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by scblock 6d ago
Title is misleading. It would have a load of about 50 MW, substantially more than any single other customer of Colorado Springs Utilities (next listed is about 10 MW), but not more than "Colorado Springs."
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by scblock 23d ago
This idea has been tried for decades with little to no success. I'd be shocked if this turned out differently.
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by scblock 28d ago
Underground conductors for wind and solar plants are typically aluminum with copper concentric neutrals. Ground wires are often copper, but copper-clad aluminum is becoming more common.
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by scblock 2mo ago
Utterly breathless, in the "OMG these loss prevention people are amazing!" sort of way. Awful to read, truly awful. No discussion of privacy, of whether this kind of stuff is overly invasive, nothing. The closest it got was noting
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by scblock 4mo ago
The original SWF file can be played by Ruffle ( https://ruffle.rs/ ). Depending on your criteria for preservation a simple web page may be sufficient.
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by scblock 4mo ago
It's an ad.
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by scblock 4mo ago
KDE does that by default. Handy sometimes, funny sometimes.
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by scblock 4mo ago
Most of this writeup is not about Markdown, per se. It's about interoperability issues with extensions to the base syntax that are not implemented consistently in all renderers. The exception is blockquote formatting. These include: La
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by scblock 4mo ago
"The vast majority of the screen is upscaled." I have bad news for you, friend. You just described AAA gaming on anything less than a 5090 (and not even then, at all times). Without DLSS or FSR many modern games won't run smo
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by scblock 5mo ago
RCS can be hit or miss on GrapheneOS, but they have made significant progress recently. It requires using Google Messages rather than any other messaging app, and may require enabling an ICC authentication option that is disabled by default
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by scblock 5mo ago
A valid choice, a moral choice, is none of the above.
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by scblock 5mo ago
The odd looking circular example shown is not solar PV. It is the Ivanpah solar thermal generating station, and those are mirrors rather than solar panels, or modules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_F
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by scblock 5mo ago
I was curious since this is a different link than the main SilverBullet site (silverbullet.md). Looks like it's built by the same developer, but as a closed-source wrapping of the MIT licensed open source core of that project, as a des
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by scblock 5mo ago
It was a good compromise, including for Amazon. DRM is immoral when you're "selling" books, because that means I don't own the actual book. I still bought plenty of them when I could easily strip the DRM. But now I'
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by scblock 6mo ago
Of course Collabora is also upset because LibreOffice resurrected their LibreOffice Online project ( https://www.neowin.net/news/collabora-clashes-with-libreoffi... ). These projects seem to be really struggling with the
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by scblock 6mo ago
Am I missing something? This piece starts out with a discussion of how weather is hard to predict and highly variable (true, though our powers of forecasting are far better than they used to be). Then it quotes a couple developers of apps I
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by scblock 6mo ago
This is vague lip service with little substance, as far as I can tell. That is unsurprising consider it's from Microsoft and it's about Windows. It addresses (in cheap words) a few real pain points, but completely fails to address
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by scblock 6mo ago
I mean there kind of is: https://lrclib.net/
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by scblock 6mo ago
I'm using it on my gaming laptop because it's the only distro I tried that handled the hybrid NVIDIA/AMD graphics out of the box without user configuration beyond occasionally explicitly setting which GPU to use. Normally I r
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by scblock 6mo ago
Presumably this is a joke, based on the "Success Reports" and the footer, among other things. "This service is provided "as is" without warranty. MalusCorp is not responsible for any legal consequences, moral implic
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by scblock 6mo ago
There are already minutes of unskippable ads when watching YouTube on a device like an Apple TV. And they come fast and furious, as bad as or worse than network TV. And the best part is that many of the ads that show up are literally scams.
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by scblock 6mo ago
What's to stop an LLM from using this? Nothing, obviously. A "MUST NOT" in an RFC won't stop an LLM. They don't care about copyright why would they care about RFCs. The instructions for how to decide whether to ente
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by scblock 6mo ago
For basic 6-digit codes sure. But MS authenticator uses push notice based approvals for many corporate SSO accounts including mine.
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by scblock 7mo ago
Airlines can permanently ban passengers at their discretion. The specifics of behaviors they may consider disruptive aren't that important particularly when they are reasonable (not wearing headphones while listening to audio content c
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by scblock 7mo ago
There isn't much here beyond speculation. No technical analysis, certainly. GrapheneOS is neither rooted nor jailbroken in any technical sense, and Authenticator certainly works today, as do Work Profiles and Intune Company Portal (wit
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by scblock 7mo ago
"Those who want the latest features will continue to buy pixels" My friend the GrapheneOS supported devices list is nothing but pixels, including the very latest models. It'll be good to have more supported devices. https:&#
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by scblock 7mo ago
If you want to be pedantic, the companies who track us across the internet with all of these third party tracking cookies on every website are the enemy here, not informed disclosure and consent.
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by scblock 7mo ago
This rant has nothing of value in it. Don't waste your time reading it. It tries to claim the only smartwatch that's any good is the Apple Watch. When the author tries to address the obvious counter of Garmin's smart watch pr
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by scblock 7mo ago
This is unacceptable behavior, and terrible that anyone would think this way. You're telling me that if Tim Cook wasn't getting on his knees every couple of weeks Apple would end? That's farcical.
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by scblock 7mo ago
We're in collector territory here. This take is not hot, but it is mean.

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