And exist in a system that can only support two parties, which means that the most effective strategy is not to convince voters that your pictures are superior but to convince them not to vote for the other party. Cue a race to the bottom.

Can we get some infantry combat footage next? Maybe from Counter-Strike or Unreal Tournament for variety?

Well, the content is the same and it works the same as far as I can tell. I’m not terribly attached to the old domain name when the (rebooted) radio works just fine.

As long as the penguins haven’t discovered warp drive, that is.

You mean this Nectarine Demoscene Radio? https://scenestream.net/demovibes/

Even just one additional sensor if they’re directional. Even if optical camouflage of broadcast equipment might work in the short term, I don’t doubt that Ukraine will find a way around that relatively quickly. The Ukrainians are really good at this and, well, it’s broadcast equipment.

Remember: If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the precipitate.

My girlfriend got herself a pair and taped them to corners of her desk. She doesn’t want to turn on the light when she gets up at night but she also doesn’t want to bump into the desk. Tritium vials fit that use case well.

Could we have gone with dimmable lights or something homebrewed with low-power LEDs? Sure, but tritium vials are affordable and don’t need a power supply, a remote, or much in the way of setup; they’ll just keep doing their thing for about a decade before you have to even think about their light output.

They’re a solid choice if you have the specific use case of wanting something to be easily located in (near-)complete darkness but you don’t want to use electricity for some reason.

Until you update your EFI and have forgotten all about the fact that non-Windows EFI boot images need to be registered with the Secure Boot key store even if Secure Boot is off. And that the key store is wiped when updating the EFI.

And then you spend an entire afternoon trying to find out why your Linux boot every isn’t even recognized by the EFI anymore. Fun.

Is that dog driving a car?

Nope, Chuck Testa!

This isn’t the first time the AfD has asked for information on German defense capabilities and transport routes. In November, similar espionage concerns have already been voiced; back then they had already made 7000 separate inquiries.

Totally legitimate party with only the best interests of the country at heart. (Well, depending on which country you mean.)

Eh. Admittedly, my experience with non-rolling distros is old, but I’d rather take “something minor breaks every couple weeks” over “I tried upgrading the system and now I can’t even get working shell commands if I chroot over from a live USB”.

Admittedly, that was when I tried upgrading to Fedora Core 5 (or was it upgrading from there?), so ancient history.

Unless other situations where the established technology wins due to inertia, sodium ion batteries have two benefits that make them interesting regardless:

Firstly, they are safer. A punctured sodium ion battery doesn’t catch fire, which massively simplifies safety design. That makes them very attractive for certain scenarios, especially ones where density is a secondary concern. That in turn means they get further development money instead of withering on the vine.

Secondly, they require fewer hard-to-obtain materials, which makes them attractive from a strategic perspective. This one should be less important than the safety factor but it’s also relevant.

I’m pretty sure we’ll actually see wet sodium cells in the wild if they are actually practical. Sodium ion tech is already being commercialized and if this brings it within the same ballpark as lithium ion then it becomes a very interesting choice for vehicles due to instant crash safety gains.

I mean, they’re trying. Not very successfully as of late but they are.

Eh. They had options. With something as crazy as the Saints Row franchise they dissolve basically done anything.

For example, have the Saints go back in time to prevent the destruction of Earth, overshoot and end up preventing their own founding. The test of the game consists of them trying to prevent themselves from being erased from existence a la Back to the Future.

Or, if you want to dial back the craziness, declare the plot of IV to be a movie the Saints produced, which flopped and somehow ended up bankrupting Ultor.

They had options.

Because most banana varieties aren’t very transport stable.

If the perceived threat is a model going rogue, nobody pays attention to the model operating as intended.

“…you see, it was actually considerably worse and I refuse to keep getting undersold by her like that.”

1983. The video game industry effectively collapsed entirely.

There were something like 14 major console systems on the market, all incompatible with each other. None had decent quality control for the games. At the same time home computers were starting to be a thing so the hobby money started going in that direction.

In sum that caused an effectively total collapse of the industry in the USA. It took until the late 80s for the market to start to recover when Nintendo released a new console. Notably, this console was not marketed as a game console – it was the Family Computer in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System (with a shell deliberately styled like a VCR) in the West.

Several major companies left the market (like Magnavox or Coleco) or were unable to compete when the market recovered (Atari).

You can see the Rust they added to the kernel.