One child policy has done a number on China. Even more sinister example is Ethyl gas or gasoline with lead. that went for almost a century. Was also just wondering what ancient cities were like when they dumped their waste out on the street.
It is absolutely astounding our species has survived as long as it has.
Does this include FEMA staff as well? My partner works for that agency and they’ve been bleeding staff for years now, can’t imagine getting dragged into this chaos not speeding that up.
A mixture of electric and natural gas. Natural gas to bring the whole house up to ~65F (~18.3c) and then I have electric radiators to make only the areas I am using comfortable.
That usually trends $120~$150/month in natural gas or around $1000/year. Financing a heat pump + installation could be $170 to $200 month in payments for 15 years.
I know the price of natural gas is going to sky rocket relatively soon but as Terry Pratchett’s boot theory illustrates, it is expensive being poor.
I would love to get one but to retrofit my house would cost about $20,000 which I currently don’t have laying around with me.
My PV system provides an immediate and on going benefit which is why I could finance part of that. Unfortunately a heat pump is only useful for me about 8 months a year and will never “pay for itself”
It’s all been over blown hype for sometime now. PCI 3 vs 4 vs 5 doesn’t seem to justify the higher prices https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/nvidia-rtx-5090-pcie-50-vs-40-vs-30-x16-scaling-benchmarks#overview-and-differences
My last major “whoa” moment was switching from disk to solid state. Otherwise most upgrades feel like they are marginal improvements for the last decade.
I believe quantcast had a white paper tracking an entity across multiple IPs and devices from 2010. that’s around when I worked for stalker tech companies. Anonymity is an illusion and has been for a while.
practically need to rotate logs every hour if you foolishly leave ssh open on a open network. usually a bastion with ssh listening to port 34000 or such is a good first step.
that said the conditions for this exploit are fascinating. no pam, shadow password set to *, using a alternative to glibc. The sacrifices to be more efficient feel on par with replacing a tank’s armor with paper mache and hope.