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That doesn't equate. Something can have no value as news but incredible value as security. Your passwords, for example.

The big question is whether Snowden's original thesis - that these newsagencies would find the right balance - was correct. In some ways, I hope there is a complete leak of the archive in decades' time when the relative risk is minimised so that the public can, in turn, evaluate the press of the day as to their ability to do this assessment. It may inform future similar whistleblowers whether Snowden made the right choice.

Still cheaper than London, at £1.89/L

E10 petrol is £1.64/L, for ref.

Can confirm that I am not Shaq, but the 4S was the last phone I could use entirely one-handed (i.e. my thumb had full reach of the screen whilst my pinkie finger sat under the bottom of the phone, cradling it), and the 13 mini was the last functional size where I could reach at least part of the top of the screen with my thumb.

All this so people can watch The Odyssey as Nolan intended whilst on the go.

More seriously though, now do just the front screen on a non-folding device. It can even remain as thick as this thing when it's folded.

Echoing this. I would have to go out of my way to find one that does not work simply by double-clicking the steam entry. This is on Arch

Text messages in iMessage or SMS are a fairly US-centric relic. That's not to say overseas is better - Europe depends on Whatsapp - but outside the US the whole 'blue box' thing isn't even a thing.

It's not the same, as it only works on the receiving end, but I use the ClearURLs addon for stripping that out. At least it somewhat helps, and ensures that any URL I copy from my browser doesn't have tracking IDs.

https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon

I really enjoyed the writing, cheers. And yes, you may have done it the hard way, but you probably learnt 10x more by doing that.

As for what to do next, I used to spend way too much of my late-2000s time on puzzle hunts (particularly the Melbourne Uni one [1]) and this tickled the same part of my brain. Unfortunately they're no longer a thing, but it definitely sounds like you'd enjoy something similar.

[1]: https://www.puzzles.wiki/wiki/MUMS_Puzzle_Hunt

My sympathies; I did the same elsewhere once (during sporadic rain, so the ash stuck!) and had an absolute ball. The novelty was fantastic but I am however under no illusions that I'd ever want to live during a period where that was the prevailing technology.

Different strokes, eh.

In Australia in at least the 00s, possibly the 90s, I remember it being reported during the weather forecast on the 6pm nightly news.

But Australia has always had a famously robust sun health education programme

I do not keep ID on me at all times. I dont even own a wallet any more.

Moving to GrapheneOS and not having virtual cards for contactless payment has been struggle, not going go lie.

I run JF not plex, but the #1 missing feature I'd like is per-user granular sharing of content within specific libraries.

So far as I can tell, the only way around this is to symlink the subset of media into separate folders, make each of them libraries, then present those libraries to each user.

If you don't care for any of the modcons of a media streaming system similar to Netflix, etc. then more power to you, stick with a SMB share. It's undeniably less that can go wrong and god knows these systems can become a janitorial hell sometimes.

However I hope you can see that there is a plethora of benefits that others may enjoy from it. Otherwise, this kinda feels like the classic HN Dropbox critique.

I have spent some time on this too.

I really wanted your approach to work and went down that pathway with this [1], but its one weakness if you have multiple destinations with multiple socket types. It's not uncommon that I have to go between countries with China/Aus, EU, India (kinda-sorta EU but not), and UK plugs. That's a lot of those C7 cables. Also, having 1-2m of cable lets you put the charger on a bedside table when the only wall socket is buried under the bed for some reason, so that adds up.

I then considered one with the swappable ends, like this [2], but the advantage of the cable is that you don't get the 'this room's only socket is against the desk and fuck you if you want to plug a big wall wart into it' problem, plus as above the cable lets the charger ports be much more easily accessible. Also, many models also only have US/EU/UK adapters, without covering e.g. CN/AU style plugs.

And at that point, you're basically using of those old-style universal adapters with the universal AC input and the sliders to change the output, especially given you can now get them with integrated 65W GaN USB ports [3], so why would you fiddle with attachments you could lose?

