Sports leagues are hilarious. They _think_ they're fighting against piracy... they are not. They are fighting against our giving a shit about their product. If I could get every NBA game I wanted; have a choice between announcers, NO announcers or just the mic'd court; no blackouts; no multiple signups or hassles? They would have my money. Happily. But they don't do that... they fuck over the users all the way to the bank.

Fine. Piracy is _literally_ better than paying for the service. No seriously. It is.

Here's the twist... get rid of piracy, I will give up my beloved NBA. 1000%. I'll just stop caring... I promise you. I'll never look back.
 

Nothing to do with "climate anxiety" or social media or whatever ...

I've been looking at weather data since my first computer a gazillion years ago.

First time I saw a GIF file was downloading weather maps from Compu$serve. Why do you think they supported animation? Radar maps....

I'm still mourning rainmaker.wunderground.com ...

So this article can stuff it - has nothing to do with "weather apps" and all about weather DATA. Has been since the 80s. Want to take a good guess what it's going to be doing outside over the next 3-5 days. That's it ... I'm not anxious about climate change or whatever media-sensation crap this article wants to drum up. Just wanna know if I need an umbrella on Wednesday.

(ps - CARROT weather is the top of the heap present-day for me.)

Or, they gave up that garbage in the late 90s. Don't have time to dink around with configuring window managers... more important fish to fry.

Window Maker still around? Was always my 2nd favorite, to CDE itself.

Agreed, but you have to start somewhere. It's a chicken/egg problem. May as well let the first mover get it right and set a good model to follow.

If we let the rank amateurs set the pace, we'll be stuck with this completely stupid "Remember a 36-character password with 4 symbols, 3 digits, at least two uppercase letter and two emojis" nonsense forever.

I'm over it.
I'm over passwords.
I'm over password keepers.
I'm over managing authorized_keys files.
I'm over all of it.

Passwords can't die soon enough.

Once folks start getting used to passkey authentication, it'll get the rest of the industry moving.

This is one of those "we need big movers to move first instead of being fast followers" kind of things.

Let's do this.

Right, excellent public transit .... the place that has ONE EFFING TUNNEL in/out of the single train terminal accessible from its largest neighbor state.

One tunnel in, one track in. That's it. And now if you take the alternative, they're gonna bend you over with extra taxes for driving.

NY public transit makes the Botswanans look like transit geniuses.

Bingo.

Now, there are thousands of people who do this job throughout the state, and honestly, I'd rather them be employed than out looking for work. It's important for there to be entry-level positions that help people move up. This is a major factor why it continues to be a thing here in NJ. Every public vote has been to keep it this way.

It's good for the economy - keeps folks employed, and honestly, it's really nice as a driver. Great not having to stand out there on cold wintry days or in the pouring rain. The attendants are properly prepared for that -- most drivers are not (for example, I hate driving with a coat on, so it's usually on the seat next to me in winter.)

Full service is also better for security - the station is always staffed, and access to the credit card readers is controlled... less chance of a skimming attack, etc.

There's no discernible impact on price, either. NJ still has the lowest average gasoline price in its area. I don't think the gas station owners would suddenly drop prices if self-service became a thing - they'd simply hold the line, and charge more for those who do require full service.

I know it seems an odd quirk, but it's got a societal and economic benefit.

This is such a bad idea.

To compensate, they restarted *five* coal power plants:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/r...

(Lignite is brown coal.)

Ironically, these coal plants will emit more radiation than the nuclear ones, as coal contains 1 to 10 ppm of uranium.

Seriously?

There's really two FC HBA providers out there -- Broadcom (QLogic) and Marvell (Emulex).

The best they can come up with from this entire mess is that Marvell may have a harder time writing drivers for ESXi?

Seems like a pretty weak argument to me -- all Broadcom has to do is say "We'll keep the Device Driver Development Kit available for Marvell till 21 years after the last descendant of King George III dies" (i.e. play the Disney card) and ... that squashes that.

This is all the European Commission could come up with?

> President Joe Biden sought to assure customers of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank on Monday that their money was safe -- insured by the Deposit Insurance Fund

There's a fundamental misunderstanding here on what happened with SVB.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Fund insures up to $250k. There was never a question on if that money was safe. Everyone knew it was the entire time.

The question was what would to accounts & funds over $250k? Those *aren't* insured by the FDIC. A lot of companies had balances far in excess of $250k to pay bills & make payroll. Would *those* uninsured funds be protected?

The news on Friday was the FDIC said, yes, it would make sure those funds are covered too. (They also made clear it won't be covered via taxpayer dollars, but that's a different topic.)

What Biden is trying to make clear is that:

- If you were a bank *customer*, your money -- insured or not -- is fine
- If you were a bank *investor*, you lost your money

Actually, Tesla at least has switched over to use a small lithium battery to run their low voltage systems. It’s been working very very well for them. Solved a myriad of issues.

JB Straubel -- "who previously worked at Tesla" ... that might be understatement of the year.

JB Straubel was a co-founder of Tesla, employee #5 and the brainchild behind most of their battery systems and strategy.

So yeah, the guy might know a thing or two about batteries. Supply chains. Materials availability. And most of all, how to build a business around it.

Redwood Materials - IMO - is doing exactly what'll make EVs long-term sustainable.

These are the guys to watch.

Wish I had mod points right now, because I totally agree with ALL of this.

No problem putting in wind -- we're doing the same here off the Jersey shore. Back that with a Megapack battery plant.
And let's get some next-gen nuclear built too. Cleanest form of energy we've got by a wide margin.

He said "a different server". I see the same thing, and it makes sense. The Follow button doesn't know who you are or where you make your Mastadon home. It's decentralized like email. So it can't make an appropriate link pointing to your server.

This problem in general isn't solved for email links either. You have to have a system-level application that understands the mailto: protocol, because there's no way for that link to know who hosts your email. Mastadon's going to be the same way, you'll need a browser extension or an external application if you're going to be able to follow anyone on any server.

Itâ(TM)s simple. They get to retire the 3G equipment, software, maintenance contracts and of course, refarm spectrum. That stuff is *incredibly* expensive. Huge cost savings to be had, and of course refarming the spectrum to 4G and 5G adds sorely needed capacity on those networks.

Itâ(TM)s a net positive for everyone, unless your name is Nokia or Qualcomm.