I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.
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pop riveting is fun in a way that will make you even happier 👍
I have a pneumatic rivet gun. It goes BADUM-TSCH when operated, so I need to tell a bad joke before every rivet. The fun is totally off the scale when I'm riveting!
What Russia and Ukraine want out of talks, as Trump speaks to Putin Tuesday
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g-s1-54229/trump-putin-call-ukraine-russia?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“Running down these definitions brings us to a particularly tempting peril for programmers: making sense of laws feels like diving into a codebase. We’re dereferencing terms to build up definitions and chaining the predicates into a state machine we can run in our heads against our situation.
But programmers are bad at playing lawyers because the law works very differently than code.”
"Collectively, the 39 panels have a capacity of over 20 kilowatts — enough to power just one large, energy-intensive American household but more than enough for the lightbulbs, cooker plates and fans in the 180 households in Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba."
Nigeria's minigrids smell like the future.
New, by me: Marko Elez, the DOGE staffer who resigned after his racist posts resurfaced (and was rehired soon after), violated Treasury rules when he sent an unencrypted email containing personally identifiable information to two Trump administration officials.
techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/doge…
DOGE staffer violated Treasury rules by emailing unencrypted personal data | TechCrunch
Marko Elez emailed a spreadsheet containing personal information to two Trump administration officials.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
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Trump blames Iran for Houthi attacks on shipping after U.S. strikes in Yemen
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g-s1-54274/trump-blames-iran-for-houthi-attacks-on-shipping-after-u-s-strikes-in-yemen?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Wow. Diese Leser-Mail »made my day«:
»... ich habe mir vor 3 Wochen ihr Buch "Einstieg in HTML und CSS" gekauft und bin fleißig am lernen ... Sie erklären fantastisch und das mit einem Humor, der genau meinen trifft. Ich wollte einfach kurz Danke sagen!
… und nun bin ich so aufgeregt und voller Freude beim Lernen, dass ich ständig die Zeit vergesse und es kaum erwarten kann wieder aufzuwachen um weiterzumachen. Was haben Sie denn da angerichtet?«
Peter Müller: Buch und Videokurs zu HTML und CSS | html-und-css.de
Sie wollen HTML und CSS von Grund auf lernen? Oder vorhandene Kenntnisse auffrischen? Dann sind Sie hier richtig. Hereinspaziert.html-und-css.de
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The image depicts a cowboy riding a horse in a snowy landscape. The cowboy is wearing a white cowboy hat with a fur trim, a tan coat with a fur collar, and white gloves. He is holding a revolver in his right hand, which is holstered on his right hip. The horse has a thick, white fur tail and is equipped with a saddle and reins. In the background, a herd of cattle, including a prominent bull with large horns, is visible, suggesting a cattle drive. The sky is overcast, and the ground is covered in snow, indicating a cold environment. The painting style is realistic, with attention to detail in the textures of the clothing, the horse, and the landscape. The artist's signature, "Walter Pott," is visible in the bottom left corner of the image.
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This is the new version of climate denial, ala the Trump Administration:
Oh, we admit that climate change IS real, but it's just an unavoidable consequences of modern society and tough luck, everyone, just suck it up because we're not going to do anything about it.
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Mistral Small 3 [came out in January](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/30/mistral-small-3/) and was a notable, genuinely excellent local model that used an Apache 2.0 license. Mistral Small 3.1 offers a significant improvement: it's multi-modal …Simon Willison’s Weblog
I appreciate C# for its unapologetic commitment to just keep adding shit
that doesn't necessarily make it a good idea, but it's just so unafraid to just do more shit all the time
Trump tries to void Biden's pardons, blaming autopen. Many presidents have used it
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ghost has made ActivityPub available to all of its Pro subscribers.
Interesting how they name and describe it:
"Social Web - y/n
Federate your site with ActivityPub to join the world's largest open network"
Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Bah, I knew I'd read this headline soon.
Take a people from their land, shove them into an inhospitable place, and break every treaty you've ever made with them.
THEN in _your_ hour of need ask them to keep your secrets while risking their lives for a nation that derides them. THEY answer the call in _honor_ and we betray their memory.
I don't know where to put my rage.
Repairing a Legendary Elka Synthex Analog Synthesizer
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Repairing A Legendary Elka Synthex Analog Synthesizer
Somehow, an Elka Synthex analog synthesizer made it onto [Mend it Mark]’s repair bench recently. It had a couple of dud buttons, and some keys produced the wrong tone. Remember, this is a com…Hackaday
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Why forecasting where tornadoes will hit is still hard to do − even though storm predictions are improving
Researchers are turning to computer models, drones and other methods to improve tornado forecasting.The Conversation
"As Trump literally tanks the American economy and the trust of the international business community, where are the voices of America’s business leaders? Are they all hoping that Trump will do a commercial on the White House lawn hawking their products too? ...
