Are you talking about solar flares, or a different phenomenon?

“That’s not a flaw … that’s a feature!”

Microsoft continues to outdo itself as the best advertisement for migration to Linux.

Above or below the equator?

What happens if you cite privacy concerns?

I’m asking because my clinic refuses to email or phone me, instead sending letters to my PO Box. Finding a different clinic hasn’t been successful yet either.

That would be funny.

Did someone from another table take a group photo at your request?

Apparently we had umami fries with erotic mayonnaise last night. Might have to tell the chef to update their menu.

Around the turn of the century I built a “middleware” layer for an Oracle to MySQL bridge which enabled legacy systems to keep running while modern and open source tooling could be built.

The biggest challenge was moving from columnar to row based data … that and compiling Solaris tools using Oracle libraries.

Oracle is like sendmail, user friendly, just very picky whom it makes friends with.

I’m getting flashbacks to debugging an Oracle connection file.

This is OpenAI marketing.

The fact that it’s being reported on every media outlet on the planet, means that they were successful.

“We’re so bad … it’s good!”

That was eye opening.

Indian national Puneet Puneet fled Australia after pleading guilty to culpable driving causing death for a 2008 accident.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melbourne-mornings/puneet-puneet-jacinta-allan-india-trip/104360434

And just so we’re clear, he still hasn’t faced justice in 2026.

Clearly you’re not feeding your squirrels enough roughage 😁

So … just so we understand, the radio is physically connected to a running power supply but the radio itself is switched off when the noise occurs?

Wow, smash bugs, be in the running for prizes, including a skateboard … might give that a pass.

This is exactly how we put up amateur radio antennas.

Some things to consider:

• how is it powered
• how do you get it down
• how do you stop it from killing someone on the ground when it eventually comes down
• how will foliage growth affect the range
• squirrels and birds will likely take an interest
• waterproofing

Why not gesture navigation?

I’ve never gotten my head around it, but if the vanishing buttons annoy me enough, I might have to make the change.

Lineage os?

Unfortunately, my phone is not on the supported hardware list.

In Western Australia we have a bunch of bushfire and emergency resources. Here’s a few of them.

• https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/hazard-information/bushfire/prepare
• https://www.emergency.wa.gov.au/
• https://walga.asn.au/policy-and-advocacy/our-policy-areas/emergency-management/resources

in addition, various local governments, cities, suburbs etc. have their own published plan and consultation process.

Volunteer Firefighters augment the Fire brigade, mostly outside the metropolitan area of Perth.

There’s fire hazard reduction burns during winter, coordinated by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

• https://www.dbca.wa.gov.au/management/fire

I discovered a Nokia X20 part of the Android One program, that has native Android on it. I loved it so much, I bought a second one, even though my first is still going strong.

Two issues, no more OS updates. I’m stuck on Android 14, and there’s a weird bug with the navigation buttons vanishing from time to time.

Not a recommendation as such, more that there are phones that run unadulterated Android.

We bought exactly one Samsung Android device, that attempted to force us to use Samsung tools for:

• app store
• email
• contacts
• calendar
• internet browsing
• calculator
• chromecast

I’m pretty sure that there were more.

We won’t ever buy a Samsung Android device again.

there isn’t a big privacy issue as compared to the benefit in the health and safety and property of others.

So, now we’re measuring invasion of privacy based on “the health and safety and property of others”?

I strongly disagree with your assertion that “there isn’t a big privacy issue” here. From the top of my head:

1. Did the rental company advise the customer before they got into the car?
2. What other details were recorded?
3. What is the process to erase the data?
4. Who has access to it under which circumstances?
5. How long is it retained?