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  1. Cyber/<ender

    An electric car that’s faster than F1 around Monaco? That’s the idea.

    Now, just cross the design with Luigi Colani's work....
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    The DHS has been quietly harvesting DNA from Americans for years

    Because of how much specificity that one piece of info contains. See Gattaca.
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    The Chainmaille thread

    Making rings is easy. Well, depending on how you want to cut them. You get a mandrill, (Steel rods of a variety of sizes are available at home center stores.),of the ID you want to shoot for, (Account for spring-back.), and coil your wire tightly around the mandrill to form a spring. Then, cut...
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    Junk-filled garages hurt EV sales as people don’t have room for chargers

    (At least in California...) Couldn't possibly have anything to do with how garages have been built for the last 20 years: Big enough for two, compact cars and nothing else... Mine will remain full looking because I have a woodworking hobby, and those tools need space, even when on wheels.
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    Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

    All search is paid for. This article is really about how one is paying and to whom.
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    A huge fight looms over the NASA budget this fall

    It's what ~25% of the voters voted for. What ~25% of the voters voted against. And what ~50% of the voters didn't bother over. :(
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    A huge fight looms over the NASA budget this fall

    In case you hadn't noticed, Ranking Members of the House, but "a fringe, extremist ideology emanating from the White House" describes much of the Federal government these days...
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    The Chainmaille thread

    Depends on what you want to make. A hauberk? Look at 14ga 5/16"ID. A ring? I did mine in 22ga 1/8"ID. If you're expanding your weave knowledge beyond Euro4in1, then you're going to have to start considering aspect ratios. Quite a few weaves require something specific to work. Dragonscale, for...
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    Trump orders DOE to make AI a national priority while plotting agency’s death

    Well, of course. Actual Teachers might not teach what the regime wants them to. But AI instructors will only feed the children what it's programmed to...
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    DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next

    Or, you know, pass laws with teeth to protect the data of private citizens, and enforce them. Which would take care of a whole swath of such companies... (Yeah. I'm not gonna hold my breath for it either.)
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    DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next

    Divest Chrome... Ok. And when is the FTC (Sorry. Wrong TLA.) going to force Microsoft to divest Edge? Huh...That sound oddly familiar...
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    Why Valve should make Half-Life 3 a SteamOS exclusive

    For my parents? Yes. You've pegged them as being reasonably computer literate. They don't need me until something truly goes wrong. Switching them to Mint would mean that I would have to start helping them install programs and things again. But once we'd gone over how things work differently...
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    Why Valve should make Half-Life 3 a SteamOS exclusive

    Uh, bud, you're comparing to Photoshop. Yes, Adobe has a much better UI than GIMP, but it's still one of the biggest learning curves of well known software. The exact type of users people in this thread are arguing won't install an OS to play HL3, are the same people who don't use Photoshop...
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    Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP

    I saw an article recently that ties his consumption of Douglass Adams, Robert Heinlein, and Phillip K. Dick to his belief in Simulation Theory. No clue how valid it is, but if accurate, it would explain how he doesn't take anything seriously, save his own efforts to advance in the simulation...
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    Streaming prices climb in 2025 after already surpassing inflation rates

    This has put Netflix on the chopping block for me. Time to start up that Plex server and rip the DVDs... Clearly, they haven't learned the lesson about cheap and easy to access means less piracy...
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    The Chainmaille thread

    Oh, yeah. Aluminum work hardens fairly quickly, so repeated open/close sequences will definitely be an issue.
  17. Cyber/<ender

    The Chainmaille thread

    You're breaking 16ga rings? Made of what? Aluminum, like the kit you linked? That sounds like either low-quality wire, or you're working the metal too much. Admittedly, those 22ga rings are titanium, but I've never broke one. Even though titanium work-hardens quickly. You really shouldn't need...
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    The Chainmaille thread

    Er... hides my 22GA 1/8"ID ring For plastic rings: https://theringlord.com/rings/engineered-plastic/ Alternatively, rubber rings: https://theringlord.com/rings/rubber/
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    Microsoft reiterates “non-negotiable” TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows 11

    I've been easing into Linux for awhile now. It's on my work PC and secondary home PC. MS just keeps me thinking that my next hardware upgrade on my primary PC will be to put Mint on it, and I'll do the same for my parent's next PC upgrade. No illusions about Linux making significant inroads into...
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    I played Half-Life 2 for the first time this year—here’s how it went

    Yes! This. I think their expectation of the game (That it would be like Portal, and that it would guide you around) hamstrung their experience. But at the same time, I entirely understand why those expectations were there. The playing field has literally changed. When the ray-tracing version of...