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I am looking at their county level distance-to-power-plant map and it's literally xkcd 1138.

I'm trying to find the charitable read on this and I'm unable to. He's saying that it would be great to allow Hindu ethnonationalist sources, because that would open up a talent pool of Hindo ethnonationalist editors? What kind of an argument is that?

If most malware repos are created in the last few days by a fresh user, then it sounds like GitHub is taking action against them? Or where are the old ones?

It was a Mozilla thing

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet

I think you are right, the checked pattern on the shirt is not directionally consistent

He said basically nothing on this topic in the interview. I guess he's trying to express that they are using open source blocklists in their test harnesses and they may or may not use them in release?

Nothing he said ruled this out, but I think it would be a stupid waste of resources and a slap in the face if they didn't work with gorhill on this.

My feeling is that the point of these consolidations is to centralise the ecosystem of their browser and open up revenue streams. The first does make sense from a user friendliness perspective, new users don't automatically know they should be using uBlock Origin and Mullvad VPN for the best experience. The latter is obviously questionable and undermines the whole ecosystem.

My most pessimistic prediction would be that they don't work with gorhill because he's committed to providing adblock for free, they waste a bunch of resources building an engine from scratch, then they charge a subscription for access to 'premium' up-to-date lists which are really just aggregated open source lists.

The reason all these meticulously designed flows have been done away with is because some manager believes that AI is omniscient and can just replace it all.

Like, flagging VPN endpoints is bread and butter for this kind of thing and must already exist. But it's been bypassed

Apparently Merlin and BirdNET are entirely separate projects from different teams, although they both come from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

I've never quite understood how unions in the US work or why they have the perception of them that they do. But rest assured, that is not what a union is elsewhere in the world.

Porsche do this and have been very successful.

Speaking of Porsche, they did once design a Star Wars ship and ended up with something super generic that looked like a free sci-fi model on sketchfab. Same as this car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJevc8fQVEg

That one has the disadvantage of not yet existing, although South Korea has ordered

If you go to www.githubstatus.com, the downtime is not showing in the chart. I was annoyed enough yesterday when I visited this page to figure out why my Actions had failed and was greeted with big green ticks and only a tiny red rectangle halfway down the page to indicate the problem.

This time they've just scrubbed the evidence outright?

My parents took in a Ukrainian family as part of this scheme, and I knew many others who did. They all matched with each other through Facebook groups set up for this purpose. I don't know anyone who was matched automatically by the Palantir thing

In my experience, Linux support on Framework is worse than on a typical ThinkPad, and they don't have much interest in contributing to the ecosystem like System76 does. They still make good products, I'm just very unimpressed with the Linux marketing.

This really tickled me, I wasn't expecting them to just be a pair of esp32 dev boards you attach to your ears

The copy also doesn't seem to be written by someone with a good command of English, even ChatGPT would do better

technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery. You work on real missions, alongside the teams building them, and your contributions move from concept to operation. For a few days, access is granted to this work. The number is extremely limited. The window only lasts four days. Will you answer the call?

Dead horse but I find it astonishing that people can still miss AI writing like this.

Don't you find it incredibly grating that every paragraph grinds to a halt while 3 sentence fragments are repeated? Same rhetorical devices. Same tone. Same pointless constructions.

That's not good writing. It's cheap parlour tricks.

The rhythm continues almost as though the writing is in verse—with the effect of hypnotizing the reader so they don't notice nothing is being said at all. The result? Skimmable prose. Digestible reading. Shareable content.

It's not just bad style. It's actually rotting your brain. And if you can't notice that, maybe you weren't reading at all.

Similar to Hadrian's Wall, there's the Offa's Dyke Path which roughly follows the Welsh border all the way up.

The actual Earth and Moon are still not nearly to scale though!

This has always been a peeve of mine, but the lack of scale diagrams in coverage of this is maddening. We know what the Earth and the Moon look like, there is no need to make them 20 times bigger. Surely the point of these diagrams is to show the unbelievable scale of the journey. I'm yet to see one this news cycle, from NASA or anyone else

I see loads of LLM articles where it's been prompted to never capitalise, avoid full stops, pepper in spelling mistakes, etc. it sucks.

All through this whole ghost fleet thing I've had this question as to how a large ship in the sea can possibly keep its movements secret. Large media organisations seem to be unable to say where large tankers have been if they turn their transponders off.

Don't we have constellations of satellites constantly imaging the entire earth, both with visual and synthetic aperture radar, with many offering their data freely to the public? Wouldn't a large ship on the ocean stick out somewhat? And yet journalists seem lost without vesselfinder. Is this harder than I'm imagining, or are they just not paying the right orgs for the info?

I've read reports about Havana Syndrome before and remain thoroughly unconvinced. The locations vary wildly, the symptoms vary wildly and can be explained by normal medical phenomena in a way Occam would find more agreeable.

Look at their 'smoking gun' evidence here:

He tracked down an email, what he considers a receipt, for services provided to the Russian government by a member of Unit 29155 for "potential capabilities of non-lethal acoustic weapons."

Acoustic crowd control weapons are not mysterious, there are people on YouTube building and testing them! American companies will sell them to any oppressive government around the world (I believe the ones used against Serbian protestors were American). Yet this description contradicts speculation about microwaves just a bit further down in the article.

It's cool they actually still commission concept paintings like this

Not sure what the downvotes are about, that looks to be exactly what happened.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...

I'm not sure how old you are, but I understand that that UK beer culture is in a great place now compared to the 80s, partly due to CAMRA.

Claude Code in the last three months has finally made it possible to dump Windows and buy a loaded MacBook Pro

What does this mean?

I like the open source app Loop Habit Tracker, but there's definitely an advantage to using paper for stuff like this.

https://loophabits.org/

If this is the only option, I would suggest that means the team doesn't know what they are doing.

mandatory age verification for all users is rolling out next month.

This is a lie, this only affects you if you want to view porn/nsfw channels on discord. I'm in the UK happily using it without age verification.