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Rivalarrival

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  • Turbine go brrrr

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  • Exactly.

    Nuclear plants are probably the least efficient, because they required all that fusion energy inside earlier stars to build hydrogen into uranium, and we can only extract a tiny portion of that trapped fusion energy through fission.

  • Turbine go brrrr

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  • That's called a "Dyson sphere".

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    Showers, morning or night?

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  • Both. Sometimes a third.

    The morning one is the long one, the central part of the 20-minute shit/shower/shave trifecta. Then there is the afternoon one, to rinse off the work-grime before starting the evening. If outdoor activities are on the evening itinerary, a third one: rinse off dust, sweat, urushiol oil (poison ivy), check for ticks, stretch sore muscles, etc.

    But on the rare, lazy saturday? Fuck it.

  • Turbine go brrrr

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  • Doesn't seem particularly efficient to me... The sun burns hundreds of millions of tons of hydrogen every second. The amount of released energy we actually put to use is indistinguishable from zero, not 45%.

  • We need more cranks

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  • I remember an officer chastising another crewman for using a non-standard interface. I think it was Worf in TNG. Edit: Worf, yes, but DS9. S04E07, "Starship Down"

    I also remember a blinded Tuvok activating a tactile interface at his station. (VOY, S04E08, "Year of Hell")

  • We need more cranks

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  • Touchscreens in cars can't work properly for anything that needs to be operated while in motion. Everything the driver touches while in motion should be tactile.

  • Data Finds Republicans are Obsessed with Searching for Transgender Porn

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  • It's not about confession. It's about "Jesus died for your sins". If his sacrifice "saves" you from your deepest, darkest perversions, the deeper and darker those perversions, the more meaningful the sacrifice.

    Did he die just to save you from the perils of having lusted over an exposed ankle? Or does his sacrifice cover the 20 hours a week you spend fantasizing about hot Asian femboys pounding your tight ass?

  • Fcking Clusterfck’: GOP Senator Blasts Trump’s War, Says Troops Needed to Reopen Strait

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  • *Epstein's war.

  • How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup?

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  • Let's try this a different way...

    How do you want to indicate something should be retained? What is the single, physical act you want to perform to tell the operating system "this thing needs to be captured"?

  • How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup?

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  • The screenshot folder itself is certainly not limited to just screenshots. Any file you can save can be kept in there. To my mind, the "entry point" is "saving a file to this particular folder", regardless of the specific method used to do the saving. The screenshot is just an extremely convenient way to do that.

    I just thought of a way to improve this technique with Tasker. Tasker can work with the clipboard, edit files, and take a screenshot. So, you could set up a gesture to trigger a task in Tasker. Tasker can then take the screenshot, dumping it into the folder. Tasker can then check the clipboard; if there is text in your clipboard, it can prepend it to a single "TODO.txt" in your screenshot folder.

    Linux could be configured much the same way, using shutter and xclip to capture the screenshot and clipboard, respectively.

  • How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup?

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  • What always got me personally is exactly that — over time I’d end up with multiple “entry points” depending on context (screenshot, chat, browser, notes…).

    So long as you're manually processing everything, screenshots work for all of that. You can take a note in any text box anywhere, and screenshot it. Chat message? Screenshot. Browser? Screenshot. Notes? Screenshot. You can even take a photo and then screenshot it to capture it into your workflow.

    I have Shutter (apt install shutter) on my desktop, and I've changed the Print Screen key to shortcut to "shutter -s". This lets me capture an area of my screen with one button (and a mouse drag). Bam, more screenshot.

    The downsides of screenshot are obvious, of course: Extracting the text from the screenshot is a bit of a pain in the ass. If you really want to keep the same entry point, though, you could setup a script to OCR newly captured screenshot/photos to extract the text. An OCR-friendly font might make that pretty reliable.

    Now I want to improve my setup...

  • How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup?

