Steinar Bang

@steinarb
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Oslo, Norway, somebody's son, someone's man, somebody's dad. Boy from the north, living in the south. Electronics engineer and software developer, occasional motorcycle rider, former "alpin-pappa"
Bloghttps://steinar.bang.priv.no
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/steinarba
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Patrouille de France over the white house!

Wow!

Og sånn slår FIFA tilbake mot kritikken Lise Klaveness kom med mot den fine fredsprisen Trump har fått...

https://www.nrk.no/sport/ntb-erfarer_-fifa-har-avslatt-haikins-norge-bytte-_-mener-han-ikke-oppfyller-kravene-keeper-nikita-h-1.17876086

NTB erfarer: Fifa har avslått Haikins Norge-bytte – mener han ikke oppfyller kravene Keeper Nikita H

Keeper Nikita Haikin (30) har fått avslag av Fifa på søknaden om å spille for Norges landslag, ifølge NTBs opplysninger.

NRK
Måtte pinge datter om at hennes store helt sir David Attenborough fyller 100 år i dag
https://radio.nrk.no/serie/nyhetsmorgen/NPUB32009126#t=1h42m27s
Anbefalte vaksiner og medisiner koster milliarder, dyre flybilletter til Svalbard, David Attenborough fyller 100 år - Nyhetsmorgen - NRK Radio

– Staten kan ikke betale medisiner og vaksiner for alle. Helseministeren mener det er for dyrt å gjøre alt som anbefales gratis. Hantavirus ubehandlet er svært dødelig i Argentina. Travel helg i hovedstaden.

NRK Radio
Flagg ute på #veranda_vestli frigjøringsdagen 8. mai 2026, fortsatt for kalde netter til å sette ut blomster, men et par inneplanter fikk være med på en snarvisitt ut i blomsterkassen #spring2026 #vår2026 #may2026 #mai2026 #spring #veranda #vestli #stovner #norge #norway #norskpix
Mein gott!
working in technology right now is great, the most PT Barnum motherfuckers you ever saw are all like, we have invented a time machine, and now 78% of all discourse is required by law to include endless hours of strokey-beard waffling about the endless political and social and economic implications of time travel and the deep impacts on our whole society and how we all must take time travel very seriously and shovel all our money into the time machine furnaces or we will be stranded in some terribly unfashionable decade with no snacks or friends and we’re all so busy worrying about that we’ve somehow failed to realise that there is no fucking time machine

Google Chrome is silently installing a local LLM on your computer that is 4 gigabytes in size. It's done without consent, it's not visible in the settings, and removing it will reinstall it later.

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!

Everyone's favorite moody SecUnit is back!

Purchased DRM free on ebooks.com (Thank you TOR!) and resides on my Sony reader, waiting to be read.

(comment on Platform Decay)