I'll trust the herd.

Ordinarily in not interested in following the herd to the cliffs, but having multiple password/authentication tools is not as critical for me as it used to be.

Then again, I'll be puking up the VPN/reverse proxy crap so I can host more of this at home behind CGNAT. No ftth or fttn for the foreseeable future, the original vendor STB and can't afford to do it and will never relinquish the easements for a reasonable fee. My local government knows they made the mistake, the next 2 vendors had to commit to lighting it up be a certain date.

But this continuing corporate shell game of 'free' tools being thrown on the dust heap isn't just an annoyance anymore. I'll learning to host more and more, even when it means learning things I did not want to know.

Most of the colleges used to have pubs on campus before the drinking age was raised to 21.

Beer and wine only. Students and faculty frequently had fraternity and lively debates.

Now states take federal highway dollars in exchange for enforcing the 21 age so most drinking occurs in fraternity basements and dorm rooms and it"s often the hardest cheapest booze available leading to alcohol poisoning and death.

So, yeah, states knowingly trade student lives for asphalt subsidies. It's horrendous and that's even if you ignore the absurdity of having an adult with lesser legal rights.

They won't raise everything to 25 because they want what would otherwise be called child soldiers. So they make mental abstractions and kids die. It's crazy.

The research is actually pretty good but that's now "biohacking" and 95% of physicians will refuse to engage in it because it's bad for the business model and they're afraid of lawsuits if they use their own judgment. "Standard of Care" is the new medical tyranny.

Maximum effort should be placed on upsetting that business model so that the research can flourish and get out to clinic.

Part of this is that retirees who die quickly help extend the inevitable collapse of the Social Security system.

I was surprised but high Medicare expenses for a few years is cheaper than long-lived healthy seniors.

It's morally abhorrent but the government people don't seem to have problems with this kind of strategy.

To be fair, you can't work from 22-62 and then live on the dole on the golf course from 62-120 and expect that system to still exist.

Something's gotta give.

> the sophisticated climate models we use largely didn't predict such a large and rapid change

Our models failed but we know what the outcome will be based on our models. :shakes head in complexity theory:

Anybody else old enough to remember the scares about global warming snapping the ocean currents into a new ice age?

Those models may have been the right ones. And nobody is including the accelerating pole shift.

I am surprised the Europeans aren't hedging that one hard. +4 in Britain is nice; -15 is total devastation.

Is there anything better for TTS, STT, and translation?

Problem I recently worked on:

Here is 20,000 hours of audio. Make it queryable.

Back in the 90's when I was doing some grad classes in Information Retrieval this would have been considered nearly insurmountable.

On the other hand I had 16MB then, now this takes 128GB of RAM.

That's mostly Python being obscene with RAM.

You need to invent propellentless drives, either solar or zero-point first so you can afford the Delta-V necessary to afford this.

And it's actually the small, fast, difficult pieces that ought to be addressed first in terms of risk but that blows the costs out of the realm of possibility. At least with chemical propellant.

I briefly glanced at a video that was about some hobbyists who find abandoned and commercially unreliable satellites and contact them and spend some time reverse engineering the protocols to toy around (if and when they are responding).

I didn't go too deep into it as I ain't that kinda time but whether or not this satellite ia such a case it's something for radio astronomers to keep in mind.

Deorbit burns seem to be the reliable off switch.

Still growing but not as much, you must be a shit company.

Just last month I was in Boston with family at a huge event and the trip back was 2.2 miles. Most of them waited in a huge line for the train or queued for an Uber.

Two of us walked instead, grabbed some Pho at a takeout place, and got back two minutes after the first Uber arrived.

It wasn't snowing though.

Sound more useful than a machine.

UV dye is actually meant for this - I have some for car air conditioners.

You'd need a way to isolate the module and vaporize it with enough air to leak out and then an ROV with a UV light and a camera.

These are all normal engineering problems except for the ROV.

Do they have an ROV or do they still make astronauts go outside?

It always seemed weird in Star Trek that they didn't have maintbots like on B5.

Hat tip to whomever decided to mask the portraits with egg-shaped ovals for the Easter egg.

So it's "old news" if you read Hack a Day daily?

That's such a miniscule portion of this site, much less the population.

I truly don't understand the "I saw this already" posts. What drives them?

Maybe most people pay this but not everybody does so it's not aproportioned.

It's clearly not a tax on incomes either.

Non-delegation was a dumb strategy, sorry.

> So don't let random people you don't trust onto your home network?

Let?

If you allow WPA2 anyone with a laptop and Kali can get on in under an hour.

Depends on who you're defending against.

Spooks will probably get on while you're away when an IoT device associates and set up an APT in your printer.

Which violates the 3rd Amendment IMO but I LARP as someone living in a Republic.