how much payload can a drone carry ? is it a whole lot more than i think, or are data centres flammable ?

do dogs come running when they hear can openers, or is it only cats ?

if you were building a new website today, how would you handle www vs bare domain urls ?

🤔 how much caffeine is there in mountain dew really ? i ended up on this comparison page with not just soda, but coffee and tea, monster, and those caffeinated jelly belly things

https://www.cspi.org/caffeine-chart#soda

do you name your cars ?

the anime shop around the corner has partnered with a graphic artist who built wall-size visualisations of global warming, depicting cherry blossoms blooming earlier and trees turning later over time.

she wished out loud for a climate scientist to help her go over the project. do i know any in this thing ?

let's say i want to register a domain that every government would like to take down, like transfem-antifa.com

are there any registrars that have more of a reputation for protecting angry bitches like me ? or would it be infeasible to protect myself ?

The renaming [for Dolly Parton] would make Nashville International Airport the first international commercial airport in the United States to be named after a woman.

setting aside the fact that i'll go to my grave calling dca washington national, no other airports named for women is :neofox_angry:

when looking at a source repo, what markers besides {agents,claude}.md tell me that a project is slop ?

because of upcoming travel i kind of need to get covid and flu vax at the same time, which i've never done, light a candle for me. in my calendar i wrote 'vaxen'

i don't suppose anyone has a specially crafted™ catte pic. for science (and spammers)

stay quiet while old white men argue about which presidents were the worst challenge

what's the accepted safe way, if any, to use hotel wi-fi these days ? until now i've either used mullvad or stayed on phone hotspot. but i've shitcanned mullvad for reasons™ and wondering if there's a less awful vpn, or if i should just stay off open wi-fi entirely

i use nextdns because it's easy to configure and handles multiple profiles (i use a more locked-down profile than what i enforce on the broad network).

would pi-hole on raspberry pi handle this simple use case? it would never break even ever, because nextdns is cheap and a pi no longer is.

but it would remove one remote point of failure. though i still need vanilla dns resolution, i could have redundant services for it, whereas currently nextdns going out takes me down

i have time for this now since i finished my fun intra-page prompts, such as

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don't mind me just making up lake names

i know their official name is micro$lop but i've taken a liking to « shithub »

i stumbled into the wiki on avatars and this passage made my eyes water

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so it's no secret™ i was at #HOPE26 last week. their closing presentation was a slide deck of visualisations from the network they ran

mostly hilarious : ring camera ! the original vendor that offered them only a 25Mb connection ! dating site usage !

sometimes educational : sure, randomise that mac address, but if you name it, the network will get feelings for it (and follow it)

but : they liked my name well enough to put me on a slide ! can you guess ?

https://noc.hope.net/slides

i'll take it #HOPE26 #slop