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2026-04-27 19:33:55 GMT

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@nprofile…czlm
Yes! Penzance today, I may try to visit the communications museum in Porthcurno tomorrow, and then back-tracking to Bath to stay for a few days. I had hoped to take the ferry out to the Scillies, but they are only doing one run a day in each direction at this season, and it's all booked up with early tourists.
Thursday night and Friday I spent in Thurso, before taking the Caledonian Sleeper from Inverness to London, so I've done both British sleeper trains in a weekend.

2026-04-27 08:20:59 GMT

I always laugh at British people for going to Cornwall on holiday, because it's so often overcast. Well, the joke is on me this time!
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/475/691/213/544/564/original/b54c4ad050e526d3.jpeg

2026-04-02 18:36:12 GMT

So far as I can tell, the arguments for replacing #X11 by #Wayland are :
→ X11 is old, and computer programmers are compulsive novelty–seekers who burn down their own homes every 2—3 years on average
→ X11 does not support a small number of exotic use cases, which could reasonably be handled by specialized software
→ X11 has numerous sets of extensions which all do pretty much the same thing in subtly different ways

2026-03-31 20:53:53 GMT

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@nprofile…efe8
OF COURSE the md5sum for slpkg (updated 4 days ago) as shown on SBo does not agree with the one I calculate when I download the source.
Oh, well, giving up for now.

2026-03-31 19:43:58 GMT

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@nprofile…efe8
Yeah, I have a full installation, including the KDE stuff. Which is not what I'm used to, but I can adapt to using kile rather than TeXstudio, for instance.

2026-03-31 18:50:27 GMT

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@nprofile…efe8
I think I'm going to install "slpkg", because resolving dependencies has been doing my head in. It has been my main problem since I switched to Slackware last year, and this seems like a good way to deal with that.
For some reason a lot of things, if they include any Python at all, depend on six different build systems which are somehow all nested.

2026-03-30 18:29:20 GMT

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@nprofile…m5a6
It's a pity that the Juragua nuclear power plant was never completed, leaving Cuba utterly dependent on oil.

2026-03-30 12:10:10 GMT

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@nprofile…6yyx
I've seen it argued that the value of programming practice is basically never in code. Rather, it is in understanding the problem and envisioning how a solution to the problem would work. The code follows naturally from that. (Of course that is exactly what "AI" "tools" cannot do, and in fact, go as far as they can to obfuscate.)

2026-03-30 11:49:28 GMT

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@nprofile…pgvh
Among the many books accumulated by my late grandfather the petroleum engineer was a volume on PERT from around 1965. I really don't know how it was deployed in the Polaris program, but I've often heard that its main function in the Apollo program was to create a giant, hangar-sized diagram at Marshall which was deployed to baffle and intimidate visiting Congressmen who wanted to know where all the money was going and when they would see results.

2026-03-30 10:25:16 GMT

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@nprofile…zept
German utilities that operated LWRs certainly paid enough, 150% of the actual cost of procuring the fuel in the first place.
https://man-and-atom.tumblr.com/post/812478277322260480/to-all-intents-and-purposes-the-money-collected
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/317/627/875/551/477/original/e977b235803b20b3.jpg

2026-03-29 17:35:16 GMT

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@nprofile…5rp8
This is interesting, but it appears that only one ownership-asserting URL is allowed, and protocol (http vs https) matters. Given that what I'm putting on the Web is mostly non-interactive documents, it doesn't make sense for me to require TLS.
Am I just misunderstanding something, or can I not use the one humans.json file to assert ownership of the site, whether served over http or https?

2026-03-29 15:11:34 GMT

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@nprofile…hm89 @nprofile…32ul
True enough, but officialdom in most other European countries is willing to admit that the factors of insolation, population, and winter heat demand limit the role of solar in their energy economies.
German, meanwhile, continues to insist that the Energiewende is going great, that all its problems will be solved by requiring apartment-dwellers to put PV on their balconies, and those long-term contracts for LNG delivery are inconsequential.

2026-03-29 14:33:38 GMT

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@nprofile…hm89
I always keep my laptop and watches set to UTC, because re-setting them while travelling would be a pain.

