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Phrenzy··on I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn GBs a day
doubleplusgood
Phrenzy··on All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration
...but your X-10 stuff will need to be replaced.
Phrenzy··on The word 'bot' is increasingly being used as an insult on social media
cronbot, mostly likely.
Phrenzy··on Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
No.

You are forgetting the Ottoman Empire, the Byzantine empire, the Roman Empire, the Ptolemaic Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the British Empire, the Canaanite Empire, and all the others I have neglected to mention.

Phrenzy··on Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers
Is the origin of using the word, baloney, to imply a statement is untruthful?
Phrenzy··on Show HN: Not sure you're talking to a human? Create a human check
An old timey electronics person just might say, "gray."
Phrenzy··on Rumours of SR-71 Blackbird Successor from Lockheed's Skunkworks
No. The Q's ran on JP-7. They had the turbojet engines, while most other tankers had turbofans.
Phrenzy··on Rumours of SR-71 Blackbird Successor from Lockheed's Skunkworks
When they were still flying, I worked on them at Beale AFB. You always knew when an SR was going to take off. About an hour prior, 2 KC-135Q's would take off like a bat out of hell. They would always use water injection and you could see their black smoke trails.

An hour later, you would hear a giant rumbling coming from the flight line. It would get louder and louder until it was all you could hear. As the SR shot off into the distance, you could slowly make out the din of all the car alarms on base.

They would sometimes need 4 tankers and they would shoot off in pairs. I was told they always had two tankers per fill up. They would grab some from one and then some more from the other.

Back in the 90's it was estimated that each SR flight had a cost of at least a million dollars with fuel costs, wages, etc.

Phrenzy··on Astronauts drop tool bag into orbit that you can see with binoculars
Or a metric Crescent wrench.
Phrenzy··on All About Cats, and What Ethernet Classifications Mean
Silly boy, the m is silent.
Phrenzy··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
You could say that about a lot of followers of belief systems. If someone 'ardently' believes effective altruism & they are confident they will one day save the world; wouldn't committing crimes once in a while be worth the long term result of the world being saved?

Effective altruism is just a way for sociopaths to mask their actions while they burn down the world.

Phrenzy··on The Fall of Babylon is a warning to AI unicorns
Mostly because the similarity is implied.
Phrenzy··on Raspberry Pi 5
I have 4 pi4's running HiFiBerryOS. They connect to my Roon VM. I can group them together & they will play the same song in sync.

I have a pi4 running OSMC with the Plex addon attached to my television.

I've got about a half dozen Pi 0 W's with addon sensors that inform my Home Assistant of the temp, humidity, PM2.5 level, and CO2 levels in each room.

I just ordered a CM4 to run the PiKVM board for my homelab server.

I also plan to monitor and water my plants using Pi 0 W's.

I just ordered a Pi4 for running BirdNet, to identify birds in my area.

I would also like to work with ChatGPT to identify people and/or birds around my house.

Phrenzy··on Ask HN: Where to buy second hand server/computer parts?
https://www.servermonkey.com/
Phrenzy··on NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa
This is where chirality rears its ugly head.
Phrenzy··on NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa
I am excited to see what can be in Europa's deep oceans. But I've always felt Enceladus would be a better place to start looking. Europa requires a lot of burrowing into ice, whereas Enceladus could reveal some of its secrets with a couple of proper flybys.
Phrenzy··on NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa
Here is a great series about the water in the outer solar system & the rest of the Universe.
Phrenzy··on Hexadecimal clock counting down to 2038 problem
"There are 5 differences between these two spreadsheets. Can you find them all?"
Phrenzy··on iPhone 15’s shift to USB-C
I've always seen it as a morphing into an iPod that accepts phone calls.
Phrenzy··on Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password
Whatever, Tim Apple...
Phrenzy··on Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla
I learned that very thing setting up my home automation. I was originally planning on designing and printing some sort of button arrangement. But I ended up buying a bunch of cheap Walmart tablets.

Easy to set up and keep updated. But... I'm not driving 70mph when I'm trying to dim the living room lights.

Phrenzy··on The World’s First U2 Spy Plane Photo Shoot at the Edge of Space
Once upon a time, I used to support these very aircraft. I worked as a technician on the flightline. As an airman, you show up to work every day in a uniform. For us, it was either a set of camo BDUs or 'blues.'

No one I knew that I worked with preferred blues over BDUs. One would wear blues only if absolutely required.

Phrenzy··on A place where no humans will tread for 100k years
Yeah, kinda of. Not a lot of sunlight in Northern Europe. Not a lot of wind in some areas.
Phrenzy··on Credit card fee fight pits payment companies against retailers
My CC gives me cash back and provides cell phone insurance if I pay my cell bill with their card. If T-mobile pulls that on me, I'm gone.
Phrenzy··on A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now
How will that help? Does the dog inhale the ethylene gas?
Phrenzy··on A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now
I would rather not require the use of my FIDO key to obtain an ice bream sandwich.
Phrenzy··on The hidden cost of gasoline
It's an electrolyte, so they crave it. /s
Phrenzy··on Fox settles Dominion defamation lawsuit for $787.5M, avoiding trial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEQmpVIE4A
Phrenzy··on Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)
Well... We are surrounded by water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M186s319ob8&list=PLa0TgREKn1...

Phrenzy··on Even the Densest Metal Doesn't Exceed USPS Shipping Weight Limit (2022)
I have another thing to add to the list, "If I became a millionaire."

A complete set of tungsten dumbbells.

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