Tuesday, November 29
Daily News Stuff 29 November 2022
Bundles Of Billies Edition
Bundles Of Billies Edition
Top Story
- In a rare win for sanity and freedom Britain is abandoning legislation that would have banned "legal but harmful" speech online. (Reuters)
The proposed law was so twisted that it included criminal charges for executives of social platforms for the entirely legal speech of other people.
This unsurprisingly provoked some pushback from said social platforms.
The government - the nominally conservative government - is planning to return with more of the same but with a tasty won't somebody think of the children sauce on top.
- I think everything I want from Ikea is in stock right now. I could just set fire to my credit card and order a houseful of furniture in one go.
Probably best not to. Would save on delivery fees but leave my living room filled with flat packs when I've only just got it free of boxes.
Going to end up with 90 feet of desk space.
Tech News
- The Merriam-Webster Word of the year is gaslighting. (Merriam-Webster)
In other news, monkey pox has been renamed piss party pox to remove the stigma associated with fucking monkeys.
- Mice use calculus. (Quanta)
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
- Candian crypto exchange Coinsquare has suffered a breach of customer data. (CoinDesk)
Customer funds are safe with the encryption keys stored offline.
They say.
- Epson has ditched laser printers for inkjets, saying inkjets are better for the environment. (The Register)
While I view such claims with suspicion on general principle, Epson does make the Ecotank line of inkjets, which have ink tanks, that you simply fill up with a bottle of ink when you need to. It's hard to improve on that unless you can synthesize ink directly from the air.
Disclaimer: But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some ink converters!
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One huge problem with the supposed "better for the environment†of inkjet printers is that inkjets have to be used regularly or their nozzles get clogged. This might be fine in offices; however, home use is often sporadic, so buying a single laser printer that lasts you years is better than having to buy multiple inkjets that keep breaking because they're not used often enough.
Posted by: three-humped camel at Wednesday, November 30 2022 01:14 AM (x8H4m)
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Even if the inkjets don't break, the cleaning cycles waste large amounts of ink.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, November 30 2022 01:46 AM (BMUHC)
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I really can't see it: the cost per page for a laser printer is something like half that of even a really good inkjet, or at least it was 20 years ago, and I doubt lasers have deteriorated or inkjets have somehow improved.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, November 30 2022 03:10 AM (LADmw)
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What was the last Epson laser printer you bought? I'm drawing a blank here.
Posted by: Any Mouse at Wednesday, November 30 2022 03:26 PM (FMxtE)
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I think I got a Kyocera, not an Epson. I gave it away before the move anyway.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, November 30 2022 06:51 PM (PiXy!)
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