What is the furthest you’ve connected to on Meshtastic? I’ve yet to buy hardware, but I see a lot of complaints on the Meshtastic subreddit about range and low activity. On the other hand I’ve watched a couple videos about big Meshcore groups, connectivity from Vancouver to Oregon, stuff like that.

Yeah. I don’t like these guys, but for our own credibility we should be factual. TPU has had many questionable opinions about public health, including covid. But they weren’t founded specifically related to covid, or as I understand it even with a particular focus on health/life sciences.

Article about the founder dying: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/turning-point-usa-founder-dies-coronavirus-complications-387077

Like the European Union?

I was at my neighbor’s house and we were just poking around to see what there was to do online. We found a file (what we would now call a supercut but we didn’t have that word then) with a hundred instances of Homer Simpson saying “D’oh”.

We downloaded it, which took twenty minutes or something like that, and my recollection is when we went to play it there was no software on the computer that could. That doesn’t seem like it could be true, maybe I’m mixing memories up. It wouldn’t have been an mp3 file because it was too early for that, and I’d expect windows to at least be able to play .wav. maybe it was some weird format. So we had to do another search and found a freeware program called Goldwave which we downloaded and were able to listen then. I still used Goldwave for years and even paid for it.

I just tried reading about xenogender and can’t say it made any sense.

“Most music is terrible” so I’m not particularly drawn to having this vast archive. I want to listen to the things I really like.

It’s also not lossless, so from an archive standpoint that seems to diminish its value.

That said, I do think the insights they post on their blog about statistics and distribution are interesting. And just because that music is currently available via paid services doesn’t mean it will always be as accessible in one place. There would be a lot of manual collection and labeling you’d have to do to get something like this otherwise. And you wouldn’t have nearly as much confidence about how comprehensive such a database was if you did it yourself.

This is interesting, thanks!

Don’t know that I would be active enough for what.cd, but I am drawn to archiving, lossless files and comprehensive metadata.

I ripped my hundreds of CDs to FLAC and spent a good while organizing before Spotify came along with its temptations. Have started buying again on Bandcamp lately and been thinking about spinning up jellyfin.

Person freaking out as Columbo gradually unravels their perfect copycat Hand murder

There would be a lot of ideas about why different people get squished. We wouldn’t know it was random definitively. And because it looks like a human adjacent hand, probably a lot of speculation about God punishing people for being bad.

If you want a lasting legacy, build a big wall

Every day? But not at the scale where I need to view the whole globe

I wasn’t aware of LibreOffice online. Interesting message about how you can use it but there’s a built in disclaimer that appears when you try to have more than 20 users that says “this isn’t good for that” https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/

That sounds exciting! Couple catty comments in here but I think you’re doing good work.

I get you’re saying that they adjust the 1963 cost for inflation. (vs tripling today’s cost of food) I can’t agree if that was enough in that time, because how would I know? But sure, let’s say it was. It doesn’t follow that adjusted for inflation it would be enough now.

As the author wrote, there seems to be significantly more inflation in other expenses than in food. Doing the math on what we think are reasonable expenses can show what a “real” poverty line is.

I think chairs and tables are insufficiently different - people would end up using one as a substitute for the other. I think a more interesting question would be what if you were required to magically eliminate all perfectly level planes (tables, chairs, beds), or eliminate all slanted planes (ramps, screws, lazy boys)

This is heinous, obviously. Given the guys’ ages and lack of progress, I wonder whether they would have actually started this plan. Kind of reminds me when the FBI would arrest a “terrorist” where they had to have an informant suggest a plan to and loan money to in order to buy weapons from another informant.

With respect, if you had read it you’d know this isn’t about drones, and it’s not about active combat like in Ukraine. This is sort of a decades long testing of boundaries, and the article is about a move that NATO made to potentially stop that testing.

I didn’t get AI vibes from this. I took it as a guy a little overpleased with NATO military prowess but still i very nteresting information. What made you think it’s AI?

From what I hear the Chinese EV manufacturers have a lot better features and finish than what we can get in the States. One concern I would have is if the manufacturer were to go out of business can you still get parts and maintenance.

This is astroturfed. No one was demanding they prove the robot wasn’t human. It’s a thing the company planned to do ahead of time, and then they’ve planted this story. I’ve seen this posted several places, but I haven’t encountered anyone who was like “oh wow, I thought it was a person”