So then there's this [4] which is so close to my ideal but isn't quite there. It has the cable advantages, minimises additional swappable weight to get different socket types, and you can even put the adapters straight on the charger if you want to omit the cable. But then I read about abysmal reliability performance and I'd rather not burn down my hotel room in a third-world country. It does have the ends that I, personally, would like but with all of these you're at the mercy of them designing them for the specific wall socket types you need. And at least with this one, the UK one doesn't include a fuse as it's supposed to, whereas IEC C7 plugs do. Further burnination possibilities.

Really, if a reputable manufacturer made [4] but sank an extra ~50% product price into proper reliability and standards compliance, as well as making a whole plethora of swappable ends for all types of wall sockets that fit both the cable and directly onto the device, I'd probably buy it and never look again. I'd even accept a proprietary swappable end form factor with the vendor lock-in risks just because it's basically the utopian ideal of what I want.

But in the meantime, I'm back to using [1] with generic basic adapters for EU and CN/AU on the end of the UK IEC C7 cable. I'll build a collection of C7 cables for each destination and when I travel to only one I'll take the appropriate cable, but when it's multiple destinations I haven't found a better solution.

[1]: Ugreen Nexode 100W GaN 4-port charger: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0B6MZYKTF?psc=1

[2]: Ugreen travel charger: https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-65W-Fast-Charger-Ports/dp/B0...

[3]: Any permutation of this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/MOMAX-Universal-Adapter-Internation...

[4]: SlimQ 100W Charger w/ extension cable and swappable ends: https://slimq.life/products/100w-3c1a-usb-c-charger

The point is that list isn't first-in-first-out. Public waiting lists are constantly reviewed by domain medical expert committees in the public system to triage priority patients.

If you're truly urgent, you will get bumped up. If you're not urgent, you can get bumped down as others go above you.

Unfortunately, individual QoL and urgency can sometimes be disconnected, which is why pensioners getting hip replacements can get bumped down despite having loss of mobility due to heaps of pain.

Cumulatively for lots of non-urgent activities (diagnosis tests etc) that drag can add up.

Much like any commons, is no perfect system, funnily enough.

"Just don't be poor!"

I feel like you have missed the entire point of the article.

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It did fail safe though?

Interference led to the network stopping, not trains just racing towards each other due to bogus line authorities. That is, by definition, fail-safe

> I wonder if one day using a smart phone while driving will have the same stigma as a DUI (and similar punishment).

Thankfully, it is beginning to, in some places outside the US.

> You can be fined $1,251 and have 4 demerit points recorded against your traffic history for using a mobile phone illegally while driving. [1]

> 0.05 and over, but under 0.10

Disqualification: 1 to 9 months

Fine: $2,336 [2]

[1]: https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/road-safety/mobile-p...

[2]: https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/road-safety/drink-dr...

My first "gaming" PC was a secondhand thing with a RIVA TNT2 M64. It had cooked memory from presumably prior abuse, in such a way that if I ran Counter-Strike with 3d accel on, some of the wall textures were transparent.

But it also relatively frequently crashed so I rarely tried using it for the better graphics, and at that young age never appreciated the cheating aspect of it.

> The hardware picture has been clear for months. The iPhone Ultra, the apparent name for this new form factor iPhone, is a book-style foldable, reportedly featuring a 7.7- to 7.8-inch inner display and a 5.3- to 5.5-inch cover screen, unfolding to a 4:3 ratio closer to an iPad mini than a widescreen display.

Excellent. Now that you have a supply chain for small screens again, please use that same cover screen to make an updated mini phone! I've sat in patient silence waiting for this exact moment!

You know, I've had this exact bug for some time on a Fire Stick 4K Max Gen 1 (similarly anaemic). I figured it was storage or RAM pressure causing the problem as I could see both were close to the limit, but didn't realise it was OS swap/cache eviction removing critical files as it only happened to Kodi.

