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There are a lot of binary packages now, and explicit bin versions of big ones like firefox or the kernel. Without using those an update after some months may take half a day. With them, even a weak laptop only takes a few minutes.

Gentoo doesn’t want to push you into some compiled utopia, it’s offering you the option of customizing or taking control where needed.
You can have your system use binary packages but then set one packet to source, download the source, modify it, write a patch, and have a package with a completely custom sourcecode modification that you can easily keep updating as normal at the cost of it now taking longer due to compiling from source.

It’ll train everyone to ignore the warnings, so if a different platform implements such a system more sensibly users will be inclined to ignore those warnings too now. Overusing a warning is a really quick way to make people ignore it even where used correctly.
If you placed wet floor signs everywhere just in case, fall injuries would increase.

Systems around this will develop, either people will learn to dig up the dms, or it’ll be incorporated into normal communication. It’s already become the norm to use friend requests as a dm request on discord, due to previous dm restrictions.

If every message goes to a special inbox, none do. You just train people to use that inbox like they use their current inbox

On laptops it usually replaces right ctrl, sometimes right alt.
Both these are needed to make lots of shortcuts viable, or possible at all with one hand.

right alt is also an importand 3rd shift layer for many languages’ keyboards, hence them replacing right ctr often instead of the less popular alt.

They recently started on wraparound homescreens (still a little buggy), so that might indicate they could soon add it. Still waiting on a way to remive widget paddings. In general lawnchair has so much more padding than nova, and not enough customizability to remove it.

Plus value added tax, city tax, and over the counter delivery fee.

Keeping acidic things on your teeth pulls out the flouride making them brittle over time. The flouride added to all kinds of stuff is meant to help with that but the effectiveness is questionable. Better to simply not keep acidic stuff in your mouth too long, and to clean your teeth with your tongue after or swish some water.

Coke is famous for causing brittle teeth.

imagine a book you could plug in to change into a different book

Youtube and android have strong network effects. I don’t think openai has anything close to comparable. They tried I am sure, I recall an app platform they added to chatgpt, but I haven’t heard of it in ages so I assume it hasn’t been a dominant factor.
I also don’t get the impression there is enough training material available exclusively to openai it’d be such a factor.

I cleaned it up. Your editor doesn’t like to nest formatting apparently. Using an editor that lets you write the markdown directly is probably better, and you are probably already familiar with markdown anyway, since it’s used all over the place.

2025-07-09 “Sometimes, when one door closes (lack of code signing) in life, another one opens (vulnerability).”

The sentence sumarizes well the situation in the previous version, 8.8.2.

There were - and still are - many false-positives reported in the previous version v8.8.2, by the antivirus software due to the absence of Windows code signing certificate. How to install the root certificate:

1. Double-click the certificate, it may tell you it’s invalid, ignore that and click: “Install Certificate…”.
2. In the Certificate Import Wizard, select “Local Machine”, then click Next.
3. If prompted by UAC (optional, depending on admin Previleges), click Yes.
4. Choose “Place all certificates in the following store”, then browse and select “Trusted Root Certification Authorities”. Click Next.
5. On the final page of the wizard, click Finish to complete the installation.For detailed instructions, see Notepad++ User Manual.

We’re still trying to obtain a certificate issued by conventional Certificate Authorities, for a better user experience. But let’s be honest: it’s probably not happening. Notepad++ isn’t a business - it’s certainly not an enterprise - and apparently, that makes a popular open-source project invisible to their gatekeeping standards.

If the “gatekeepers” won’t issue a certificate under the name we deserve - so be it. At least it spares us from wasting time and energy on a frustrting process that demands we beg for a new certificate every 3 years. The Notepad++ Root Certificate may not carry their approval, but it leads us to freedom.

Edit (2025-12-03): Starting with v8.8.7, Notepad++ binaries - including the installer - are digitally signed using a legitimate certificate issued by GlobalSign. As a result, Installation of the Notepad++ root certificate is no longer required. We recommend that users who have previously installed the root certificate remove it.

No idea why noone mentioned it, but this exists.

https://generalfusion.com/

The core idea of combustion is using momentum to achieve combustion to generate back momentum (and heat).

The laser fusion detonation is similar, but I find other concepts reflect the idea way better.

General fusion uses liquid metal, that is compressed into the center trapping a bubble of fusion gas under extreme pressure for a moment. Inspired by cavitation bubbles in water that when symmetric enough can produce light and evaporate metal.
The fusion then bounces back onto the liquid metal, and fusion products are absorbed by it, so the heated liquid can be cycled into a heat engine. I don’t think there is an intention to recover mechanical energy though.

Another approach is dynamic z-pinch. Helion would be an exanple.
You form a magnetic enclosure trapping fusion gasy then push the magnetic enclosure inwards, compressing the gas to fusion. The charged fusion products (needs fusion that doesn’t emit neutrons) are again trapped in the field, pushing against it with far more speed, effectively far higher temperature, causing the field to exoand again against the controlling magnetic coils, that now operate in reverse generating current from regeneratively breaking the push.

I think this is the closest analogy to combustion engines. An initial push is inserted via momentum (of the magnetic field), which compresses the fuel, combusting it, increasing pressure/temperature, pushing back against the confinement which now absorbs the (magnetic) momentum, turning it back into power.
The only difference is that between cycles the power to keep the next cycle going is stored in capacitors not as momentum of something. And ofc the thing in motion is a more intangible magnetic field, together with currents running in magnets, not physical mass.

