I recommend this video by Sixty Symbols, the same production of Numberphile and Computerphile in case you’ve heard of them.

But basically, when atoms are close enough to each other they attract each other (van der Waals force), which can cause things to stick to each other even without chemical bonds.

Don’t make it harder than it needs to be. They need to prove that they can cook 0 meals for the base case.

I don’t know if it’s that crazy. The form factor of laptops, and computers for that matter, has pretty much stayed the same for many decades and still going strong. It’s entirely possible that this slab phone form factor will stick around forever.

Off the top of my head, random list of older things that haven’t significantly changed form factor in forever:

• Writing tools (pens, pencils)
• Notebooks
• Chairs, sofas
• Cars (pedals, steering wheel, gear stick)
• Cookware (pans, pots, etc.)
• Utensils (knives, spoons, forks)
• Clothes (for men: trousers, shirt, underwear, socks, shoes, jacket/coat)
• Drawers
• Doors and door knobs/handles

Maybe some of those I’m wrong about, but certainly not all. Sometimes, a form factor just sticks around.

What about this button is anti-vandal? What kind of vandalism does this prevent?

Just that the sun is, and always has been, a higher being observing humanity. She doesn’t look at the “camera” at any point, so I don’t see it as a 4th wall thing.

Back in my day we had a saying: Don’t Feed The Trolls. This is obviously what he wants.

Find a balance between letting other users know who he is in the comments, and not engaging with him.

The sign is throwing me off. I get what it’s SUPPOSED to be: “POISONS”, with the “IS” overwritten by “TI” to make “POTIONS”. But the visible parts of the letter(s) after “POIS” absolutely cannot be an O. It looks more like “POISIUNS” or something like that.

Good comic! And I like your interpretation, though it’s not what I thought.

This planet is almost entirely made of rock. Compared to the amount of rock there is, all of humanity might as well be a rounding error. Insult their intelligence all you want, but they’re winning.

This can’t possibly happen naturally, can it? It has to be purposeful or artificial… Right?!

Relevant xkcd (kind of)

How does industrial diary farming work? Do they have sweatshops in third world countries where people write a few months’ or years’ worth of diary entries per day?

Have you been living under a rock? Electric vehicles are where it’s at, ICEs suck.

Careful, DO NOT share photos of keys with the teeth visible. It’s possible to duplicate keys from a photo.

Depends on your threat model of course, if you’re just a guy (or gal) with no enemies or online fame/infamy, you probably don’t need to worry about things like that. Just be aware of the possibility.

Lol, awesome.

Annoyingly I noticed that the status page only shows the past 22 minutes to 1 hour for the primary services. I have no idea why, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to look further back. But the badge says 99.45% uptime over the last 14 days, so that’s probably right.

Meanwhile, over at Codeberg: https://status.codeberg.org/

They achieve all of this using 100% open-source infrastructure. If I remember correctly, it’s all running on Codeberg-owned hardware as well, not some rented servers.

https://codeberg.org/about

A lot of people don’t realize how much of a lifestyle change and commitment it takes to even begin to look kind of like a bodybuilder. A lot of genuinely smart people think going to the gym twice a week would give them more muscle than they know what to do with. Yeah it’s stupid, but it’s a common misconception.

Edit: here’s a post I found about it: https://www.girlsgonestrong.com/blog/articles/big-and-bulky/ it’s about women, who worry about this a lot more than men, but I’ll bet a lot of it applies to both genders.

Yeah, perhaps they did. As it happens, I wasn’t using a VPN, but I do pay for one so I tried it. VPN to Germany -> site loaded. VPN to Israel -> same error. They literally just blocked the whole country using cloudflare… The country where most of the people they claim to have solidarity with live, and where presumably they’d want their message to be heard the most. Unless, maybe, it’s just a propaganda site that doesn’t actually care about Palestinians and instead has some other agenda? Hmmm…

Seems like the so called “Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign” blocks all IPs from Israel. Hilarious considering the number of Palestinians whose only way to connect to the internet is through Israeli ISPs… Which is either most of them or a very significant number of them. Solidarity, eh?

Yeah, if I use one it might work, but why would a site block me in the first place? It’s not something a legitimate news site usually does…

Link won’t open for me :/

Sorry, you have been blocked

You are unable to access ipsc.ie