What makes solar financially un-viable in Austin? I live a long ways from Texas so there might be something really obvious here that I'm missing. I know the solar power arguments are older than the hills at this point (I remember roof top solar panels from many decades ago) but I'm interested in what about that location makes it doomed to not work out.

Or is there just no way for Tesla to make it financially viable? Could a more honest company pull it off in a different way?

Ubiquiti's Firewall rules have a 'simple' interface and a more detailed interface.' The Simple Interface lets me select 1 or more "apps", from quite a long list, along with a search mechanism. I'm -guessing- that might be tied to ASN. The more detailed interface allows me to choose from "Any", "App", "IP", "Domain", "Region" and port ("Any", "Specific", "List"). Again, the same list of "App".

That strikes me as the appropriate level of abstraction for someone who is not a network guru, but who has basic understanding of IP addressing, etc.

That's -1-. Let me rephrase: How many commercial products support this? Does pfSense? I spent some time on my Dream Machine interface looking at the Firewall rules. Seems they use this in the background, but I don't see a way to explicitly use ASN. And a Dream Machine is not exactly a 'cheap home router'.

This strikes me is a great capability. But if you have to 'roll your own', it's not going to be suitable for The Masses. And of course, someone who can and would roll their own router would also probably know other ways to accomplish this.

Hmmm... How many (home) routers/firewalls support blocking by ASN This does strike me as a useful feature, now that I've looked at it a bit.

BUT Meta also tracks people who have never had an account with them, on the off chance "they might later opt-in". See https://cyberguy.com/security/...

So the original poster's question is legitimate, especially for those who have never opted-in to any Meta product.

against Sharia
Yeah. But is the legal system of the Kingdom of Morocco explicitly derived from/dependent on Sharia, and with whose interpretations of same?

My sense from visiting Morocco was that it was not a strict Sharia legal system, but I do not know their legal system.

They all worked for the police department in Casablanca, Morocco.... (With apologies to the current Casablanca Police Department...)

Notepad++ just takes the best features of Kate and rolls them into a free Notepad replacement for Windows users so they don't suffer from its eternal failings. We don't need it in Linux, we already have all of its features. Windows users do need a functioning text editor out of the box, which Notepad++ provides as a free add-on instead.

Thunderbird? Something else?

(And anyone out there still miss Eudora?)

According to a friend who understands the math, category theory is quite useful for dimensions. There is an interesting article that argues for a Standard Unit for value: https://www.iqiipi.com/the-eig... I don't know who this (anonymous) author is, but all of the essays on this website are VERY insightful. (I particularly like the one on Agile and the one on 'bugs'. The one on Ada has a few minor errors, but generally gets it very right.)

Too bad there's not a moderation category of "+1 both Insightful and Funny". But yeah, someone please mod parent up.

... sadly for the Americans, the rest of the world now knows they can't count on a US based provider for this kind of thing any more.

It was uncomfortable enough relying so heavily on American software back when it couldn't be switched off remotely on the say so of an idiot. Today it's an intolerable risk.

That could well be a chicken-and-egg problem. Are the buyers buying what's available because it's available, or are the manufacturers making it because the buyers actually asked for it? I'm not aware of any Equinox driver anywhere who ever complained about it not being tall enough (or it being short enough to make it unnecessarily difficult to run over small people) yet Chevy raised the hood anyways.

The other problem is that the auto manufacturers see a distorted picture of car buyers. New cars are too expensive for a large fraction of all drivers; many drivers won't ever buy a brand new car. New car dealers are selling to people with more money, and making decisions around what those more affluent people might want in their cars - or more so are telling such people what they should want.

A lot of the buzz I've seen about AI generated code has been along the lines of "you don't need to be a developer." Several people I know have talked about "I created an app and I don't know how to code." In that use case, it's not clear at all those people would know how to supervise an entry level coder.

At what point will we run out of space to put all those satellites, particularly into stationary earth orbit? And who manages traffic congestion? Next, let's worry about what happens if one satellite has a catastrophic accident (or is knocked out by an ASAT), and all-of-a-sudden, that orbit starts loading up with junk?

Enquiring minds want to know! (Particularly so I can short SpaceX stock...)