915 MHz Forecast: Rolling Your Own Offline Weather Station
915 MHz Forecast: Rolling Your Own Offline Weather Station
There are a lot of options for local weather stations; most of them, however, are sensors tied to a base station, often requiring an internet connection to access all features. [Vinnie] over at vin…Hackaday
RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders
RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders
I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you can’t, here’s our best advice.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
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I'm looking for a smart lock for my house and I've seen these at a pretty interesting price on Aliexpress (a.aliexpress.com/_mMbQRZx), it says that it can be controlled with the tuya app and I have some old plugs integrated from that app, but I also have a lamp that connects to that app but not to the home assistant.
Does anyone know if I will have problems integrating this lock into my system? Does anyone have this model or similar?
thanks for the help
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AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims
2025’s AI boom caused huge CO2 emissions and use of water, research finds
Study’s author says society not tech companies paying for environmental impact of AI and asks if this is fairRobert Booth (The Guardian)
Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)
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How is it you feel the 2 are related? And is it your view that Europe cannot spend money to help stop an obvious threat to Europe, ever, forevermore. Because they didn't bail Greece out over 20 years ago?
And you don't see how damaging the currency used by all EU member states would hurt more people?
I mean, there's like 10 other ways this makes no sense and you've not made any kind of argument or supported your statement with anything at all other than pointing out the EU did something now. And didn't do something entirely different in the past
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What blatant contradiction? What priorities? They didn't bail Greece out of a banking crisis 20 years ago, they have committed money to Ukraine now. I take it you find these 2 decisions to be incongruous? Why? You can't explain yourself other than to say that you don't think those 2 decisions can both be made without the decision maker being a hypocrite? Is this at least a correct interpretation of whatever you are trying to say?
If so, ok? So what. You believe it's hypocritical? Great. Others don't. Support your position.
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You have now reduced a critique of current policy to a childish whine of hypocrisy. Very well. If you insist on a primer. Supporting the position requires only the examination of a single budget cycle. Observe the funds allocated for military aid to a non-member state. Then observe the funds denied for energy subsidies, social stabilization, or infrastructure renewal within the member states themselves. The support is in the spreadsheet. The argument is in the allocation. The hypocrisy is in the rhetorical commitment to a social Europe that is perpetually deferred in favor of a fortress Europe.
If you cannot discern an argument within the empirical evidence of fiscal choices, then no amount of explanation will penetrate the fog. You are demanding a philosophical treatise when the proof is in the accounting. It is not my fault you are reading the ledger without comprehension.
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"Give me some guys and some weapons and we'll f—king get rid of them,” MacKenzie said in a June 2024 podcast episode. “We'll take them up … 'Get in the truck. You're going to the airport.' ‘Make me.’ 'OK' – bang! 'Anybody else not want to go to the airport? … I only had to shoot one, see? Easy.'”
Wow. Who would have thought being born with a really tiny penis would have this much effect on someone?
Finding common cause with an enemy of your own country is treason. Nazis are a political group of another country our country went to war with. Canada won and the Nazis lost. The fact the war was a long time ago doesn't change much, they're simply finding common cause with losers from another country.
So they are treasonous losers.
Flatpak 1.16.2 Adds Reinstall Support for Bundle Installations
Flatpak 1.16.2 Adds Reinstall Support for Bundle Installations
Flatpak 1.16.2, a universal app delivery framework for Linux, introduces reinstall support for bundle installs, Intel Xe VA-API enablement, and multiple stability and security fixes.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Akwesasne parents outraged after photos circulate of 'time out box' in school
Photos of a wooden box, allegedly used for student "time outs" at an elementary school in Akwesasne, drew shock and anger from parents this week and have prompted an investigation by the school district.
Akwesasne Mohawk Territory, near Cornwall, Ont., straddles the Ontario, Quebec and New York state border. St. Regis Mohawk School is a kindergarten to Grade 5 school on the U.S. side, and is one of four schools in the Salmon River Central School District.
Chrissy Jacobs, a resident of Akwesasne and a former Salmon River Central School District board member, posted the photos to Facebook Monday after they were sent to her by a teacher who’d recently resigned from the school.
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Why is Linux Mint better than macOS?
In my experiemce it's not. Unless you've not got Mac hardware, in which case it's your only choice from those two options.