2026-03-29 13:02:48 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
There's an interesting bit of nuance here, as the adjective "deutsch" can mean things like "pleasant" and "morally good" as well as "German", whereas nuclear power has often been called by Germans "Giftstrom" meaning "poisoned power".

2026-03-29 12:57:18 GMT

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@nprofile…g88c
SDF has one.

2026-03-29 12:19:55 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
There is still a great deal of Rudolf Steiner in the German Green movement.
What there is not a lot of in Germany is sunshine.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/312/411/215/516/774/original/3c4ea2215bcf2f96.jpeg

2026-03-28 18:25:45 GMT

At 19z00, or in about half an hour from this posting, tune in to #aNONradio for my weekly show A STEP FARTHER OUT, in which I discuss the world situation, technology (but mostly not computers) and the future of humanity, and especially atomic energy and space travel.
https://anonradio.net/tag/a-step-farther-out/

2026-03-28 18:18:13 GMT

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@nprofile…wsge
I don't know if you've seen it, but here's a newsreel from Italy from the 1973 oil crisis basically explaining "we're in deep shit because it takes several years to do things like install transit, and we haven't been doing that" :
https://toobnix.org/w/xtnAtW8aQaFHMA7wVBcXWr

2026-03-28 11:52:21 GMT

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@nprofile…wsge
Somebody was talking up battery-electric cars, saying "most of New Zealand's electricity comes from hydro!", and yeah that's true, but NZ consumes as much energy from motor fuel as from electricity, and even if you could get a million new cars drop-shipped in, you can't exactly magic up a bunch of new rivers.
Considering that most of NZ hydrocarbon production is gas, it's a shame the gas-to-liquids plant was shut down.

2026-03-28 07:39:26 GMT

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@nprofile…wsge
You're heading into the winter heating season there, I suppose.

2026-03-28 07:38:39 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
I talked to the guy in charge of their nuclear programs a couple of weeks ago, actually. 2028 is pretty ambitious, more than anything because there's a lack of fabrication capacity. Given a big enough budget you can build, test, and iterate, but it takes time put together the shops.

2026-03-27 18:15:30 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
I genuinely get angry any time I see "fossil fuels with carbon capture and sequestration" listed alongside nuclear as a near-term solution to baseload power needs. Nobody knows how much it will cost, and there's no way to dispose of the waste!

2026-03-26 18:23:21 GMT

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@nprofile…cmn7
The problem becomes when you have to use that piece of Internet in order to perform important or routine tasks. Laundromats where you can only activate the machines using a smartphone app are just the tip of the iceberg.

2026-03-26 16:49:06 GMT

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@nprofile…t527
Last fall I was in Britain for a while, and I could not use my passport as ID at the train stations. Instead I had to obtain a "National Rail Photocard", which meant running off to a fotobooth, coming back with the strip of pictures, letting the clerk snip one off and stick it onto a self-laminating card with my name written in pen.
I had a very strong impulse to find out if I could swipe some of the blanks. Seriously, this is the sketchiest quasi-government foto ID ever seen.

2026-03-26 16:41:22 GMT

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@nprofile…3w2j
I might, actually, possibly, but I'm not in the USA right now.
How does it talk to the outside world? I'm normally looking for something with a USB hookup, but I have the Radio Shack adaptor with XLR at one end and USB-B at the other. Whether that provides the voltage and current required for the KM84 or not I have no idea.

2026-03-26 16:31:14 GMT

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@nprofile…6hfk
I mean, some people use emacs.

2026-03-26 16:29:35 GMT

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@nprofile…t527
I can dimly remember when a "major credit card" was considered a valid form of ID in the USA. It's been about 40 years.
Nowadays you're often asked for a foto ID when using a credit card, and some people actually have cards with their fotos on them.

2026-03-26 14:18:10 GMT

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@nprofile…dla5
Yeah, Munich is not the place for sushi. Too far from the sea. Some of the local freshwater fish dishes are reasonably good.

2026-03-24 11:37:24 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
The original TGV trainset, circa 1970, was gas-turbine-powered. Although this may seem like a dead end, in fact it was extremely useful, because it allowed for testing and iterating on brakes, suspension, signalling systems, trackwork and so on, which was vital information to have before proceeding with the project.

