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throwaway742··on U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs
I wish we would build out nuclear here in CA.
throwaway742··on U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs
I've lived in California for decades and have never experienced a rolling blackout. The only times my power has gone out was because of maintenance, one particularly bad thunderstorm, and drivers crashing into the poles.
throwaway742··on U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs
In the US only 2.4% of cars are manual mostly driven by enthusiasts.
throwaway742··on First in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot
Disabling it is always one of the first things I do with a new system even if it is running windows. It's probably not rational, but I hate the whole concept of a TPM.
throwaway742··on Apartment rents fall as new supply hits market
Someone should tell my landlord.
throwaway742··on Apartment rents fall as new supply hits market
Because you could end up with a scenario where there is nothing available.
throwaway742··on Last undersea Internet cable connecting Vietnam with the world breaks down
No but I did go to a meeting once. They had doughnuts.
throwaway742··on Last undersea Internet cable connecting Vietnam with the world breaks down
I make these accounts every so often, use them for a while, and then make a new one. It is just for general privacy reasons.
throwaway742··on Jimmy Carter: Unlucky President, Lucky Man
In Indonesia the Carter administration provided aid and weapons to the Suharto government even after evidence of atrocities in East Timor and many other atrocities had come to light.

In El Salvador the Carter administration provided funding to the Revolutionary Government Junta who were also responsible for numerous atrocities.

The Carter administration also provided support for the Guatemalan military government including using Israel to provide them with weapons and military aid in defiance of the embargoes passed by congress. His administration even provided training for their security forces at clandestine sites in Chile and Argentina.

throwaway742··on Last undersea Internet cable connecting Vietnam with the world breaks down
I don't know it seems plausible to me that it was just an accident. There is plenty of legitimate Russian activity in that area. I'm no fisherman so someone correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think it is that unusual for them to go back and forth. It's not surprising that it happened to a vulnerable spot, because if it wasn't vulnerable the cable wouldn't have broke and no one would be looking into it. Finally the Russians have submarines they could use to cut the cable without being detected. Who runs a covert op with AIS on?
throwaway742··on Chemists create methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water (2022)
I usually have had good luck emailing the authors. Often they include related resources and I get the distinct feeling I made their day.
throwaway742··on Does your office have a library?
I have a book I accidentally stole from the library. Does that count?
throwaway742··on A compilation of websites with dumb password rules
T-Mobile has a fun one. When creating the account they let me set a IIRC 6 digit account security PIN, but when setting up online access they only accepted a 4 digit PIN necessitating a call to customer service to reset the PIN.

Bonus Points: resetting the PIN had almost no security checks making it completely worthless as security

throwaway742··on A compilation of websites with dumb password rules
That's actually impressive that they took action.
throwaway742··on The creator of North Korean hackers’ new favorite crypto privacy service
Doesn't that risk making them tainted and unspendable?
throwaway742··on The cheapest flash microcontroller you can buy is actually an Arm Cortex-M0+
Everything is from China.
throwaway742··on Towards a Reproducible F-Droid
That's odd. I've never had an issue with F-Droid over many years and across many devices.
throwaway742··on Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator
Yeah I'm more of a hoodler than a trader, but it seemed unfathomable to me that you wouldn't be able to trade them directly. It's just common sense.
throwaway742··on Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator
Are there no direct Tether/USDC pairing anywhere?
throwaway742··on Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse
Yep it's called furrow irrigation and I see it used extensively here in the CA desert. It is one of the cheapest, but least efficient forms of irrigation.
throwaway742··on Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of homelessness
Good point I did miss that. They also included mentally ill with substance abuse disorders.
throwaway742··on Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of homelessness
Is there any state where you can't get benefits without a permanent address or am I missing something here?
throwaway742··on Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of homelessness
It doesn't help that we are basically doing the opposite. In my experience you pretty much have to already be homeless to get any help. It would be nice if you didn't have to lose everything before you get assistance.
throwaway742··on Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of homelessness
That number seems unbelievably high. LAHSA for example found that only 15% of homeless individuals have a substance abuse disorder.

https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=3422-2019-greater-los-ang...

throwaway742··on Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
I thought YOLO was more of a millennial thing.
throwaway742··on Saying “sup” with `net send`
The command that got me in trouble was shutdown /i
throwaway742··on ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location
Why is China our enemy?
throwaway742··on 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
Monkey's paw curls.
throwaway742··on Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part I)
Thank you!
throwaway742··on Netflix: 30% bitrate saving using Film Grain Synthesis
Imagine watching ads in 2022.
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