MouldyCat

If you're exerting yourself at all, you pretty much have to mouth breathe. The way I avoid gobbling up any flying insects is to keep my head down while breathing in. It's surprisingly effective.

Slightly related, my son once had a bee go up his nose while we were out cycling. I say only slightly related because he wasn't actually going that fast; he was only about 8. He stopped suddenly, complaining about something going up his nose. Neither of us realised what had actually happened until he coughed up a still-squirming bee in a pool of phlegm.

tldr: it's a private installation which produces power for its owners, Bathgate Silica Sand. It is a 400kW floating photovoltaic (FPV) array of 650 floating solar panels on North Arclid Lake, an artificial lake at the Arclid Quarry in Cheshire.

I've driven a little around Portugal, and their roads were the worst I've ever driven on. Not just potholes, but the roads were often wonky and/or not flat (think like undulations like waves as you're driving along), missing road markings etc. The quality drop was really noticeable when you drove from Spain into Portugal. It was about 8 years ago so it's possible they've really got their act together since then, but I'm skeptical about how reliable their data is if Portugal is listed as the country with the 5th best roads in the world...

Not very often. Bank notes are little more than illegal drug purchase vouchers these days.

I don't know, but I would have thought that the key task of the OS is to provide an abstraction that allows apps to run on supported hardware. So it takes care of file access and creation, outputing to the screen, interacting with external devices such as keyboards, webcams etc.

If you already have a browser running, you already have some kind of OS taking care of those low level details.

Yes they should, however often they are not allowed to disclose such information. Over the last couple of decades, governments have realised that they can sidestep onerous legal principles such as innocent until proven guilty by requiring financial services companies to enforce KYC rules and the like. These rules were sold to us as a way to prevent the mega rich from dodging tax and organised crime from freely spending and moving their money, but surprise surprise governments have no qualms using them against people who are not so clearly in the wrong.

Cat grass (despite the name lol) is a different thing to catnip (which is the one that gets them spaced out). Cat grass is just a type of regular grass that you can grow indoors for your cat to eat.

Outdoor cats will eat grass to help their digestion, so it's important to have something safe for indoor cats to eat otherwise they will just eat anything green and that could be bad for them.

It's easy enough to grow from seed or you can get it already growing in a pot.

stop it in physical games as well

I think the connection to physical cards is pretty weak really - the crucial difference being that if you want to get some physical cards, you go out and buy them (or stay in and buy them I guess). You start with nothing except some cash, and you end up with some random cards, which may or may not be valuable.

Loot boxes in F2P games are not like that - you play a free game, have fun and then end up with this "loot box" without having done anything to ask for it. It's just there in your inventory, and it stays there until you fork over some cash and see what's inside.

It's way more of a temptation than physical cards that you won't encounter until you buy them.

yes indeed - I had a go at decompilation a little while ago (wanted to get a mod working on linux) and while it was hella geeky fun, it was very slow and I could tell I didn't really have a hope of achieving my goal. I can really see how an LLM could turbo-charge that process.

there's nothing in this article that makes me think it's LLM generated, no idea what that guy was on about. It's very well written and readable, which I don't think LLM can really achieve, not that I've ever seen anyway. And it wasn't easy but I did manage to find a minor typo - "All my thanks to bmdhacks for keeping me informed through ~~and of~~ every step he took" 😁

I agree with you. I always take sensible steps to minimise my energy consumption, but even at current sky-high electricity prices, some things simply are not worth worrying about. Putting TV in standby is one for instance. When my parents moved house, my dad paid an electrician £200 to have a switched power socket installed by the TV, just so he could easily "turn it off at the wall". Modern TVs use less than 0.5W when in standby, so it would be decades before the savings from this expense made up for the energy costs of manufacturing and installing a new power socket.

I close before systemctl hibernate is my browser. That saves sone wear on the SSD.

I haven't heard of this, curious to know what you're referring to?