90% mass hysteria, 10% random people flying drones for fun.

Most videos I've seen are people misidentifying airplanes as drones, and even if they are drones... they sell those on Amazon.

pass otp. Works, more secure then SMS, open source.

Like a kid trying very hard to sound like everyone else. "Eloquent bullshit generator"

Yes, but differentiating between actual power and apparent power will be difficult without building a rather complex circuit. A dedicated power meter will tell you, as well as computing the power factor. On the flip side, a TV's switching power suppy should have a good power factor, so apparent power (AC amps * RMS volts) is close to actual power.

IRC, assorted mailing lists and forums, Matrix, Mastodon and occasionally Reddit (blasphemy, I know)

Solvent or solute depending on concentration. The drink however is a solution.

Wikipedia says that the heating from the focused light is minimal because the retina is surrounded with fluid, similarly to how a balloon filled, even partially, with water won't pop over a candle flame. However, the light itself is damaging, as far UV is ionizing radiation and can rip apart the molecules making up your cells.

Still, things like content moderation and data analysis, this could totally be a problem.

WAKE UP AND... SMELL THE ASHES

Because Lemmy instance namespace usernames, short username are actually available.

Honestly JS seams saner then python, it's wierd but rather sane. The only really bad parts of JS are the type coercing == and =! operators which are very broken

For example "" == 0 and 0 == "0" are both true, but "0" == "" is false.

This is slightly less practical than just connecting your devices with fiber, at least you can run a cable around corners, and your connection won't drop is a piece of paper block the line of sight to the access point.