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Mullvad is Swedish for "mole". Mull is a word for soil, and "vad" seems to come from "vada", wade. So translated it would be "soilwade". To me, it sounds like just another word.

According to what source? Passmark says otherwise[1]. The fastest Intel CPUs have both a higher single thread and multi thread score in that test. [1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/…

Don't most EVs use regenerative braking though? That should offset their weight a fair bit I imagine.

I'm a man but washing and using conditioner will take a lot longer than 2 minutes. I have very long hair though.

LVM snapshots + rsnapshot, saved on btrfs disks on each server, then btrbk[1] for pulling backups to remote storage. [1] https://github.com/digint/btrbk

Why do I need to turn off my adblocker to see the map?

Even a racing driver can't beat ABS on asphalt in a controlled setting.[1] On dirt roads or ice the story might be different. [1] https://youtu.be/ERE9EtOWZMU?si=s35N-IzuyPLuEoKD

Even a racing driver can't beat ABS in a controlled setting.[1] Imagine a regular driver trying to brake in an emergency situation. [1] https://youtu.be/ERE9EtOWZMU?si=s35N-IzuyPLu…

It is probably using cell broadcasts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast

> There's no real practical way to prevent someone from accumulating wealth if they wanted to continue to do so. Not within a capitalist system, no. There are other systems though.…

> Are reposts ok? > If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates. https://news.ycom…

Here's what it looked like before the announcement: http://web.archive.org/web/20230302172255/http://txti.es/ Input markdown, get a web page.

I've used Finnix[1] for recovery tasks in the past. Having a good Linux distro on a USB stick makes me feel ready for any (most often self inflicted) computer emergency. It's the s…

Yup, the parent comment is incorrect. SMS longer than 160 characters (in GSM 03.38 encoding) are split into multiple parts, each a maximum of 153 characters long, 7 characters are …