Hi, didn’t expect to see you here.

Let’s look at static differences first.
Absolute gravitational potential itself is impossible to measure, since all frames of reference act the same. But we can easily measure differences of potential using accurate clocks. This works well on the surface of earth in reference to outer space for example.
When measuring underground, we can also measure the accceleration along the path when walking there, since the acceleration is caused by the gradient in gravitational potential.
In practice though we would still use the clock method since we can measure time so much more accurately than acceleration.

Going into orbit though, we get another problem, namely we are no longer “still”. The idea of gravity itself is a neat model, but it’s still general relativity underneath which means effects of our movement and of “gravity” are always mixed. So you can put a clock in orbit, but have to very accurately know the exact orbit to make an absolute measurement.
In effect the gps satellites have done this, and we can see their rate of time and attribute it to their orbit vs. their location, often written special vs general relativistic effects.
This value is not very useful, since not only do we average over the entire orbit, we also don’t know the orbit precisely enough.

We can do better though, good enough to measure changes over time.
By building an even better optimized “clock”.
Regular clocks act kinda like gears. We have a mechanism that oscillates at a very stable high frequency, and then “gear” a mechanism to match it, but at a lower frequency, until we get to something we can measure with regular electronics. At that point, we get averages of many oscillations. We then have to send them on to a different clock, since we have nothing to measure our ticks against, for us they are evenly spaced. That receiver has to catch the very high bandwidth signal of billions of clock ticks, and compare it to a second clock.
Any anomaly of the signal path will look like a shift in time, a change in gravitational potential difference of the two clocks. Worse, atomic clocks are designed mainly for long-term accuracy, so they tend to have shifts in rates over shorter timeframes. Thus, instead we strip stuff to the bare minimum, and do our own clock with blackjack and hookers and without the whole clock part where it measured time.

Einstein had a few Gedankenexperiments that still show up in lessons on relativity because they are good. One common object is a laser clock. You bounce a laser between plates, and the rate of bouncing changes according to the local rate of time. This turns out to make a pretty shitty clock, but lets you do optics on the output making for a really good comparison between two different clocks, via interferometry.

Since you need to measure two locations anyway to get the time difference, you can send out two beams of the same source, thus matching exactly, and align them on the return, making their path lengths precisely equal. On average.
If you do this well enough, you can see temporary changes to this, as fast as you can measure the beam interferences, since those beams are in effect comparing at extremely high frequency.

You can now dump this instrument in orbit, and measure the changes along the orbital path, forming a high detail map of earths gravitational differences from the ideal. Or you can put it on earths surface or in outer space and wait for abrupt changes of gravity bumping into you.

Because ofc moving masses “update” the gravitational potential field, and if those updates happen quickly enough we can measure the change with our very precise change detector differential clocks, while the absolute difference might be too small to see on regular clocks, or affect all clocks equally due to great distance of the source, or the subsequent waves may cancel the change, averaging to 0.

Or would it not be possible because the sensor itself would interfere with the readings?

For one all the setups we have so far want to be extremely still, a single piece at rest. Not to prevent gravitational waves or even permanent changes in potential, but to prevent mechanical vibrations.
The equipemnt is extremely light as gravitational masses go though. When you go up in scale, mass changds with volume, with the cube, but strength of gravity, of the gradient, with the square of distance. So when comparing a small interferometer sitting on a 1m satellite, its effects are a million times weaker than earth, with a diameter on the order of millions of meters. Actually far less, since the satellite isn’t a solid ball of dense material.

If you wanted to you could probably spin up a large barbell shape in space right next to a gravitational wave detector and not annoy the scientists from vibrations but from the waves. Probably. Take care it’s in shadow, otherwise the changes in light reflection onto the satellite would probably overshaddow your waves.

They got it from catfriend who vanished. Catfriend redirected it and transferred the app signing keys to allow updates from the catfriend version. This is also why fdroid and obtanium switched it over automatically.
Apparently researchxxl is a new identity made for this app, we don’t know who they are.

Oh, I didn’t notice. fdroid just switched it over I suppose. I even noticed the weird release notes and checked the repo but just accepted I had misremembered the repo name and maintainer name.

really hope you mean the old syncthing, not syncthing fork

I think it only means if you do get paid reasonable amounts for open source work, you don’t have to pay tax on that.
So between jobs it shouldn’t matter since you wouldn’t pay taxes anyway, unless you worked a lot and received a lot of donations. But if you contribute after hours of a regular job, this would ensure you still get the full amount the foss project receives.

There is also mention of assistance with administration, which I’m not sure what that entails.

Wine can actually beat native in latency, since it’s a pretty thin translation layer and windows is … windows.
I’d give it a shot just in case.

Steadily improving. I set up my webserver with ech which is the next step, hiding even the domain. A solid chunk of the internet uses cloudflare as an intermediary, which also has ech and only leaves “someone connected to some cloudflare page at this time for that amount of data”.

As more places roll out deep package inspection, I’m sure in due time more randomization for package sizes will follow, making even the amount of data uncertain.

Most web metadata is at the http layer anyway and has always been hidden by https.

It is actually a notable fraction (~60%) and more importantly constant.
Meaning if your wind has 27x more energy, you can also capture 27x more energy.

This is the energy taken from the wind passing through the disk the turbine spins in, so turbines are placed in spaced out rows to let the wind mix with all the air that didn’t pass through a turbine and pick up speed again.

The notorious hackers anonymous and 4chan soon to be arrested. Hope they rot in prison together with the leadership of the trans agenda.