Oh, and completely intentionally attacking aid workers and literally starving Gaza is absolutely genocide. And I do wish the US would pull back on their support for Israel (outside of an attack from Iran or similar).

I’m absolutely fine with the US shooting down missiles from Iran. We don’t need to help Israel bomb Gaza. We absolutely could exert more control over Israel. But in the end, we don’t control Israel, and the US is largely not responsible for every action they take. I’m sure the US had absolutely no part in this pager scheme, even if I do think it’s a hell of a lot better than what Israel has done in Gaza.

If the social media consensus was the other way I’d be seen as attacking Israel. But let’s see these people defending Hezbollah say anything negative about them.

I’ll agree that it’s very complicated. But you also can’t frame it like Hezbollah are the good guys. There are no good guys here.

Israel has done some horrible shit, including shooting at kneecaps for fun, not just pushing Palestinians off their land, but then actually settling that land, and treating Palestinians as a lesser people in general. But that doesn’t just excuse constant shelling of Israel or the constant calls for genocide from either side. October 7th doesn’t excuse what Israel’s done in Gaza, and Gaza doesn’t excuse October 7th. This shit doesn’t just cancel out, like so many seem to want to believe.

** There is no good side in the middle east conflict. ** If you’re solely defending and excusing one because of the attacks of the other, you’re just as bad as they are. That’s the reason they’re in this mess; there’s enough people always looking for revenge for the last revenge.

It seems to me that the general internet consensus frames the losing side as the scrappy underdog that is justified in all their actions. Even if the people defending “the innocent” don’t believe that, guess how it’s going to be read by people in and near the conflict.

You can get a RaspPi instead, and after a year or two you’ll have saved enough electricity to have paid for itself.

When ISIS bombs a public area, they’re doing it to kill civilians. The target of this pager operation was clearly the people carrying the pagers.

I do agree there was some collateral, but it’s difficult to get any more targeted on this scale.

I’m probably doing solar in spring, and I’m paying 20 cents per kwh. It’s about a 13 year breakeven time, but that works for my circumstances. I plan to be here for awhile, my roof faces the right way, and it’s a reasonable diversification of investment.

I’ll still have some dependence on the grid, especially in winter. Might pull from the grid in some early morning hours, but net metering credits should pay for that.

I consider the rising price of electricity and the capital gains from an index funds roughly a wash. It’s not, but I also don’t want 100% of my investments in the stock market, and it’s nice to do something responsible for the world.

So make sure to do your whole installation in one year. You only get to claim the 30% federal tax credit once. So don’t go small with a plan to go bigger later. I couldn’t do this without the federal credit.

Kessler Syndrome trumps this application of Moore’s Law.

Well, this one is real

Bush attacked a country that had nothing to do with the event

The payment scams aren’t going towards food in any way. The tradeoff you’re suggesting doesn’t exist.

Important government secrets will be strictly separated from personal/civilian devices. The only classified information being transmitted by personal devices is the location and human knowledge of the owners.

He doesn’t. He may serve Russian interests at times, but he’s not a direct report the way Tim Pool and many of our government elected officials are.

Disagree. I prefer XML for config files where the efficiency of disk size doesn’t matter at all. Layers of XML are much easier to read than layers of Json. Json is generally better where efficiency matters.

It was the reddest of flags. Georgia does not have laws that allow them to take action for red flags.

The kid didn’t even beat his wife, which is usually the accepted standard if they did have red flag laws.

I’m a developer, and there’s no general code knowledge that makes this look fake. Json is pretty standard. Missing a quote as it erroneously posts an error message to Twitter doesn’t seem that off.

If you’re more familiar with ChatGPT, maybe you can find issues. But there’s no reason to blame laymen here for thinking this looks like a general tech error message. It does.

For many of us, Matter/Thread was a way to get away improve privacy and get away from Vendor apps and proprietary bullshit. This is a step towards reduced functionality when you don’t allow the devices to phone home.

They say you can turn it off now, but will it work out like that in practice?

While this sounds like a backward move for the local, smart home standard Matter, Hui emphasizes it is optional for manufacturers. Plus, if a manufacturer does choose to enable it, consumers can turn it off at the network level. “The spec requires border router vendors to give capability to the users to disable this functionality,” he says.

I guess we’ll see.

Dude. Paragraphs.

Agreed. We should stick to the public healthcare first, and revisit others in 15-20 years.

I’m kind of surprised public healthcare hasn’t already been pitched in this way. Hell, that $50k should be a medicare credit.

And you’d likely be held prisoner as a trading chip for Russian murderers.

Weird to make this about money.