I assumed Kodi just didn't really clean up after itself fully and after a bunch of heavy uses some cruft built up, taking up some threshold amount of storage, and then Kodi couldn't extract some temp data on start-up. I also assumed Kodi was adversely affected due to having a biigger asset pool than the other apps I have on my device.

Token-wise, could you give an idea of the rough cost of this?

I fucking hate AI

ITT we discover that project managers actually serve a purpose and not all of them are the stereotypical useless roles Dilbert riffed on.

Most of the world handles international flights separately without needing to do that unless it is an international-domestic connection.

However I agree that in purely domestic airports I don't see how you'd prevent general public from accessing bags. Except India, wherein you need a booked flight to even enter the airport.

As a non-tech engineer (mechanical, trains) it's fascinating seeing what is essentially the "not real engineers" SWE crew finally pay the piper because they've invoked what is in essence a non-compliant, cost-focused subcontractor and now need all of the same engineering rigours they never previously understood.

Never mind stumbling into proper engineering principles like having documented, testable requirements specifications.

Here you go: https://www.bls.gov/web/osh/table-1-industry-rates-national....

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction: 1.2

Coal mining: 3.1

Heavy and civil engineering construction: 1.8

Animal slaughtering and processing: 3.2

Wood product manufacturing (inc. sawmills): 4.2

Foundries: 5.1

Aerospace product and parts manufacturing: 1.6

Rail transportation: 3.4

Judging solely by the aforementioned linked data, at 4.8, Brownsville should be shut down by management to do a safety intervention. McGregor and Hawthorne should be under the limelight, too. Redmond and CC seem good.

This is trivially easy to check if you actually wanted to. Hell, I'll bring the receipts on your behalf.

These numbers are all total injury frequency rates per 100 employees or 200k hours (equivalent measures, assuming 50x 40-hour weeks)

Assuming the TC article that cites 4.27 at Starbase is accurate, it's well in excess of anything I'm used to seeing. Have a flick through here for industry-wide equivalents: https://www.bls.gov/web/osh/table-1-industry-rates-national....

Alternatively, here's some of the big players in various engineering, construction, mining, etc. heavy industries, taken directly from their websites/sustainability reports:

ExxonMobil: 0.1-0.2 https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/publications/metrics-and-da...

Chevron: 0.24 (p23) https://www.chevron.com/newsroom/media/publications/corporat...

Glencore: 2.14 (p15) https://www.glencore.com/.rest/api/v1/documents/static/9b103...

Jiangxi Copper: 1.5 (p132, NB: per million hours so /5) https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2025/0327/...

Fluor: 0.31 (p10) https://a.fluor.com/f/1014770/x/1d656014e2/2024-sustainabili...

Jacobs: 0.17 (p61) https://s205.q4cdn.com/384284279/files/doc_downloads/2024/ES...

Union Pacific: 0.9 (p8) https://www.up.com/content/dam/upcom/strategy-sustainability...

PG&E: 1.87 (p45) https://www.pgecorp.com/assets/pgecorp/csr/csr_2025/assets/p...

Baowu: 1.8 (p19, listed per 1000 employees so *10) https://res.baowugroup.com/attach/2025/09/18/4751f22bbb33484...

Parsons: 0.16 (p29) https://www.parsons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FY24-CARE...

Vale: 1.58 (p66) https://www.vale.com/documents/44618/430705/2025_Annual+Repo...

I work in mining and mining-adjacent. Safety is taken seriously and process is rigorous. lock-out-tag-out, etc. is all huge in it.

These metrics are reported on both internally and externally and make up major components of incentive payments. I'm completely used to management having 70+% of the incentive being tied to company performance, which is in turn strongly influenced by safety performance metrics.

I'm used to targets well under sub-1.0 TRIR at class 1 operators. Something like 4 would pause the project.