[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

The article talks a little about it. It's more of an unwind+rewind cycle:

The pull from this force then rotates the ground-based drum at a high speed.

This rotation then generates electricity that can be stored in a battery system for deployment wherever and whenever it is needed.

After 45 seconds, the kites are levelled up so that the pull from the wind is momentarily minimised.

This enables the tether to be wound back in, using only a fraction of the electricity generated when it was being spun out.

The result is a net gain in renewable power at the simple cost of flying a kite.

Then the cycle is repeated, again and again, potentially for hours on end.

It makes sense to me. I hope it catches on!

[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

a glance at their artist image and bio should be enough to persuade even the least skeptical observer.

At least we know the article was written by a human.

[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 4 points 6 months ago

It once was. Sounds like it could be again!

[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang

Edit: to be clear, OP's article does not at any point claim that these are American government-operated drones, so this isn't really a good example of the imperial boomerang effect. I just wanted to point people to established reading on the topic you brought up.

[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

This is an argument for why Biden is able to lead. Speaking for myself, I'm not so worried that Biden is unable to lead. He's old and obviously slowing down, but he's got decades of experience and, as you say, a whole administration's worth of expertise.

I'm worried that he is unable to win.

[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

"This campaign is bigger than me or you. Everything we believe in, everything we stand for, and everyone we are fighting for are at risk in this election." --Joe Biden campaign email, July 4th

"if I lose it's cool lol" --Joe Biden on ABC News, July 5th, paraphrased

[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 26 points 1 year ago

If your router isn't even a Linksys router, then it's most likely a false positive result and can be safely ignored. If you want to be extra sure, you could attempt to actually exploit the vulnerability with routersploit and see whether you get anywhere.

In general, the fix for a vulnerability in an end-user network device is some combination of "update the firmware" and "disable the vulnerable feature".

[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 136 points 2 years ago

My second proposal — and this is a wild one — is that promotional notifications should just not be allowed. Or you can opt in to them if you desperately want to hear from the Starbucks app every single day, but you should have to go out of your way to do that and should not be the default behavior when you choose “allow notifications.” Just an idea!

The author calls out the Starbucks app here, but doesn't mention how blatantly dark-patterned its notifications really are. Android allows apps to set up multiple notification channels, so you can selectively prioritize (or, more often, mute or block) notifications based on their content. Starbucks uses this feature... to create a single channel called "Promotions & order status". You wanted to know when your order's ready? Fuck you and your concentration, get double stars today!

I appreciate the notification controls Android gives me, and I use them aggressively. If an app pushes a notification that doesn't actually require my attention, I block that channel, and if it does it again, I block notifications for the whole app. I agree with the author, though: I shouldn't need to do that.

[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 28 points 2 years ago

I had to look it up: apparently an "egg" is a maybe-possibly trans person who hasn't "hatched" into self-acceptance or self-recognition (yet). It seems like a really presumptive kind of thing to me, but also I kinda get it so maybe I'm an egg too 🤷‍♂️(🤷🤷‍♀️)

[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I ran a group of players through a DCC funnel this year and had a great time! Though I think we might switch to The Black Hack moving forward, just for ease of play.

[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

I use that list as well as the ones at https://github.com/antifa-n/pihole/ (though they haven't been updated in years). I also use OpenDNS upstream to block their "Hate/Discrimination" category (among others).

I've been pretty happy with this setup, but I would welcome alternatives/additional blocklists.

[-] Areldyb@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Same behavior on mobile web front-end. This is a serious issue.

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