2026-03-23 16:27:52 GMT

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@nprofile…8swk
The concept of terrorism is, I should say, inherently political.
And as a Fort Worther myself, this whole affair has been appalling to me.

2026-03-22 22:04:18 GMT

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@nprofile…9a2c
So what do you consider the advantage in opening a file in nano read-only, vs using "less"?

2026-03-22 20:13:41 GMT

In German trains, next to the emergency–brake handle is a placard with the legend MISSBRAUCH IST STRAFBÄR.
This refers to a semi–legendary creature (resembling a bear to the degree that the Germans think everything resembles a bear), which is said to lurk in trains and bite off the hands of people who pull the emergency brake at inappropriate times.

2026-03-22 17:10:01 GMT

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@nprofile…kp48
Casios I've been to, you could hide a whole bowling alley in the carpet pattern. Total visual blowout.

2026-03-22 10:08:16 GMT

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@nprofile…g88c
Yes, @nprofile…sq2y mentioned that. I had been thinking about doing something along those lines myself, so I shall have to listen and find out what was covered.

2026-03-22 08:57:57 GMT

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@nprofile…g88c
Gatlinburg!
I have a book entitled "Gatlinburg II", which is the record of a nuclear-energy conference held there in 1979. It was for many years the favored site for conferences associated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, including those organized by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
Another book that I have, "Abundant Nuclear Energy", is the record of such a conference held there. Pretty sure I've read some of both on my #aNONradio shows.

2026-03-22 08:49:41 GMT

This is a newly–renovated hotel in the high–rent district of Chicago, just outside the Loop. Whoever chose this carpeting might have been drunk or stoned, but what about the person who approved it?
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/271/956/803/145/764/original/c7c94583faf210d4.jpeg

2026-03-22 08:41:27 GMT

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@nprofile…ttga
Nonsense. The "mute" and "block" functions are there for a reason. If people are bothered by you, they can use those functions.

2026-03-21 22:15:40 GMT

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@nprofile…qkly
Do they? There is absolutely no way that the Earth can support eight billion people at the standard of living enjoyed in South Australia, by the means employed in South Australia. There isn't enough land, and the land isn't sunny enough, for a start.
If you say "there shouldn't be that many people" or "people should be content with a lower standard of living than I enjoy" then you're not interested in solving the problem. You just want to feel superior.

2026-03-21 20:57:41 GMT

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@nprofile…qkly
South Australia, a very lightly-populated and lightly-industrialized area, is hardly a model that can be followed by much of the world.

2026-03-21 14:14:55 GMT

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@nprofile…sq2y
I was thinking I might try to do an HPR series about nuclear energy technologies. I guess this shows there's some appetite for it.

2026-03-20 21:23:30 GMT

YURP!
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/263/598/765/460/281/original/69f3330ec8482f9d.jpeg

2026-01-19 16:18:40 GMT

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@nprofile…dcsf
I think that's the point. I think it always has been the point.

2026-01-18 21:16:52 GMT

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@nprofile…092y
Oh, wow! This is one of those things that has, with social change and the passage of time, gone from being quotidian to super obscure.
What has happened here is that the milk has frozen, and because water expands when it freezes, has pushed upwards against the carboard-and-foil seal at the mouth of the milk bottle, forcing it upward and forming a "neck" of frozen milk.

2026-01-18 19:36:46 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
Not that 20 GW (plus district heating hookups) wouldn't be better, but this is a step in the right direction.
Personally I would love to see high-temperature helium-graphite reactors at the Ravenswood site, feeding into the existing Manhattan steam grid, and into new pressurized-hot-water systems.

2026-01-17 20:25:53 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
I object to the article title on the grounds that that there's nothing identifiably "environmental" or "leftist" about opposition to publicly-owned nuclear power. Antinuclearites shouldn't be allowed to pretend to either.

2026-01-17 20:13:07 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
https://man-and-atom.tumblr.com/post/806019525558632448/thanks-to-emil-jacobs-for-this-one-the-context-is

2026-01-17 20:01:43 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
Spoilsport! Meanie!
Yeah, I was flabbergasted by "20—100×". Some people are seriously detached from reality.

