The official language of Liberia is English because the country was founded by former slaves and free black people from the USA.

My understanding is that you can replace the ZigBee firmware with Threads firmware if you want.

In practice range seems to be a few kilometers, in places with lots of nodes.

A nonce is jargon in cryptography. It means a random unique value used to make it impractical for an attacker to guess in a protocol.

Very sunny places, like Los Vegas.

I use uBlock Origin and didn’t see any ads at all. Although the site did pop up and ask for money since it detected the ad blocker.

I honestly don’t know how people browse without an ad blocker. 😬

Or the Obama administration.

I think that Netanyahu had to move ahead of the US, since he’s running out of enemies that haven’t been bombed into submission. It didn’t occur to me that he would attack Iran.

That’s Secretary of State Colin Powell testifying to Congress about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, during the Bush Jr. administration, I think.

This is why Congress passed the War Powers Resolution. It’s an open question whether the law matters.

Every President says they are not constrained, Congress says that they are. The Supreme Court says, “this is a political question, not a legal question, so the executive and legislative have to sort it out”.

By self-hosted you mean you have hardware geographically distributed? Like… boxes at friend’s houses or…?

All of these were taken by the state, not the workers, which was the question.

In the Netherlands we literally cannot spend the money we have allocated for our military since there aren’t enough Dutch weapons to buy. 😬

According to the actuarial table he can expect to live 8 more years.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

I know it’s asking a lot, but you could give an example instead of insulting me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“swarm” here is a verb, not a noun. As in, “to swarm”.

“The sappers exploded their charges under the city walls, and the invader’s troops swarmed in through the gap.”

I can’t think of any examples. Taking over the company requires capital, which is the one thing that capitalists constantly extract from workers so they don’t have any.

The workers of xs4all tried when their new corporate owners, KPN, decided to dissolve them. But a combination of lack of funding and unfriendly courts prevented that. They did end up starting a new company though…

The right wing has no actual ideology except power. They will happily nationalize anything that is mildly convenient, moans of “socialism” vanishing like the morning mist once Fox hands out talking points for a few days.

I mean, that’s coming eventually.

Musk is a US citizen though.