The official language of Liberia is English because the country was founded by former slaves and free black people from the USA.

My understanding is that you can replace the ZigBee firmware with Threads firmware if you want.

I’m literally designing some code now and realized that I used DuckDuckGo to find man pages for system calls… from my Arch laptop. 😑

In the Netherlands we literally cannot spend the money we have allocated for our military since there aren’t enough Dutch weapons to buy. 😬

“swarm” here is a verb, not a noun. As in, “to swarm”.

“The sappers exploded their charges under the city walls, and the invader’s troops swarmed in through the gap.”

Sort of. They can be, but are not always.

That’s right. He’s still making his excellent history podcast, Hardcore History, at his traditional relaxed pace. 😆

A podcaster who used to make a podcast called Common Sense stopped because he felt he had said everything he believed and there wasn’t any point in making new shows.

He did one recently which basically said “well it happened just like I expected, but I didn’t expect it would be so sudden”.

(At least, that’s what I took from it…)

Yes sorry I was unclear. The South African president said that South Africa has a violence problem, not just for white farmers.

Indeed the president of South Africa said exactly that in the meeting.

Thanks for this link. It’s kind of amazing and I like it because it says what should be obvious to us all: public homes are a good idea.

Good episode for sure. Well… most 99% Invisible episodes are good!

I think that another - and I think more important - answer is that the capital class finally regained control. They chaffed for decades under the limits imposed after they destroyed the worldwide economy in the early 20th century, and spent the second half of the 20th century and the start of the 21st systematically removing constraints.

It’s almost like Israel needs Lebensraum…

Reality is stranger than fiction:

https://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm

I just use restic.

I’m pretty sure it uses checksums to verify data on the backup target, so it doesn’t need to copy all of the data there.

Southern Lebanon? Surely you mean northern Israel. Just a buffer zone.

The 1980s were before the DMCA. In those days if you bought an expensive piece of electronics both seller and buyer expected that you owned it.

Yeah I did the same. Pity!

Yes I literally have to pay when I produce more than I use, like every day in April.

I looked into batteries, but they cost 10 times my annual power bill, and of course they wouldn’t replace all electricity, so would take like 20 years to be cost neutral.

I’m considering buying a high power laser and turning it on to consume extra electricity. I’d rather send photons back into space than pay the power delivery company.