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- Comment on [deleted] 22 hours ago:
Over and over. Time to report & block.
- Submitted 2 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Best gas masks 4 days ago:
The one thing the article doesn’t cover is picking filters. Is there just a number, like N95?
Sounds like the mask might be used for paint/varnish fumes while out of lawless Federal officers’ throwing range.
- Comment on Best gas masks 4 days ago:
Illegal in the US sense of “for protesters only but fine for LEOs”?
- Comment on Best gas masks 4 days ago:
I found myself baffled as to what the hallmarks of a riot even were. I had thought that a crowd being tear gassed in the dead of night might be similar to a mosh pit at a concert, but riddled with fear instead of elation — a crowd pushing and shoving, overcome with heightened emotion. But I found that the people around me, even when they were screaming and throwing eggs and other produce at the feds, would apologize if they even slightly jostled me. I did worry about being trampled one time, while standing next to an underprepared television crew that had come without gas masks and kept panicking throughout the night. When did a gathering turn into a riot? Were riots even real?
Yeah, insightful writing about something that should be vanishingly uncommon.
- Comment on Israel’s West Bank Occupation Is a Danger to Women 5 days ago:
Yeah, I read the headline as “genocide is dangerous to women, even when Israeli genocide properties say they’re nice.”
- Comment on At Google - Organising at the digital arms dealer 1 week ago:
Since Donald Trump’s election, Google have moved rapidly to consolidate their position as the primary provider of the infrastructures of surveillance and oppression. In just the months following the inauguration, they have abandoned their pledge to not use artificial intelligence for surveillance or weaponry; they have begun work with US Customs and Border Protection to augment the southern border’s surveillance infrastructure (provided by Elbit) with AI capabilities; they have entered into an AI Lab partnership with Lockheed Martin, to use AI in targeted weapon systems; they have unveiled a collaboration with Palantir to accelerate the deployment of Google Cloud for sensitive government and military applications; and they have provided ICE with data about Palestine activists in the United States.24
Yep. Good work organizing, keep it up!
- Comment on Cold weather stud finder 1 week ago:
Old lath and plaster for me, so they don’t work that well.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 11 comments
- Comment on My bike lock was full of ice. Hot water bottle cleared it up, WD-40 to keep it clear. 2 weeks ago:
I hadn’t considered thermal shock, good caution.
The other advantage of the water bottle is not adding more moisture to the problem.
- My bike lock was full of ice. Hot water bottle cleared it up, WD-40 to keep it clear.media.piefed.social ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 4 comments
- Comment on Is Anyone Printing ICE Whistles? 2 weeks ago:
Huh, really? $100 for a bucket of 50 with lanyards does come out more expensive, then, assuming people have some spare yarn/cord/old lanyards around. I assumed there was no way bulk production wasn’t more expensive, but maybe the supply chain / middle men catch up.
- Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outagewww.techradar.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Tell your favorite content creators to get over to Nebula. Or are there better options?
- New Ways to Corrupt LLMs: The wacky things statistical-correlation machines like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed garymarcus.substack.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on Large-capacity microSD cards are now regularly out of stock in Japan as storage crunch claims another victim — high-capacity HDDs are also vanishing 2 months ago:
Maybe it’s time to properly erase and eBay my box of old HDDs?
…nope, still only $30 shipped for a refurbished 1TB WD or Seagate drive.
- Comment on A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees 3 months ago:
There’s a full postmortem from AWS. One piece that stands out to me:
due to the large number of droplets, efforts to establish new droplet leases took long enough that the work could not be completed before they timed out. Additional work was queued to reattempt establishing the droplet lease. At this point, DWFM had entered a state of congestive collapse and was unable to make forward progress in recovering droplet leases.
That is, the load that resulted from the initial failure was not something the system was designed to handle, so it had cascading effects / required manual cleanup.
- Comment on Rondo Energy turns on first major thermal battery — at an oil field 3 months ago:
The installation is housed in what looks like a four-story prefabricated office building. Inside sits a massive stack of refractory bricks, which are heated to temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) by an adjoining 20-megawatt solar array. That heat is tapped to generate steam that is injected into oil wells to increase production — a job previously done by a fossil-gas-fired boiler.
The project is something of a Faustian bargain. It will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 13,000 metric tons per year, said John O’Donnell, Rondo’s cofounder and chief innovation officer. But, of course, those reductions are in service of bringing more planet-warming fossil fuels to market.
- Comment on Sniper attacks Texas ICE facility amid soaring tensions over US immigration 4 months ago:
According to local news reports, all three victims were detainees. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed no law enforcement officers were injured, and suggested he believed the motive was political:
While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical (sic.) motive behind this attack … One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase ‘ANTI ICE.’
Huh, don’t know how to interpret that.
