TIL I identify as a towel

Buy one made before, I dunno, 2005?

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

Land mines are cruel and should be considered war crimes. However the article does mention this which should be addressed in the criticisms.

The Biden administration defended the move on multiple grounds. It noted that the types of mines it is providing are “non-persistent,” meaning they become inert after a time.

“They are electrically fused and require battery power to detonate. Once the battery runs out, they will not detonate,” said a U.S. official, who was granted anonymity to candidly explain the administration’s choice.

Edit: I hope a neutral third party can test them and verify this.

Thanks for that.

Yes to all this. I picked up my original Steam Controller the other day and forgot just how crazy loud that thing is.

This 100%. Personally I'm happy with the build quality on my Elite 2, but I hate that it requires Windows 10+ to update the firmware. And it really needs a trackpad.

It's not TIFF. This isn't NASA imagery. PNGs do alright on compression for photos.

(at least I hope NASA hasn't captured images of Quark)

Nice find. That one tells me 1401x1705 and 0.86 MB.

Why is that PNG file 1.3 MB? Is it huge or just unoptimized? Is someone using it as a fullsize Quark poster or something?

In case anyone wants the answer, it's late December 1938, when two physicists went for a walk in the snow near Stockholm to discuss findings a colleague sent via letter.

Further reading: Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

I prefer to put my swap partition on CD-RW.

That's a genuine culture shock (compared to America at least). Is it true, is there a good source on this story?