Notices by ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)

@dalias @GroupNebula563 @aburka I’ve been thinking of moving to BSD, but an AI-free fork of Linux 6 might be better

@gamingonlinux when I was a kid I enjoyed their games, mostly on Amiga. I might rather they shared the fate of Commodore than this

@futurebird nobody actually wants to put datacenters in space, the people promoting the idea want to get the same class of dangerously wealthy idiots who spent a trillion and a half dollars on glorified autocomplete to spend the next trillion on their companies so when the company fails the people who set it up keep their golden parachutes. It’s a game to try to become a centimillionaire on the whim of a group of centibillionaires.

@dalias @Sea1Am @jblue bah, the app crashed and ate my reply…

What I read of RSC sounded way more expensive than today’s car paints, where do you get comparable prices from?

The thermometer I have in my car goes up to 99 and anything higher is “HH”, but the other day I’d guess it was close to 120 inside when it was 80-something outside and cloudy. I wonder how much it would help to add heat vents to the roof, I guess they’d have to integrate with the rain gutters

@dalias @Sea1Am @jblue right, but how much would adding radiant cooling cost? If its 75 and sunny, parking in the sun can get my car well over 100 inside, if the fan can keep that down to 80 or even 85 I’m pretty sure that’d be easily worth the relatively small increased cost of the car.

(And as often as babies die from being left in a parked car, maybe something like that ought to be required)

@dalias @Sea1Am @jblue so you’d need both an expensive redesign of the entire exterior, including all the windows you can change, and a builtin retractable cover for at least the windshield. Still sounds like a solar roof powering the fans would be a lot more affordable

@dalias @Sea1Am @jblue when I tried using the readily available window coverings they had no noticeable effect; I thought it might be worth trying again if there were something built in to the car itself, but I think using the fans would be better. Leaving windows open keeps the inside only a little warmer than the outside, but that’s not a general solution. I tried solar fans that hook on the top of a window, but they weren’t very effective and let in too much rain

@dalias @Sea1Am @jblue I was imagining just powering the fans to exchange air, so it’s too ventilated to be a solar oven. Hadn’t heard of radiative sky cooling before, but without making the upholstery blindingly reflective I doubt any passive cooling would be sufficient

@dalias @Sea1Am @jblue having a car that can keep the inside from getting 10s of degrees hotter than the outside while parked in the sun without draining the battery would be fantastic

@fesshole obscure? Who’s teaching you how to play chess and leaving out some of the rules? Did they leave out castling too? How ‘bout the rule that you can’t repeat the same moves in a loop?

@mekkaokereke Also not a professional and not giving advice, but I checked some funds & ETFs and found several that appear to exclude SpaceX by their underlying index or by using assets other than stocks (bonds, real estate, etc):

COMT,
DIVO,
EBNAX,
FALN,
FTHI,
JEPI,
JPST,
LQD,
MIAQX,
NETL,
PAXHX,
PEY,
PHYZX,
PTSOX,
SRLN,
SWHGX,
XYLD,
XYLG,

And a few I'm less sure about but by my reading of their rules I'd expect to exclude it:

CDC,
DIV,
FNILX

@inthehands “a bucket of cold water” is not the worst description of the Democratic Party

@joe @inthehands is there a coordinated effort that has a website? And/or server plugins that automate serving coordinated poison?

@heidilifeldman archive link for people having trouble with the direct link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260503070108/https://www.wvgazettemail.com/life/religion/former-salvadoran-refugee-named-new-bishop-of-wheeling-charleston-diocese/article_b363ada0-371e-46f4-ae2d-c83681538ada.html

@dresstokilt @Rasp @jozeldenrust @c_reider also wondering who the U.S. is… are we the Ferengi?

@bruces “Someone who read error messages instead of dismissing them” - they’ve made that meaningless by making all the error messages say nothing more than “an error occurred”

@jenniferplusplus capitalism is always a denial-of-service attack on human potential; it’s not always this direct

@icastico @inthehands There’s an old quote that captures that well, something like “don’t report on the odds, report on the stakes”

@colo_lee @inthehands hm. There may be a distinction worth making about these guys cosplaying as part of pretending to be what they aren’t, and people in other contexts cosplaying as an expression of who they are. But the word “cosplay” doesn’t make that distinction

@blogdiva so who’re we supporting in the primaries?