Blizzard intends to ratify it as well?

How about avoiding those impacts in the first place? Or would that be un-American?

In other news, scientists are looking into geoengineering to cool our planet, so we can continue to drill-baby-drill until kingdom come.

The directional explanation reminds me of the backreaction conjecture. The basic idea is due to the inhomogeneity of the real universe: as the gravity within each concentration of matter (such as a group of galaxies) pulls it into a tighter clump, the distance between such clumps appears to increase.

I've only come across this idea because of Syksy Räsänen, who is famous in Finland for his goth looks and pro-Palestine activities. So the theory doesn't seem to be widely known.

I haven't seen any serious attempts at reducing emissions, quite the contrary. Sure, renewable electricity generation is a growing industry, but it's only a small part of the total energy budget that's growing fast. With a nation whose official motto is "drill baby drill" and an AI slop industry powered by gas turbines, it's hard to believe the story of renewables saving the world.

Instead of asking how we can power our cars with more climate-friendly sources, we should be questioning the need to drive around so much at all. If it weren't for the petrol industry, we'd probably spend our time more creatively than sitting around in traffic jams. In the early days, the automobile was a more efficient alternative to horse power, but then we ran into Jevons paradox. We're now seeing the same paradox in action with AI data centers; the computers that were supposed to save time and energy are now wasting it.

I'm OK with some form of climate engineering to cool the planet, but only if we're also serious about reducing emissions. Climate engineering shouldn't be an excuse that lets us continue drilling and burning our planet into ashes.

It's for the people who use their phone 99% of the time. Us people who comment on Slashdot either on a laptop or a desktop with a 42" screen aren't the target market.

I find the realtime effects in Audacity 3 pretty handy, though they're a rather limited selection. For example, I use a separate Nyquist plugin for nicer compression, which means it's not realtime. I try not to rely too much on a single piece of software, as they seem to come and go, and maintaining old versions on up-to-date distributions is not fun.

Real Men (TM) use Ecasound for multitrack processing on the command line, like I did back in the 00s.

If itâ(TM)s not in humanityâ(TM)s best interest, have you considered trying to convince humanity to stop using it? No? Why is that?

For rooftop solar, I have to get an inverter that does Phase-locked loop and matches the power coming in from the grid. Do these "balcony" solar panels have integrated inverter that does that?

Also, how much can you really run through NEMA wall sockets, that are notoriously bad design (compared to e.g. Schuko)? How is safety handled, e.g. an electrician comes to visit and turns off the fuses at junction box and then gets zapped because you forgot to unplug the solar panel?

Inflammations in teeth and gums are a serious risk factor for heart issues, besides having other systemic ill effects on the body. People with tooth issues are usually ordered to get them fixed before heart surgeries or other major operations. And as we all know (at least here in Finland), xylitol is good for your teeth. So I'll take the study of this article with a pinch of pentane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol. https://thecomfortdentistry.co...

+1 Nice, I'm adding this to my collection of sig quotes.

If touch screens are so great, automakers should ditch obsolete input devices such as steering wheels, pedals and gear sticks:

It's so much simpler and cheaper to make than those ancient steering wheels. There's also a small safety benefit, as the wheel won't push into your chest during a crash.

It would be one thing if the current administration would have been...you know, even *somewhat* competent. However, when they have in two years managed to do so much harm to American voter even in red states, something might just happen in midterms.

If they had just done all the things with a bit slower pace, things might be much different. You know, just push the tariffs in in a bit more phased rollout instead of tariffing some penguins. Actually planning the action in Iran properly. Being a little less drastic with DOGE and ICE. Boiling frog metaphor and all that.

For the rest of the world...well, win some, lose some. I find it rather ironic that the Mr. Trump, a staunch supporter of big oil/coal, may have pushed the world to get rid of fossil fuels much faster than previously anticipated. Everyone and their dog seems to be getting an EV, and even used EVs have started *gaining* in value despite decade old battery tech. Would be rather delicious irony that by sheer incompetence a staunch anti-environmentalist would cause the world to make a huge paradigm shift. Same as what happened in the 70's oil crisis and the adaptation of all kinds of fuel saving engine designs. This combined with Ukraine bombing the shit out of Russian oil sources and refineries might seal the deal.

In other news, VAG group (VW, Seat, Cupra, Skoda, Audi) seems to be going into completely different direction. I placed my order for ID.Polo the moment the orders opened back at the end of April.

And others seem to agree - the MEB Entry family (Cupra Raval / ID.Polo for hatchback and ID.Cross/Skoda Epiq) have already 80000+ orders in a few months - many for people who have not even been able to test drive the car.

Reviewers seem to agree, and when I look at the car I'm absolutely certain I'm going to enjoy it when I get it this October.

For example, here's one. Fast forward to 5:30 to see interior stuff (including the darn buttons!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The other car in the family, Cupra Raval was also an option for me, but since VAG decided that temperature controls in those would still be sliders (even if other stuff still has buttons), I went with Polo.

Xylitol has been *very* much promoted at least here in Finland as being good for your teeth. They basically hand out Xylitol gums for kids at every dentist visit and even at school lunches sometimes. Effect is basically that it starves cavity-causing bacteria in your mouth.

So I guess...chew your Xylitol gum, but spit it out afterwards!

I wrote a compiler for an ObjC-like language (with less brackets), which can produce binaries for any of {Mac, Windows, Linux, WASM, Arm A9 (Zynq), m68k or 6502} running on any of {Mac, Windows, Linux}. So you can produce a dev-signed Mac binary on a Linux box. I’m just going through extending that output range to mobile {Android, iOS} and I’ll release it as open source.

The compiler docs for the language (xc) are at https://compile-xc.org/ - feel free to browse.

I didn’t think getting the signing working for Mac/iOS was terribly hard.