Seven o’clock: Dukat makes a speech.
8:30: Cake and raktajino.
8:45: Execute the Ferengi!

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Cake day: November 23rd, 2024

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  • Very cool looking project. I’ve been stripping motherboards from my busted old laptops recently, and am setting one up as a HiFi-ish HDD player at the moment. Next step would be some sort of NAS/homelab.

    Since you’re already 3D printing parts, is there any reason you didn’t just pull the mobo, connect the drives and made a neat headless case for it all? Not that I don’t appreciate that weird lapdozer you made! 😂













  • Editorialising headline:

    A new force of nature is reshaping the planet, study finds

    From the RSP opinion piece (not a study,) emphasis mine:

    However, this coupling of socially produced environmental challenges with disruptive social changes—the Anthropocene condition—is not new.

    Yes, we live in the Anthropocene. Yes, in geological terms human effects on the environment are new. But as the source also says, “new” in that context is still thousands of years old:

    Global climate change, biodiversity losses and other anthropogenic planetary changes all began long before the industrial age

    Plus, as is quoted in the OP:

    Human sociocultural capabilities to engineer ecosystems, from using fire to clear land, to propagating favoured species, to agriculture, to industrial food systems, have evolved and accumulated over millennia

    Anthroecology is the more novel concept here, and an interesting approach, too. But that is all it is — there is no “new force of nature” at play, only a recent framework to better understand and (hopefully) manage our detrimental effects on the world around us.