2026-01-17 20:00:16 GMT

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@nprofile…gtk2
"Moses, stop leaving those things lying around!" — Pharaoh [citation needed]

2026-01-17 19:59:29 GMT

Today's A STEP FARTHER OUT on #anonradio has NASA going to the Moon in a very desultory fashion ; nobody going to Mars this year ; me unhappily going to Washington DC and then onward to Canada, a science-fiction convention in the Dallas area, and then Europe ; and Friedrich Merz admitting that antinuclear policies are wrongheaded, but not going to try to change anything.
https://anonradio.net/asfo-2026-01-17/

2026-01-17 17:02:12 GMT

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@nprofile…fr89
I decline to state whether "artificial general intelligence" is possible or not. I do not believe that we understand the problem adequately to frame the question, much less answer it.
But I can say with great confidence that "large language models" are quite irrelevant to the whole topic. They pose, however, a very special kind of epistemic risk, in that they corrupt the automated, high-speed information indexing and retrieval systems which modern society depends upon.

2026-01-17 16:57:44 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
Would you be so cruel to the poor, downtrodden antinuclearites, as to deprive them of the opportunity to tell everyone that we don't need nuclear to replace fossil fuels, because renewables are so much cheaper and quicker to deploy that they are 20 to 100 times as cost–effective?

2026-01-17 04:08:17 GMT

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@nprofile…l7em
Don't copy that floppy! But don't do _that_ either!
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/908/464/859/911/230/original/30b9c174d8cb6caf.jpeg

2026-01-17 03:38:52 GMT

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@nprofile…wjpr
Yikes!

2026-01-17 02:41:49 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul @nprofile…f86y
Professor Knief offered me the cassette at the same time he offered it to Nick, but I wasn't in a position to deal with it at the time, so I happily demurred.

2026-01-16 21:45:40 GMT

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@nprofile…8t06
A few months ago I dug up a jumbo USB thumb drive, 8 GB or something, with an actual spinning platter in it. It wouldn't work, of course.

2026-01-16 20:43:19 GMT

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@nprofile…ttga @nprofile…8t06
And of course, having said that, guess what I'm getting ready to do!
This laptop has a pathetically tiny 250 GB SSD (gee, I can remember when that was a big size for a spinning platter!), and I'm going to replace it with a 2 TB I got on sale (thanks, MicroCenter). So I have to do a new OS install. Should go easier this time than back in November.

2026-01-16 18:06:31 GMT

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@nprofile…jxq7
I mean, it's good to know that the problem is real..

2026-01-16 17:42:34 GMT

Printer service tech just left.
As it turns out, no, I didn't goof up. It is legitimately broken, and to fix it would cost more than replacing it. Alas!

2026-01-16 17:39:02 GMT

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@nprofile…k987 @nprofile…fr89
I have a pocket one (Sony Watchman).

2026-01-16 14:59:21 GMT

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@nprofile…8h2n
No, because Denmark doesn't have postal service anymore.

2026-01-16 13:59:12 GMT

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@nprofile…pgvh
For Christ's sake. It's as though none of these people can be bothered to even look up previous work done on (in this case) nuclear-propelled airships and high-altitude aerostat data centers. Both of these ideas have been explored!
If you're going to do a high-altitude aerostat data center, you (a) put the server racks inside the envelope, because helium carries heat away faster than air, and that gives you the envelope area to dissipate it, and (b) power from the ground via tether.

2026-01-16 04:32:21 GMT

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@nprofile…v9mt @nprofile…092y
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/902/894/951/302/442/original/14d6facce92cae0f.png

2026-01-16 04:24:00 GMT

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@nprofile…jxq7
One of the things my friend who lives in Calgary keeps pestering his MLA about is using Canada's more moderate medical costs to get US medical insurance companies to fund improvements in hospitals in Alberta by doing heart surgeries, et cetera, for patients from the Mountain West and Pacific Northwest States. He has a very well worked-out scheme.

