Comment Asus Merlin (Score 1) 40
There's zero reason to be running stock firmware on those routers if they're compatible with Asuswrt-Merlin
Comment Re:gives Google entirely too much information (Score 1) 35
Don't talk to the police beyond what is absolutely necessary. The only people who need to know that you had a dashcam running work at your insurance company, and only if it benefits you.
Comment Re:Priced out? (Score 1) 156
If it keeps these people from visiting, good riddance.
Comment Re:So cannabis is a black-only thing? (Score 4, Informative) 93
Liberals are the real racists according to these people. The reason Ben is focusing on helping Black people get into the Cannabis industry is that they have largely been forced out in a number of places, most of the industry in a majority of legalized states is the purview of rich white people. Local law enforcement selectively targets dispensaries run by POC, loans were withheld, licensing was withheld.
Comment Re:What does a god need with 4k HDR? (Score 1) 59
Woops, here's the vhs fork
Comment Re:What does a god need with 4k HDR? (Score 1) 59
Comment Re:Ecobee 3 lite (Re:More questions than answers.) (Score 1) 142
It reads weather data, so unless you have some weird microclimate it should work.
"Compressor Minimum Outdoor Temperature:
The compressor will not run below this outdoor temperature. This is set to 35âF/1.7âC by default. Before adjusting this setting, we recommend reaching out to the manufacturer of your heat pump/compressor to inquire about the safest setting. Running your compressor at a temperature below what it can handle can damage the equipment and is ill-advised.
If you have a heat pump with auxiliary heating, when the outdoor temperature drops below this value, the ecobee will engage your aux heat and rely on aux heat to heat your home. If youâ(TM)re receiving many âoeAux heat runningâ alerts, you may want to adjust this setting (after confirming with your heat pump manufacturer the lowest temperature your heat pump can safely function at). If itâ(TM)s particularly cold where you live, the heat pump may not be able to sufficiently heat your home and the ecobee will instead rely on your aux heat in these cases."
Comment Re:More questions than answers. (Score 1) 142
An Ecobee 3 lite will do the switchover just fine, I have one installed on my heat pump right now.
Comment Re:Why else would I be on Slashdot? (Score 1) 180
Don't forget the increase in chudbucketness over time on here.
Before Hitting Pause On HQ2, Amazon Sent a "You're Welcome" To Area Residents (fcnp.com) 26
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shares a fresh perspective on how the "pause" announced for building Amazon's HQ2 headquarters could impact the local community:
The Falls Church News-Press notes that Amazon's pause announcement came just days after a 12-page glossy mass mailing entitled Capital Region Community Impact Report went out to thousands in the region.
Beginning with a statement from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, the report spelled out "Amazon's philanthropic commitments in the Capital Region," including $32M donated to 150+ local organizations in 2021, $990M+ committed to create and preserve 6,245 affordable housing units. 13,700 people supported by Amazon-funded affordable housing investments and 23,000 students who received food, clothing, school supplies, hygiene items and other urgent support through Amazon's Right Now Needs Fund.
According to the report, the commitments also included benefits to 75,000+ students across 343 schools who received computer science education through the Amazon Future Engineer program, to 166,000+ students who participated in the CodeVA K-12 CS education program during the 2021-22 academic year, the 5.3 million free meals delivered to underserved families in partnership with Northern Virginia food banks, 10,000 meals purchased from local restaurants and donated to support Covid-19 first responders, $350,000 contributed to local community theaters and arts-focused non-profits, to 6,000 students who explored cloud computing solutions at the Wakefield H.S. Think Big in the 2021-22 academic year, the 200,000 children and families from underserved communities who received free access to the National Children's Museum through a $250,000 gift from Amazon, and the 16,700+ students served by Amazon's support for local youth sports leagues.
Not to look an Amazon philanthropy gift horse in the mouth, but should politicians be reliant on Amazon philanthropy to meet their communities' basic needs? Amazon's 2022 income taxes, by the way, were -$3.217B.
Beginning with a statement from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, the report spelled out "Amazon's philanthropic commitments in the Capital Region," including $32M donated to 150+ local organizations in 2021, $990M+ committed to create and preserve 6,245 affordable housing units. 13,700 people supported by Amazon-funded affordable housing investments and 23,000 students who received food, clothing, school supplies, hygiene items and other urgent support through Amazon's Right Now Needs Fund.
