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You can continue using normal Windows 10 if you have a Microsoft account attached to it. They give you the option to sign up for free extended updates (until 2027).

"The exact cause of this breach is unclear but is most likely due to multiple factors, including interruptions in sterile fly production due to the COVID-19 pandemic and illegal cattle imports, as well as the challenges involved in surveillance of the (Darien) gap’s difficult geography."

https://asm.org/articles/2025/september/new-word-screwworm-r...

There's currently only one plant in Panama running the sterile fly program, but both Mexico and the US are opening new plants to handle the issue.

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture is constructing a new $750 million facility nearby to breed sterile flies, though U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said it won’t be completed until late 2027. In the meantime, the agency is investing $21 million to transform a fruit fly breeding center in far southern Mexico into a screwworm fly production site, with operations set to begin this summer."

https://www.statesman.com/news/article/texas-possible-new-wo...

Nice native ad for Waymo

I first got it in 2015 after playing Fallout 4 almost nonstop for the entire weekend. The game ran poorly and the low stuttery fps caused a massive migraine in my head. I took Tylenol and went to sleep and woke up with it ringing in one of my ears which eventually moved to both. The doctors were pretty useless and said they couldn't see anything wrong and to just live with it.

My brain eventually figured out how to tune it out and now it associates the sound with silence.

Now I've developed it again after feeling depressed and blasting music in my car. The new version crackles and alternates tones in my left ear. I have a doctors appointment coming up to hopefully figure it out.

There is a new expensive treatment for it called Lenore which works by playing sounds and stimulating your tongue at the same time. Those pathways are located close together in the brain and by stimulating both at the same time, it's supposed to train it to filter out the noise.

Meanwhile Sears is still thriving in Mexico under different ownership.

Unfortunately we use the proprietary HD Radio spec in the US. The company requires paying a license to use it and so many stations and manufacturers don't support it.

I wish we used DAB instead.

This was really fun to play with at VCF Midwest. It makes me curious to see it working with other vintage computers.

I'm glad that they kept the anime girl rather than replacing her with a sterile message. The Internet should be a fun place again.

McDonald's as well http://al.com/news/2023/12/fast-food-chains-use-alabama-pris...

It's a common mistake that newcomers to the language make. You assume empty is an empty string check when it's really a falsy check that is equivalent to: (!isset($var) || !$var)

There are a lot of dead podcasts in general. It's tough to sustain a podcast and many people give up after doing a handful of episodes.

V4V is a concept and not a technology.

It's simply that the podcaster provides something valuable to you with their podcast and you're expected to return an equal amount of value back to them in whatever form you choose. It could be a Paypal payment, cool artwork for the show, topic research for the show, or whatever value you can contribute back.

Check out value4value.info for a more detailed explanation

No surprise since he spends most of his time on Nostr nowadays.

Technology connections has a good video about retroreflectors https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bi_Tp1H9CDs

Apple runs the Internet's defacto index of podcasts, due to iTunes popularizing podcasting, and provides an API that many/most podcast applications use to find podcasts. When they delist a podcast from their index, it's like Google delisting a website from their index.

You can see that the feed is no longer in their index: https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=Что+случилось&media=pod...

This shows why it's important to have open alternatives to Apple's podcast index.

The Podcast Index still has it indexed https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1112548

I was hoping they would do more than just put ChatGPT into Bing.

For instance, the question about travel should generate a result of suggested places that includes photos and links to more information. The result should be easily skimmable to let the user narrow in on things that are interesting and skip over things that are not.

Instead, it just generates a text essay in a chat bubble that you have to read through each time.

PHP 8 does exactly what he suggested and omits the token name:

  Parse error: syntax error, unexpected token "::"

if time.hour == 12 && time.ampm == AM: return 0

elif time.hour == 12 && time.ampm == PM: return 12

elif time.ampm == PM: return time.hour+12

else: return time.hour

The vast majority of clocks in the US use 12 hour time. 24 hour time just isn't used here outside of limited applications (military, computing, etc).

People generally aren't used to seeing time expressed in a 24 hour format. Most would choose a clock that shows the familiar 12 hour format over a 24 hour one that requires them to subtract 12 to get the time.

I think it would be similar to selling a Fahrenheit thermometer in Europe. Most people could learn to do the conversion, but they would probably just buy a Celsius thermometer instead.

It's indecipherable to most people in the U.S. who refer to it as "military time".

A better strategy to me would've been to keep it free and tightly integrate it with Docker Hub to push people towards Docker Hub services. This software is already installed on most Windows computers that need to use Docker and provides a perfect opportunity to promote Docker Hub and any of their other services.