2026-01-15 18:06:24 GMT

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@nprofile…pq4h
Scooping things up out of the ground and setting them on fire is no way to run a civilization.
Neither is cutting down trees and setting them on fire. We knew that by 1700.
Fortunately there is a solution which works very well with existing industrial capabilities. France deployed it very successfully in the 1980s, replacing its existing fossil-fuel electric generation and keeping up with rapid demand growth. And it's sustainable.
#atomicpowertothepeople
http://www.atomicbla.st

2026-01-15 17:53:13 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
Ludicrous. People say that nuclear is slow to deploy… how much of that is the technology, and how much is deliberate slow-walking?

2026-01-15 17:49:58 GMT

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@nprofile…ttga
Yikes!

2026-01-15 17:48:32 GMT

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@nprofile…rk94
You might try to get hold of some pequin peppers, a small variety of Capsicum anuum which grows wild in the Rio Grande valley.

2026-01-15 17:44:12 GMT

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@nprofile…pgvh
Ah, not Vajont.

2026-01-15 15:42:40 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
Not that he's going to take any action to change anything!

2026-01-15 15:28:54 GMT

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@nprofile…n2cs
Certainly the pattern seen with race prejudice.

2026-01-14 19:05:43 GMT

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@nprofile…f965
Formally, a FQDN requires the trailing dot, but it seems to be universally omitted.

2026-01-14 18:39:10 GMT

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@nprofile…rtl5
I have occasionally noticed an arc "pop" when I flick a light switch, sometimes with a spark visible through the switch body if the room is quite dark. This may not translate to much of a real-world risk of ignition unless the atmosphere contains flammable gasses (in which case you typically have bigger problems), but I could certainly understand if it caused someone concern. It doesn't exactly make me feel good.

2026-01-14 18:17:02 GMT

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@nprofile…rtl5
I mean, household light switches based on mercury may well have been banned. That one is a trade-off. On the one hand, they are arc-free and therefore will probably never cause a fire. On the other, if a fire occurs anyway, mercury gets everywhere ; and there is the problem of final disposal to consider. Can you be certain that the switch will be pulled out intact for re-use, and not landfilled, or crushed during demolition?

2026-01-14 17:13:17 GMT

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@nprofile…cs6d
I recall that I once installed Linux on a laptop during a brief stopover in Toronto, and ended up with every "locale" option (including some I could not locate and identify) set to Canada. It was not a big inconvenience for me, but it was kind of stupid.

2026-01-14 15:09:23 GMT

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@nprofile…n2cs
If transit isn't available, isn't reliable and frequent, people will drive. That is the outcome to be avoided.

2026-01-14 08:14:10 GMT

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@nprofile…pgvh
I took the Barcelona—Madrid train back at the end of November, on my way from Munich to Lisbon. Repeatedly I found myself asking "how am I in Texas?" (although not so much so as on the Paris—Barcelona leg).

2026-01-14 06:49:53 GMT

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@nprofile…ucpy
Formaldehaut!

2026-01-14 06:48:59 GMT

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@nprofile…ttga @nprofile…8t06
Those who care to amuse themselves that way are welcome to, but I'm not found among their number. This is not a moral judgement on them or on me, so far as I can see. My comment about Linux generally has always been "no operating system is going to make me happy, so as long as I have to deal with one that makes me unhappy, at least I'm not going to pay for the privilege."

2026-01-14 04:32:30 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
My take :
https://man-and-atom.tumblr.com/post/805687246447607808/survey-finds-47-of-home-solar-systems-failing

2026-01-14 03:25:47 GMT

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@nprofile…mrqp
Franklin Roosevelt said to a meeting of the (hyper-conservative, "old money") Daughters of the American Revolution, "never forget that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionaries". They REALLY didn't like hearing that, for some reason, but because he was the President they couldn't tell him to go pound sand.

2026-01-14 01:03:58 GMT

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@nprofile…cm7y
Lidice.
Not "a Czech village", Lidice.
Say the name.

2026-01-13 23:04:32 GMT

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@nprofile…7avl
I keep hearing people saying this about Chicago specifically. I've been in Chicago repeatedly, over the past couple of years, and I have no idea what they are talking about.

2026-01-13 19:46:08 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
I also have a pretty nice German-language film about fusion research already transferred.
One of the French-language films was originally in Swedish, and you can hear the original language track underneath the French dubbing. It has to be incredibly irritating for the speakers of any language.

