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inahga commented on How Does Microwaving Grapes Create Plumes of Plasma? (2019) pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article... · Posted by u/wredcoll

asdfasvea · 21 days ago

Everyone do yourselves a favor--go to a thrift store and buy a few microwaves. Find a field, string a hundred feet of extension cords from an outlet and start microwaving all the things your not suppose to.

My favorites: Ivory soap--bubbles outward; Grapes--see article; Incandescent lightbulb --lights up; Wine bottle--explodes, do this last

Also lots of things you think would be bad do nothing: spray paint can, soup can, silverware, cup of gas with aluminum foil in it.

inahga · 20 days ago

Watching this classic channel may be safer https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU4IMu04MIlJgB6Aaj07q-5iX...

inahga commented on I Want You to Understand Chicago aphyr.com/posts/397-i-wan... · Posted by u/tonyg

selectodude · a month ago

The NYPD all but threatened to kill Bill de Blasio's daughter when he tried to bring them to heel. I'm limiting myself to being furious at the fucking freaks terrorizing my city instead of creating new shit to get mad about. There's plenty as is.

inahga · a month ago

Sure, I don't mean this to arouse anger. I point it out for the Democratic primaries in March. https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_gubernatorial_and_lieutenan...

inahga commented on I Want You to Understand Chicago aphyr.com/posts/397-i-wan... · Posted by u/tonyg

selectodude · a month ago

I think the reality is far scarier - he doesn’t have nearly as much power over ISP as he should.

inahga · a month ago

If he doesn't, he needs to be forthright about it in his speeches and podcasts. "The ISP is disobeying my direct orders."

Until then, he bears responsibility for their actions.

inahga commented on Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend arstechnica.com/cars/2025... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza

dec0dedab0de · 2 months ago

I've had a Jeep for a few months, and it bothers me so much that the entire community is about modifying the vehicle as much as possible, but they still come with this locked down OS.

If any car could be the champion of OpenSource, it is a Jeep Wrangler, but they're using an OS made by SiriusXM for some reason.

inahga · 2 months ago

I don't think the software hacking side of Wrangler mods is barren. e.g. https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/jeep-hacking-..., which IIUC has been commercialized into https://www.zautomotive.com/products/z_tzr_jlm.

I don't know that anyone has broken the head unit firmware though.

inahga commented on Not all browsers perform revocation checking revoked-isrgrootx1.letsen... · Posted by u/sugarpimpdorsey

inahga · 3 months ago

For those (i.e. me) who were concerned that the cert wasn't actually revoked, it is.

https://crt.sh/?id=20924740030

    $ curl -s http://r13.c.lencr.org/105.crl | openssl crl -noout -text | grep -A1 899DE8
        Serial Number: 055B8B1F23D5BCF09DD8E9CAF8798F899DE8
            Revocation Date: Sep 10 16:00:16 2025 GMT

inahga commented on Budget Car Buyers Want Automakers to K.I.S.S thedrive.com/news/budget-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

lenerdenator · 4 months ago

I've heard you can yank a fuse/relay/antenna and avoid it but would like confirmation of that.

inahga · 4 months ago

2023 Jeep: I was able to remove the cellular modem from the head unit. Disconnecting the antenna was not effective (just reduces the range).

See e.g. https://sandsprite.com/blogs/index.php?uid=7&pid=462&year=20...

inahga commented on Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees livescience.com/animals/l... · Posted by u/geox

rr808 · 5 months ago

I talked to a local who was friends with ranchers who now lose stock to wolves. They hate it. Its an interesting use case of local control, is the greater good more important than the people who live there?

inahga · 5 months ago

Colorado, at least, provides several resources for minimizing and compensating wolf depredation.

https://cpw.widencollective.com/assets/share/asset/pzqhipzb1... (see Funding)

Cursory search shows that not just Colorado does this.

inahga commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

thombles · 6 months ago

Hmm a bit of a tone shift from: https://fly.io/docs/about/open-source/

> Fly.io builds on the work of a tremendous open source infrastructure community. We want open source authors to benefit from their work because we think a healthy, thriving open source ecosystem will help us build better products.

To the fine article:

> Meanwhile, software developers spot code fragments seemingly lifted from public repositories on Github and lose their shit. What about the licensing? If you’re a lawyer, I defer. But if you’re a software developer playing this card? Cut me a little slack as I ask you to shove this concern up your ass.

inahga · 6 months ago

It's rather shocking for a company to admit to flaunting software licensing in public communications.

But this is not new https://fly.io/blog/wrong-about-gpu/

> At one point, we hex-edited the [NVIDIA] closed-source drivers to trick them into thinking our hypervisor was QEMU.

inahga commented on You do not need NixOS on the desktop aruarian.dance/blog/you-d... · Posted by u/transpute

SOLAR_FIELDS · 7 months ago

Even updating once per year is still a battle. It avoids the constant breakages from using unstable, but the problem is even the mainline “stable” nixpkgs will break because there really isn’t a good integration story for all of these components. Case in point: I just spent an hour this week pointlessly updating my home manager config because home manager just decided that a breaking api change would go in. The nix people have designed the ecosystem in such a way that everyone’s bespoke configuration can break at any given point and there is not an easy way to integration test even every common scenario.

In other words, the old adage still rings true. The beauty of Nix is that you can do anything. The ugliness of nix is that you can do anything

inahga · 7 months ago

What's been driving me batshit is when nixos-rebuild decides it wants to build from source. I just burned an hour the other day trying to update, and getting stuck because Nix decided my little old laptop needed to compile node.js from source. Had to trial-and-error remove packages to figure out which one was transitively pulling in node.js.

It turned out to be ansible... which is a pure python tool. Beats me.

There's also some cases where it wants to build Android Studio from source. I've just removed it and now run it in a VM.

I'm sure I'm doing it wrong, and I'm sure nixos-rebuild has a reason to build things from source, and maybe I'm not RTFMing hard enough. But good god, I just need my system to update.