Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 50

@tiphra Gecko?

If it's your friend, it's a rainforest. If it's your enemy, it's a jungle. Potato potato.

@duck57 Canada did some trials of DAB but gave it up. With analog, we had two systems that worked worldwide (AM and FM). In the digital era, we have paradoxically taken a step back and now have incompatible systems.

@duck57 It looks like America went straight ahead and discarded the work that Europe had been doing on this since the 1980s and invented its own system... as usual.

@duck57 It's an international standard for terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcasting. It's intended as a replacement for FM/AM audio broadcasting. In Europe, many countries have plans to phase out their analog radio infrastructures in favour of DAB. DAB could be seen as a companion to terrestrial DVB, Digital Video Broadcasting, the international standard meant to replace analog PAL/NTSC.

@sdm Yes. His name is Blizzard.

Norway was the first country in the world to switch off its FM radio network in favour of DAB. It remains the only country to have done so. Listener numbers have been down since the transition. The public didn't ask for DAB, it's expensive to upgrade car stereos to DAB, and DAB coverage is still spotty. Some prominent figures claim that the switchoff has been a failure due to falling audience figures and are calling for the return of FM broadcasting.

Cat is like...

...the fuck is this?
...the fuck is that?
...the fuck are you looking at?

*purring intensifies*

You don't get to make people happy very often when you work in IT. People usually take things for granted and only notice when something is broken. It's nice to be the person from the outside who fixes something that's been broken for years, and people smile and say thank you. I wish I could work as an IT hero all the time.

A number of workmen from Eastern Europe live in the building I just upgraded, and are now enjoying vastly improved Internet speeds. The building is old and run-down, and they don't enjoy many luxuries, but now they can enjoy a fast Internet connection and Skype/FaceTime their wives/kids back home.

A number of workmen from Eastern Europe live in the building I just upgraded, and are now enjoying vastly improved Internet speeds. The building is old and run-down, and they don't enjoy many luxuries, but now they can enjoy a fast Internet connection and call their wives/kids back home.

The 2nd segment of the network I've been designing is up and running in the next building as of today. I brought the first segment up in the building I live in a couple of years back. It was upgraded with smart switches and a new router about a month ago in preparation for the extension me and the electrician are working on now. A 3rd segment will soon be brought up in another building next door.

@Ricardus I'm not complaining though...

It's somewhat worrying that the Norwegian government is suddenly very keen on telling us to stock food and fuel for 72 hours, and to buy iodine tablets. They haven't said a word about that for at least 20 years. This information campaign overlaps with Trident Juncture, a giant NATO exercise in Norway involving 50,000 participants from 30 countries, including an American aircraft carrier.

On some mornings, you wake up and somehow, every human on the planet has turned against you.

@CobaltVelvet Only if you believe in nurture over nature...

Based on what I've seen, humans never change. We always repeat the same mistakes over and over. It's painfully obvious that we're programmed that way by our biology, and only a hopeless idealist (usually young people) could believe otherwise.

Not all is nature, but it's way more influential than most people are willing to admit. We are not spirit beings who can morph our brains into anything we want...

@pollenyi @Ricardus God damn, I did not need this in the morning... Can people just CHILL?

@pollenyi @Ricardus Jesus, why did he react like that? I wasn't even addressing him in particular. The discussion had a hostile tone in general and I didn't give to shits about who was right or wrong. I was requesting to be untagged from a thread and explaining why I wanted that as politely as I could manage. Ricardus, can you let the guy know that I was deliberately trying to stay out of this and wasn't attacking anyone?

Picture a world where we can in fact have nice things...