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No microwave I've seen has ever actually varied the wattage. It just essentially does pulse width modulation, so 60% power might be on (at full power) for 6 seconds and off for 4 seconds. It averages out to the desired power, but it's not exactly the same as what it kind of implies.

I think everywhere you've posted this has been relevant to those particular threads. I appreciate you carrying that torch.

Small event that may only have been exciting to me.

I'm casually into amateur astronomy and stargazing. I like to count satellites if I'm outside on summer evenings, maybe haul the telescope out if some night is particularly clear. But I really don't get out very often. Emphasis on "casual."

We moved to our current house some years ago and were just enjoying the nice, big backyard for one of the first times, sitting in some folding chairs fully reclined to look straight up at the sky. Whenever we do that, which is maybe once every several years, even then it's always too cold, too hot, too many mosquitos, etc., so this was rare and nice.

Right above our heads, right where we were both looking, an Iridium flare swept across us. I'd heard of those satellites reflecting "flares" being particularly spectacular, and I'd thought about trying to get in the path of a predicted one someday, but I don't think I really thought I'd ever really make the effort or have any luck if I did. Not expecting it and seeing it happen, I couldn't decide if I was dreaming. I hopped on heavens-above.com right afterwards and, although I didn't see that flare predicted, it confirmed an Iridium pass had coincided with the sighting, so I'm convinced.

So, something spectacular and somewhat scarce that many people wouldn't notice and many would either find boring or think was a UFO was something we got lucky to accidentally see together right in our backyard.

I guess their statement is news because they just said it, but the behavior is classic by this point. GOP--the "O" means "obstruction".

Was it the cops saying that, or mostly just the Commander In Thief? It certainly wasn't all cops.

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I hope they keep pursuing this inquiry:

At the time of writing, it is unclear whether these virtual impersonations resulted in any criminal investigations or charges against US-based victims whose IP addresses were hijacked as part of the 911 S5 botnet. WIRED is awaiting a response from the Department of Justice regarding this concern.

I'm not even really sure any of it is really about China. This AP article updating about the progress of the attempt to ban DJI drones suggests Autel as "Best DJI drone alternative". Autel, a Chinese company based in Shenzhen.

Edit: I suppose that could just be the author(s) making an error, but, given the focus on one company in the drone market and a total lack of evidence about security concerns, I just wonder if these aren't all just companies trying to buy market control through lobbying.

If they control the domain, they can see all incoming mail delivery attempts to sniff for addresses that were used. They'd still have to know the domain of the email address for the login they were attacking, which might not be super useful if they're going after a certain login. But, going the other direction would be more fruitful: buy a domain, dump all incoming mail into a catch-all box, and start looking for bank alert emails or other periodic/promo emails. You might find services that just use email addresses for a login name, or ones that have a "forgot username" feature that only uses email for recovery. Multi-factor auth spread across multiple services (email, SMS, authenticator codes...) would help mitigate significantly by making them also have to take over a phone number or get an old device. Not impossible, but then you're making them work harder for it, and when good account recovery services heavily mask the available targets, it makes it harder to know what else to acquire (e.g., a specific phone number) even if they get as far as full email domain control.

Am I understanding this correctly? NOLA was arguing that, since they tax satellite radio for listeners in their city, they should be able to tax internet streams for the same listeners? If so, I feel like the two things should be comparably applicable (if it weren't for the ITFA), but also fuck all the way off, NOLA government. Get fucked, seriously.

I hitched my horse to just what I consider the basics--zip and unzip--and that has made it easy for me. But I've been stuck on those.

Extract anything:

    
tar xf <archive_file>

  

Create a tbz2 archive:

    
tar cjf <archive_file.tbz2> <stuff to put in it>

  

(And tossing in a -v is pretty universal, if that's your thing.)

Some day, instead of commenting on a reddit Lemmy post, I think I'll Google how to tell it to use .xz.

Ok, you know what? Today is finally that day. It's just capital -J instead of lower-case -j! That's easy enough to remember, I guess.

Narrator who sounds just like Ron Howard: "It doesn't."

I interpreted it as teasing someone for duplicity when they are trying to hurt people (suggesting their outward behavior comes from inward self-loathing), and not talking about his body being weird but his behavior (as a dick).

I feel so lucky to have been here for this discussion today.

What would give them standing? They'd have to be an entity protected by the constitution to claim that protection was harmed. Is it this (Wikipedia)?

TikTok Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and is based in both Singapore and Los Angeles. source

I guess I've never thought about what makes an entity have rights here. Buckingham Palace couldn't just open shop here and start suing our government, right?

Eating plants isn't more expensive than eating meat, just eating plant-based attempts at mimicking meat.

haaaands

fuck yeah

Morocco?