The person making these railroad crossing sirens: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nXdVG45wveo (Technology Connections)

if you use more than one computer, watch out that you can’t play the same savegame on both

To be fair, the deepseek model was happy to talk about that stuff - it was just if you used it via the deepseek website that it got filtered.

If it’s like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=483oaUU1tIs then the entire vehicle is built to the exact limits of e-bike laws. For example you can theoretically propel that thing by pedalling even if it is never intended that the ‘rider’ would do so.

If you search the old ones on ebay, the scalpers all have photos with a room full of steamdeck boxes

Always include a % in your song titles to crash car music player software that uses sprintf. (h/t to Dave P)

No One Lives Forever is a spoof of, well, Austin Powers, if that gives any idea of the humour level

Other shopping sites will help you with that too…

I don’t know how many roads have the same name, but pretty sure it’s more than five

• Nine English counties (out of 48 depending on your definition)
• Four countries (“UK” was already selected in a different field)
• One city with a famously wide range of definitions
• and one borough, which is in London, which is in England!

To avoid? Remember when you had to go to Yahoo! Directory to find the few websites which exist? It’s like that.

doesn’t this just raise the authentication requirements? like in the uk we got added checks for who was could work, and lots of deliveroo drivers shared the login + password of someone they knew who was verified.

In the UK they were popular for “buy-to-let” properties - so it didn’t really matter that you have barely any equity in your second home, so long as the rental income covers the interest payments.

minerals, maxerals…

This is like Technology Connections having to explain what an MP3 CD is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIR23emsWY

Most monitors has got to be the security guard’s CCTV, so it does track!

Is that a quantum boolean?

For a somewhat recent real-world example of hiding things in this kind of situation, maybe look at how ‘paramilitary’ people in Northern Ireland hid things by putting them in walls and then decorating the wall.

Maybe some “outlet” in your house is actually the connector to the NAS sealed into a void space?

That’s already illegal? It used to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obtaining_pecuniary_advantage_by_deception and is now just fraud.

Same issue with white balance settings in cameras - the setting should be non-linear to give the same perceived change per step.