Notices by Rob Hooft (rwwh@mastodon.social)

@hellomiakoda besides, the grass is anyway always greener on the other side. Where you can’t touch it.

@aral This is the International Court of Justice. It handles cases between countries. It is *ignored* by the USA. The other UN court is the International Criminal Court (ICC) which handles certain types of cases against individuals. It is *sanctioned* by the USA. Both are in The Hague, but they are quite different courts. The second one can use a jail.

@aral Siri can be trained to recognize your voice. And in some security cases it asks to unlock your phone.

@jwz How much of these kinds of things are because Apple is careful what information about you it wants to store on their servers, and what stays on devices for reasons of privacy?

@jwildeboer market price may be 100 euro per kWh for the battery pack, but a representative home battery costs 3500 + 200 euro per kWh and lasts 6000 cycles. That does not yet sound like “free” energy to me.

@ryanhoulihan that may be a virtuous circle….