I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.
2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.
Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.
Airbnb allowed making guests do it.
They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.
I totally got that reference.
Wordpress being insecure has been a proven fact for a long time. But this PHP issue is something a bit more fundamental.
The claim that drupal powers 56% of government websites is repeated on a few sites. It seems to be from 2021. It doesn't have a credible source and seems to be false.
I hate clutter too, but if you turn all that off what does KDB have left that makes it better than anything else?
Personally I use sway. Everything stays out of my way. No start menu to complain about. The status bar is simple text and can be configured to display whatever I like in whatever format.
The price of memory also went up leaps and bounds recently.
Some intern got hold the source code and a Claude license and massively improved windoze.. We know from experience Microsoft programmers could not program their way out of a wet paper bag with scissors in their hands.
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"I'll america you in your americaing america!" – Smurf Intelligence
If shining 810nm light at someone's head a few times a week really does reduce the neurological consequences of repetitive impacts, that's potentially a pretty big deal.
How about avoiding those impacts in the first place? Or would that be un-American?
In other news, scientists are looking into geoengineering to cool our planet, so we can continue to drill-baby-drill until kingdom come.
The directional explanation reminds me of the backreaction conjecture. The basic idea is due to the inhomogeneity of the real universe: as the gravity within each concentration of matter (such as a group of galaxies) pulls it into a tighter clump, the distance between such clumps appears to increase.
I've only come across this idea because of Syksy Räsänen, who is famous in Finland for his goth looks and pro-Palestine activities. So the theory doesn't seem to be widely known.
Global warming is going gangbusters, we want to reverse it. So far we are attempting one thing only to reverse it, and that is emissions reduction.
I haven't seen any serious attempts at reducing emissions, quite the contrary. Sure, renewable electricity generation is a growing industry, but it's only a small part of the total energy budget that's growing fast. With a nation whose official motto is "drill baby drill" and an AI slop industry powered by gas turbines, it's hard to believe the story of renewables saving the world.
Instead of asking how we can power our cars with more climate-friendly sources, we should be questioning the need to drive around so much at all. If it weren't for the petrol industry, we'd probably spend our time more creatively than sitting around in traffic jams. In the early days, the automobile was a more efficient alternative to horse power, but then we ran into Jevons paradox. We're now seeing the same paradox in action with AI data centers; the computers that were supposed to save time and energy are now wasting it.
Maybe, just maybe, it is time to do a second and maybe a third thing to cool the climate? Or at very least do some research into alternatives to reducing emissions.
I'm OK with some form of climate engineering to cool the planet, but only if we're also serious about reducing emissions. Climate engineering shouldn't be an excuse that lets us continue drilling and burning our planet into ashes.
I run Audacity 1.2.6, and refuse to use anything newer.
I find the realtime effects in Audacity 3 pretty handy, though they're a rather limited selection. For example, I use a separate Nyquist plugin for nicer compression, which means it's not realtime. I try not to rely too much on a single piece of software, as they seem to come and go, and maintaining old versions on up-to-date distributions is not fun.
Whatever idiots took over the project and built 2.0 should have stuck to their anime and left FOSS development to people who knew how to use a PC.
Real Men (TM) use Ecasound for multitrack processing on the command line, like I did back in the 00s.
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. -- Wilson Mizner
