Possible. Based on an extremely liberal criteria intended to leave open any possibility for research for safety’s sake, regardless of how implausible it may be.

Epidemiological research in this case is unable to destinguish health effects due to the miriad of socioeconomic factors that lead people to live in undesirable properties extremely close to high tension power lines.

The internet isn’t the problem. The capital is.

I keep telling this story on every opportunity. I found out that IT blocked some game on my kids school network, and their peers were sharing this wisdom to get around it: "go on the app store, search free VPN and install the first one that comes up.

That is how this backfires. It just sets kids up as targets of the worst scum. And turns their devices into good little botnet nodes.

My kids devices went on my own tailnet that night so they could play the game.

If you got a $20 10g Ethernet, chances are you didn’t get one that is well supported on Freebsd. They currently lag behind Linux on the drivers for those. If you had a fully supported card, network throughput often beats Linux (with the caviat that it is going to depend on what you are doing with the firewall and QOS, obviously).

Precisely. I started running into this recently, and while I know I could work around it, I choose the lazy option and just load Lemmy instead.

Electric vehicles should actually ditch disk brakes and return to drum. Disk brakes are great for heat dissipation (not a problem on EVs because regen is the primary braking system) but they corrode and rust if not used regularly (as happens on EVs). Drum brakes, on the other hand, can be basically maintenance free until you wear out the shoes and are fully sealed. Lots of trailers have 20 year old drum brakes that still work!

Flac would be a waste of the limited storage on an IPhone that doesn’t even have the ability to play such high fidelity audio. You are limited to what? Bluetooth or the crappy DAC in the USB-C port with an adapter?

I always kept flac as an archival format, and transcoded when transferring to any device into the best format for that device.

Selfhosting implies streaming from your own server, so no syncing required.

I don’t know about this one, but these laws usually apply to any company doing commerce inside the jurisdiction. So any company with an office or other business presence there, not just hosting.

It would if Utah wasn’t the first of many.

And not only that, the leak happened because they added a journalist to their group chat by accident. Hilarity.

Politicians and beurocrats shouldn’t be using it anyway. They should be using something centrally auditable. I have Signal, but I talk to my colleagues in Teams for a reason. I could actually get in some trouble for using a secure back channel that cannot be FOI’d.

Indeed. ID laws are a wet dream of Meta and the like. Both because it gives them the unique ID the always wanted and because it is easier for them to comply than small upstarts.

Exactly why the for project recommends doing exactly not that.

Absolutely! Journalists really need to start describing these as what they are rather than the marketing term. It is much more accurate to call them “ID Checks” or something like that.

You are too generous. If a company registered in Utah has a user who is coming in via VPN, then that user could be from Utah and the company is not in compliance unless they enforce age verification and thus liable. Thus, everyone has to hand over their ID. No one cares if a NY resident or European or whatever gets caught in it too. That’s not a requirement to avoid.

You are imparting rationality on a system known for not acting rationally. Capitalists both act against their own interests and against the larger communities interests quite frequently. Economists sometimes describe it is “economic externalities” and recognised long ago that modelling players as rational actors was flawed. Why would companies risk their own futures by funding climate denialism?

It will kill off projects that rely on sideloading. Slowly, but if you need to do the dance, fewer and fewer people will use them.

Those are not the metrics that are important for storing wind and solar. Cost per MWh is the important one.

It is great to see, and isn’t an unreasonable jump from lifepo4. They already do 4-6k charge cycles with something like 20% degradation. This is a bigger deal for electronics and vehicles as it would make battery replacements unnecessary.

Precisely. The worst actors on the corporate social media sites are paying for their exposure. They get banned and just pop up new again.