Your tax cuts will not be large enough to cover your shame. And we will remember."
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“There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation.Sherrilyn Ifill (Sherrilyn’s Newsletter)
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"Trump’s belief that America holds all the cards, that the rest of the world needs access to our markets but we don’t need them, is all wrong. We are rapidly losing the world’s trust, and part of the cost will be financial."
#Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #economy #EconomicElites #billionaires #TaxCuts
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A Tour of Ancient Rome’s Best Graffiti: “We Have Urinated in Our Beds … There Was No Chamber Pot” & More
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A Tour of Ancient Rome's Best Graffiti: "We Have Urinated in Our Beds ... There Was No Chamber Pot" & More
Apart from the likes of bravo and pizza, graffiti must be one of the first Italian words that English-speakers learn in everyday life.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
Director of $42 billion broadband fund pushed out, says program is being ruined.
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The image features a humorous meme with text and a photograph. The text at the top reads: "DM: Your party's invited to sit at the negotiation table for working out a truce with the BBEG. Party: Let's roll a group insight check... rolls 8, 3, 7, 1 and a 4. DM: Do you accept? Party: Let's do it, It'll be fine." Below the text is a photograph of a modern conference room with a large, irregularly shaped rock suspended from the ceiling. The rock appears to be a natural stone, with a rough texture and a grayish-brown color. The room has large windows, allowing natural light to enter, and the walls are a light gray color. There are several people seated at a long, stone table, which matches the suspended rock, with laptops in front of them. The chairs are black and have a modern design. The overall atmosphere of the room is contemporary and minimalist.
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Alphabet's Potential Starlink Rival Becomes Its Own Company
Rather than use orbiting satellites, Taara plans to deliver fiber-like internet through the air using ground-based equipment that beams light.Michael Kan (PCMag)
Trump invoking Alien Enemies Act to deport is 'a threat to everyone,' lawyer argues
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I wrote up a post about how I get around silly macOS security stuff to run rsync jobs from cron by embedding shell commands inside of Automator applications...
'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' is Stephen Graham Jones' horror masterpiece
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330583/buffalo-hunter-hunter-review-stephen-graham-jones-horror?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Most apps fail to reach $1,000/month revenue within two years.
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17 March 1940 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Barnett Greenman, was born in Rotterdam.
In February 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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in reply to evacide • • •I wish there was a guide to hacking them and replacing the software. I honestly just need a hands-free way to turn on and off lights at this point.
(Also lol my phone’s swipe keyboard tried autocorrecting “software” to “disease”.)
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in reply to evacide • • •Evil Jeff has caused the world enough trouble. The oceans don't need his microplastics too.
Martin Boller
in reply to evacide • • •Noooo, we have polluted the sea enough. Let's disassemble and reuse the shit 😀
Metaphorically speaking yes, do throw them into the sea.
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in reply to evacide • • •i bought one of hte original echos way back when, and about a month later ripped it's brains out and just kept hte audio part and put a new brain into it.
proper PITA but better than eWaste.
when sonos tried their "recycle your old devices and we'll brick perfectly usable devices" idiocy about 5 years ago, similar reworking ensued.
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in reply to evacide • • •please don't tell people to throw their trash in the sea. It's bad for the environment.
Retailers are required by law to take back electronic devices that are trash. So best bring them to your next amazon fulfillment center for proper disposal.
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in reply to evacide • • •I'm waaaay too paranoid (and partially brummy-accented) to have a voice-controlled device around the house.
still feels odd being proven right though 🙁
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in reply to evacide • • •Please don't throw your Amazon Echo into the sea. There is too much garbage in the oceans already.
Root it.
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in reply to evacide • • •The same applies to damn near everything with internet connectivity and a microphone: throw it into the sea.
If it's not reporting everything you say in your home to the new fascist American administration, it will be soon.
#CollectItAll
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in reply to evacide • • •My kids mostly use echo in our house. 😂😂
This is gonna be the dumbest AI ever. If it learned to respond from my family's usage it will end up a machine that just says "Pull my finger." any time a request is made.
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in reply to evacide • • •I remember the original Echo announcement and how cool I thought it was. I almost preordered the original. And then like within an hour I was thinking about the microphone and where the data went... and hard passed.
No smart speakers. Ever.
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in reply to evacide • • •@evacide, I have four letters for Amazon:
G, D, P and R.
(That said, I have no Echo to cancel.)
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in reply to evacide • • •Are Google or Apple virtual assistants any better when it comes to not sending all audio to their masters?
I have an Alexa and have stopped using it because of Amazon's announced changes.
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in reply to evacide • • •I had thought they were doing this already..............for years.
Sadly it won't stop the majority still buying into these trash devices. But hopefully something good will come from more people not using them.
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