Can confirm, 20 decimals gives you 100.

Can't be much sunlight normally, the curtain rail is decorative.

Little do you know that I'm secretly in charge of the ~~Bureua~~ ~~Bureua~~ Bureau. I believe https should be a premium feature that valuable customers will pay for.

I wouldn't know, but it's totally not on there, or so I've been told.

Look at the equipment! That's insane! It's probably 1 sim card -> 1 android radio chipset -> 1 antennae. ie equivalent to owning a pile of android phones.

I looked "sim box" up and yes you can just buy this stuff.

They have to know their target market is dodgy, you don't need physical phones/radios/sims for sending bulk SMS unless you are intentionally trying to look like individual mobile phones in order to bypass something (free unlimited SMS billing? spam detection?). There are online bulk sending companies and telecoms themselves provide service to them, no physical phones needed, all above board.

Also they cost an arm and a leg. It would be cheaper to get a stack of cheap phones (but I guess you're paying for the automation of this spamming solution).

Looking forward to seeing if there is a whirlpool topic about this article :D I wonder if some of the cheaper virtual mobile phone providers do this to piggy back cheap unlimited plans from other networks ;D

Assembly arm.

I've been using PipeWire this year on my Void Linux laptop & desktop. It's been mostly OK but has a few problems. For years I have been using plain ALSA (with no custom configuration) because pulseaudio causes me regular issues across multiple machines (mostly silently failing).

Pros:

• I don't have to use Chromium for my mic to work on online video conf (WTF Firefox)
• "EasyEffects" lets me quickly fix crappy youtube audio (bad gain normalisation, way too much sibilance) with a minimum of effort.

Cons:

• Sometimes breaks all audio until I manually restart it (hey, just like pulseaudio. This problem never happens when using ALSA straight)
• First time setup is complicated, involving environment variables, dbus user session buses and multiple daemons (running just pipewire isn't enough). Why can't it handle this all itself? Surely it should notice if these things are missing and just fix it itself? Compare this to straight ALSA where you (1) do nothing and then (2) everything works (except Firefox mic support)
• I can't have multiple audio outputs all unmuted at the same time. Eg my headphone output and my rear speaker output. If I override this (using alsamixer) then it gets forgotten next boot anyway, it seems to be out of scope of PipeWire's understanding.

Behind every driverless car is a team of humans with xbox controllers.

Glad you enjoyed it. I put this together because I had a crappy day off work sick.

I'm often more interested in the world of a fictional work than its actual plot or characters. Is it a place, regardless of how horrible or how nice, that I'd genuinely want to visit and experience? I probably cheated a bit on this one (directly bribing the reader with chocolate) but it still counts.

... so if I remove the kids, I get all of it to myself?

The room setting is disturbing. How do they get to the other side of the table, jump it? Where are the table legs? Is this table hovering?

This has some similarities to the invite-tree method that lobste.rs uses. You have to convince another, existing user that you're human to join. If a bot invites lots of other bots it's easy to tree-ban them all, if a human is repeatedly fallible you can remove their invite privileges, but you still get bots in when they trick humans (lobsters isn't handshakes-at-doorstep level by any margin).

I convinced another user to invite me over IRC. That's probably the worst medium for convincing someone that you're human, but hey, humanity through obscurity :)