zitsarethecure

I'm not up to date on spy-balloon technology, but what kind of things can they learn using a balloon that they couldn't have learned by using a satellite?

> "If you put an aluminum heatsink into an RF component, you've basically introduced a series of antennae to interact with the RF signal," Erb says. "Instead, we can put our boron nitride-based material in and around an RF component and it is essentially invisible to the RF signal."

It's right there in the article.

Once a year I select about 100 of my favourite pictures from my phone and have them printed and bound to a book. I suspect this is likely to be the only way my descendants will be able to see them.

X11 is way too slow to run something like gimp remotely, unless perhaps you are sitting near the other machine connected via gigabit ethernet. Giving that up is an easy win for better everything else.

> Also not having to drop into the command line to change monitor settings is nice.

I can't remember the last time I had to do this on Linux. Sometime in the the 90's, I think.

Phyphox really does it for me to get that "a tricorder, but real" feeling.

https://phyphox.org/

No it doesn't. Working towards a modest reduction in emissions is massively different than banning fertilizer use overnight.

Reader view is great, but it seems to work on less and less sites every day. I don't know what the mechanism is by which the browser decides whether to allow reader view rendering, but it seems to not work on about half the sites I wish I could use it on these days.

The AAW have banned the practice because it is so dangerous and have been maintaining a list of the people killed by it, including at least one professional electrician.

https://www.woodturner.org/Woodturner/Woodturner/Resources/S...

I keep wanting to switch to bitwarden from keepassxc, I created an account and installed the apps, but I just can't bring myself to actually upload all my passwords to someone else's computer. Am I just too paranoid?

Every generation thinks they are too smart to fall for scams, and every generation is wrong.

That's unfair! Many of us also own stock in them.

> They took a profitable RedHat and gutted it,

I know they bought Red Hat but I didn't hear that they gutted it. Can you expand on that?

I don't think we need to ask that at all. They make little computers for people to tinker and do interesting (or even boring) things with. The "diverging use cases" are a feature, not a bug.