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New comment by euroderf in "Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money"

euroderf — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:56:32 +0000

Ya have to wonder if there is a DOGE-Musk-Palantir connection.

New comment by euroderf in "What happens if you put work into the second dimension?"

euroderf — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:20:06 +0000

Someone please inform the Safari team.

New comment by euroderf in "Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search"

euroderf — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:18:14 +0000

What you describe could pass for the USSR all over again.

New comment by euroderf in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

euroderf — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:30:50 +0000

> If they can exhaust all their firepower in a couple weeks fighting Iran, China would have no reason to feel threatened in the first place.

Well but war will be like this now. Like for ICBMs, with PGMs it's use it or lose it, so lots of ordnance is fired off at the outset (onset?) of hostilities.

New comment by euroderf in "Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)"

euroderf — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:17:05 +0000

+1 on Proto. It focuses on the tremendous amount of information revealed by DNA analysis, and it weaves this together with historical linguistics and archeology.

New comment by euroderf in "Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific"

euroderf — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:34:38 +0000

Seabed "mining" (if you consider strip mining to be mining) was studied a lot even in the 1980s. It's not new. Maybe the economics are finally working out.

New comment by euroderf in "EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation"

euroderf — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:25:46 +0000

How about a grand trade: Age verification for Corporation ownership verification.

- No more shell companies. - Only humans may own shares. - Public ownership registers.

Know thine enemy.

New comment by euroderf in "OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics"

euroderf — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:10:28 +0000

"Hi! I'm from the government and I'm here to defraud you."

New comment by euroderf in "Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the AI Bubble?"

euroderf — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:52:15 +0000

Only the pensions making risky bets on AI

New comment by euroderf in "Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the AI Bubble?"

euroderf — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:23:23 +0000

Coming soon, a haircut like none before.

New comment by euroderf in "Europe's fires are just the start"

euroderf — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:39:21 +0000

AFAIK, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo(sp?) made it quite a bit harder to build the case for warming. What about the effects of that big kaboom in the Pacific a year or two ago ?

New comment by euroderf in "Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner""

euroderf — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:32:59 +0000

35 consumer drones delivering 35 chunks of metal.

New comment by euroderf in "A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return"

euroderf — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:26:59 +0000

When water is outlawed, only outlaws will have water.

New comment by euroderf in "Why the future is local app"

euroderf — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:41:47 +0000

What's the secret sauce for transferring one's own annotations and notes among all these apps ?

New comment by euroderf in "Why the future is local app"

euroderf — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:09:31 +0000

Yes, and Organic Maps and Maps.Me do the same - download entire countries or regions. It is SO tremendously useful when traveling. Have not tried CoMaps yet.

New comment by euroderf in "Why the future is local app"

euroderf — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:02:42 +0000

This really matters in map apps when you're on the road. Apple Maps is all very nice with transit planning but without a solid net connection it lies there mutely. Organic Maps (and others) that use downloaded OSM data work well with nothing more than GPS. You can get a transit plan (trains & trams & buses, and the transfers among them) without up-to-the-minute arrival info.

New comment by euroderf in "Tree Style Tab"

euroderf — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:25:45 +0000

I need this for Safari.

New comment by euroderf in "Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat"

euroderf — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:53:33 +0000

Where is my home router that is Lean-validated ?

New comment by euroderf in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

euroderf — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:31:11 +0000

Of course! It charges my personal taser (which I wisely left at home on this trip out of the country).

New comment by euroderf in ""Please just use plain English, I don't understand what you're saying.""

euroderf — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:01:38 +0000

Wise man say: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single tractable beachhead.