Finland is in the top 10 of the most mayo consuming countries, so they could just as well call it “save a trip” size.

I agree with your points but it is extremely frustrating that they also are killing the science to try and have better predictions and not even bothering with managing climate change which will make these kind of events more frequent and more devastating. I am sure you already know but it is so damn frustrating. People are dying and it only is going to get worse.

When they say WhatsApp I gotta think that would be the same for any third party conversation app right? I would never use whatsapp, and I would hope any security minded person wouldnt either. But I do rely on an opensource sms launcher and signal. I would assume the framework would make it mess with those too.

This sucks. Horribly sucks. I can’t stand apple products, they cant do anything. I know that even having google play on my android device means I am fucked anyways, but this is a new low from google.

Feels weird to buy a google pixel, only to be able to expect it is the best way to not have google on it. (grapheneos or similar).

I liked the other attachment that fits around mason jar lids. Creates a tight seal, the jar does not crush the contents, and you no longer need plastic bags. Also, the glass jar can go straight into the fridge.

LOL.

Rogue, Hack, Nethack. Basically nethack, but it built on those before it. Occaisonally Larn. Amiga Larn.

Thanks for the article. That is interesting. It also is confusing that they wrote “Lidar is not the only thing that can damage camera sensors – lasers are just as harmful.” Uh…Lidar is Laser.

But it is in so many fields, even devices with cameras. Apple has been adding Lidar to their phones/tablets for 5 years now. Why is this an issue now? Like I said, there is a TON of Lidar in use everyday.

Can it really cause damage? Lidar is flown constantly, and all of googles street view had been ran with lidar. That’s millions of miles of data collection and I haven’t heard of any negative effects. I get that it is a laser, but is duration and distance must be big factors.

Not saying you are wrong, just looking to quanitfy the risks.

Well about that. The FCC and the EU came to an agreement about use of Galileo gps.

This means the opposite can be true, and they can require a push to revoke Galileo. Or the EU could revoke the gps as well. The license can effectively stop most people from having gps even Galileo. Yes you could avoid the update, try and use the signals anyways, but for the majority of people, a simple update and its gone.

At least in the states anyways.

I’ve said this before, first weather. Then GPS. That is going to suck. A lot of people probably don’t remember when GPS was obfuscated. We could go back to that, or completely scrambled without a key.

Bullshit and just stopped.

You could argue they campaigned on being tough on immigration, but deportation instead of path to citizenship where possible is the difference.

That is part of the outrage: Biden granted asylum, biden laid out a framework to get to citizenship, and trumps taking that away, arresting at court hearings of people who had been given a chance.

I am not a fan of biden, but what you are saying is bullshit and a major distraction.

No.

Yeah, I considered mentioning that there are alternatives, but there was a review just in 2024 by the FCC to see if they were going to continue to allow Galileo to be recieved. And even then I think it’s only two channels.

Which tells me the FCC could determine it illegal and force an update, at least to commercial devices like cell phones.

Take this with a grain of salt, its from memory. I would be happy to have someone verify this.

Waiting, sadly, for GPS to go back to being obfuscated again. It’s bound to happen. Want GPS? You gotta pay.

Seems off topic, I know, but they did this (hurricane) by turning off satellite feeds

For what it’s worth I have a printer that won’t work on windows no matter what I do. But it just works on Linux, copy and scan with no effort on my part.

It would seem weird it isn’t supported, but also weird that you are trying to find manufacture drivers. Shouldn’t be needed.

You can go look at Netsplit.de for all IRC stats, and use the way back machine to compare. But the wikipedia article sums this up nicely:

After its golden era during the 1990s and early 2000s (240,000 users on QuakeNet in 2004), IRC has seen a significant decline, losing around 60% of users between 2003 and 2012, with users moving to social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter,[5] but also to open platforms such as XMPP which was developed in 1999.

And it is exactly this why it never recovered or came back. Too many other platforms that were easier to use and more mainstream. Like I said I love IRC, but most people are going to discord or something like it instead.

One client? Over what time period? This is really selective data, lol

I put the name of one of them in a conment. But seriously, this is basic information. You are basing your belief on not noticing. All evidence is to the contrary. Go look.

There are sites that track this information or you can use the way back machine. IRC is a quarter or less of what it used to be in say 2005-2010.

That is real data.

sms is not even an option for us; international texting costs a lot. Some people don’t even use a phone, they rely on internet connected devices only. Trying to coordinate all of this gets complicated fast.