Methylated spirits aren’t typically much cheaper than IPA in a lot of the world until you’re buying industrial quantities, aren’t as effective at dissolving lots of things (which may or may not be relevant depending on the particular resin you’re using), and typically contain additives that leave stains when dried. For hobbyists, this doesn’t seem like a sensible cost saving trick even if it does work for the resin they have.
Solar actually overtook nuclear as least-killy-per-gigawatt about a year (maybe even two, now) ago, although obviously killing people isn’t the only bad thing a system of power generation can do.
There’s at least one company that does tweak (iirc used) airliner turbofans by taking the fan part off so they just have the turbojet (which is already tuned to mostly generate rotational energy to drive the fan turbine rather than produce thrust itself) and use that to spin a generator. Obviously, it’s a bit more complicated than that in reality, but there are quite a lot of old engines no longer certified for flight out of an abundance of caution but that still work fine, and a market for high-power generators that don’t need to be the pinnacle of efficiency (originally as backups just for occasional use, and now because of AI companies caring only about speed and not about cost).
Whether or not that’s true at the moment (obviously, the status quo has changed because in 2020 UPlay changed to Ubisoft Connect, so the alleged incident happened years ago, and it’s alleged that Ubisoft were forced to stop selling something, so they wouldn’t still be selling it), the article specifically says:
Uplay featured a $15 USD Rainbow Six Siege Starter Pack, but this version was not available on Steam, making the cheapest option on Valve’s platform much more expensive.
The obvious way of parsing that is that it was the UPlay version of the game, but even if not, it’s generally not viable to sell Steam keys for things not available on Steam. The only time you can is when a game’s delisted but you’ve already generated keys for it, and then Valve can just wait for Ubisoft to run out rather than making the alleged threat.
That’s not what the article says. It’s about UPlay keys sold by Ubisoft through UPlay that have nothing to do with Steam, and Valve threatening to remove a game from Steam unless the UPlay keys sold through UPlay became the same price as the Steam keys sold through Steam.
He was murdered by a second, much larger, knife, which wasn’t covered by the allowance for ceremonial knives for religious reasons, so the killer was already breaking existing knife laws. It’s not like Steven Yaxley ‘Tommy Robinson’ Lenon and his supporters will ever care about this, though.
A laptop that’s been driven over or smashed with a hammer or otherwise crushed.
I’ll copy the bit here that I just edited into my reply after you edited the first post:
In the face of your edit, I see that you’ve misunderstood the exploit. You need write access to the System Volume Information directory of your own USB stick, not anything on the target machine. It’s much easier to get access to things on a computer than it is to get access on one particular computer, and this exploit lets you jump from one to the other.
By exploit standards, that’s not especially hard. I don’t think there’s really anything blocking accessing it at all if an NTFS volume is mounted on a typical desktop Linux distro, as it’s just NTFS permissions blocking it, and they’re not typically obeyed by Linux in the first place.
In the face of your edit, I see that you’ve misunderstood the exploit. You need write access to the System Volume Information directory of your own USB stick, not anything on the target machine. It’s much easier to get access to things on a computer than it is to get access on one particular computer, and this exploit lets you jump from one to the other.
I’ve never needed release agent with platinum-cure silicone as it’s not stuck to anything except itself unless it was porous. I have needed to lubricate bits of moulds that would have had too much of a vacuum if just pulled, though. Also, when I initially referred to coating the mould, I didn’t mean a release agent but rather something like PMMA (acrylic) dissolved in acetone to protect the silicone from the resin as described here: https://blog.honzamrazek.cz/2022/07/preventing-platinum-cure-silicone-cure-inhibition-in-resin-printed-molds/
If you’ve got a manifold mesh for the object you want, you could make a mould by getting a cube that contained it, using a boolean modifier to subtract the mesh from the cube, then adding one or more cylinders for pour holes at the high point(s) of the mesh and subtracting those, too. If you only need one of the object, so don’t need to reuse the mould, you can stop there and print it, then once you’ve cast it and let the silicone cure, just hit it with a hammer until the mould smashes and the silicone will probably be fine and pull out in one un-scarred piece.
Could you perhaps print a mould and then cast platinum-cure silicone in it? This can be a pain, as lots of resins contain things that stop silicone curing, but some combinations work (e.g. some bbdino silicone I had cured just fine in contact with Sunlu ABS-like clear blue resin I had) or can be made to work (e.g. coating the resin mould with something that it’s more compatible with).
If you don’t need the properties of platinum-cure silicone, you might even be able to get away with tin-cure, which is much cheaper and more tolerant of other chemicals.
Reform got a shitload of votes in this week’s elections, and one of their few actual policies is repealing the online safety act, so it’s not even particularly safe to say that voters don’t want their kids seeing porn if it means it’s any more inconvenient for adults to see porn.
You’ve probably created something that would be considered a DRM circumvention device under the DMCA, so possessing it would be illegal unless it’s covered by one of the exceptions. If you think it might be, then you’re probably in a legal grey area as there isn’t case law settling whether the exceptions override the parts about DRM circumvention, but it’s fairly widely accepted that they probably do - DRM-era console emulators like Dolphin rely on it being legal to bypass the games’ DRM in order to interoperate with other computer systems, and no one’s been brave enough to sue them for that interpretation yet.
If it is illegal, the most likely outcome is just that someone does a DMCA takedown request and GitHub would take it down and that would be the end of that, which is pretty much the same thing as would likely happen if anyone didn’t like it but it was legal, as it’s easy to submit takedown requests, but hard to appeal them if they’re unjustified.
Sometimes, evil corporations want to use a FLOSS tool for exactly the same things as its other users do, so if they give money to the developers to use to do what the users want, everyone benefits. Other times, evil corporations want to buy some of the good reputation of a FLOSS tool and/or infect it with their toxic reputation as a marketing strategy, and only evil benefits.
They issued some shares when their share price was high and didn’t have huge amounts of debt compared to other companies of a similar value.
I worry that if the pine martins aren’t introduced quickly enough, the grey squirrels will have time to develop a fear of them before they’re all eaten, and then the weaker reds will become the easier prey. At the moment, they’re not even being deployed fast enough to preserve the status quo.
To add to this, when forks do succeed, it’s typically because they’re either making very few changes which can easily be reapplied to new versions of the original project, or because a significant number of the existing developers disagree with the project lead and are just doing what they were already doing before the fork, just without having to obey one specific person.
Lots of people new to Linux get recommended Debian-derived distros, and so end up with distro packages that are a long way from bleeding edge. If they’ve just come from Windows, they’d have been using the latest release of everything they use, as most software projects don’t even announce a release until their Windows binaries are ready, and many auto-update. That means that a lot of people have being presented with versions of things they stopped using two to four years ago as their first Linux experience, and obviously they don’t see that as good enough. Most people don’t want to run versions of things that old, especially now there’s so much stuff to package that downstream packagers can’t feasibly backport every bug fix to older versions of every piece of software, so running an old version gets you old bugs rather than a balance of avoiding new bugs at the expense of new features.
We just don’t have much use for data about how frostbite affects people who’ve already been tortured first.