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There's a huge "cost" in switching when you are tied to one ecosystem (iOS vs. Android). How will you transfer all your data?

You’re aware that LLMs all have persistent memory now and personalize themselves to you over time right? You can’t transfer that from OAI to Anthropic.

Well, then go to codeberg.org

Maybe off-topic and patronizing .. sorry about that.

"Running around in the woods, firing small plastic pellets at other people, in pursuit of a contrived-to-be-fun mission, turns out to be, well, fun."

I was wondering if there are no biodegradable bullets for Airsoft and found out that they exist. Maybe a better solution than plastic in the woods.


They make PLA ones, advertised as biodegradable, but AFAIK the settings for them to biodegrade never happen in nature, it's ever so slightly better than the alternatives but far from perfect, or even good.

https://www.filamentive.com/the-truth-about-the-biodegradabi...

> PLA is only biodegradable under industrial composting conditions and anaerobic digestion – there is no evidence of PLA being biodegradable in soil, home compost or landfill environment.


PLA is also commonly mixed with mystery additives which likely aren’t biodegradable at all.

Yeah, that's a bit of a sham. I was thinking like compressed paper or something.

I read up on PLA when I got my 3D printer because it's popular material for that. From what I understand, it's biodegradable above 50° C. Not something you'll find outside Death Valley. Still better than most other options, but it would be nice if we had something that was stable for weeks and then degrades nicely.

Not all PLA are created equal though. Raw PLA pellets won't behave the same way a 3d printer filament choke full of dyes, additives to make them more UV resistance, &c.

There are plenty of posts of people putting 3d prints in compost piles, for months or years, and visually not much happens. Even stuff advertiser as bio don't fare that well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tavrkWrazWI


If you dig up a sufficiently old landfill you’ll find pristine newspapers.

The idea that you can coat much more resilient stuff in PFAS and label it “biodegradable” is at least as big a scam as California’s $0.10 “reusable” bags, or mixed stream recycling.

I’m for taking each use of plastic, by global volume, and then banning them, in order.

We should probably start with fishing nets.

Alternatively, the industry should need to produce 200% as much post-consumer recycled plastic made from the same grade as they’re manufacturing. This would act as a tax, strongly encouraging investment in more sustainable materials. Maybe drop that to 150% if the plastic in the product is 100% recycled.


> From what I understand, it's biodegradable above 50° C. Not something you'll find outside Death Valley.

We’re not that far off in Europe. Give it a couple of years more and climate change will make sure we get there.

https://jakubmarian.com/highest-recorded-temperature-by-coun...


Most of the brands use PLA. Most of the fields (all the ones I’ve been too) require the use of biodegradable (PLA). PLA is plastic.

Edit: forgot to say. In every field I’ve been too, there’s millions of leftover BBs, and I’ve never seen one with signs of degradation.


Not patronising, this was exactly my first (and off-topic) thought as well.

We have lived in our house for +15 years and we still regularly find small fluorescent yellow ball bearings in the garden soil from the previous owners family. These things are here to stay


I haven’t played with airsoft since I was a kid, but I remember the biodegradable ones back then had issues. They would fall apart when you shot em, sometimes deteriorate inside the gun and muck it up.

I’m sure they’re better now, but I have no idea!


Most of them usually are.

Where/how do people get 100.000 SIM cards?


The cards are the easy part. It's setting up 100,000 accounts where you run into trouble. There was some traceable payment methods in use here, which might be how they got busted by the Secret Service. The whole thing could have been fallout from an earlier counterfeiting operation.


100k Not sure. Good question! 100 is easy, in NL you can just grab boxes of them at certain phone shops, Lebara etc. These are free and anonymous. Sometimes they will stop you and say: these are only for clients, other times they are happy if you take the whole box of 100pcs.


Looks like they all came from https://mymobilex.com


Side deal with someone who can buy in bulk like convenience store or cell phone store owner.


Walmart


"The first model of the European Space Agency's (ESA) reusable rocket demonstrator Themis is standing at its launch pad in Kiruna, Sweden."

Is Kiruna a good place for this? I read that it's collapsing due to extensive mining for decades.


Any city would be a bad place for a rocket (test) launch facility, 'collapsing' due to mining or not.

Luckily the city is some 44 km drive away from the launch site.

And there's still people living in Kiruna, it's not collapsing but affected still in some shape of form. Heard on some podcast that mining blasts are timed to reduce the disturbance and some buildings (or their inhabitants probably) relocated, IIRC.


afaik they are moving the city step by step. Hasn't the church been moved a few weeks ago?



The launch pad isn't in the town square.


The Esrange launchpad is more than 50 km from the Kiruna iron mine, which is 4km long, 80m thick and 2km deep.


There are so many network emulators you can use, such as Mininet or GNS3.


I'm sure pedagogically speaking it's better to use physical devices


Maybe so, but even then a second-hand blade server is more cost-effective than a Raspi Cluster.


Not if you run it idle a lot; most commercial blade servers suck down a lot of power. I think a niche where Pi blades can work is for a learning cluster, like in schools for HPC learning, network automation, etc.

It's definitely not suited for production, but there, you won't find old blade servers either (for the power to performance issue).


There's a Jimmy Kimmel show end of Sep / start of Oct in Brooklyn https://1iota.com/show/250/kimmel-in-brooklyn . I wonder if that gets cancelled as well.


"I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday morning. "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!"

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/trump-absolutely-love-steph...

Make no mistake, this is a witch hunt. Very soon there will be no one left who publicly speaks out against Trump.


That's what you get when you elect a known felon and rapist to be president.


This is bad. Watching Jimmy Kimmel was the one thing that kind of kept my spirit up.


I agree it's bad. Hopefully he will start an internet show (a la Tucker) and could even have more success and greater reach in a new medium.


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