I've long wondered if building some noise cancellation in my front yard would be feasible. Morons with exhaust-less bikes or souped-up cars pass multiple times a minute when the weather is good... I know this tech already exists for concert venues outdoors. I've done some acoustic research software in the 90s so I should get to it... And I wonder if the reverse is possible: above a certain noise threshold, use several speakers to generate an in-phase sound directed at the origin. If a resonance can be built I wonder if it could damage the engine (or at least the moron's eardrums).

In the 90s I remember a guy who built a similar anti-loud-music device but using different principles. In apartments his neighbor had his speakers directly against the common wall. So he got some strong electro-magnets, connected them to a wave generator and an amplifier, and then he'd just send various 'sounds' through it. No sound would come out of his, but the magnetic coupling would be picked up on the other side and strongly interfere with the music. I remember him mentioning various tests with white noise, sine wave, grating square waves and very loud impulses...

I'll mention digital cameras in the 2000 decade. The depreciation was insane: after 6 months they were worth NOTHING on the used marked, while previous film cameras would still be worth 30% after 10 years. And new owners were frustrated because every 2 months there was a new model twice better while also cheaper. It was very frustrating for photographers. Then the performances and the market stabilized. The EV car market is still in the 1st phase...

The best excuse I've heard is "so they can grow faster". But how is that a good thing in any way ?

Ever since I heard that the Black Sea is anoxic below a certain depth I've wondered if it was possible to pump air down below to help start life getting a foothold. I know an entire sea is not like a puny aquarium, but still, it is the method used in some African lakes that used to spew toxic gases from their bottom every couple of decades. So would it be possible to improve those dead zones simply by pumping compressed air ?

I was on vacation in Greece for a cloudy week in december. The solar thermal showers were bitch cold...

Particularly since *even* if those methods work, it still leaves the *small* problem of ocean acidification...

Then they can be certified for use on the road and expressively allowed. Until then, no.

You can purchase TPM2 cards for about 10$. I wonder what happens in you plug it in, upgrade to Win11 and then remove the card ?

I switched to Linux in 2002 or so. Since then I've kept a VM with XP and then Win10 for the (very) few Win softwares I still use, including a RAW conversion tool and a panorama stitcher. There are Linux alternatives, but it takes so long to retrain that I never took the jump.

Yeah, but maybe you'll change your tune when it's your parents receiving a video call from 'you' and saying you need a loan to buy the house of your dreams, or bail money to get out of a nigerian jail (yeah, you went there on vacation, remember?). It's gonna get nasty.

Is that why for the past week or so I keep getting those useless messages in the current latest Firefox ?

And that's for any sites that use Cloudflare. Just changing the user agent to anything else (or back) and refreshing will give me the wanted page, but it's a PITA.

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. You take food full of DNA and RNA and partially digest it, you'll end up with pieces of *NA all over. Some might even be partly functional for a little while (like produce random proteins)... They'd have to prove it's coming from a different mechanism.

I wonder what kind of solution we might have in our case. We are a small group of apartments with a common parking lot, all by owners. Is there some kind of plug we could install and share *and* not pay extra on the electricity ? I'm sure I could find companies to install some kind of public plug, but then they'd take a 50% charge of the electricity I'm sure...

Yeah, I'm really worried about that. The day a major executable on flatpack or snap or particularly the main distro gets owned, it's probably game over for everyone if done properly by the hackers. I'm just really surprised it hasn't happened already a long time ago. Or maybe it has ?