Buelldozer

Nuclear has been slow, for a variety of reasons, but that is about to change.

I’m confused, are you in China or the United States? Your comment history strongly alludes to both, depending on what you’re saying.

Woke? Here in Wyoming they sell special wildlife license plates to help fund building these and the plates are THE accessory for hunters and sportsman to hang on theirntruck.

This is for business accounts.

Fatigue after only two hours of driving? Okay grandma. Seriously, where I live two hours at 80mph won’t get you to the state line!

To test against the SR-72.

Linux ain’t gonna save you. The major distros rolled over at speed of LIGHT when this shit started popping off earlier in the year. I was disgusted and appalled at how fast many of the major FOSS players caved in. You’re going to need to move to BSD or Haiku or something.

Any subscription whose monthly price ends in .99 will have an annual price that ends in .88.

• Netflix @ 8.99 a month? That’s 107.88! Nazis!
• Crunchyroll @ 9.99 / 13.99 / 17.99 a month! Nazis!
• Xbox Gamepass @ 9.99 a month? That’s 119.88! Nazis!

Did no one in these comments pass grade school math?!

Sounds bad…until you realize that this is how math works. Any subscription whose monthly price ends in .99 will have an annual price that ends in .88.

• Netflix @ 8.99 a month? That’s 107.88! Nazis!
• Crunchyroll @ 9.99 / 13.99 / 17.99 a month! Nazis!
• Xbox Gamepass @ 9.99 a month? That’s 119.88! Nazis!

Only people who are bad at math and committed to finding Nazis, real or imaginary, hiding in every nook and cranny even think about this.

If that that’s not enough consider that prices ending .99 have been a sales tactic since forever. It’s sometimes called “Charm Pricing” or “The 99 Effect”.

“Just gonna keep using 10 and pass everything through a pfsense router. Strictly speaking it’s the cheaper and safer option.”

No.

The pfsense router is fine but continuing to use an outdated OS that was riddled with vulnerabilities when it was current is not only the LEAST safe option it also means that you are ignoring vastly more secure and FREE options.

Dump Windows 10 and install Linux Mint.

Everyone calling the shots in China is a Billionaire.

Webrings still exist.

This article reminded me to check deflock.me where I found that in the last 90 days my city finally got a Flock camera. There’s only one but I’ve been driving by the damn thing every day on my way to work without realizing it.

I’d like to know whose responsible for it; City, County, or State but regardless I now have a decision to make.

No but at least the data isn’t being immediately uploaded to Meta / Google / Apple or whatever for storage and processing.

If they are Open Source it also opens the door for some kind of control device that a person could have that broadcasts a “Do Not Record” signal that could in theory prevent Open Source glasses from recording in your presence. That kind of thing will never happen with Commercial / For Profit glasses.

We need an Open Source version of these glasses. It’s the only solution that will work.

There are multiple systems for handling drone swarms in the pipeline right now. Some of them are nearly through testing and will start production and deployment later this year. Leonidas and de-shorad are two examples.

The idea of putting Cameras on City Vehicles and using AI to find problems, including Code Enforcement issues, is a good one IMO. The problem, as the article notes, is what that data is going to be used for in the future. We used to call this a Slippery Slope argument but the past 10 years have proven that if data is harvested that it will eventually be misused; it’s some kind of parallel to Godwin’s Law that I am going to coin as “Flock’s Law”.

In this specific instance Flock’s Law tells us that the authorities will inevitably start scanning the photos / videos for people in order to track movements, the Police will be in the database stalking people, and you’ll start getting tickets for over-filling your trash can.

Meanwhile all people really want, and what won’t happen, is someone to come by to get that absolutely jungle of a lawn mowed, fix a broken sidewalk, replace a missing street sign, or move the damn boat / camper / trailer / junk car that has been parked in the street for the last year.

The only way to stop or reverse this is to get conservative capitalists out of our government.

So basically everyone including the Democratic Socialist Mayor of Seattle.

…so the next actionable step is to vote for and support socialists…

On the east Coast the formerly fiery Mamdani has gone silent on this issue since becoming Mayor.

I can find examples of this kind of thing from all over the United States. I’m using Mayors Wilson and Mamdani because they directly refute the idea that “Socialists” will stop this. They clearly will not.

My S26+ is decent and it was a nice upgrade over my S22+.

Foldable flip phones are an overly complicated solution to a nonexistent problem.

They solve the same problems as the original folding phones. They allow you to keep you phone in your slacks or skirt pocket without destroying the look of your outfit or the screen of your phone.

Slab phones are a disaster for pocket-ability. Yes you can shove it in your back pocket where it looks like ass, breaks your ass when you sit down, and breaks the screen or the phone itself if you sit down in the wrong way or on the wrong thing.

Folding phones solve those problems.