2026-01-13 19:42:17 GMT

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@nprofile…092y
Very few people nowadays have any idea that early tube TVs were often fitted with magnifying lenses, to get a bigger picture at the expense of brightness.

2026-01-13 16:11:58 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
I mean, that's certainly a goal of mine, but it requires three different kinds of work : (a) transcribing the spoken language, best done by a native speaker ; (b) timing the spoken language track ; and (c) translating to the desired target language, eg, English.
I contacted someone I saw on the Fediverse who said they could undertake (a) and (b) for French, but their response was that they weren't doing that anymore!

2026-01-13 15:35:17 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
This batch is one French, circa 1980, explaining breeder reactors, and one US, circa 1970, Dr Seaborg introducing the chemistry of the trans-uranium elements. I should have them on-line within a week or so.
Next batch will be another French, about PWR operation, and a British short from a reel of samples of educational films. I still have one more Russian education film, an Italian newsreel, and a few other odd bits to be transferred.
https://toobnix.org/c/man_and_atom

2026-01-13 15:28:18 GMT

Spoke to the film transfer house. The films I sent in December had been mislaid, but I will soon have them back.

2026-01-13 05:19:01 GMT

@nprofile…rh6u
Question about advertising on NETV :
The Web site indicates that, for $500, I can have my 30-second spot in rotation every 6 hours for a month. So far, so good. But can I supply more than one spot, and have them played in alternation?

2026-01-13 04:25:48 GMT

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@nprofile…8t06
It leads to harrumph.

2026-01-13 03:54:31 GMT

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@nprofile…ttga @nprofile…kvys @nprofile…t2w4
I have found that this can be sung to the tune of the Irish song, "The Foggy Dew". I think I may have done that on #anonradio at some point.

2026-01-13 02:04:13 GMT

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@nprofile…30r0
The whole wheat ones taste less salty than the regular ones, although they have about the same amount of salt. Otherwise I guess you could buy both kinds and use them in alternation.

2026-01-12 05:24:52 GMT

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@nprofile…n2cs
I'm sure that's not right.
IEA Key World Energy Statistics 2021 shows 1427 TWh of wind generation globally for 2019, which would be an installed capacity of 163 GW at 100% load factor, or about 500 GW at a more realistic load factor.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/key-world-energy-statistics-2021_2ef8cebc-en.html

2026-01-12 01:16:10 GMT

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@nprofile…dla5
Don't wake me until July 5th, 1998.

2026-01-12 01:05:15 GMT

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@nprofile…m50u @nprofile…hzy7 @nprofile…ugpy
Yeah, not a threat that has any force anymore, since tariffs are getting slapped hither and thither higgledy-piggledy.

2026-01-11 20:03:31 GMT

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@nprofile…8t06
Honestly, I am running Slackware 15 (the oldest Linux distro still around) with XFCE, and liking it just fine. I didn't have any difficulty getting it installed and set up, that I didn't cause myself by forgetting how to partition my disk. Unlike some people, I don't install a new Linux version every weekend as a hobby.
http://www.slackware.com/releasenotes/packages15.0.php
https://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt

2026-01-11 19:31:47 GMT

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@nprofile…30r0
In late January, when a striker, Anna LoPizzo, was killed by police during a protest, IWW organizers were arrested on charges of being accessories to the murder. IWW leaders Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn masterminded its signature move, sending hundreds of the strikers' hungry children to sympathetic families in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont. The move drew widespread sympathy, especially after police stopped a further exodus, leading to violence at the Lawrence train station.

2026-01-11 19:28:26 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
A few years ago, I had my physician run a "viral titer panel", a blood test which checks levels of immunity by assaying antibodies. My specific question was whether I needed a measles booster, as there had been outbreaks both in Texas where I live, and in Europe where I spend a lot of time.
As it turns out, I didn't need a booster, but it was good to know. If a test hadn't been available, I would have just gotten the shot.

2026-01-11 18:22:45 GMT

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@nprofile…n2cs
What country is this?

2026-01-11 18:19:54 GMT

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@nprofile…32ul
CHARIOTS OF THE GODS?
PROBABLY NOT!

2026-01-10 19:40:31 GMT

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