https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

What do you even mean by an alias? Just an alternate email address? How can they tell?

Oh no not another client app. Just use a web app. E2EE doesn’t help much for this since there has to be stored decryption keys, probably held by multiple people. So those are targets too.

The password pages still have visitors. They just have to know the password.

Rogan has spent the past few years developing an immunity to ibogaine powder.

If I want you to see my webpages I’ll send you links or post them someplace relevant. That doesn’t completely stop sloperators and other scrapers but it at least slows them down. The more private pages are password protected or whatnot.

My great startup idea is workable at last! Monetize your spam!!

I think you can put multiple pictures in a comment.

Thanks! There is a Torque Test channel video where they tested Milwaukee and Ryobi jump starters and found they delivered around 4WH and 3WH of energy respectively. They use a tool battery to charge a capacitor, then use the capacitor to jump start the motor. I thought I had seen a teardown of the Ryobi once, that showed the capacitance, but I don’t seem to have saved a link. But let’s see, E= 4WH = 14.4kJ = 1/2CV^2 where let’s say V is initially 14.14 volts so 1/2 C V^2 = 1/2 C 200 = 100C = 14400J. So C = 144 farads, can that be right? They are supercapacitors after all, and the jump starter is a fairly large box of them.

Here’s the jump starter test vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4N5txe7oZA

This claims to be a 100 farad 13.5V capacitor bank (5x 500 farad 2.7V in series): https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804444528644.html

The jump starters are a fair amount bigger than that bank.

Hard to pierce pseudonymity doesn’t interest me that much, because it’s bad enough having all your posts connected together.

I want something like 4chan (but heavily moderated), where all posts are just marked “Anonymous” and if you make 3 different comments, it’s not publicly shown that they came from the same person. It’s ok to retain the info privately for a short period, for moderation purposes. It could be ok to assign a persistent pseudonym for each thread, so if you comment 3 times in the same thread, those comments are connected to each other, but not to other comments in other threads.

This is a good article about the attractions of completely anonymous posting, though it’s from the pre-supertoxic internet era: https://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan

Jolene Blalock (T’Pol from Star Trek) is married to the Live Nation CEO. Another dream shattered.

Unified Push if you want to use the internet, though for important stuff I prefer to use SMS texts. For that you need a gateway. I’m still on vitelity.net and it’s ok, but I’d look at alternatives if I were doing it again. Twilio has lately gotten all weird though.

Looks lame, and stupid expensive.

9GB is kind of lolwhat.

Update: I got six more on Ebay for $10.49 (+tax) shipped, even cheaper than Walmart and in some colors that Walmart doesn’t offer, though they still say Ozark Trail which is Walmart’s house brand, and have Walmart barcode tags. Ebay link: https://ebay.com/itm/297837831805

This is cool and I didn’t know about it. I wonder if there’s tension between Russia and China over that region that wraps over NK.

Since when do RU and NK share a border?! I better check a map but I half remember something called China between them.

In the US, the cover (as long as it doesn’t mess up the song too much) is automatically allowed, as long as you pay what is called a compulsory royalty (a certain amount per record sold, or per audience member in case of a live performance). ASCAP and/or the Harry Fox Agency (iirc) act among other things as clearinghouses for these payments. You have to notify them ahead of time of the cover you’re releasing, and maybe pay something up front.

Normally if you seek permission from the publisher of the song you want to cover, it’s because you want to negotiate a lower royalty than the compulsory one. You can often do that if you can convince them that your record is going to sell a lot of copies. It’s just a discussion about money and business people are used to that.

If your performance copies from the original but is not a straightforward cover, then you do need permission ahead of time as the compulsory license doesn’t apply, with some limited free-speech exceptions for parodies.

IANAL bla bla bla.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_States

Scrounge at flea market or thrift shop, $20 or so. Maybe no swivel, but if you want it vertical just rotate it or get two of them.

Plus ça change.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1