Whisker Squadron: Survivor blends classic Star Fox gameplay with modern rogue-lite flourishes for a short yet stylish indie rail shooter. Here's our review: pcmag.com/reviews/whisker-squa…
Coal pollution chokes #Ulaanbataar – in pictures - theguardian.com/artanddesign/g… "In the depths of winter, the city’s daily average of PM 2.5 small particulate that can enter the lungs and bloodstream, can be 27 times higher than the level considered safe by the World Health Organization." #mongolia
The toxic smog that settles over the Mongolian capital every winter has been a suffocating problem for well over a decade that successive governments have failed to dispel
It's easy to blame the UK government for being incompetent nitwits for writing the horrendous Online Safety Act (theregister.com/2025/01/14/onl…) that strengthens monopolies with the resources to implement it and weakens small communities without those same resources.
But this is all according to plan for Meta/Facebook et al. It's regulatory capture in action. It's way cheaper to kill your competition with regulation than to buy it, especially when it's decentralized.
I hope Europe and Canada don't go down the same path as the UK here.
I also hope that "we" (as in, folks who build and care about small, independent online communities) can step up to the plate – both in terms of ensuring regulation supports _actually_ good outcomes AND in terms of building meaningful approaches to online safety.
In the 70' and 80' of the last century there were weekly printed series caled "Foto Roman" common. They were like comics with only real photos, mostly black and white, because easier to print. I wish i'd know the story behind this woman in Paris.
Edited: Oh just read again... she's your wife. I am so unpolite. I beg your Pardon.
i know this is an opportunity to pile on Apartheid techbro, but am not even exaggerating when i say that, as a historian and “culture critic”, #Boomers embrace of the OG #Nazi car ―the VW Beetle― is one of those research things that keeps me up at night.
hand-waving it away as a feat of marketing doesn’t explain how one of Adolf Hitler’s prized cars, for the tech developed with it, became a symbol of white American youth radicalism, aka #hippies
@mhoye I had not thought about that before. I don't think that hippies of the 1960's were consciously using the VW Beetle as a symbol of the Nazi government. They were driving a car not made by GM, Ford, or Chrysler that were key parts of the USA military-industrial complex profiting from the Vietnam War. I was not old enough to know what they were thinking then, so I could be wrong.
@futurebird my post isn’t about the image but about the VW in general. i did think the image looks doctored but it doesn’t matter. the image is only relevant for the presence of the nazi cars of yore and today, not the doctored crash.
been looking for the better part of the past 10-15 minutes
all i could find was some commentary that it looks AI-generated and apparently originated from a source known for posting (and *usually* correctly labelling) AI-generated content
and this: motorbiscuit.com/tesla-cybertr… "If you’ve read any headlines about the deaths in Cybertrucks, none of them were because of the impact of the crash, but instead, the occupant’s inability to escape once the vehicle crashed."
if a cybertruck could be this easily smashed up relative to another vehicle that should not have been a problem...
@scm This makes it more likely to be real, AND YET. I still don't know. I will choose to think of it as a drawing made to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
My fuzzy memory cells think that I heard on an episode of Tales From Aztlantis (a Mexican/Chicano history/archeology podcast) that one connection might be that there a proto-hippie back-to-the-land movement in pre-war Germany that was right-leaning and fed somewhat into the Nazi idea of lebensraum and later some of those German proto-hippies came to the US and brought volkswagens with them and that's partly how the bug car got cool.
Don't quote me on that though; my memory is fuzzy.
I don't know how this was experienced in the US, but in Europe, I think the boomers saw the grudge against Germany as something of their parents' generation. In a way it was a bit nationalistic to blame the current generation for the actions of the previous.
Also, Brandt's West Germany was very left-wing, and devoted to acknowledging the horrors of the war.
As such, I think they associated the Beetle much more with (then) modern West Germany than with the Nazis.
@pbloem Volkswagen was a peace project designed by the allies to help for peacetime reindustrialization after the Second World War. The car design was old but the modern VW is a west German peace project. At least growing up in NY the Mercedes was viewed as the most Nazi car (Adolph's personal vehicle)
@jessetmccann @pbloem Hold up. What?? Hitler commissioned and literally had a hand in designing the original vehicle, along with Ferdinand Porsche… that well known design of German military weapons platforms. I mean for Christ’s sake, the VW logo was a Swastika. Parts for these cars and weapons were made via slave labour from concentration camps.
It was *the* Nazi car.
It wasn’t until after the war that the British took over and turned it into a reindustrialisation piece after nobody would either buy nor be gifted the production capability, because the government had to take it over.
There was no ‘design’ of a peace project. Only by accident, after the designed atrocities.
Mbed TLS is a great library for establishing SSL/TLS connections from a #microcontroller and making HTTPS requests, but it can be a little tricky to set up and use. I got it working on the #ESP32 with ESP-IDF. Full video coming soon 😁 #IoT #security #TLS #embedded
It's called AOC in the EU, Donald! "Appellation d'origine contrôlée" ... it means that to be called Champagne, it has to be made in the Champagne region (in France) and using a specific method. If it's made in the U.S., it's called sparkling wine.
I really could not, and by now gave up on trying to, undestand the bottomless stupidity of this orange FOTUS. How could a human being vote for this mof.
The only legal Champagne comes from the Champagne region of France, unless it comes from California. Discover the historical loophole that allows this.
Ofcom’s risk assessment deadline has passed, and online platforms must now take action to protect users from illegal content and activity occurring on their platforms. Significant fines await those who fail.
Ofcom’s risk assessment deadline has passed, and online platforms must now take action to protect users from illegal content and activity occurring on their platforms. ...
