Why am I blanking on “Communist Himbo”? Is that supposed to be Rom?

That sounds like the job a contestant on one of those HGTV home makeover shows would have:

“My husband is a stay at home dog dad, and I spend 30 minutes a month creating 2 or sometimes 3 social media posts. Our budget is $400,000.”

Curious if this going to affect google results in Searx. Not sure how it works (scraping page, API, etc)

Rectenna

It’s the basis for the receiving end of “beaming” power (long distance; not the induction kind used in wireless chargers).

Not that, specifically, though it might be indirectly?

I’m basing it off of one of Gyles Brandreth’s yarns where he described how he dealt with abusive constituents when he was a MP.

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive letter, and they’ve signed your name at the bottom. […]

Whether he came up with that or adapted it from something prior, I don’t know.

Standard reply:

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive message, and it seems they used your account to send it. I’m replying to you as a courtesy in case you wish to take action against this lunatic.

One thing I left out of my response, and am unsure of, is if duplicate memories would be “louder” when they’re brought back.

e.g. if there are 2 Dax symbionts that contribute the memories twice (up until the point they were duplicated), would those memories de-duplicate upon return or would they be more vivid because they were contributed twice?

Watched through The Drew Carey Show not too long ago, and this post reminds me of this exchange:

Mimi: I caught this perv in the ladies’ room.

Larry: Hey, I was taking a nap. There’s a couch in there! Why don’t we have a couch in the men’s room?

Drew: If there was a couch in the men’s room, would you want to sit on it?

Larry: Good point.

I think the TSC would take a pragmatic approach to it.

They already hide the fact that nearly 50% of the population is suitable to act as a host while only ~500 symbionts are available each year (e.g. a severe shortage of symbionts to initiates) . I think they would welcome the additional symbiont(s). Even if it’s a duplicate, it would still be able to bring unique experiences back once it starts rotating through new hosts.

It’s not the best episode, but it does have a good debate about the Prime Directive.

Picard: So we make an exception in the deaths of millions?

Pulaski: Yes.

Picard: And is it the same situation if it’s an epidemic and not a geological calamity?

Pulaski: Absolutely

Picard: What about a war? If generations of conflict is killing millions, do we interfere?

Everyone: …(crickets)

Picard: Well, we’re all a little less secure in our moral certitude.

The Zuckerburg model has the intelligence of B-4 and the malice of Lore. Definitely not up to snuff lol.

Yeah, I don’t get the hate and intentional division being sowed there.

I’m not a fan of Ubuntu since they went all Thanos Snap (the final straw was replacing deb packages in apt with snap stubs), but I can applaud that they’re using Linux.

Just seems like low effort, pointless gatekeeping to me.

Now, now, now. Let’s not be too quick to call it “disinformation” or “propaganda”. It could just be Respectful Dissent. Every Opinion Matters. /s

Just out of frame:

RCS is a whole can of worms. It’s presented like a carrier services (and carriers are in the mix, though often just for authentication), but it’s really a Google service. With Android, RCS connects directly to google’s mothership.

I believe on iOS those go to Apple’s servers which “peers” with google. Maybe search the RCS endpoint for Apple and see what comes up?

Shaka, when the walls said “fuck it, I just can’t anymore”

how much mass we’ve lost to space with all of the shit we’ve flown to and let in space.

Shooting from the hip here, but probably a tiny, minuscule fraction of a fraction of a percent. I’d venture a guess we’ve lost more mass in atmospheric gases being ionized and stripped away from solar radiation than we have launched from the surface.

I’ve seen people with old teeth fillings being rejected because the machine can pull it straight out of your mouth.

Yikes! So, like, what if an MRI is medically necessary for those people? Do they have to schedule a dental appointment first to remove/replace those fillings? Genuinely curious now that you’ve mentioned that because fillings were not something I ever thought about with regard to MRI safety.

This is actually one of my New Year’s resolutions lol. Right now, my backups are local and my offsites are a hodgepodge of cloud services (basically holding encrypted container blobs of my stuff). Not ideal.

I’m looking at signing up for rsync.net since a lot of my backups are done via rsync anyway. Plan is to keep my local backups as-is and rsync them to rsync.net.

sadly he doesn’t give any details, or any updates.

Heh, yeah. That’s the part I’m most interested in. I’m sure I could buy the replacement batteries and they’d work fine at first, but after a year? That’s what I’m curious about.

APC do a really crappy small one for telecoms cabinets, but none for servers

I wonder if the lower discharge current capability of LFP batteries is why? That’s the one thing I’ve read fairly consistently about them is that they can’t supply the same high current as lead acids but are otherwise superior in every way. Now that you mention it, the only place I’ve ever really seen LFP UPSs for servers is in the big, central UPSs where they can run batteries in series for a much higher voltage.

e.g. most of the LFP UPSs I see max out at 1000 VA where 1500 is more typical for lead-acid UPSs.