Probably some version of shell company and/or reselling equipment from manufactures that nominally do not make stuff for export and can be sloppy with BOM documentation; coupled with studiously avoiding asking questions that might lead toward any material knowledge of controls violations.
This seems to be propaganda : There's absolutely no independent source, this seems to originate from some gossip by an official in UK's government, sourcing it to the NCSC (a branch of GCHQ), who in turn declined to comment.
The Telegraph heavily uses "it is understood that..." which hints that they were giving very vague information that they're in no way able to confirm.
Most press accounts follow this same pattern. You never know who the source is and you have to trust the press is not full of shit. The quote from the government source seems to imply more than gossip as they are seemingly aware of what plants were impacted:
"A government source said: 'We have thresholds for important generators to legally notify us of cyber activity, and this site is nowhere near. Itâ(TM)s a very small-scale site, less than a rounding error compared to grid capacity.' "
>"Anyways, prefs.cfg must be a windows name. I added:"
Sorry, I meant prefs.js
Hell no I am not using MS-Windows!
And yeah, user_pref inside it works fine.
Reposting due to censorship.
This premise seems rather insane for multiple reasons:
1. London remained significantly more polluted throughout the entirety of the study. The effects of the NPI had only marginal impact on pollution levels yet the spread of NO2 levels between London and Luton started out and remained enormous... London retained basically double the pollution level of Luton throughout the entirety of the study period. In relative terms the shrinking delta between them was tiny. London started out at ~35 NO2 and Luton ~15... London ended up at about ~28 NO2 vs ~13 for Luton.
I suppose there could be some kind of very specific magical threshold of NO2 pollution in children by which such effects could just happen to materialize yet absent extraordinary evidence this isn't a reasonable conclusion. The more reasonable conclusion is NO2 at the levels measured don't have any statistically relevant effect on expiratory volume within the constraints of the study.
They in my view are being intentionally dishonest throughout by the continuous use of relative change between London and Luton instead of simply referencing absolute numbers. They are leading the reader to make assumptions that are inherently nonsensical BS.
2. There is at no point in absolute terms any year measured with a difference in expiratory volume that exceeds the CI between London and Luton. There is no statistically significant difference yet the paper and the TFA keep pretending otherwise by invoking the same relative vs absolute trick as for the NO2 levels.
3. Comparing people living in huge cities with 20x the population of a much smaller city is BS to begin with. You compare like to like especially given well known lifestyle differences that directly impact health.
One of the easiest solutions would be to require all single-use devices switch to sodium-ion batteries. They are slightly heavier (half the energy density of Li-ion) but they don't cause fires when shorted out and they materials don't use expensive elements like Nickel, Manganese, and Cobalt.
Don't believe marketing bullshit. There was an awesome video of someone shooting a model of the bluetti power station with sodium batteries when it was turned off. The cells shorted out, caught fire and made quite the flame thrower / fireworks show.
>"What's needed is a different battery chemistry, but as long as Lithium batteries are available at low cost, this problem isn't going away."
What hasn't happened in any significant way is to package lithium batteries in some small, unique sizes (different from non-lithium) and mandate things have openable battery hatches, like we have traditionally had in all battery-operated devices, and used these sizes. There are lithium standards like these:
https://em3ev.com/lithium-batt... but they are very difficult to find and don't go small enough for many devices. And there are no standards for rectangular prismatic cells (that I know of).
Manufacturers really love the idea of non-replaceable batteries. It is horrible for consumers, and horrible for the environment, but wonderful for manufacturers because it is slightly less expensive, makes devices smaller/sleeker, and requires consumers to keep rebuying things....
I was recently looking for some wireless phone headsets. Now, suddenly, they ALL have non-replaceable batteries! All of them. I don't want to spend $150 on a quality headset that will become trash in just 2 or 3 years when the battery dies. But what choice do I have? My old Plantronics one that I love had a replaceable one. It was small, lightweight, and sleek, yet had a battery compartment. I have replaced the battery twice (3 batteries total) even though it wasn't a "standard" size, and still use it today. But I what do I buy now for other users?
My toothbrush- non-openable/replaceable.
My Sony stereo headset- non-openable/replaceable.
My watch- non-openable/replaceable.
My USB power bank- non-openable/replaceable.
My micro keyboard- non-openable/replaceable.
My phone- non-openable/replaceable.
My bike light- non-openable/replaceable.
My beard trimmer- non-openable/replaceable.
My hand-held carpet spill cleaner- non-openable/replaceable.
I could go on, but you get the idea. There are countless MILLIONS of these things out there now.
They are trying to say in London which started out and remained more polluted than Luton throughout the entirety of the study period reached parity with Luton in terms of expiratory volume of children.