NBC/Axios: Trump's claims that Biden's pardons are invalid are nuts
There are no provisions for a president to "undo" the pardons or a previous president. Use of an "autopen" by a president is legally binding, as per 2005 DOJ guidance from President George W. Bush term.
Dry stone walls who doesn't love them. Today's run got me thinking about them and some I saw earlier this year. The skills and time it has taken make just amazes me. A free places here in Spain I've seen some good walls, I wonder how much difference there is between Yorkshire, Scottish and Spanish walls. Who nicked from whom erm taught others. Did the skill travel with people and adapt to the stone at the location or did they come up the "how to" because of a the need there. Boy, do I ramble ;)
And you can't talk about dry stone wall without bringing in @kristiedegaris ;)
EU foreign ministers have not yet agreed on a €40 billion aid package for Ukraine but hope to make progress soon, says EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.
Putin ally Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said his country will not participate in any military missions in Ukraine and will not allocate "a single cent" for military aid to Kyiv. #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO
Smartphone chip vendor Qualcomm is making a new push to power gaming handhelds with its next-generation Snapdragon G Series chips. pcmag.com/news/qualcomm-takes-…
Musk’s Tesla has been forced to halt sales of its electric Cybertruck pickup amid mounting concern about metal panels falling off the supposedly indestructible vehicles. Customers posting on the Cybertruck Owners Club website & X, said they'd been told by agents that deliveries were on hold.
EV-enthusiast website Electrek said the decision was taken amid increasing instances of trim and panels “flying off the supposedly ‘bulletproof’ electric truck.”
"The US and Israel were interested in the possibility of Gazans migrating to Syria. The US administration even tried to contact the new government there through a third party - but it is unclear whether the Syrians responded." - CBS News #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas #Syria
"Just smell the fresh air of the Gaza seacoast Bennie...We'll make a fortune" - Frump
Amazon is discontinuing a privacy-focused feature that allowed select Echo devices to process voice requests locally, meaning all voice recordings will now be sent to the cloud before being deleted.
Amazon is discontinuing a privacy-focused feature that allowed select Echo devices to process voice requests locally, meaning all voice recordings will now be sent to ...
These folks engineering a much better way to deliver your basically anything. If you want to engineer your own creations with me every month, just head to ht...
thats true. but im still going to make fun of hyperbolic youtube video titles (regardless of the video content) because they are silly and deserve to be made fun of.
im exhausted by the constant clickbaity titles and thumbnails that most youtube videos use. i make fun of them for some relief from that.
but even many creators with substantive content use that tactic, so i dont dismiss a video just because of it even when making fun of it. instead i try to use other signals, like who shared the video and what they said.
tldr: i saved it to watch later cause of your recommendation even though the clickbaity title sucks.
I like the enthusiasm and I like hearing good things about Rwanda but I don't understand how it makes sense to send blood packs one by one via drones when a (granted, slower) motorbike could schlepp 100 times more over there. It's not like the destination doesn't have a refrigerator, right?
@urig Not sure how to answer the question, basically 100% of what I know about that situation is in the video, and they're not just doing it but running the operation 24 hours a day, so ... the economics must work?
I created a new #HomeAssistant helper to simplify keeping track of min/max values where I wanted to have control over when they were reset, saving creating template sensors and automations to do it for each entity. I use it for daily garden min/max temperatures, can be used for things like tracking the peak generation on solar installations and being generic it's up to you on how you use it. First release so use with caution. github.com/andrew-codechimp/HA…
Republicans like to portray themselves as self-reliant, independent, out-of-my-damned-way individualists. Watching them prostrate themselves not only in the hope of personal gain, but to this particular childish simpleton, reveals what kind of people they really are.
I wonder how much Bacardi it takes each night for Rubio to be able to sleep after saying things like this.
This, right here, is the language of fascism. Violence posing as reason; words being deployed in the most mendacious of ways ("argument"?; "better off joining"?)
Well, he's what we in the UK all a W*nker or a T*sser So are Trump, Musk, Vance... aaah s*it! the list is too long. The whole Cabine and his followers aere a waste of air, food! and water!
Rubio has strong backers on Miami. They placed him where he is. He will be the fool, and they will resurrect him..unless of course Rapture comes first, and he is one of the 244k on that train to Jordan.. along with Maga Mike and the Huckabees.
Al Arabiya journalists came under fire from a Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile near the Syria-Lebanon border today. #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Syria #Lebanon
An outgoing official at the US Commerce Department is alleging that the Trump administration could misuse a federal broadband program to enrich Elon Musk’s Starlink business over funding faster fiber installations. pcmag.com/news/us-official-bla…
An outgoing official at the US Commerce Department alleges that the $42 billion BEAD program risks being derailed even more to benefit Elon Musk's Starlink.
I REALLY beg people to stop treating Trump's autopen claim as if it were true. You're spreading propaganda disseminated by Heritage Foundation either willfully or stupidly misunderstanding that ALL signatures in Federal Register, including Trump's, are graphics. The underlying premise is false.
Combining this (Trump declares Biden admin pardons void) with Trump's admin ignoring judicial orders and I conclude the USA is now in an uncontrolled skid towards dictatorship.
The rule of law is void where it offends Trump.
(Checks calendar: just under 60 days in, events still tracking Hitler's post-election seizure of power in 1933.)
Reminder that the Nazis re-occupied the Rhineland 3 years in. That's probably about the right time scale for the invasion of Canada. flipboard.com/@abc/news-54f0un…
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in reply to blaine • • •I hope Europe and Canada don't go down the same path as the UK here.
I also hope that "we" (as in, folks who build and care about small, independent online communities) can step up to the plate – both in terms of ensuring regulation supports _actually_ good outcomes AND in terms of building meaningful approaches to online safety.
Mark
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