Multiplexer
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- Comment on lightbulbs 8 hours ago:
Oh no, 8-bit is back again… 🫣
- Comment on lightbulbs 21 hours ago:
Wow, didn’t about it this way…
But for me: Hell, yeah! Added bonus!
Signals the primeval parts of your brain:
“Here you have to fight to survive the horrors of the pleistocean ice shield!”Or, after changing the room:
“This is your dimly fire-lid cave, here you are save to relax!” - Comment on lightbulbs 1 day ago:
Whale oil gang unite!
- Comment on lightbulbs 1 day ago:
Exactly.
Changing the lights in the office room to the brightest daylight variant I could find and adding an additional 5000 Lux desk lamp during winter months was a gamechanger for focus and productivity.
Still enjoy the warm glow of the living room lights in the evening, though.
- Comment on lightbulbs 1 day ago:
Both. Both are good.
Daylight for the work rooms and things like home-office or homework desks, warm light for cozy couch corners and bedrooms.
Or go full high-tech and install lights with adjustable color temperature.
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 2 days ago:
I owned one of the nice Microsoft cable free Keyboards in the early 00s.
That is, until I threw it to the garbage, after some tinkerer had a look at the RF protocol and discovered that the entire encryption just consisted of XORing each keystroke with a fixed 8 bit value… - Comment on We could build a solar lazer with a ton of mirrors 2 days ago:
Read the “What if”, it is really interesting!
It explains why this holds for any optical system, including mirrors, showing it with a whole bunch of wildly different explanation approaches.
I even understood one or two of those… ;-)
- Comment on YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee 2 days ago:
Sounds like letting it be the decision of the people is a decent compromise.
Either you have a Real ID, or you pay the 45$ additional identification fee if you happen to be going on a domestic flight once in a while. (That’s how I understand it?)
As long as having a Real ID doesn’t become expected in other, everyday dealings… - Comment on YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee 2 days ago:
I don’t think it is that simple. The people opposing the federal IDs do have a point.
Why would you need a centralized ID and collection of your data if you never take a flight or enter a nuclear power plant?
Distrusting the central government is part of US culture I guess, and seeing the current administration over there, this distrust might well be justified.
So I understand the discussions it apparently kindled, despite coming from a country were centralized federal IDs are mandatory (and me being ok with that). - Comment on We could build a solar lazer with a ton of mirrors 3 days ago:
You might enjoy this relevant “What If”.
- Comment on We could build a solar lazer with a ton of mirrors 3 days ago:
Not a point, but an area resembling an scaled image of the sun (if optimally focused).
- Comment on YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee 3 days ago:
Found out myself.
It is about boarding, not arriving.
So the headline of the post is misleading in that regard. - Comment on YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee 3 days ago:
Guessed so before, but the fact might not be so clear especially to non-Europeans.
And as it is a somewhat important distinction, the correcting comment was needed here.
- Comment on YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee 3 days ago:
Guessed as much but wanted to make it clear (especially to the non-Europeans present here) that there is no such thing as a European ID (yet).
- Comment on YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee 3 days ago:
For anyone as confused as me (OP’s link let to a blank page for me, so no help there), I generated a brief summary of the Real ID Wikipedia article.
Regulations now in place still are less stringent as I know them to be for domestic flights, and ID regulations in general, in European countries, but I now know that in the US there has always been a broad resistance against mandatory ID’s, mainly because of the implications on personal freedom and privacy.
This probably also explains the somewhat heated comments in this thread.Here is the summary:
The Real ID Act of 2005 is a federal law that establishes minimum security standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards in the United States. Passed in response to the 9/11 attacks, its primary purpose is to enhance national security by ensuring that identity documents used to access federal facilities, nuclear power plants, and board commercial airline flights are more secure and standardized.
The law:
- Requires states to verify applicants’ identity, Social Security number, legal status, and address using official documentation.
- Mandates enhanced security features on IDs and digital storage of application documents.
- Establishes electronic sharing of ID and driver history databases between states.
- Requires IDs to display a standardized format, including a photograph, full name, date of birth, signature, and (as of recent updates) gender marker.
States must issue two versions of IDs:
1.) A Real ID-compliant version (marked with a star), valid for federal purposes.
2.) A non-compliant version (with a disclaimer like “Not for Federal Use”) — still usable for driving or local identification.Enforcement was repeatedly delayed. The final phase began on May 7, 2025, with full enforcement slated for May 5, 2027.
All 50 states and U.S. territories are now certified as compliant. Starting in 2025, TSA began enforcing Real ID requirements at airport checkpoints.
- Comment on YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee 3 days ago:
Are you from the future? ;-)
The European ID is still stuck in some suggestion phase, so you have to keep using the national IDs or passports for now. - Comment on YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee 3 days ago:
When it says “arriving” it means “landing”?
So does that mean you can enter a plane without identifying yourself?
- Comment on YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee 3 days ago:
Really surprised this hasn’t been the case since 2011 already…?
- Comment on Is it true that in the US we are a low context culture and In France, they are high context culture? The video I'm going to attach explains the differences. 5 days ago:
As a German I am a little bit confused about the statements and assumptions being made here.
No, Americans don’t communicate clearly, direct and context-free.
Quite the opposite in my experience.But also: No, Germany isn’t low context, despite very direct communication and being on the low-context-side of the graph shown.
Depending on region, there are a lot of implicit rules end customs you just have to know about.Imho it’s more complicated and not as black-and white as this theory wants to paint it.
- Comment on Mosaics are analog pixel art 1 week ago:
Not quite, pixel art is just a subset of mosaics.
So every pixel art is a mosaic, but not every mosaic is pixel art.
- Comment on Mosaics are analog pixel art 1 week ago:
You got it backwards:
Pixel artworks are digital mosaics.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 week ago:
Dude, they would have been literally running around naked before.
If anything, they became more conservative. ;-)
- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 week ago:
Never happened with geese to me, but our local swans in attack mode got me running backwards more than once.
Hissing spread-winged furies out to kill you, or at least knock and bite the living soul out of you…
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- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 week ago:
Me neither, before I saw the first feathered life-size replicas in dino parks.
And I have to say, they are somehow way more scary than their naked counterparts in my opinion.
So now I am Team Feather!
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
Not mentioning the country in the post was such a ridiculously obvious case of US-defaultism that at first I thought it to be engagement baiting, before I saw your other comment.
So actually quite funny :-) - Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
Country?
I assumed federal state, as 2028 are elections in Bavaria. ;-) - Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
Exactly.
If they just stuck to their core premises and cut the fringe topics, they would be an instant vote! - Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
Democratic system is still not perfect here, but yes, orders of magnitude better than the broken two-party US election system OP probably had in mind…
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
As always, under no circumstances CSU or AFD.
As social Democrats are nearly nonexistant in Bavaria and did a lot of shit in the higher tiers, probably “die Grünen”.
I am still not very fond of the left-wing “die Linke”