cybersandwich

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[–] cybersandwich 5 points 8 months ago

Alt-f4 is a hotkey built-in to the latest windows patch that disables all non-microsoft trackers.

[–] cybersandwich 2 points 8 months ago

I had the same experience. Ecosia and ddg just didn't give great results.

Kagi is the one that replaced Google for me. It's pretty incredible.

Yes it's paid. Yes it's worth it. No, not everyone is emotionally ready to pay for search.

[–] cybersandwich 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

MacOS.

It's the middle ground between windows and Linux imo.

It's unix-y enough to give you tons of flexibility with the terminal. Homebrew is one of the better package management systems out there. Iterm2 is the best terminal emulator I've used.

You get access to most popular software still and the hardware is unmatched.

It's more expensive and less flexible in terms of OS customization though and you basically can't game on it. I think there are some good tiling window managers for it though.

[–] cybersandwich 2 points 8 months ago

The article doesn't do a great job of explaining why. It almost seems intentional imo.

"Fiber optic cables are used to provide necessary communications to substations and other vital equipment, helping to modernize grid operations and improve outage response. This real-time visibility and control are essential for integrating renewable energy sources into the grid, as they allow for better management and coordination of these resources."

"important for ensuring that the generated solar power can be efficiently and safely integrated into the broader electrical grid, complying with industry standards and maintaining system stability" from the dominion energy website. So take that for what you will.

It sounds like they use fiber for controlling grid ops and they don't think that what Hawaii and New York are doing has been robustly tested.

And in the case of Hawaii, I don't know that I'd use them as a benchmark for something like this. Their grid(s) aren't connected to each other (each island is separate) so they are much smaller. They probably don't even have the same level of grid mgmt needs that Virginia does.

That said, $150-250k for laying fiber seems high but that's not really my area of expertise. Maybe that's reasonable.

[–] cybersandwich 8 points 8 months ago

It's pretty common across most orgs really. Google just seems to have perfected it. Which might actually mean they'll kill it soon!

[–] cybersandwich 16 points 8 months ago

It's fucking Missouri, so I'm sure the warrant for his arrest will be issued shortly. Those idiots have to have a law against paying for others school lunch debt.

[–] cybersandwich 9 points 8 months ago

It'd really be great if journalists even attempted "educating" readers or providing meaningful context. But then again, would it get this kind of traction?

The interesting story here is that interest rates are raised to SLOW spending and encourage saving. The interest rates spiked to CURB inflation. It has worked, despite most journalists seeming keenness for it not to, for the most part. If consumers and businesses reduce their spending due to higher costs of borrowing, this will bring down prices over time, aligning with the Fed's inflation targets.

No one explains this to the average person, ever. Ironically, the story here should be consumers are spending money even when saving it should be incentivized because they can't afford not to... because of profiteering by large companies, grocery chains, etc as well as stagnate wages for the past few decades. This means that inflation will creep up faster than it should because of demand-driven inflation. This makes the problem worse for low-income earners.

It seems to me that THAT type of inflation might require less of an "interest rate adjustment fix", and more of a wage adjustment fix. Even potentially a regulatory fix to go after price gougers.

[–] cybersandwich 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yea, a lot of companies and even govt agencies have policies against recording meetings except for special circumstances. Edit: to clarify they have policies against employees initiating recordings (let alone automatically recording anything by default)

Once you have it, it's a record. Now you have to keep it and treat it like one.

[–] cybersandwich 18 points 8 months ago (14 children)

completed an approximately 90-minute holding pattern before safely returning to and landing in Makassar.

Lol wtf!? I get that it was past the point of no return and had to commit to take off but a 90 min wait to land again seems insane.

[–] cybersandwich 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Carry a gun on your face. Problem solved

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