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It doesn’t give you what POTS used to give you - several days of battery backup that kept the phone system working in the event of power failure. I remember the huge racks of lead-acid batteries in the old exchange buildings
Re:Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:55PM (#50331235)
You’re not going to run HVAC, but I’m more than happy to have the freezer running, the light on the TV etc
Re:Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:43AM (#50271476)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv1j309d4g98t - available to me - I'm not sure how accessible the BBC news is now to those elsewhere?
Re:Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:42AM (#50271462)
I can't see why you would think a train crash would "add fuel to the fire"
I was a journalist in the old days. With all due respect it was mote than just a job. It was a community, a calling. It felt important. I went out to dinner with my first ever boss and some original colleagues a couple of months ago and had a great time.
Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:57AM (#50153989)
‘Click to write and install driver’
Across multiple non-European languages?
Re:Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:22AM (#50128769)
I’m on an M1 workout these issues. How are you isolating them to be AI related?
Re:Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:21AM (#50128763)
Yes
Re:Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:28PM (#50108071)
Back when I was a tech journalist, back in the 90s I visited Israel once and interviewed a number of their tech companies - admittedly most in the cyber-security space.

They ascribed a lot of the tech innovation to conscription - lots of the founders had learned a lot while in technical posts in the army and put that to use when they left.

Re:Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:54AM (#50056519)
Wait until you find out about the thousands of anecdotal reports from parents about “sugar rush” in their kids- also without foundation
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:04PM (#50045343)
Congratulations, you’re patient zero for an unstoppable virus
It’s not at all clear that the lab was undertaking gain of function research https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain...

So you need a conspiracy to covertly run gain of function research and then subsequently cover up any leak

Re:All I wanted was a custom domain email on Monday October 05, 2026 @01:54AM (#49961140)
I’ve never had a problem with, but then I’ve never sent an email containing the phrase ‘barely legal teens’
> Does anyone else remember when claiming it was a lab in China that leaked was “racist”

No. I remember it being called a conspiracy theory. And it still is.

> But it is awfully strange that the first patients of a novel pandemic coronavirus were workers at a lab conducting gain of function research on coronavirus.

Except - as far as I know - the first patients weren’t.

Re:How Effective Altruism Conquered the World on Sunday October 04, 2026 @06:17PM (#49958495)
What about if it were called 'evidence-based altruism'?
Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:24PM (#49958041)
The want some disk space back.

Personally, my limited experimentation with Apple AI has left me quite liking it.

The contents of the Exportable’Privacy Report’ are interesting to look through

On iOS Safari:

Island Three could not start

Range consisting of offset and length are out of bounds

Reloading the page may help. A screenshot of this to @gruberbuilds on X helps fix it.

I’m not on X

Re:Ballmer Peak on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:32AM (#49905635)
See also the Mitchell and Webb ‘inebriati’ sketch - https://youtu.be/-Zj50DmBFp0
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:55AM (#49905352)
It looks to me like non-LLM specialist who would like a prepackaged simple, ‘safe’ way to have an always-on personalised agent.

Senior and middle managers? (not using those as pejoratives, by the way - I am one)

Typical transit time seems pretty good for me
So, it was obvious why Open AI models started inserting references to goblins and pixies it’s conversation- references that had to be suppressed?
But were you successfully conned into believing an AI had solved the Navier-Stokes problem?
Re:Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member' on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:36AM (#49741450)
I think you've said nothing here other "Look up a good summary of the Monroe doctrine, with which I mildly disagree"
Re:Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member' on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:32AM (#49741381)
Does low-tariff trade and easier freedom of movement offer benefits?
Re:I didn't sign the Fields medallists' letter on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:38AM (#49738389)
Tokens want to be paid for
Re:Can we stop with the uptime percentages? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:16PM (#49729262)
> What's the point here? That everyone should use the n-nines notation? Sure. However, companies have no inte

Skip to the last 2 paragraphs

Re:Can we stop with the uptime percentages? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:15PM (#49729253)
I don’t see why you think “12 hours affected in the last 30 days (98.31% uptime)”

Is trying to spin anything. It’s making easier to see the impact over the last 30 days. I agree with the article

Re:LG responds to TV spying allegations on Saturday September 12, 2026 @12:13PM (#49673892)
It might be reasonable for a new source you don’t pay for to make money from advertising. Not so, the company that sells you a tv

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