have ridden it, and had been out of production for years when my son might have played with it. Now production has been restarted in a slightly modified version, but we are both too old. "Väliinputoaja".
05.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
For the past 15 years, F-Droidhas provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world tofind and install free and open source apps. When cont...
Also illustrates the danger of central gatekeepers for installing apps on equipment! Apple has no alternative ways of installing apps. Android has alternative apps stores and "side-loading" now, but Google has announced changes that would bring them under its control. f-droid.org/en/2025/09/2...
03.10.2025 07:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kotini lähellä on satavuotias työväentalo, jonka ohi kuljen päivittäin. Usein siinä tulee mieleen että nykyinen Suomi ei olisi syntynyt ilman näitä kaikkia vuosisadan alun työväenyhdistyksiä, raittiusseuroja, suojeluskuntia, maamiesseuroja, kuoroyhdistyksiä... ehkä ei olisi itsenäistynytkään.
02.10.2025 10:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The smokiness of rural Finnish homes is something Carl von Linnée (Linnaeus) himself commented on, when he returned from his Lapland trip down the Finnish side of the Gulf of Bothnia. He noted it harmed the eyesight of the people. Apparently chimneys were introduced in Sweden earlier.
29.09.2025 06:36 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Voisi ajatella että tekoälyfirmat jatkossa maksaisivat taiteilijoille uudesta materiaalista tai peräti palkkaisivat näitä kouluttamaan tekoälyä, mutta tätähän ne eivät tee niin kauan kuin saavat kuvia ilmaiseksikin.
26.09.2025 13:53 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
ja kiinni leivänsyrjään. Uuden ihmisten tekemän taiteen puutteessa AI ei saa uutta materiaalia, ja kierrättää ja varioi vain vanhaa. Ja alalle tulee vähemmän uusia kuvataiteilijoita.
26.09.2025 12:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Itse olen miettinyt mitä tapahtuu kuvataiteelle kun lehdet ja mainostajat käyttävät rutiinikuvituksiin AI-generaattoreita, joiden koulutusmateriaali on aiempi kuvasto. Kuvitukset eivät yleensä ole suurta taidetta ihmistenkään tekemänä, mutta alalle tulijat pääsivät niiden parissa harjoittelemaan
26.09.2025 12:22 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My kid is a fan of Marlon James' books. Haven't read them myself, got to fix that someday.
25.09.2025 09:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The "metric" way is writing an ISO date 2025-09-16, which is about equally inconvenient to everyone, except the Chinese: They seem to use y-m-d order, but instead of dashes, put some Chinese letter after each numeric component. (I sometimes get these in emails).
16.09.2025 14:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After 2022. I didn't pay so much attention before. Mostly read NYT to follow American politics.
10.09.2025 08:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For me the the moment to drop my NYT digital subscription was when they started both-siding Russia's attack on Ukraine.
10.09.2025 07:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Geography! The drones do not have to cross Polish territory to get to Ukraine. Even if they needed to in some alternate universe, it would not be OK to use the airspace of Poland for attacks. Anyway, on X there was a posting with a map of the drone tracking, and they were aimed directly to Poland.
10.09.2025 06:16 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Typo? I guess you meant those "have stopped".
10.09.2025 06:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Syksyn 1982 vietin Luonetjärven varuskunnassa sääoppia saamassa ja ilmapalloja lennättämässä. Lähimetsissä joskus harjoiteltiin. Muuten ei seutuun tullut tutustuttua.
09.09.2025 07:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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