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Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 3 points 6 hours ago

And then Trump's Team America World Police come and disappear the entire Colorado government with the US military to back them up.

Danish PM accuses US of ‘unacceptable pressure’ over planned Greenland visit in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

That was President Biden's choice of path to take. Look where it got us.

Denmark needs to tear up those agreements, because they will be trampled on.

Danish PM accuses US of ‘unacceptable pressure’ over planned Greenland visit in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 19 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Why?

Maintaining "decorum" is the entire reason we're in this mess to begin with.

You give these asshats an inch, they run a mile with it and demand to know why you didn't let them run 10 miles since you already let them run one mile.

Danish PM accuses US of ‘unacceptable pressure’ over planned Greenland visit in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 42 points 14 hours ago (19 children)

Just refuse them at the border. Problem solved.

Kremlin targeting app at heart of White House group chat leaks in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 3 points 15 hours ago

The birds stand on the wires to mock their inferior bandwidth

Kremlin targeting app at heart of White House group chat leaks in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I wonder how much data a single bird could feasibly carry

I imagine it's quite a lot. You already brought up high-capacity SD cards, so at that point it's figuring out how much weight the bird can carry in terms of 1TB SD cards or similar.

You Can Remove DRM From Your Digital Books, but It's Probably Illegal in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but companies who employ DRM have argued against that grey area since DRM was a thing. Something something IP/copyright/licensing/whatever bullshit... IMO: fuck you, I bought it, I own it, eat shit.

You Can Remove DRM From Your Digital Books, but It's Probably Illegal in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 88 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (14 children)

Removing DRM has always been "illegal".

However: German concentration camps were legal, while families protecting Jewish citizens from being taken to said concentration camps was strictly illegal.

What's legal is not always right (ethically and morally), and what's right is not always legal. Remember that.

Doge cuts allow Musk to cash in with SpaceX and Starlink contracts, ex-workers warn in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 6 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, no shit. What even is conflict of interest now?

Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Breakthrough: A Single Shot That Could Protect You From COVID, MERS, and the Common Cold in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 15 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Until RFK decides to ban it because ~~he's a fucking lunatic~~ "mRNA scary", even though this doesn't appear to be mRNA-related (someone please correct me if I'm wrong here).

Japan orders dissolution of Unification Church in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 12 points 18 hours ago

As someone who, for the last decade, has worked for Japanese companies - and by extension, many Japanese people - this sounds very Japanese.

Japan orders dissolution of Unification Church in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah I saw that, hence my reaction 😂

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Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by lka1988 to c/[email protected]

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I'm in the process of getting my Home Assistant environment up and running, and decided to run a test: it turns out that my gaming PC (custom 5800X3D/7900XTX build) uses more power just sitting idle, than both of my storage freezers combined.

Background: In addition to some other things, I bought two "Eightree" brand Zigbee-compatible plugs to see how they fare. One is monitoring the power usage of both freezers on a power strip (don't worry, it's a heavy duty strip meant for this), and the other is measuring the usage of my entire desktop setup (including monitors and the HA server itself, a Lenovo M710q).

After monitoring these for a couple days, I decided that I will shut off my PC unless I'm actively using it. It's not a server, but it does have WOL capability, so if I absolutely need to get into it remotely, it won't be an issue.

Pretty fascinating stuff, and now my wife is completely on board as well; she wants to put a plug on her iMac to see what it draws, as she uses it to hold her cross-stitch files and other things.