I am personally now drawing a clear delineation between projects for my internal consumption (e.g. ansible scripts) and projects that have potential use for the general populace. For the prior, I now host a private Forgejo instance. For the latter, I'll put it on GitHub but mirror it to my Forgejo instance.
I was pleasantly shocked that Forgejo is literally a single binary with a relatively easy config. All my internal services reference my Forgejo instance so, if I need to bail on GitHub, it's low friction for me.
SmarterEveryDay has a whole series[1] on manufacturing that covers how the US is losing/lost the ability to create tooling. I believe the "Smarter Scrubber" episode[2] is the one that explicitly talks about how not only has the US lost manufacturing capacity but it also lost the ability to spin up manufacturing. The tool and die episode also touches on it[3].
I can't speak to any particular dam closure but there's a lot more to maintaining dams than one might believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiUOBdEUqjY (Practical Engineering - All Dams Are Temporary)
Going this route then eliminates the free/included Google Assistant integration that comes along with using the bridge and app, correct? I really would like to ditch the hub but also want to use voice activation on a few lights.
As a point of clarification: all Pixel phones starting with the 6 were guaranteed 5 years of firmware support. Some phones only had 3 years of OS upgrades (vs 5 years of security patches). Now everything is getting 5 years of OS upgrades.
The US Government has been doing deficit spending and the national debt continues to grow at an alarming pace. To fix this, we can raise revenue and/or reduce spending. The easiest thing is to just improve enforcement of the existing tax laws (which are already agreed upon) via increasing the resources available to the IRS
Scroll down to the section that mentions Americans for Tax Reform and links to the presentation: Doing taxes keeps citizens aware of the tax burden imposed upon them by the government. A Return-Free scheme would allow the government to raise revenues invisibly
The network config for out-of-the-box Ubuntu server has been stable for 6 years. You need to modify netplan's config: /etc/netplan/*.yaml (default is 00-installer-config.yaml). This renders volatile systemd-networkd configs in /run/systemd/network which, in turn, will configure systemd-resolved appropriately.
If you've opted out of netplan, then you need to configure one of systemd-networkd or NetworkManager manually (on server, NetworkManager is only present if you've installed it).
I personally used to be opposed to netplan but I had to do some very esoteric network configuration which was super easy with netplan.
I'm guessing MasterCard is viewing this as a payment mechanism that only needs the physical customer as the payment authentication. If it's 0 friction (which I doubt), I could see people opting to just look at a camera to pay rather than fumbling to get your phone out.
Fumbling with your phone sounds like a silly statement but so did fumbling with your wallet.
> due to back-room collusion between the federal government and automotive manufacturers over fleet average MPG ratings. It's out of control and has moved into the realm of corruption.
I really don't know how you're linking MPG ratings and maintenance costs as some sort of collision. Maintenance costs certainly seem like they're increasing but I attribute that to cars turning into fickle computers that happen to have wheels and require specialized knowledge to diagnose. I do routine maintenance on my car but am terrified of doing anything that touches the 480V system.
If it's legal but burdensome (somehow) to host a particular industry, requiring more money to deal with the increased burden seems reasonable. For instance, if their legal department needs to deal with complaints from various countries, that probably costs more than $250/month.
That being said, I doubt that's the core issue in this case.
I'm not a proponent of facial recognition at all and would not endorse it especially in this use case. But, if you believe the 17,000 hours/year number, that's ~$500,000/year (assuming $30/hour, random guess) in potential savings. Are you saying there can't possibly be system that could be designed to take attendance while not further infringing on a student's privacy that's cheaper than that?
What is probably happening is that this is some sneaky way of introducing facial recognition in schools and something benign like attendance was the excuse. That, however, is a separate conversation from my original post of how would you automate attendance without using facial recognition.
The 17,000 number does seem incomprehensibly high unless it's across the whole district. I'm not a teacher but I'm guessing the attendance gets compiled together and stored? Maybe this starts from hardcopy and includes all the work until its in the final digitalized format?