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In what I'm hoping isn't the new normal my typical 30 minute lunchtime walk was tough on the uphill part today. It's only a modest rise over about 1000ft, probably 10% and it was surprisingly hard going.

No outbound calls on my Google Fi service today. I thought it might just be me as the boss has the same phone and his is fine, but a quick search reveals it is widespread.

I find this hard to believe, especially test pilots being in the dark about it. Test pilots are essentially engineers that can fly; they are the link between paper and product. It's practically inconceivable they would not understand a flight control system by definition.
nytimes.com/2019/06/01/busines

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YouTube is down...okay. So Vimeo is too. I wonder what's going on?

Crazy sunset and clouds over the Sierra Nevada, Spain, October 2006. Canon 300D, 70-200mm F4.

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These are hardware kill switches.

Not a webcam cover. Not software disabled Wi-Fi. Kill switch.

Laptops should have these.

Ours do.

puri.sm/products/librem-13/

Amazing colour 70mm footage of the Monaco GP in 1962. No barriers at all! youtu.be/sCv-dIFGcd0

First day I really felt the consequences of my treatment and recent surgery. I had to come home and sleep, I felt so sick and nauseous. Probably post-anaesthesia more than anything.

Is this true? I don't think it's right at all. Every influencer I've heard of is a bloke, but that's very likely my interests (largely bikes) wired.com/story/influencers-cr

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♲ @kensanata@octodon.social: As seen in a German thread: does the news reflect what we die from? Comparing actual numbers in the US, Google searches, and reports in two big newspapers, one from the USA and one from the UK. Take a look at the info graphic.
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I might have gone with EFI boot in the very beginning but this laptop started life as an Arch install and I couldn't be arsed with all the UEFI malarky so it's my own damn fault.

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I'd stuck to legacy out of habit as UEFI can be a bit of a pain, but I suppose I should drag my ass into the 21st century.

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I'd initally assumed it was a RAM module prpblem but it was nothing of the sort. So strange.

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I did a partial reinstall of Fedora 30 on my XPS13 as I completely failed at migrating it to UEFI from legacy.

Such a weird problem - after a bios update only half the RAM was visible to the OS in legacy mode. I tested with various liveCDs and figured out it was fine in EFI mode so decided to switch it over.

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My ISP intercepts and changes DNS lookup results for myprotonvpn.com domain. Is there a way to get around this on my Android phone? I cannot use DoH on Android and the VPN at the same time.

One thing it has made me realise is just how many people rely on HTML email though. It's a disease.

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