You have to put it somewhere. And salt tends to be bad for its surroundings. Even if you put it back into the water, You’d have to spread it very far for it to get diluted enough to not be a problem

And I would have to guess that the resulting salt is not remotely clean enough for human consumption. So you’d have to process it before you could sell it (if there would even be a big enough market)

Is there any technical reason that it has to send your notification data to Google and Apple or is it just to get more data on you?

the API that for example Google Firebases provides (most used, as it supports ios and android), is basically “send a notification with following content to this device”.

Which is very simple to implement. as it’s just fire and forget. But you send the actual data to Google in this case.

There are way to do it differently, for example how signal does it: They send a silent (e.g. invisible) notification to the device, which has no data in it.

That notifiation tells the app to check for new messages.

The app will then fetch messages in the encrypted way as it always does, and displays a notification if needed. No need to send actual data through the notification service (other than the metadata, that notifications should be pulled)

This is the name of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene#Mechanical_stimulation

man, I’m going to steal that analogy. it’s perfect

Bold to assume that there a QA step

the hard part is being able to export them from some apps (looking at you, authy…)

Every robot is a sexbot if you’re brave enough

That’s not a high (heh) bar to beat

did some more digging, and it seems to be an alligator

Found the artist on twitter

They seem to have more images with that character, and on e926 it’s tagged as aligator

Could also be an alligator. Mainly noting that it’s very likely not a dinosaur

that’s my point

Hard to calculate exactly.

Latency is lower through the atmosphere than in glass (I thought that air was worse, but turns out it’s not. Makes sense. Glass is solid after all)

So it could be even closer than that. But there’s also the problem of the SL base station having to do the last bit of the route through fiber to the destination again. Do it also depends on where the base station is located in regards to the destination

To be fair “having fun with friends on the weekend and enjoying a beer” is a positive thing

But yes, for health, any amount is bad

You can even filter it out of the oceans. It’s just not worth the cost right now

And they often all use the same key. Which you can get online

Light in glass is actually surprisingly slow

After some distance, starlink would have better latency, as while the signal needs to go through a bunch of km of slow atmosphere, it would make up for that by having a big part of the signal go through vacuum between satellites

But latency isn’t everything

Fiber (when properly installed) is very stable. Satellite and mobile is always at least a little bit flaky

That’s the thing. I basically already assumed she more or less financed multiple terf organizations all by herself

It’s a croc. Notice the two tail ridges

I always gave them half a courtesy turn

It’s this actually new? Wasn’t it already known that she did that?