Isn’t Israel known for its tech firms making phone security bypass tech (I.E. NSO Group and their Pegasus SW?)

In before someone links a tv-trope page about it

I volunteer as tribute if it means I can get fired in 6 months for my incompetence and be provided with a $25 million dollar severance package.

I learned the other day that if a true WWIII scenario broke out with too many fronts to cover with CAS fighters that the current plan is to modify crop dusters to carry armaments. They even have an active duty variant called the AT-820U that special forces currently use for CAS on the DL. These things are stupid easy maintenance and can takeoff and land from a mostly flat meadow

If it has “smart” capabilities please don’t make it dependent on an APP try making it compliant with the Matter Protocol so that people can buy it and integrate it into their household regardless of ecosystem

whats up with Florida? I can understand South Texas and their uptick. But FLORIDA? Am I missing something?

Engineer here. You’re salaried but treated like an hourly employee. You get paid to work 40 hours a week but get “told” that working less than 45-50 hours a week makes you a slacker. Your exempt which means you don’t get a mandatory 30 minute unpaid lunch or a paid 15 minute break every 4 hours. Vacation time is normally unlimited but requires manager approval so if you get the old “boomer” type that drank the corporate cool aid, good luck getting any more than 2 weeks worth approved regardless of years at company.

Sorry I digress, My job starts at 8:00 but I slide in to the daily standup at around 8:10. No one notices or cares. Afterwards, I get a cup of coffee, catch up on vital correspondence and questions from overseas coworkers. It’s sometime between 8:30 and 9:45 That I realize the Bangalore Software team sent out an emergency meeting at 11PM last night for 5AM This morning. “Oh well” I think to myself and sip on my coffee catching up on what I missed. Turns out one of them forgot to plug in a machine. They crack me up.

From 9:45 to 10:00, I have conditioned my body to take a shit. I time it for exactly 10 minutes. My second one is precisely times for between 4:00PM and 4:15PM. I figure those two times are freebies to my 9.5 hour forced work schedule. Upon returning, from my “break” I begin to actually work.

I design things using CAD software cool stuff. I am content by 10:10AM I have my headphones on, I am doing what I actually went to school for. I begin to think this is entirely worth all the other stuff I put up with. I get in the zone and time flies.

Its, 10:25AM. There was an emergency on the production floor. They tell me its a problem they have never seen before. They assure me they have taken all the proper diagnostic steps have been taken and I need to look at whats wrong to prevent a line stop.

I think, “its go time” I follow the techs down to the line and start diagnosing the problem. In no time at all, I find that they never checked the test wiring despite that being like in the first 5 steps of diagnosing a problem. I head back to my desk. Its 2PM by now, I microwave my lunch and work through it. Distractions happen maybe I get an accumulated total of an hour or two of design work done before its 6PM and I head home.

Yup…… You could tell me to switch jobs but every company I work for in my line of work is just like this.

Yeah, they got cloudflare running on their domain so even a bridge won’t help for that specific site. Depending on what you are using it for you can find alternatives with more RSS friendly sites. RSS-Bridge can track music releases through apple music even if you don’t use apple music. I am pretty sure you can find alternative sites for other types of media releases.

I find this the best place to find RSS feeds that just work with out bridges:

RSS List

Depends what your into. Hackernews is always a good feed to add, ars technica, your local news station, your local news paper, I got an rss-bridge running that posts to my feed when apps update with their change log, when a project on github has a news release, when one of my favorite artists releases music on apple music. Institute for the Study of War is also a decent unique feed if you want to read up on strictly tactical updates on ongoing conflicts.

Honestly, thats the beauty of RSS feeds. They are everywhere, I got feeds aggregating memes, and webcomics. You can run a bridge that prowls instagram using your account and generate a post in your feed when your friend posts something. Literally RSS is all about turning the internet you use into your own personal feed without the BS algorithms crammed down your throat. Someone creates a post, and your feed gets sorted by time posted. Easy as that.

I use Lemmy really for the social interaction. Something which RSS doesn’t have.

You basically just described what an RSS feed is. Get a client (I use readkit) and start adding websites to your feed. If you are feeling up to it. self hosting freshRSS and having it sync your feeds to your client is also an option.

The engineer in me sees a silver lining with the way the USA is being in which it’s highlighting a single failure point dependency on some completely random things.

hackernews its like reddit but the user submitted links are tech and research of hardware heavy. A good portion of my RSS feed is from blogs that posts were submitted to there.

got any legit sources to reference? legitimately curious. I need to know which harmonized codes are excluded.

From an electrical engineering perspective H O S E D. Historically, “Oh you want to manufacture something cheaply but can’t due to IP issues or CCP conflicts of interests? Why not Malaysia, Vietnam or the Philippines?”

People got to realize this is gonna jack up the supply chain so hard. Texas Instruments an IC manufacturer produces some stuff in texas. If my production is in Malaysia then surprise! Tariff to send components to Malaysia. But wait, programming, testing, packaging, and inventory of the boards is in the USA. So the PCBA is surprise surprise Tariff again. Now that the board is considered finished and ready to be sold, it turns out your customer is in china or anywhere else in the world…. So tariff. These Tariffs compound. The business isn’t going to foot the bill so its gonna get pushed to customers.

I am really curious how the TSMC foundry in AZ is gonna work out. They can produce the wafers but packaging is done still in Taiwan. So tariff to Taiwan , tariff again back to the USA, and the tariff again because its an advanced electronic component?

Consider me sold. But for the love of everything, please update Thunderbird to natively have “start at system startup” , “minimize on startup”, “close to minimize”, and “minimize to tray” features. I know there are extensions for them but they are fickle getting them to play nicely with each other and temperamental depending on which linux distro and desktop you use.

Isn’t pesticides just bee assassination on a mass scale? Thus, I argue, we cannot not yet rule that out.

Doubt it. Weather changing sounds an awful lot like climate change which is a “woke” DEI concept of the liberal left. /s

please get me off of this wild ride. I miss when politics were boring.

That is the bummer, it’s all going to cost carbon and it’s all going to happen regardless if we ban people owning a second house. As long as the population keeps increasing, the demand for more new houses will naturally increase regardless of what we do to curb demand for second houses.

So I see it as a necessary evil. One in which I am of the opinion that that if we are going to screw with the environment and increase our footprint on nature then lets make it worth it.

For example, lets demolish more woodland but instead of single family housing, lets build a 30 story condominium with the first 2 levels being a shopping center, the next 3 being rentable office space, 20 levels for condominiums, and the last 5 being for entertainment, restaurants, and leisure. Hell create sub basement levels for parking. Is the construction bigger than building a house in the woods? sure. But in the long run by building vertically the overall footprint is much less than building a sub division, strip mall, individual restaurants, and a business zone.

I would much rather devote efforts into making that a reality than policing people from getting a second house. Hell, really try to market it to that demographic just so that we can combat the NIMBY attitude people have to vertical urban development and we will probably have more net good to the climate compared to anything else we do in urban development.

Counterpoint, I don’t mind people owning a second home on the basis of climate change. There are so many other bigger fish to fry in that realm rather than wasting resources limiting a small group of people with the means of affording a second home. I would much rather people with the means of owning a second home having to pledge to improve the carbon footprint of the second home through things like adding solar panels, smart landscaping, etc. That way when the house is eventually let go its more sustainable and environmentally friendly then when it started.

Normally I would agree. But this is one of those rare instances I say, “Oh shit something is up.” Rather than saying, “How progressive of our government to pilot remote work!”