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Flock cameras are everywhere all over my very blue area in a blue state with new ones appearing every day. I really don't think this is a Republican/Democrat issue. And I think as …

Vendor doesn't matter. The same issues will exist. Public safety is all about aggregating data to "operationalize" it now, so all vendors will be collecting data and sharing it wit…

> places like Chicago and New York City are very near the center meridian of their time zone Chicago is very close to the eastern edge of the Central time zone, though I know that …

To each their own, but I've been using Brave for a long time (5+ years I think?). It was one or 2 clicks to turn off the crypto stuff when I first installed it. It was straightforw…

Can't there can be over-current issues if you are not using a dedicated wall outlet for backfeeding the solar? Consider a situation where the plugged-in solar inverter is capable o…

> Our lease agreement has some concessions for potential satellite dishes and external TV antennas. This may be because the FCC has pretty strict rules that require apartment build…

About half of the strategic petroleum reserve was sold off in 2022.

Jeff mentioned in his video that just loading the front page of CNN would take something like an hour and a half (20+ MB). 33.6Kbps is not practical for much on the modern Internet…

> I don't see mention of open source alternatives Check out Nebula (created by Slack) - https://github.com/slackhq/nebula Fundamentally very similar to Tailscale. I've been using i…

If opinion polling were to be done on this issue, I bet we'd find that the general public would be almost unanimously united in agreement that elected officials should not get spec…

> which doesn't get you all that much After college I moved from the far western edge of one timezone to the far eastern edge of another zone. I grew up with 5-5:30pm sunsets in wi…

Nebula just had a major release that added IPv6 support for overlay networks. Hardly maintenance mode. The main company working on it now seems to be adding all the fancy easy-to-u…

Same with Gemini.

I got much better at this when my kids were born, because it was the only way I could get work done on some of my (computing) side projects. I went from having hours of uninterrupt…

also: - tons of sensors with limited lifespans - more complicated transmissions with more gears - auto start/stop Pretty much all of these reliability reducers are manufacturers tr…

Interesting tidbit regarding LiteFS/Litestream: > But the market has spoken! Users prefer Litestream. And honestly, we get it: Litestream is easier to run and to reason about. So w…

Ahem: https://x.com/TheDemocrats/status/1958659652708716776 The dislike for the new logo was one of the very rare things that people on both sides in the US seemed to agree on...

According to Jeff Geerling's video, the main PCB in the 500+ is identical to the 500, same revision and all. Presumably they planned both the 500 and 500+ at the same time so they …

Second paragraph in the article: "Raspberry Pi 500+ boasts ... an internal M.2 socket pre-fitted with a 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD" so I'm not sure what your point about SD cards is in…

Unfortunately, I can confirm this.

Yeah, it's far from ideal, but in my experience its accuracy is better than most anything else readily available, including the official status pages maintained by most tech compan…

There are plenty of IoT devices that people want to execute commands on (anything remotely controlled, basically). Polling for commands on a periodic basis introduces lag into that…

I'm 24 years into my career now. I think you just get used to this after a while. I've worked on several big (at the time) software products that our company built and shipped to c…

Agree in spirit, though again if it does go viral and they become embarrassed the most likely thing is they'd shut down public access to the cameras - which would be a lousy outcom…