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Digital fairness act for those that want to check it out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Fairness_Act

I agree with this post and add one anecdotal data point.

I had installed graphene os on a pixel but after a couple months and a couple loops between lineage, stock, and graphene, I eventually settled on stock android. I have group messages with family and some of the family are on apple, some on android, and RCS only works with google messages and google services installed.

It's infuriating that I can't send RCS messages unless google allows me to. I want to go back to email or MMS. Supposedly after a month (!!) RCS group chats will fall back to MMS, but that was not my experience. Also, if you turn RCS on/off you may get kicked out of group messages [0].

[0] https://support.google.com/messages/answer/7189714?hl=en

Reddit is one of the domains I block using StepenBlack's hosts list [0].

Here is some background info on the act from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fakes_Act.

[0] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/readme.md

I'm still schlepping around with various used thinkpads. Maybe we get another HP Dev One that sells well this time.

I've installed two KDE+Tumbleweed machines in the past two days. One for a friend into retro gaming and the other time for older family into solitaire/youtube. KDE is an easy drop-in for Windows. If you have a better recommendation than Tumbleweed for new people, I'm open to looking into it, but so far it's been easy and I'll probably be the one to support it.

Flatpak works pretty well. I try to prioritize my distribution's repositories but some software is not packaged. I've taken the easy way out and installed the flatpak. I guess I could go and package them, but I've been too lazy so far.

Beautiful visuals. I'd like something to dock with.

F-35s are probable the wrong tool. A-10s, send more A-10s.

I like this tool a lot and think it's superior to my own automation tools to generate giant host file blocklists. So, I'll be looking into switching to sinkzone. That said, my understanding is that applications can still make direct connections where an application connects using an IP address (without looking it up via DNS). I guess I use firewalls for that but haven't gotten around to adjusting anything from the defaults. Also could use a reverse proxy but haven't taken the time to set one of those up yet either. Does anyone have recommendations for a 'second step' on the network security path? Setup a PF router?

I'm in favor of spending more resources on research projects like building a probe to intercept one of these interstellar objects. It would be worth the investment to go and see, and it looks like the Vera Rubin will give us several targets.

Today/tonight is the 2025 ARRL Field day. Come find a ham to talk to.

First off, dont look at the outer wilds discussion on here, just play the game. Second - they didnt say how many letters we need to encode all of the observable supernova in a given year! So 100 billion galaxies, 1 per year per galaxy, we have around 1 billion to encode. Sorry two edits this moring, first one was right. due to math without coffee. 1e9/26^6 is about 3, 1e9/26^7 is less than one. So we might see 'SN2050aaaaaah'!

TFA lists C at number 3 per the Tiobe ranking and the linked Tiobe report has Ruby at #24. I tried to find a different list for comparison as I dont think that is true for projects at large. This project [1] for instance tracks github repositories with Ruby at #8 and C at #9 which is closer to what I expected (both in the top-fifteen, neither in the top-three). At least it confirms my bias, and maybe we learn more about who is being surveyed.

[1] https://madnight.github.io/githut/

What was the library?

May be time to dust off that raylib + crystal project and go try a game jam. I think I'll use this wrapper https://github.com/sol-vin/raylib-cr

Please call your representatives and senators. https://5calls.org/ offers some scripts if you're unsure of what to say.

Please call your representatives and senators. https://5calls.org/ offers some scripts if you're unsure of what to say.

Watch this [0] interview with a former USAID diector. He states you dont blow up the organization and attack the non-political civil servants, you install a director that works with you on your policies. Also their IG was investigating starlink, which may be related and is certainly a conflict of interest [1].

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/former-usaid-administrator...

[1] https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating...

A couple days late, but its still 2024. Here's mine, I'll go back and check in a year. I'll try and do at least 10 predictions for future laughs. In 2025, we will:

* Extract more crude oil than in any year in history.

* Produce more steel than in any year in history.

* Not produce more cement than in any year in history.

* Install more solar capacity than in any year in history.

* See a US federal government funded by CRs (no budget will be passed).

* Experience power outages worldwide from a CME.

* See the US officially declare war on more than one country to export immigrants.

* See the AMOC measurably weaken and cause flooding on the Eastern coast of the US.

* See me sell my first game or application.

* See an end to the war in the Ukraine, with Russia gaining the Donbas region.

* Go crazy with the Steam Deck 2.

* Observe that a keyboard left unattended next to my 5 year old will result in key mashing. * [o[p 8.ikomt,j8mhykufvgvjlrdl,kersrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkjkkkjkjjkjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk777777777777771111111111111111110000000000000000333333333333333123456789012356789w23536376376276217111111111111111654321`1234567890-z/.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,;GFV

Alex is doing some great work.

Hackaday also has an article up talking about how Prusa Core has dropped its' open hardware hardware licensing seen in other Prusa products.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/with-core-one-prusas-open-so...

That sucks. Did NOAA have their own application site or did you go through USAJOBs? I would recommend to you or others reading this that if you're applying through USAJOBs, then make sure to enter your resume information in the USAJobs resume builder to help prevent bureaucratic failures like this. HR probably didn't know what they were reading or weren't able to read your CV; they probably based their decision off of the USAJobs resume.

https://help.test.usajobs.gov/how-to/account/documents/resum...

We're reducing where we can. We have two young kids and threw out most of their plastic plates and cups. We kept a few for their utility. Heat increases transmissibility, so don't put hot consumables in or on plastic and don't cook with plastics. Especially avoid plastic cooking utensils and styrofoam cups. Currently we have an abundance of food and drink options, so just go without at the convenience store, choose the metal / glass options when necessary, or plan ahead by bringing a stainless steel or glass bottle. Most stores will let you put coffee or drink in your own container - it actually saves them the cost of a cup. TFA recommends moving food from plastic and styrofoam containers into a glass one when buying take-out or from a grocery to reduce the time plastics have to leach into your foods. I've mentally equated it to smoking a cigarette.

Since we're all just reading tea leaves, my guess is Valve is looking at a higher performance, lighter, ARM-based SteamDeck 2. They have time to develop it, so maybe they're targeting the next generation of Snapdragon X.

One hell of a thruster.

That sucks. Have you tried going the emulation route?

I think it is a fair price and for such low volumes I'm not sure how they are keeping costs so reasonable.

TFA said its a 2.

I have to take this comment at face value. Contact NIMH[1] or your local equivalent.

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[1] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/suicide-prevention

I agree we should have started decades ago and not gone down with path, but it was cheap at the time. We now know some of the externalities, the impacts to society at large, and we should demand that the cost to our future be included. Maybe then glass use, reuse, and other materials can compete with the currently under-priced plastics. I think some sort of carbon tax is going to be required.