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beanjamminon Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers

I wish I shared your optimism that this will end with a vote.

beanjamminon Don't push AI down our throats

GrapheneOS or LineageOS on your phone gets rid of the AI cruft. Linux on your computer.

There are few things AI is truly very good at. Surveillance at scale is one of them. Given everything going on in the world these days it's worth considering.

beanjamminon Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

They certainly want us to feel like its unfixable, but it's not. Were govt to put the effort into the energy transition that we saw in the early days of covid we could zero our emissions, and relatively quickly. The technology is largely available, it needs to be implemented.

The ties between the fossil fuel industry and the far right are clear. Apathy, indifference, inertia, they are all products of propaganda and updated Cambridge Analytica methods.

Fossil fuel interests will stop at nothing to further their greed.

beanjamminon Tesla Q3 2021 Earnings

It takes 30 hours for VW to build an ID.4 vs 10 for Tesla to build a Model 3. That won't be an easy gap to close.

beanjamminon Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

Interesting, I haven't tried Jami. If I am understanding it correctly it seems to provide calling features, which Zoom and other typical video conferencing type applications don't.

I'll also through Jitsi out there as a very capable FLOSS alternative to Zoom. If you tried it a few years ago it's changed dramatically in the last while. It's now WebRTC based and runs in browser without any download. It's not quite end to end encryption because the stream needs to be decoded on the server before being re-encoded for the other clients, but since you can easily self host it on a cheap VM I find this acceptable.

beanjamminon What Were CGI Scripts?

Matt's Script Archive was a great resource.

beanjamminon Boeing falsified records for 787 jet that developed a fuel leak

Metric, Imperial... whoops!

beanjamminon Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

1 - Kids' desktop (Raspi3) 2 - Kodi (Raspi2) 3 - LAN print/automated backup server (Raspi1)

I've order a 4GB Raspi4 to upgrade the kids' desktop and 1 GB Raspi4 to upgrade the automated backup server (Gb ethernet + USB3!). Kodi will get the old kids' desktop.

beanjamminon New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available

Green or amber?

beanjamminon New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available

Another data point, I have an XPS13 L322X that's a couple months shy of 6 years old that's also been a daily driver. I've replaced the battery, but it has otherwise stood up surprisingly well. I was amazed when I looked up how old it is.

I'll pass it onto the kids once I get one of these shiny new ones and will be replacing the keyboard and fan when I do. Some of the plastic covering on a few of the keys is starting to come off and the fan bearings are starting to go so sometimes it's louder than it ought to be.