I personally use the original amazfit bip. Cannot be newthough, I sourced mine from aliexpress, and even there they are ex-demo and stuff. Heart rate sensor isn’t amazing but I don’t know if that’s maybe my hairy arm. The main reason I got it, can be used with gadget bridge, for best privacy

Edit: worth noting that I had to flash it with English firmware, which did mean I had to use the official app originally

There’s now more product competitors now. Also is this a sign that parts shortages are easing?

It’s a pretty minimal subsidy for raising children. Like everywhere else, it’s social infrastructure around child rearing which needs funding.

Yeah after at least 2 mild summers, it really does seem like our time is up. El Nino is also flagged for this summer http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/outlook/

Gas hot water heaters tend to be a lot more efficient than gas cooktops. The flat bottom of most pots and pans means a lot of heat will escape up the sides, but hot water heaters can be designed with this in mind. On pots, I have one that basically has heatsink fins on the bottom to better capture the gas heat, but this is far from typical.

Environmental issues aside, gas is also a pain for installation. Solid pipes are more difficult to route, and leaks are, of course, dangerous. Electricity is dangerous, but it is easier to contain. It doesn’t leak into the air, and because it’s a closed loop, we can measure if it isn’t all returning and shut it off (RCD/GFCI). It also has flexible cables. The downside is that, heat pumps require more maintenance. They’re a vaguely complicated mechanical system, as many fluid systems are.

I’m going to guess that Consumer level means you still need a beast with 4 big GPUs or Threadripper style CPU. That said, this is easily within the reach of Organised Crime

Rubicons especially

Yes. Email forwarding from arbitrary email addresses at my domain

Here I’ve been doing that manually with my own domain. Wonder if it will allow you to use your own domain.

It’s a fair question, but then I might revisit the question, what is the threat model? Which is higher risk? Online attack, or Fire while at home, where you are isolated from a device you’d likely also try to use to call emergency services? It is a genuine question, rate of attack on the public is probably not that substantial, but fire is also not super likely.

Though you have got me thinking, an outdoor fire safe near the front of the property… though probably only possible if you live in suburbia.

I put my recovery codes on paper. I’ve said elsewhere, but the threat model has changed. Heck, I even printed my password vault with paperba©k using wine once (shredded it shortly after because i didn’t have a proper storage procedure.

It’s a fair point. If you go to a business and go, hey I’ve got something for you, are you interested, then yeah that’s entrepreneurship. I suppose the difference is that the role there isn’t well defined. So maybe that’s a significant difference, direction of solicitation.

Reminds me of the Bloomberg thing on spy chips a while back that wasn’t really substantiated.

If they don’t have alternative sources of work, then they effectively work for Amazon, and it should be legislated as such. That excuse only works in a labour market with a lot of competition on both the supply and demand sides. Legislative systems really need to be more nimble to keep up with the loopholes that larger organisations can put money into investigating. But yeah, we all know why that doesn’t happen.

The new rules will require companies like OpenAI to disclose the data used to train their AI models.

This could be interesting for copyright reasons.

Taking example numbers from the article, but not explicitly stated, it kind of sounds like 15 floors, about 60m tall, is the point in which density starts to sacrifice ecological concerns too much.

According to a 2015 study commissioned by the CTBUH, the whole life emissions of both energy use and materials for a 120m concrete and steel structure are nearly five times higher than those of its 60m equivalent.

That’s still tall enough for many things, so I guess the rest should be handled by a bit more space use and better mass transit.

Signal represent. Metadata is pretty important. Shortly after snowden, I saw a presentation of a guy, making the claim (paraphrasing) metadata writes a story about you, that isn’t necessarily true. Describing tracking a persons movement through their credit card on public transport. Through bad timing, perhaps their activity coincides with some activist activity. That sort of thing.