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  • On my phone, my Screenshot folder is syncthing'd to my desktop, so most of the time, capturing something in the moment is as simple as dragging three fingers down my screen. My Camera and default Download folders are also syncthing'd, so just taking a picture or saving something from a browser has it captured across my devices.

    I also use Tududi, which has Telegram integration, for the quick note. Taking the note is just a matter of sending a message in Telegram, which is available on all my devices. Signal's "Note To Self" feature is also useful; I trust it more than Telegram for sensitive data. In Firefox on my desktop, I have "Automatic Tab Opener" (Browser extension) pulling up my Tududi inbox every hour, reminding me to actually deal with the notes I have previously taken.

  • TIL: Stretching probably doesn't reduce injury

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  • I don't know if stretching reduces injury, but I know if I don't take a few minutes to work my fingers, wrists, and forearms before hammering at the anvil, I end up with a ton of mis-strikes and cramps until I'm fully warmed up. Precision suffers when I don't stretch.

  • How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup?

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  • Syncthing functions as a sort of decentralized Dropbox or Google drive, by keeping folder content synchronized across any number of devices. I haven't tried the iOS clients, but android, Linux, and windows work great.

  • ICE: $45 an Hour to Stand There. TSA: $0 an Hour to Keep You Safe

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  • To counter this threat, they instituted two positive reforms: bulletproof, locking cockpit doors, and armed air marshals. No longer would pilots respond to a threat in the cabin of the aircraft, allowing the attackers to control the plane directly or indirectly, and an air marshal on board can eliminate any actual threat to passengers.

    The actual reform came a little earlier. The actual reform was "Let's Roll".

    Prior to Flight 93, the assumption was that the visible hijackers had a hidden accomplice with a bomb. Hollywood told us that anyone trying to be a "hero" would get everyone killed. That cultural mindset was entirely responsible for 9/11.

    "Let's Roll" was the attitude change on Flight 93, when they realized there was something worse than getting all the passengers killed. "Let's Roll" is the idea that we are each personally responsible for providing our own security and protecting those around us. "Let's Roll" is the recognition that appeasement is bullshit.

    Air marshals are just more security theater. They aren't likely to be present when needed, and they certainly can't be trusted to "eliminate any actual threat to passengers".

  • The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US.

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  • You aren't understanding my point.

    My point is that you can continue to import and sell the exact same physical device, just with a little change in marketing, and possibly software.

    My point is this: Once you have acquired the device, there is fuck all the FCC can do about you converting your "ham radio" back into a consumer-grade router.

  • Surge in Systemd forks after the latest changes

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  • This feature isn't depriving anyone of anything. Neither is the guillotine in my front yard. It hasn't been used to decapitate anyone. It's just sitting there in case it's needed at some point in the future.

    Oh, those cameras in the elementary school bathroom? Yeah, those aren't actually hooked up. They don't have any power, let alone a network connection to the security camera system we just ordered. Those cameras are there just in case they are needed later.

    This date field is a Checkov Gun hanging on the wall in the first act.

  • The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US.

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  • This only applies to routers.

    It's not widely known outside the ham radio community, but part of the 2.4GHz wifi band overlaps the 13cm amateur radio band. If you turn off 5GHz wifi and lock the 2.4GHz AP to Channel 1, it qualifies as a ham radio, and can be sold as a ham radio instead of an AP/Router. You do need a ham radio license to operate it as a Ham AP, but you do not need a license to buy a Ham AP.

    If the end user wants to turn on 5GHz after the fact, there is not a damn thing the FCC can do about it.

  • What to study to be able to host a site?

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  • I would strongly suggest Pangolin for that use case. It combines a reverse proxy with a VPN tunnel between your local network and your VPS. You can host your services on your local machine, and serve them from the VPS. Pangolin also sets up your letsencrypt certs for https.

    It also provides a security layer: if enabled for a site, you have to be logged in to Pangolin before Pangolin will proxy traffic to your site.