Not a replicant

I’d like to know what they’re going to do about the heating issue. Concentrating solar radiation carries with it an increased heat load. And heat reduces solar PV efficiency. I’m already losing about 30% in summer when the panels heat up.

Fursuits

You’ve heard the term “balkanization”? You’ve just invented “US-ification”.

More states = more politicians 🤮

There are states in Australia that can swallow Texas whole. Long distance driving is unavoidable, so it’s less useful as a metric because it can’t be changed easily. It would mean improving public transport, subsidising domestic flights, etc - and we all know how likely that is.

I’m fed up with gmail requiring an “app-specific” password for Outlook. Not some crusty old 2007 version, the 2021 LTSC version.

Doesn’t require an app-specific password from its own app on android, oh no.

What about the Stay-puft^tm Marshmallow Man?

Ahh, but what OS does Joi use?

The Doors - “LA Woman”

Talk about clickbait … Article title: trump can pull the plug on the internet and europe can’t do anything about it (my emphasis) First line: the U.S. could unplug Europe from the digital world (not “pull the plug on the internet”) And then further down: “The fatal vulnerability is Europe’s near-total dependency on U.S. cloud providers.”

So first, it’s “the internet”, then it’s “unplug europe from the digital world”, then it’s “europe’s dependency on US cloud providers”

So it’s NOT “the internet”, and it’s NOT “unplug europe”, it’s disconnect european customers from US cloud providers.

Methinks Monseiur Pollet doesn’t understand very much about the internet.

LOL no. There are many good reasons choose Linux on the desktop/laptop, but the so-called Win10 apocalypse isn’t in the top 10.

ffmpeg - www.deb-multimedia.org . I edit podcast videos for distribution to subscribers. High-quality video produces very large files but if they’re only going to be watched on laptops, tablets, and phones, I can throw away a lot of bits without noticeably affecting quality on a phone screen.

And nothing does that better or faster than ffmpeg.

Can confirm re: Italy. I scored a bottle of the family wine when I spoke Italian to the guy renting me his cottage for a week.

OS400 (IBM i)

No, just “farmers”. Qualified by what they raise, e.g. “Bill, a cattle farmer from Dalby” or “Harry, a wheat farmer from the Downs”

I didn’t say it was a bad thing, I wanted to know about some of the broader implications, e.g. govt ownership doesn’t remove legal obligations. I doubt the govt could continue to offer service under the previous T&C, some sections would need revision. And Starlink’s T&C are slightly different in some countries, as are the operating conditions. Some countries who are nominally friendly with Starlink/SpaceX to allow ground stations, POPs, etc, might not be so keen on the US govt controlling things.

These are just some of the things that popped into my head when I read the article.

And the international customers, what about them? The ground stations, POPs, and terminals in other countries, hmmmm?

These tariffs are having some funny consequences.

1. US places tariffs on Australian beef
2. US has shortage of lean Aussie beef (for those hamburger patties, you know), so demand is still high
3. Tariffs have the effect of weakening the AUD against the USD
4. Oz beef is traded in USD
5. Oz farmers are now earning more for their beef exported to the US

There’s a lot of copper pairs left underground. Many hundreds of thousands of kilometres of it. Use it as a pull-through for fibre-optic bundles, and everyone can have gigabit internet.

Seriously though, there’ll come a time when that underground obsolete copper will become economic to retrieve.

Heh. My batteries are flooded lead-acid, all 1320ah of 'em. No copper guilt here.

YT becoming shittier and shittier with ads is why I’ve changed to downloaders instead. No ads.