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@ spinne @sh.itjust.works

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  • between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough

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  • Thanks for the link. This is really cool work! Search and pre-rescue rats are a small part of what Apopo does: they mostly do unexploded mine clearance and tuberculosis detection! 😳

  • it's on poob

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  • This is really useful, thanks!

  • it's on poob

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  • I appreciate you! My family and I made the decision to move off of Discord when they announced their full age verification rollout. We were planning on setting up and hosting our own matrix server, but now I'd like to know more about Element's poor stewardship of the protocol.

    My tech level is literate layperson, not working in tech and without a background in systems administration, networking, or software development. I can understand the larger concepts pretty readily but get lost in the finer details like why data architects would choose one setup over another. I'm content knowing that someone good at this made a reasoned choice without needing them to explain why as long as I still get to laugh at Bastard Operator from Hell stories.

    The results I found last night were things like The Register talking about matrix being adopted more and more around the world, including at the government and military levels, a competing service or two telling off Element for bad practices or poor use of the protocol, and Element's rebuttal (which basically came down to "our configuration doesn't need to be everybody's configuration, THAT'S THE POINT" and "it's a limitation you have, too, do you really want to make this a thing?"). It's good to be aware of, but it's not what I'm looking for. All this involves the paid services side; does anybody have any sourced news on the ongoing development of matrix from, say, the past 3-5 years?

  • Me neither

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  • Damn, you people go hard for your romantic dinners

  • Me neither

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  • You are gonna love the rest of Bosch's work!

  • it's on poob

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  • Sounds like a reasonable point, guess I'll look into it!

    Edit: Sorry, I'm not tech savvy enough to find my way to any reputable sources. A little help, please?

  • Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket.

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  • A quick way to stop the use of cheap and unsafe products is to introduce legislation that has safety standards and a certification body like UL that they have to meet before they can be sold.

    I totally agree that we have to put in some serious effort to make this a safe and workable thing. I'm not on the libertarian side of things where it's like, "Pshh! Get the products out there and let the market figure it out!" because... I mean, geez, our housing situation is bad enough without burning down any more of them. But we do need the legislation to get us some movement. We need safe, reliable products that can at least compare with a first model year car in terms of operability and not perfection. We're more than a decade behind in this area, we're losing more ground by the day, our government is doing whatever illegal shit they can think of to try to stop it entirely, and we can't afford this.

  • Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket.

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  • I appreciate your hesitation. I do think that we're gonna continue to see the shift in warfare to attacking civilians through infrastructure, like what Russia is doing to Ukraine right now by knocking out the power and heat to homes to kill as many vulnerable people as possible, and we make a much easier target than anything military exactly like you said. The sheer variability in people's views on personal security is enough to give a person with the drive and smarts a way in, never mind how they actually behave.

    Caution is warranted, and so is starting to legislate and produce balcony solar products. The first model year of any new car is a stress test, and they take the problems owners have had and work to refine it. Similarly, I don't install a brand new operating system without at least one or two updates under its belt. 😅 We can do the same for balcony solar to harden it against hacking and improve safety, but I think it's valid to worry about whether or not the grid itself could cope with an attack. Like Jesus, would it ever suck to find out it couldn't after the fact!

  • Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket.

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  • I'm on board. It doesn't have to be perfectly idiotproof to be rolled out--nothing is ever going to be perfectly idiotproof and we're already being compelled to beta test things like Tesla's poorly-designed self-driving software for its ability to handle human drivers and AI companies' chatbots. Balcony solar has been in wide use in Europe, where many homes are much, much older than ours, for more than a decade now. We can look at their ideas, products, and safety standards and import and adapt them to meet our own needs pretty easily.

    Fire safety is, of course, going to be critical. The way homeowners make decisions when they upgrade is like the Wild West out here, and not every system is going to work for every home. We can only do the best we can in the arena of safety, you know? We make a good faith effort to protect everybody as much as we can, but at some point, the homeowner needs to take responsibility for knowing what their wiring/electric situation is before trying to make big changes to it without an electrician. We lose a few houses every single year from people using turkey fryers improperly despite them having all the information they need not to do that.

    One thing the article doesn't mention is the computerized station that comes with a lot of these balcony solar systems to ensure proper loading, prevent pulling too much power, and to make sure you're not feeding the grid when you need the power or pulling power from the grid when you don't need it. Kind of weird that they skipped over that important piece of fire safety and risk management. There's also a device called Ting you can get that plugs into your wall and notifies you of fire hazards and electrical problems. (It's completely separate from balcony solar; I got mine through my homeowner's insurance and they can be bought online.) Another thing that passing this legislation will help is developing a solid set of safety standards. Without the legislation, there won't be enough social or political pressure to do it and could slow future adoption down by years.

    Given the strain power utilities are under with the AI bubble, it seems irresponsible that they're not pushing harder for this.

  • “I always loved Trump, this is unfair”: Republican mayor can’t believe he’s facing deportation after 50 years in US

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  • Right? What happened in his civics/U.S. government classes, he just thought the voting rules didn't apply to him? All the other people who moved to the States from Mexico by the time they were four, yes, just not him.

  • What's your most anticipated game of 2026?

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  • Just shut up

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  • Then write your own scientifically-accurate sci-fi, ya doink! Complain, complain, complain

  • Bonobos can "play pretend"

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  • Dang, we really need to control for these confounding variables

  • Ubisoft Employee Who Was Suspended For Criticising the Company Has Now Been Fired

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  • There are no free speech rights in the workplace beyond what your boss allows you

  • Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

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  • GrapheneOS has a duress password: a different PIN you can type in at any unlock prompt that tells your phone to wipe your SIM and contents

  • Tell me why?

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  • Silly Europe. Have you ever known US to do a right thing without trying all the wrong things first? Love, frustrated Americans

  • I'll do it

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  • This is the future I want to live in

  • Ciliates having a good time

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  • I really appreciate the work you put into making these videos. I love your microscopy, for one thing. You always have excellent contrast and make it really easy to tell who you're shooting without needing a pointer and adding the details like the magnification, speed, and subject give my brain some context to better understand what's happening. Thank you!

  • Real and True

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  • Look, I'm not here to GIS anything. That's my pinball monitor.