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Fond memories of TWiT in the early 2000s and his longstanding media deconstruction and analysis on the No Agenda show, where they eschew traditional advertising, run on open source software, build community, and rely on their listenership (Producers) for on-the-ground information and a 'value for value' funding source for the show.

The New York Times can suck a lemon, 40 minutes of my life, multiple calls and transfers to cancel a subscription. Hopefully this will be meaningfully enforced.

"...so there's no real environmental or economic reason to repair the old ones"

The environmental benefit to EVs with long service lives is substantial vs. crushing one in a landfill six years after it rolls off the line. Manufacturers ought to aim for repairability and maintain supply of parts, especially if they are pursuing an eco business strategy.

Thread / matter network seems to be beginning to integrate connected home devices across the big cloud vendors.

Door & window sensors, temp/humidity sensor, lock are 'endpoints' and use low power, light bulbs & strips, switches act as mesh nodes.

Highly responsive and seems reliable. I use Apple gear.

The United States recognizes the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China and acknowledges the Chinese position that Taiwan is part of China. This is known as the "One China policy".

The United States needs China for industrial and consumer goods. Our economy is brittle and will quickly break without them. This is the logical result of US policy. China clamping down on Taiwan from the official US position is effectively China more tightly controlling thwir existing territory.

Not even close to what happened in Russia vs. Ukraine situation.

New cable, tried both ports. The update was the only x-factor.

This is good advice. I kept my 4k Vizio offline until updating the firmware on a whim. The update broke the ability to run 1080p@60hz from my PC, making it effectively useless for normal use. The annoying part about the panel is that it was advertised as 4k but only works at 30hz at that resolution. Cheap, so should have figured.

Would an ARM-based mainboard variant be a possibility down the line?

Accounting for economic units is evident as far back as the Akkadian empire 5,000 years ago. Double-entry bookkeeping, central banking, ACH, SWIFT, etc. are iterations on a theme. CBDCs represent an incremental shift away from batch processing toward real-time messaging.

The current paradigm of universally KYC'd accounts, easily surveilled ACH, and a government-run interbank FedWire service already offer complete transparency to law enforcement and the treasury department.

ZSA moonlander has been a joy to use. After a few iterations using their highly polished and user friendly customization tools, I found a great layout and have been using it for over a year. Going between Planck (kit, assembled DIY) layout when traveling, 65% board at work, and split ortho moonlander at home has been fun.

Also props to the very fast and friendly ZSA customer service department. I had a defective keycap and they responded swiftly and sent a replacement.

Toyota Tercel SR5, VW Diesel Rabbit, Toyota Pickup, Tacoma, etc. are all enjoyable to drive with a standard (manual) transmission.

It is also a joy to be able to service and replace the clutch when required. Here's to hoping Toyota doesn't break with their history of having vehicles that are easy to work on with cheap plentiful parts available from the dealer even 30 years after it rolls off the production line.

Trying to replace a battery pack on my Nissan Leaf has been a nightmare. Rather than supporting owners, they seem to prefer you treat the vehicle as disposable, given availability, cost, and needed tools to service the EV.

Rings of power is equal parts boring, predictable, and positively ho-hum in every respect. Feels like it got focus-grouped to death. I am likely not the target audience, seeing as how Amazon provides ~14 languages for closed captioning - they may be seeking a more global audience with this content.

I read all the books and saw the Peter Jackson trilogy in theaters. This adaptation leaves a dull impression.

This reads like imperialism. Do you think Alaskans should be able to have a say in whether land is developed or improved adjacent to where you live, say, in Alabama? Wouldn't make much sense to me..

Please consider visiting rural Alaska. It might be more vast than you imagine. Please consider there are people in this community who need access to a critical resource that you likely take for granted. This particular example isn't a good 'hill to die on'.

Your view seems fundamentally misanthropic - instead of autochthonous population having access to a resource that you take for granted, you would rather kick them out into an expensive urban area where their life is disrupted? All for a perceived risk to a comparitively tiny corridor?

'Adverse development' is the term they use for the King Cove community's road to access an airport for emergency medical services. A group of rural Americans need access to a critical resource. They aren't building an open-pit mine.

'Trustees for Alaska' seems to be another majority out-of-state funded greenie organization that prioritizes a twisted anti-human agenda where if they got their way, entire villages would be eliminated and all of the residents relocated to an urban center.

This issue I see with your take is the identity of the bully - soft power versus hard power. The United States empire machine has long been deeply involved in the affairs of countries that could literally not be further away from the homeland. Russia or China behaving similarly in the affairs of Mexico or Canada would be treated as an act of war by the Americans

This reads like 3rd rate propoganda. No possibility of supplying monoclonal antibodies?

"An initial cohort will launch with 30 fellows in the fall at more than five participating agencies including GSA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."

30. Not 3,000? Last word about technological initiatives at the IRS made it sound like the entire team bailed due to bureaucratic slow-downs and piss-poor incentives?

What happened to google? Rhetorical

Parent seems to be referring to MIDs [1]

"Mediators of Individual Data (MIDs) are a union-like organization championed by technologist Jaron Lanier as a framework for addressing the key issues around user-generated data like ownership, monetization, and reparations. An effective MID or data union could perform a number of critical functions on behalf of its members that are currently lacking in the digital economy."

There exists also a great Harvard Business Review article, but it is paywalled.

[1] https://blog.datadividendproject.com/this-week-in-data-101-w...

AT&T cellular lists a user's data usage in kilobytes rather than gigabytes on the account page to obfuscate their poor business practices. Paradigm of credulity.

Half of a billion in lobbying dollars well spent by FAANG[1] - business as usual continues for facebook despite their decreasing popularity and repeated scandal and failure, from Cambridge Analytica to Libra.

Those in my immediate circle have mothballed or closed their accounts, although Instagram seems to have more holding power.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajdellinger/2019/04/30/how-the-...

A webcam that "just works" seems like a herculean task if the goal is to have native compatibility with most devices without installing a package - Chromebooks, Apple, *nix, etc. but given how decent cameras are standard on mid-tier phones, you're spot on

Please add [PDF] to the title of this post.

What are the blocks to developing community-driven libre drivers for common/cheap printers? Would it involve a lot of reverse-engineering and unique edge cases for each unit?

Several people in my circle already had sufficient jars for their crop, but had extreme difficulty finding new lids, as they are not reusable due to the heat-activated sealant on the jar interface.

But then again, most of the North Anerican supply chain has ground to a crawl (30 week delays for a home appliance, yay)

Media and political institutions have been attempting to bury the current president with the tired Russia narrative and other gambits since he walked down the escalator.

Joe's appeal today to "let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now!" seems disingenous given the past 4 years, but I do hope that our public discourse improves, for everyone's sake.

Many people in my circle are slowly diversifying away from google utilities, and I think that the low-level anti-google sentiment is useful to spawn new services, especially those that can be deployed and shared from a VPS, or for a relatively small yearly fee (subscription email, sovereign ansible playbooks, mastodon, etc)

Limiting tracking with google is performative, as they still retain and use all of your data within their system to continue to 'improve our results' (generate revenue).

There are enough self-hosted options and third-party paid alternatives that the Google ecosystem lock-in isn't as useful as it once was to me.