The Earth's magnetic field is weakening which is measurable by the accelerating traversal of the magnetic poles. That's why a relatively small CME last year caused the same Northern Lights all the way down to Hawaii as the Carrington Event which was 10x stronger. The beauty is unquestionable but the impacts will cause us difficulty.

There was a recent solar storm which ionized the atmosphere more than we are used to as "normal" in our recent history, which sets up the conditions for lightning to travel further. The physics on it are pretty simple with all variables considered.

We're going to see more of these than we're used to as the pole shift continues to accelerate.

This happens every 6000 years or so and we're right on schedule but we're really unprepared to handle it. Preparing for this ought to be a planet-wide project for our species, and to help out the other species that rely on geomagnetic migration for their reproductive success.

As a kid in the 80's we only needed to update our compass calculations for variance to True North every 20 years or so; now it's yearly.

I wish Humanity could not plant their heads in the sand on this one but I'm planning like we will.

Yes, it's quite rare that a Congressman's constituents are his voters.

Maybe a dozen, max.

Yet incumbents win reelection 92 % of the time.

We also have the government we deserve.

Just for history's sake, it's obvious that mimicking these cavities on a nanoscale chip could be very useful in optical computing.

Hello, future archive.org viewer.

> It also has its own NIC.

Now the story makes sense.

Thank you for the important context.

Now we know the name of the reboot character.

and only Play Store can do background security updates due to special privileges.

For F-Droid you have to run a Magisk extension on a rooted phone. That's bad for security because most people can't or won't.

Detractors claim Epic just wanted Google to run the Play Store infrastructure at a loss to increase Epic's profits.

Nobody numerate believes that but they claim Epic did it for that reason which would be shitty except they didn't.

Somebody could probably make a good business out of running a store at 5% markup.

They yammer on about Temu but the hardest hit sector will be small R&D shops that get parts and components as the need comes up and now they'll have 2-3 week delays on every order at Customs.

I've seen stuff disappear into the Customs black hole for six weeks and there's nothing you can do but reship and home the Chinese Roulette favors you.

It would be great if Adafruit and Sparkfun were 50x their size but that's not reality and manufacturing was driven out on purpose. It can't return for a decade even if a project were started today.

Watch: the media will say small businesses are complaining about the 15% to try to fool everybody. In prototyping almost nobody cares if an SoC is $10 or $11.50.

Trump's Corporate donors will be just fine and face fewer upstart competitors so it is working as intended.

All that to avoid switching over to DDG for another search?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F%3Fq%3Dmaur...

Haven't even tried Yandex for this one.

"Work too hard, I want somebody else to do it for me for free."

I don't begrudge anybody who takes two weeks to learn how to admin a linux system with Docker, but if you fail, keep working, don't insist everybody's municipal government take over and tax your neighbors to give you "free" luxury services.

And, yes, never will everybody have the skills to self-host. Some people could never learn to program their VCR and their oven clock always blinks. They can't even handle a Synology.

"I failed, this is doomed" isn't how a society progresses. Ask a friend to give you a hand.

Is this repairable?

It looks like it could be a grid of replaceable parts but the review doesn't mention it.

That would be worth being ugly like driving a 1999 Big Box Chevy truck.

I get vibes of when I bought an Essential PH-1 though.

> Was that knowledge filed away in a locked cabinet somewhere

Space rockets are the same thing as ICBM's so it's not going to be published in Popular Mechanics.

SpaceX is put under NatSec restrictions and ITAR even as a private company.

But getting a successful liftoff is a great achievement. Many first rockets detonate on the pad, even Starships.

If eating more salads, drinking less beer, and jogging could fix their weight, most would do that

So you're going to tell me the laws of thermodynamics are BS? Eating less and exercising more absolutely COULD fix their weight. Many (most?) people just don't have the discipline to do so. Like it may actually require you feeling hungry and uncomfortable for a period of time, but you will lose weight, because physics/biology. For instance, if you ate zero calories for a few days, I can assure you, weight will go down, regardless of your "genes". Just because people don't have the willpower and fortitude to accept some short-term discomfort to achieve long-term success, don't try to pretend they're genetically immune to losing weight. It may be harder for them, or more uncomfortable to achieve success, but it's not impossible.

I'm self-hosting Vaultwarden on my LAN, a Bitwarden-compatible backend written in Rust. I have it running inside a jail on TrueNAS Core (which, alas, is now end-of-life). It hosts its own Web interface, but also is compatible with Bitwarden's Android app and browser plugins.

So far, it's worked out pretty well for me.

It's hard to get anybody to use Briar since you must unlock every single time, no choice. I briefly considered running a local fork in-house without that requirement so others would use it.

And Meshtastic needs hardware.

This all reminds me of Broadcast that supported LocalTalk Phase I *and" Phase II.

circa, what, 1988?

Maybe Bluetooth 6 will have enough range to be useful?