Badabinski

No, it’s syphilitic brain damage.

I fucking hate that the use of emdashes (i.e. —) is associated with fuckass LLMs. I use them all the time and now I’m worried I’ll be mistaken for an LLM.

Your link is borked. Here’s a fixed version: https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/meta-whistleblower-testifies-on-facebook-practices/658354

I mean, yeah. I wouldn’t have found that project and gone to the effort of using it if a simple dehu was all I needed. I wanted something I could control with my local home assistant install, and you can’t just hard power cycle a dehumidifier, it kills them.

That’s why projects like this are great: https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-midea-dehumidifier

My Midea Cube dehumidifier can never be bricked and will never send data outside of my home. It talks to Home Assistant via MQTT and nothing else.

Sounds like they either used a boilerplate EULA or hired a lawyer who is unaware of the requirements imposed by the GPL. If it’s the latter then I hope they can get their money back.

EDIT: yeah, this looks like an unmodified GPL to me: https://github.com/layground/pockaw/blob/master/LICENSE.md

I use one of those daily and god they’re all terrible. They’re huge and they all break really easily. My phone is fucking huge, just give me a built in headphone jack!

God damn that cat is chill as hell.

EDIT: just like, really fucking chill as shit yo

I wonder what the maximum theoretical efficiency is. The article says the current system is 20% efficient, which is not exactly good. I’m not a physicist so take this all with a grain of salt. They’re going to have to overcome generation losses (this article says diode lasers can be 60% efficient but have Problems™), transmission losses (the inverse square law is a bitch, and they’ll have to contend with atmospheric absorption and scattering), and receiving losses (they’re using PVs which are famously not super duper efficient). I’m sure they’re working on all of this, and it seems reasonable that you might be able to get power transmission up to, say, 50% efficiency. That’s great and has its uses, but it’s not going to replace transmission lines, batteries, solar panels, and gas generators. Plus, we’re talking about sending 10 kilowatts of power across 200 km via light. Can you imagine how dangerous that would be? Like, what happens to anything in the path of that laser beam? What happens if the light gets reflected? a 10kW CW laser is no fucking joke!

EDIT: I could see this being useful for recharging/powering drones or something. It also seems like it would be much more useful in space where atmospheric scattering becomes a nothing burger.

Pig. It was INCREDIBLY emotionally effective and made me cry SO HARD FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES. Holy shit what a good movie.

Yep. Thankfully, the project is AGPL v3 licensed.

Probably some kind of autonomous thingy. Like, a drone with a Taser or some shit.

Should have just used AGPL from the start, instead of falling back to this fucked up modified BSD license. It wouldn’t stop people from stripping the branding, but they’d have to release source code which would tell all users what they’re actually using.

In particular, the companies purchase financial information from a data broker before offering a nurse a shift; if the nurse is carrying a lot of credit-card debt, especially if some of that is delinquent, the amount offered is reduced. “Because, the more desperate you are, the less you’ll accept to come into work and do that grunt work of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying.” That is horrific on many levels, he said, but “it is emblematic of ‘enshittification’”, which is one of the reasons he highlighted it.

What the ACTUAL FUCK‽ This is the type of shit Neal Stephenson would put in a fucking cyberpunk dystopia novel. I am filled with so much fucking rage. My sister is a nurse and goes through so much fucking bullshit at her job already. Nurses really do not need more shit thrown at them.

I knew I had heard of this game, but I couldn’t remember its premise. For anyone else like me:

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies – only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

For those who like me who didn’t know what this is, I believe it’s an open source reimplementation of a Bambu AMS module. I’m probably not 100% correct about that, so if OP responds then you should listen to them, not me.

Absolutely not, although a scope likely wouldn’t assist there. The weapon itself needs to have some form of stabilization that will keep it locked on after firing has started.

For anyone else who doesn’t know what this is:

This is my build of Proton with the most recent bleeding-edge Proton Experimental WINE.

Things it contains that Valve’s Proton does not:

• Additional media foundation patches for better video playback support
• AMD FSR patches added directly to fullscreen hack that can be toggled with WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1
• FSR Fake resolution patch details here
• Nvidia CUDA support for PhysX and NVAPI
• Raw input mouse support
• ‘protonfixes’ system – this is an automated system that applies per-game fixes (such as winetricks, envvars, EAC workarounds, overrides, etc).
• Various upstream WINE patches backported
• Various wine-staging patches applied as they become needed

Just saying, you can absolutely hit something 500+ meters away with iron sights. Heck, I’ve personally done so at 900 meters. I’ll grant that I was prone, however.

CNC—computer numerical control, where a computer makes the cutty/smushy/printy parts move through meatspace.