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by akadruid1 6y ago
Bicycles in the current form require a lot of modern tech, but the use case can be met with much simpler machines. For example, the Chukudu is a large kick scooter in regular use in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's constructed
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by akadruid1 6y ago
Yes and this is exactly the problem with buses! You and everyone else rides the bus on the core routes at the peak times, but the buses run for long hours and the routes cover more areas than the core, so the average utilisation is very lo
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by akadruid1 6y ago
This wasn't a safety issue because the aircraft was overloaded, article doesn't mention it being over max takeoff weight or even if it had enough fuel loaded, it was specifically the thrust settings on take off which doesn't
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by akadruid1 6y ago
It's targeted phishing. In my country at least, it's hard to get a decent mass list of names/number pairs so the scammers rely on very dumb approaches which can be automated for lead generation, like robo dialling with recor
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by akadruid1 6y ago
In most places, buses are not substantially better emissions-wise than private cars. Typical deployments have them travelling empty or nearly empty most of the day which negates the savings of packed rush hour trips. Trains are much bette
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by akadruid1 6y ago
Depends how wealthy you are. $713m may be enough, but H. Beatty Chadwick did 14 years because Delaware County Court didn't believe his claim he no longer had $2.5m.
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by akadruid1 6y ago
I guess you could reduce the use of dirty fossil fuels to mine bitcoin by taking advantage of cheap unused solar capacity at noon. Maybe it would be a good fit with a Powerwall and solar roof to offer a Tesla-brand ASIC which will mine gre
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by akadruid1 6y ago
The BBC puts unverified claims in quotes, and they are liberally sprinkled through this article. They've also given it to the family and education correspondent instead of the technology correspondent, which I think implies an unusual
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by akadruid1 6y ago
This was slightly glossed over in the article. The decisive responses to discovering unwanted content all depend on discovering it quite quickly. If encrypted Falun Gong or Disney content was added in 2017, and the key made public today,
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by akadruid1 6y ago
In the UK during the lockdown I suddenly needed to kit out my wife and four children for working from home and there was a shortage of cheap screens online so I bought screens without stands on eBay. These seem to be taken from office clos
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by akadruid1 6y ago
What a confusing article. It starts with blaming consumers for being "addicted to cheap clothing" then immediately contradicts itself by claiming that the best scoring companies are "bowing to consumer pressure" for ethi
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by akadruid1 6y ago
https://meetmyna.com/ is a minimalistic app that requires you to bring your own storage. Dropbox and OneDrive are supported.
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by akadruid1 6y ago
I think they know this is a pretty desperate story. Some of the other coverage [1] suggest Solarwinds had so many different overlapping security failures they may never be able to attribute to a single cause. Still there's some intere
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by akadruid1 6y ago
I found that Vodafone broadband was intercepting my DNS requests to Cloudflare. Using cloudflared[0] to enable DoH on my pi-hole resolved this. [0] https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/
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by akadruid1 6y ago
the acronym salad seems to support it being vapourware, but I think CERN OSHL is a typo for a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN_Open_Hardware_Licence
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by akadruid1 6y ago
You need to top up water: > You connect it to your solar inverter (it has to be a hybrid one) and the mains water (through a purification unit)
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by akadruid1 6y ago
I don't think it's always part how GDPR is implemented in national laws. I believe it's admissable in court here in the UK, certainly my dashcam footage of a crash caused by a drink driver in 2019 was collected as evidence b
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by akadruid1 6y ago
We pre-registered a dictionary .london domain we had a trademark on for £200 as a potential switch from the longer .co.uk we were using. When it came to sunrise, our registrar told us that .london told them there was an error and our domai
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by akadruid1 6y ago
Don't forget the "intelligence" community is paid to find Russian spooks hiding everywhere. The 2014 JP Morgan hack was blamed on Russian state backed hackers[1]. We know now that was pure speculation and not NSA inside know
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by akadruid1 6y ago
cycling is a chicken and egg problem. while you're all saying "cyclists are responsible for being seen" then cycling stays as macho hobby. As a UK cycle commuter who travels a lot to Netherlands, the big thing they did ther
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by akadruid1 6y ago
There's significant political interest in finding a corporate scandal here. This was a building full of poor people in one of the richest areas in the world. The local government pushed the installation of the cladding for aesthetic
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by akadruid1 6y ago
The BBC's fact check column noticed that too and confirmed there was no truth to it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55163730
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by akadruid1 6y ago
There's no apparent reason why supermarkets or other self service stores weren't invented until the 20th century. The precursor to railways, the Diolkos in 600 BC, was not developed into wooden mining railways for another 2000 ye
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by akadruid1 6y ago
This is the back story of the film Wall-E: https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Buy_n_Large
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by akadruid1 6y ago
non-pdf link: https://stories.mightyearth.org/cargill-worst-company-in-the...
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by akadruid1 6y ago
Anyone who can hold of your phone's IMEI (e.g. from the network, from the packaging, or by getting access to your phone for a few seconds) can call a network operator and get it blacklisted. This doesn't lock it but does prevent c
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by akadruid1 6y ago
London's Jubilee and Elizabeth lines were extremely complex and threaded through other subway lines and infrastructure. They too were on the drawing board for decades, and in the case of the Jubilee line, did not start until a new bor
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by akadruid1 6y ago
If the author is reading, this page appears in English for me but Add to Firefox button links to French language page. My locale is en-GB.
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by akadruid1 6y ago
The combination of Chrome sandbox escape and Windows escalation make an extremely potent and high value combination. I hope we get more information on the "targeted" attacks
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by akadruid1 6y ago
The UK has long trodden a fine line between apparent respectability and profiting from borderline criminals. The situation is quite rocky, having lit a larger-than-average covid money bonfire heading into Brexit so these trivial fines wi

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