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You can only get them registered for off-road use. You can also use them on Catalina island. But no way to register them as street legal, legally.

Was nostalgic recently for fortune spitting out at the top of my old slackware shell. So I added it to my Ubuntu VPS shell. Let's just say, my sense of humor has changed a lot sinc…

WSJ is reporting the Alaska object was metallic balloon with suspended payload.

I have a strong hunch the US had known about them for a long time and maybe decided it’s better to let them hang out so they can be studied and secretly test measures against them,…

Right, but what makes it confusing it this is the one they were calling object, so not confirmation of being a balloon or suspending a payload.

“ Another official from the Department of Defense told the New York Times that the object broke into pieces when it hit the frozen sea” - Guardian article on the Alaska downing How…

At what altitude does something stop being geographic territory and start being a plane in the atmosphere?

Wonder how they picked who the lucky pilot is to get the first F-22 air to air kill. Draw straws?

Sunk so many hours into fy_iceworld. I never enjoyed sitting around and waiting for rounds to end on normal maps. Loved the pace of iceworld and awp_map. And using headphones on ic…

Can we start with human babies first?

What’s odd about it for me is not the content or wording (seems to point out pretty common issues with intensive breathing), it’s more the fact that it’s not presented to the user …

I have the same watch, same issue. Just discovered it tonight while trying to enable E2EE. Presumably it’s because the 3 doesn’t receive watchOS updates anymore as a discontinued p…

Doubt it. The US would very much love it to fly pretty much anywhere outside Switzerland so it can be extradited.

Exact same reason I stopped using pi-hole. It bugged out Google shopping and my partner complained. And the whitelisting / access control is annoying UX imo so I went back to norma…

Still in print as far as I know. These days the physical catalog is very difficult to get from McMaster. They probably make them in very low quantities and hand select who gets the…

I believe the right click method for opening an unsigned app no longer works as of MacOS Ventura. It appears to work on your own computer but once someone downloads it and tries to…

I like to think of it more like (old) Usenet with pubkeys. It gets more at the distributed database factor.

I’ve always been curious to learn more about Matthias’s RIM days. I might have read somewhere he was responsible for low level radio design / engineering, as a very very early empl…

It makes me wonder how much “infrastructure runway” a company like Twitter has. If every engineer resigns, how long will it take before the infrastructure stops working autonomousl…

I always read statements like “sorry we can’t release this ground breaking technology to the public, you simply can’t handle its power and repercussions” as the AI industry low key…

That’s an epic reward, even if a large portion goes to legal help. How are there not more whistle blowers in big pharma? Granted, it was 7 years of hard work, but payoff is crazy.

Next-next generation undisclosed craft?

You were probably drawing onto the bare XY space without creating an art board first.

FWIW, I was absolutely captivated for all of Last Dance, and I don't watch basketball. But I do have an affinity for "30 for 30"-style docs on the human interest side of sports.

Couple of random ones I highly enjoyed recently: - Feels Good Man -- story of the innocent illustrator behind Pepe the Frog and how the internet ruins nice things - War Room (1993)…