Now, how is Mint better than macOS on older Macs?
Well. I used OCLP to run Sequoia on my 2014 Mac mini. It ran, but it was a dog egg. The fan was basically a continuous jet engine. So I used it to dip my toes in Linux and put Mint on it. 100% improvement. Mint doesn't mind only having 8Gb RAM, and doesn't really give a shit what it runs. It's modern and up to date and not growing new security holes with every month that passes. Running Mint, that little computer has become the hub of my homelab. Sure, there's better hardware for the task, but the best gear is the gear you've got, right?
However, if my M2 MacBook could run Mint, I'd still be running Sequoia on it, because there's a swathe of shit that macOS does out of the box that it's taken me a year of using Linux to give up trying to emulate with any level of success.
But not macOS 26 though. Oh Jesus fuck no. I've tried it on the M1 mini I have and it's fucking awful.
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Qwen-Image-Layered, a model capable of decomposing an image into multiple RGBA layers
Qwen/Qwen-Image-Layered · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
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in reply to Bad_Engineering • • •Lucy spared the Ghoul in saying, "I'll never be like you," but even then, the villain never said anything; it came from the protagonist of her own accord. Personally, I thought that was one of the most profound scenes in the entire show in a positive way.
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TV Tropes: "He Who Fights Monsters"
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in reply to infinitesunrise • • •I know it’s a trope and a bit cliche but here’s a personal favorite “Not so different” remark. Love this poster (and the film obviously).
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in reply to The Quuuuuill • • •Yes, obviously things like wars with non democratic states where the populace is not in favor of a war¹ should be ended with minimal collateral damage by doing whatever it takes to kill the guys in charge of stuff and spare as many conscripts as possible
But goon lives don't matter. Zuckerberg's personal security know what they're doing. The NYPD know what they're doing. I don't see any moral issue with their deaths.
¹so Russia but not the Zionists
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in reply to The Quuuuuill • • •They really tried that with Superman!
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in reply to The Quuuuuill • • •Hell, this goes so much further back. I could draw a parallel to the Book of Exodus.
Moses is commanded by God to go to Pharaoh and free the Israelites. He does this by terrorizing the Egyptian populace, a populace that are under the total control of an absolute totalitarian ruler. They literally worship their king as a god. Imagine if Exodus had consisted of Moses telling Pharaoh:
"God says let my people go. If you don't, tomorrow you'll trip and break your left leg. If you don't let them go, the next day you'll break your right leg. The day after that you'll break both your arms. The day after that you'll die of a heart attack at high noon. These same conditions will apply to the next Pharaoh until my people are free."
There. Moses accomplishes his mission, and the only person who has to get hurt is the only person that has any agency in the process. But no, instead God insists on terrorizing the innocent Egyptian populace instead.
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in reply to Ryanmiller70 • • •no, tlou2 is ambiguous in many ways but the ellie people are the bad guys.
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they would sacrifice that one girl for a cure for the entire humanity and she was even ok with it in hindsight, joel was the one to just go up and just kill everyone to get her back because he felt bad at the very last second, dooming humanity in the process. then just fucking off to live his comfy life on this small village. like nice one, dick.
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in reply to Ryanmiller70 • • •oh yeah, that's always a great way to break my immersion but its almost unavoidable 😔
we are the baddies though so it tracks somewhat this time. the game even addresses this contradiction here and there.
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in reply to Bad_Engineering • • •I've always thought of it as outright propaganda. You aren't supposed to use the same weapons as the enemy, cus then you are just as bad as them. You can't take power when it's available, else just as bad as them. You must remain pure, or else you'll be corrupted. Oh and off course, the lower of good always triumphs.
It's all propaganda to.mantaim existing power structures by funneling resistance into the least effect strategies, and it works.. it works really fucking well. Its a practical explanation for why leftists groups constantly eat their own. And it's all simplistic TV and movie tropes, but they've been around a long time and there is deep exposure from a very early age.
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in reply to Bad_Engineering • • •And even dumber in real life.
Its what monsters use to protect themselves.
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in reply to dogbert • • •not just as.
differently bad.
especially if they were pandering to be killed, to let them escape justice, in a sense, getting away with it.
the dead don't learn.