This premise seems rather insane for multiple reasons:
1. London remained significantly more polluted throughout the entirety of the study. The effects of the NPI had only marginal impact on pollution levels yet the spread of NO2 levels between London and Luton started out and remained enormous... London retained basically double the pollution level of Luton throughout the entirety of the study period. In relative terms the shrinking delta between them was tiny. London started out at ~35 NO2 and Luton ~15... London ended up at about ~28 NO2 vs ~13 for Luton.
I suppose there could be some kind of very specific magical threshold of NO2 pollution in children by which such effects could just happen to materialize yet absent extraordinary evidence this isn't a reasonable conclusion. The more reasonable conclusion is NO2 at the levels measured don't have any statistically relevant effect on expiratory volume within the constraints of the study.
They in my view are being intentionally dishonest throughout by the continuous use of relative change between London and Luton instead of simply referencing absolute numbers. They are leading the reader to make assumptions that are inherently nonsensical BS.
2. There is at no point in absolute terms any year measured with a difference in expiratory volume that exceeds the CI between London and Luton. There is no statistically significant difference yet the paper and the TFA keep pretending otherwise by invoking the same relative vs absolute trick as for the NO2 levels.
3. Comparing people living in huge cities with 20x the population of a much smaller city is BS to begin with. You compare like to like especially given well known lifestyle differences that directly impact health.
>"Here's an ambiguous prompt that will delete all your extensions, themes, and custom settings if you answer "yes". "
Yeah, I really hate that thing. I really don't understand why they added that "feature." In any case, it can be disabled. Go to about:config , create a new boolean with the name âoebrowser.disableResetPromptâ and set it to âoetrueâ. Or manually add to your prefs.cfg:
lockPref("browser.disableResetPrompt", true);
>"Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today"
Yep. I have been using StartPage and DuckDuckGo as my sole search engines for many years. DDG has been included in Firefox for quite a while, but not StartPage. So I am glad to see it added, although adding it yourself is not difficult.
StartPage is essentially Google search without Google spying on you and without AI and other annoyances.
DuckDuckGo is essentially Bing without Microsoft spying on your and without some of the annoyances.
I've been using Claude a bit lately, and I have noticed sometimes, if you're hashing through a task and having to iterate, it can get into a mode where it more or less tells you it's probably not worth spending more time on it. Also it does seem to love volunteering to write reports for some reason (without my having asked for one).
Probably more artificial post training bludgeons to keep models from getting stuck and burning through tokens.
Oh and one more thing. Walmart could pull a "Winco Foods" and not accept Credit Card payments at all. In my area there's a Winco Foods about 30 miles from where I live. They only take debit cards, not credit cards. They do beat Walmart's prices so whenever I'm nearby, I take advantage of that.
This is what I love about Winco not putting up with bullshit. Any store that still accepts credit should at least charge transaction fees for using it. Credit has gotten a free ride on all of our backs for long enough.
Rather than destroy evidence, simply do not take your real phone out of the country. Take a burner phone. Wipe it on the way to the airport.
One of the things I loved about the pine phone was the ability to boot from sd card. For something like foreign travel the ability to swap cards and boot a whole different image would be perfect.
I did not make the cut. At least now I will not be alone
>"They should have always been limited to 10-15 items. No more than you can carry in a hand basket. It's infuriating when you have 1 or a couple items and you're stuck waiting behind someone who's purchasing a heaping cart full prepping for the apocalypse"
[My Walmart is 15 items] And it is also infuriating when you have 16 to 30 items and are stuck in a GLACIAL line with people who have 50 to 100 items. AND then muck around with their stupid phones AND multiple payment methods at the end AND with readers that don't allow tap to pay.
I prefer self-checkout, if the self-checkout is done correctly, but often have "too many items" to use it. Ultimately, I don't care if it is self-checkout or not. I just want to get the F out of the store without waiting forever.
My Target is always TREMENDOUSLY faster than my Walmart. Always. Target has many more open checkouts and with fewer people in each, and moves much faster. They have fewer self-checkouts than Walmart, but at Walmart, there is often a queue 10+ deep just to get into the self-checkout. But at least it is a single queue, so it moves faster than most non-self checkout lines. But Target generally has fewer people checking out, so that is a factor. Anyway, I guess it depends on the store.
Single queue lines are always WAY more fair. I don't care which register line I stand in, it is usually wrong. The one next to me moves faster. I wish all checkout lines were single-queue but they are not as space-efficient. And there are times a single dork will hold up the entire process because he/she doesn't quickly see and go to the next open register.
Sigh.
Do not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging.
