No idea, I’ve seen it in several different places. I think it’s a stylised Christmas tree gone dildo…

Cute. Are they taking suggestions for designs?

Here’s one:

https://dutchreview.com/wp-content/uploads/Rotterdam__Santa_Claus-696x943.jpg

It’s funny every time Microsoft does another stupid thing and at the rate that keeps happening this joke continues to be hilarious…

This comes to mind:

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”

I doubt that it’s water condensation. Based on some internet sleuthing I strongly suspect that it’s alcohol.

https://foodwine.com/alcohol-evaporation/

Why it’s happening for one and not the other, I’m not sure.

Well, I’ve turned on that feature as a test (after the question was posted) and I saw your reply just fine. That’s no difference from how it’s been before I turned on the feature.

What has never worked for me (I’m not sure if it’s a bug or by design) is a notification for a reply to your reply. I only ever see notifications of direct replies, not indirect ones.

In other words, if someone replies directly to me, I know about it, but if someone replies to that reply, I don’t.

You have the option to hide read posts.

I’m guessing that once Google is prohibited from providing incentives, the bottom will fall out of that particular market and those other search engines will likely pay less, if anything, for the privilege.

13,945 km

I’m firmly in the QRP club :)

Currently 10 mW.

You are describing the human condition.

In my experience, outages are exceptions that need to be checked. In a different location I was subject to all manner of shenanigans when I contacted the power company I was asked to stand on my porch and report where a wire crossed the road. It turned out that their map was out of date and I was on the wrong side of a connection. Once they updated their map, no more issues.

In my current location there was an issue with one of the phases in the street. After discovering this they moved me to another phase.

Then I reported another issue a few years later, which turned out to be a fault in the substation.

I don’t know in which country you live, but here in Western Australia I’ve been happy with my local power company. They’re responsive, fix faults faster than they say they will and come out if there is an actual problem.

The mind boggles…

Where is this sign, and why is “fuck” not on it (among other words that come to mind)?

This happened to me and I called the power company who came and installed some measuring gear and left, came back a few days later, found the fault (in their network) and fixed it. No more flakey power.

Which one?

I did not respond to this survey, but I’m an open source “programmer” and I’m in the 4% group in that chart.

“All the efforts on climate action hinge upon the availability of and access to data,” notes the UN office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

Yeah, no.

Data isn’t the problem. Humans are the problem, specifically elected political humans of the climate denial variety and the media moguls enabling them. The ones who run counties based on just how much their votes can be turned into a personal bottom line.

I think if you figure out how to make politicians rich off actually implementing measures to counter the climate catastrophe, data will magically appear.

Cart + Horse + Carrot

You could just turn off your phone.

The port number on the outside doesn’t have to be the same as the port number on the inside.

You could build Debian from scratch and use your preferred compiler settings.

https://github.com/scottwilliambeasley/debian-from-scratch

So, whilst they’re presenting the entire group could distract the speaker with such notifications?

What could possibly go wrong…