FULU Foundation is a right to repair group, which explains their interest in this. I, for one, support them. https://www.fulu.org/our-story

I agree with your point about git history, though. https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab/issue...

The article forgot to mention that but the assumption is that (a) a reasonable driver would know that and (b) their audience probably remembered that happening, since it was only a few months ago IIRC.

> California governor’s office candidate Matt Mahan told me about the Third Grade Reading Gate when I first met him last year. It’s how I knew he was legit and focused on the right things.

that put the rest of it in perspective for me

When the local building code requires that grid-connected devices are UL listed, then it becomes a legal requirement. I suspect this is probably the case in most jurisdictions across the US.

edit: NEC section 110.2 indicates all equipment must be "approved" and delegates this to the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) locally; and the majority of them are going to defer to a "NRTL" (Nominally Recognized Testing Laboratory, such as UL, CSA, ETL, etc) instead of doing all the expensive and tedious testing themselves. So when it comes to grid connections, some sort of approval is nearly always a de facto legal requirement.

Yeah, sorry, can't take them seriously after this.

> We now know empirically what reasonable observers predicted inductively: once Covid has a toehold, non-pharmaceutical interventions do vast harm and have little or no effect on the speed at which it spreads; suppressing the virus is impossible; and we do not know how to make vaccines that will prevent infection.

Not with that attitude, for sure. This reads like a tired and warmed-over rant against "oh-so-terrible covid restrictions".

But if you look at the data for CA overall, you see a very different picture: yes, things are up, but they're at about 30% of last August. So the bay area trend gets lost in that.

Also, at-home tests are plentiful now, so I'm guessing that a large number of cases are not getting caught up in the reporting system.

Santa Clara County, CA: https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater

Boston, MA: https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

HN thread for the Boston link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29466172 Thread has links to other areas as well, and some helpful discussion of how this data can be interpreted, as well as some potential problems with it.

It's my impression that most major metropolitan areas (and many smaller water systems) do this on a regular basis for multiple diseases; I guess it was never really common knowledge before it started popping up on web dashboards with this pandemic. Maybe they just weren't too keen on publishing it before now or something?

It appears that you can do some select things online, but if not? Alternative is to send your documents (which usually involve things like passport, and sometimes state ID aka driver's license) and hope they'll return it in 10-14 days... Just putting both of those things in the same envelope seems like a huge risk to me.

I've been able to submit civil court proceedings at my local district court (in CA), have them get processed and resolved. Sure, there was a break or two in there for temporary closures, and things got delayed. (It closed down for a while back in Dec 2020 but hearings were processed when it reopened in the spring, for example.) Point is, it still /happened/, even with some delay. So why can't the SSA or State Department process anything at all? The amount of institutional failure in the federal government offices right now is pretty alarming, and I haven't seen a lot of attention to this fact.

If it's to be believed, yes, looks like a torrent is going around. Unsalted passwords, everything

edit: https://archive.is/S6loc mirror of announcement