Does “Please shut up and get to the point!” count?

Blocked all this crap at the network level. Don’t get any ads now.

More details here: https://www.eufymake.com/eufymake-uv-printer-e1

Not clear how much the refills will run.

Sans Serif strikes again.

I tried this with velcro ties. Looked good for a while. Then I had to replace one and add another cable. It was a royal pain unwrapping everything and rewrapping it.

Haven’t used them, but look interesting:

For those wondering who he is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus#Artificial_intelligence

NTP is one of those fundamental working parts of the internet that nobody has to think much about, because it works so smoothly.

It’s taken for granted, like the lights will come on when you flip a switch. But there’s SO much more to make that happen.

Have you looked at the free courses from AWS?

https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/courses/16434/exam-prep-standard-course-aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-clf-c02-english

More links on the site: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-cloud-practitioner/

Best practice, if going further, is to set up a console account and practice experimenting within free tier.

Signal could improve its user interface around groups and people with duplicate display names.

Nah, they really shouldn’t. Way more fun this way.

Say it isn’t so…

RFC 2549: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549

This problem was solved years ago: https://spectrum.ieee.org/pigeonbased-feathernet-still-wingsdown-fastest-way-of-transferring-lots-of-data

This shows how one company (li-cycle) that claims they recycle 95% of the lithium does it: https://youtu.be/s2xrarUWVRQ

99.99% doesn’t seem too far-fetched.

Not a formal audit, but a more recent review of the protocol: https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-used-by-signal/

If you right-click and View Source, it all fits on one screen.

I used to work with big companies collecting IoT data. 90% were collecting telemetry without knowing why. Or having business goals they could easily achieve in other ways, without hoovering everything and violating our privacy.

The rest were doing it so they could sell it to data brokers and make money.

None of them were trying to push privacy as a competitive advantage.