According to the report, the commitments also included benefits to 75,000+ students across 343 schools who received computer science education through the Amazon Future Engineer program, to 166,000+ students who participated in the CodeVA K-12 CS education program during the 2021-22 academic year, the 5.3 million free meals delivered to underserved families in partnership with Northern Virginia food banks, 10,000 meals purchased from local restaurants and donated to support Covid-19 first responders, $350,000 contributed to local community theaters and arts-focused non-profits, to 6,000 students who explored cloud computing solutions at the Wakefield H.S. Think Big in the 2021-22 academic year, the 200,000 children and families from underserved communities who received free access to the National Children's Museum through a $250,000 gift from Amazon, and the 16,700+ students served by Amazon's support for local youth sports leagues.
Not to look an Amazon philanthropy gift horse in the mouth, but should politicians be reliant on Amazon philanthropy to meet their communities' basic needs? Amazon's 2022 income taxes, by the way, were -$3.217B.
Free Weebly Legacy Plans With Custom Domains Are Being Discontinued. Now Pay Up. (weebly.com) 23
mmiscool writes: Email notices went out today to legacy users of Weebly's free web site hosting service. In the early days of Weebly (before being gobbled up a credit card processing company only concerned about money) you could create a very basic web site for free and point your own custom domain at Weebly to have a relatively painless web site. Now there were lots of add-ons and extra features you could pay for like shopping carts or interactive forms but you were never required to pay for the basic web hosting. Over the years they stopped allowing new sites to be registered using the free option but they did continue to honor the old legacy free plans for existing users. That ends now.
An email sent out today to legacy site holders reads
This is an official notification from the Weebly account team in regards to the account under this email address. You currently have a free Weebly website published on a custom domain (or vanity URL) and are not subscribed to a paid Weebly hosting plan. As of March 28, 2023, sites connected to custom domains are required to have a Weebly hosting service plan to remain published. What does this mean for you? To keep your site published on a custom domain, you will need to purchase a paid Weebly service plan subscription. If you take no action and choose to remain on a free Weebly plan, your account information and all associated site content will remain intact and accessible to you within Editor, but your site will be unpublished on March 28, 2023 and will no longer be visible to visitors or connected to your custom domain. You will need to republish your site on a free Weebly subdomain to make it publicly visible again (ex: my-name.weebly.com).
Message received. Pay up or else.
Comment Re:News for normies, stuff for social media (Score 5, Insightful) 233
Just don't ask anybody too young, the generation who computes on smart phones and tablets doesn't even know what a file structure is.
Sabine Hossenfelder's Scathing Video On the State of Particle Physics (youtube.com) 162
Long-time Slashdot reader flashflood writes:
Science educator Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. But Hossenfelder's latest YouTube video expounds upon the sorry state of particle physics, and in the process also has some interesting sidenotes on dark matter.
Hossenfelder criticises what has become the standard operating procedure of particle physicists, whereby they routinely predict the existence of particles that violate the Standard Model. Eventually, the postulated particles are experimentally falsified, at which time physicists move on to even more fanciful predictions.
Hossenfelder is pessimistic about the future of the field if particle physicists continue to behave in the same manner going forward. Hossenfelder also notes that in the past 50 years, only a handful of predictions have been validated, and all these were necessary elements of the Standard Model.
Hossenfelder criticises what has become the standard operating procedure of particle physicists, whereby they routinely predict the existence of particles that violate the Standard Model. Eventually, the postulated particles are experimentally falsified, at which time physicists move on to even more fanciful predictions.
Hossenfelder is pessimistic about the future of the field if particle physicists continue to behave in the same manner going forward. Hossenfelder also notes that in the past 50 years, only a handful of predictions have been validated, and all these were necessary elements of the Standard Model.
Comment Re:That is why space mining is so important (Score 1) 45
That would take centuries.
Comment It's a trap (Score 5, Informative) 158
The "it's a trap" moment for me:
You acknowledge that we and our licensees, as content creators ourselves, might independently come up with content similar to something you create. If you have a claim that we breached this provision, or that one of our licensees did in connection with content they licensed from us:
(a) Any such claim will be brought only as a lawsuit for breach of contract, and only for money damages. You expressly agree that money damages are an adequate remedy for such a breach, and that you will not seek or be entitled to injunctive relief.
(b) In any such lawsuit, you must show that we knowingly and intentionally copied your Licensed Work. Access and substantial similarity will not be enough to prove a breach of this Section 3.
This basically says "We can still steal your work and sell it without giving you a dime, but if you want to object to that then you can't say so on social media or in the news, you have to do it in court (and in a particular way), and if you don't have the cash to take us on then you need to shut the hell up or it's going to be YOU that's in breach of contract and we can pull our permission for you to use the license."
