I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".
I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇
I am confused....
Am I supposed to be cheering for Amazon because they're the ones block Meta's AI, while other stores continue to support AI bots?
"Meta responded to instances of websites blocking Muse in a post earlier this month. “Turning away a personal agent means turning away the customer behind it,” the company says. “We’d rather work with businesses to address the underlying concerns than see them lose that customer.” Instead of trying to fight Amazon, the company has partnered with retailers like Walmart, Gap, Sephora, Best Buy, and others, allowing Muse to shop on their sites. At the same time, Shopify has also opened its network of storefronts to AI agents."
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013195/ai-agents-blocked-web
I can remember one good #NoKings sign.
It was a sign with colored drawing of a monarch butterfly and the text was "This is the only orange monarch I want"
I went to a #NoKings protest today, but my OpSec was squeaky clean because I forgot my phone and so I don't have any photos.
The center was at colorado and fair oaks in Pasadena and the sidewalks were crowded with protestors about one block in east west, and about half a block north south.
That was weird at a store I may have brought up Mastodon in a mostly natural conversation with the cashier
The cashier was asking me for a phone number and I said no I don't want to give one because I want to make life harder for the advertisers.
She then volunteered using that while using some social media app, she was watching a video and got interrupted mid video with an ad so she deleted the app.
And I was like well the computer nerds have their own ad free social network called Mastodon,
I can guarantee no ads beyond the admins occasionally asking for server money.
So looks like my guess that the weather radio would be a good choice for getting alerts, especially in places with poor cell service like say Topanga Canyon was true.
And the radio does have battery backup that's good for up 72 hours using 3 AA batteries, so it would help with getting alerts if you're stuck in a power outage.
But it wont work if they don't fix the transmitter.
I guess I'll check back in a few days and see if they fixed it.
I went searching and found:
https://ready.lacounty.gov/emergency-notifications/
Back in 2022 LA County and the Topanga coalition for emergency preparedness passed out some of the NOAA weather radios to people living in high fire danger parts of LA county and did a webinar describing the program and how to use the thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAuU8nMEHk&t=4s
In the video they said LA county was one of the few counties who was using the system for fire alerts.
They pointed to https://www.weather.gov/nwr/counties to figure out what channel you should use for alerts.
Unfortunately, the main transmitter that covers most of LA county is currently broken.
https://www.weather.gov/nwr/sites?site=KWO37
has anyone checked if the NOAA weather alert radio broadcasts for southern california include information about fire evacuation zones?
Just because the alert specification says they could transmit alerts that way, doesn't mean they do.
The weather radios can run off of batteries and are often suggested as an emergency item especially for people in areas more prone to hurricanes or tornadoes, as they can work even if a power outage has disabled the mobile phone alerts.
I thought it'd be interesting to make #Radicle available to scripting languages via gobject introspection.
After staring at another project that wrapped Rust for gobject introspection I just got the barest proof of concept to work.
gi.require_version("Radicle", "0.1")
from gi.repository import Radicle
p = Radicle.Profile()
home = Path("~/.radicle").expanduser()
self.assertEqual(p.props.home, str(home))
Also from the current #NoMansSkyExpeditions #NMS Some people are really good at building outside the grid
I bet I forgot to share this #NoMansSky #NMS build I saw in some expedition back in 2021.
Cat enjoying the open windows.
I would like to oppose Trump's backstabbing of Ukraine by reducing sanctions on Russia's oil industry.
There is a way to lower diesel prices... by building electric vehicles.
For example this FedEx deal for $300 million dollars worth of delivery vehicles which they believe will save them $800 million in fuel costs.
Russia losing it's war to Ukraine makes the world safer for democracy and human rights, Putin really needs to lose, and weakening sanctions makes it harder to defeat Russia.
This is something pleasant to look at, and was probably enjoyed by the lab it was made for.
It's an photo of an ESA themed Tiramisu.
Consider this video motivation for having geographically distributed backups, and maybe a lesson in the vulnerabilities of centralized infrastructure.
So, it turns out the "cloud" is quite flammable.
At the start of the USA/Iran war, Iran attacked several Amazon data centers which have been offline for months, and the last update was "your data is gone", but there was almost no information of what the strike looked like.
Recently Russia blew up some Ukrainian data centers so Ukraine returned the favor and attacked a large Yandex data center yesterday.
Since Russians do leak footage of Russian infrastructure burning, now we get to see what a data center looks like after air strikes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJec5Sg7pvQ
Also this particularly data center had 2,700 NVidia A100 GPUs (as of 2021)
I think the Atlantic is talking about some of you.
"The Upgrade Holdouts: Meet the people who refuse to let their gadgets die."
"Meet the people who refuse to let their gadgets die."
"Keeping old hardware alive is often a communal effort. Last year, iFixit helped host several “install parties” of Linux, an open-source operating system that can breathe new life into obsolete computers, at cafés and libraries across the country. A simple search on YouTube brings up numerous how-to guides on jailbreaking Kindles in order to free older models from Amazon’s software restrictions. And a decade ago, fans of the discontinued smartwatch brand Pebble grouped together to create Rebble, a platform of web services that reinvigorated technically defunct smartwatches. Wayne Seltzer, who got his Pebble watch as a Father’s Day gift in 2015, told me he appreciates the “kindred spirits” nature of the project."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/meet-the-upgrade-holdouts/688874/
Post cards - that look like playing cards - designed by the Japanese stationery brand Pottering Cat
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Its like 87F outside at 9:38 but... My CO2 monitor was reading 2700 ppm, so I decided it better to open the windows
I hate this hell the oil and auto industries have created
Stupid heat wave
Back to trying to figuring out a low cooking meal plan
Oh right all the foods contaminated because of higher temperatures and a bunch of inspectors getting fired so some special boy could snort more gold.
I wish more people had listed to James Hansen back in 1988