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@Edent Thanks for this. I discovered the [BulkKindleUSBDownloader](github.com/bellisk/BulkKindleU) script only works if you have a physical Kindle device associated with your account (which I don't have). However, [a comment](news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4) on Hacker News referenced a (Kindle_download_helper)[github.com/yihong0618/Kindle_d] which has a no_kindle.py script which worked for me. Hope this helps someone else.

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Also, Pro Tip for Mac users: Spotlight is good at doing conversions. As someone who lives next to the country that most eschews international measurement standards, it can be quite useful (even if I can do rough conversions in my head at this point). Try typing these, for example:

-25°C
40” as mm
32 fl. oz. in mL

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@sundogplanets Grew up out that way. Even -30C has it charms... Walking outside in the dark watching ice crystals fall under the yard light... The crisp fresh air that singes the insider of your nose when you breath in...

@HadasWeiss not surprising. Your posts are inappropriate! 😛

@stefano @ottawa__ontario this looks cool! I feel it would keep things more readable to have separate feeds for English and French. Thoughts?

@grishka @brawaru .ca domains are apparently unacceptable for some reason as well...

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Clever attack against Signal and others, locate any user by revealing their closest CloudFlare datacentre. gist.github.com/hackermondev/4

Disappointing response from Signal, which is unusual.
“Signal has never attempted to fully replicate the set of network-layer anonymity features that projects like Wireguard, Tor,…”

This isn’t a classic network layer attack: it doesn’t require a privileged network vantage point to carry out. Whilst it’s a CloudFlare feature that’s being abused, it’s Signal that chooses to use it in this way.

Feels like CloudFlare could make this header configurable so you could still benefit from caching without leaking information?

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<< “Do something.” He gave me three rules: make it simple, immediate and collaborative.

That’s how, a week later, I found myself in Victoria Park in Ashford, Kent, fishing old carrier bags out of the river. In subsequent sessions, our band of volunteers put up bat-boxes, created new paths, renovated the dried-out pond and surveyed for amphibians.

Psychologists call the mental boost from volunteering the “helper’s high” [1]. And boy, did I get high. >>

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

[1] pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/304249
#EcosystemCollapse #GlobalWarming

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Bambu's firmware shenanigans are making me rethink ever recommending one again.

They have to backtrack on it, or lose the goodwill of the 3DP community that is "open source but willing to give on value sometimes", which is not an insignificant sector.

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A study from the Berlin Senate showed that highway lights have no measurable influence on collision statistics. After this result, and further improvement of retroreflectors and other markings, the Berlin highway lighting wil be almost entirely extinguished step-by-step during 2025: viz.berlin.de/aktuelle-meldung

Belgium also turned off a huge fraction of its highway lighting two years ago without incident.

#RoadStandards #LightPollution #Safety #GlobalEnvironmentalChange

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Also, check out this outstanding series of images of the Lunar Occultation of Mars on Dec 8, 2022 taken by astrophotographer Ethan Chappel.

Hardware: Celestron EdgeHD 14, iOptron CEM70, ZWO ASI462MC, ZWO UV/IR Cut, Astro-Physics BARADV, Moonlite CHL with High Resolution Stepper Motor v3, ZWO ADC, EFW 8 x 1.25″/31mm, Spike-a Large Flat Fielder

cloudynights.com/gallery/image
Credit: Ethan Chappel
8/n

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Took Project Farm's capacity testing of AA batteries along with the best deals I could find for large quantities (Harbor Freight, Costco, Amazon) to find the batteries that give you the most capacity per dollar. Contrary to the video's findings, AA in bulk is still better than AA Lithium.

Varta or Amazon basics win at 8048 and 7568 mAh per dollar.

youtube.com/watch?v=efDTP5SEdl

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