Huh. That's an interesting other aspect that I hadn't thought of, where people might inadvertently make themselves hard to find with standard survival gear.

I think that this was just ordinary old cloth blankets that didn't rely on reflection of radiated energy, but just had low thermal conductivity. It was talking about people sniping and such, sticking something above a foxhole. I can't remember which military conflict I was reading about, but I'm pretty sure that it predated the Russo-Ukrainian War, since I remember reading about it early on, how this was going to be a conflict with a lot of drones all over looking into the non-visible-light spectrum, and how it was going to be a lot harder to hide from sensors now, and talking about existing tactics developed to mitigate some of the challenges.

I distinctly remember reading about past use of of blankets to hide from infrared drone cameras.

I'd suggest a different approach. Instead of trying to lock down the loaner, which probably is going to be difficult to do against someone with physical possession anyway, just make a drive image of the loaner before giving it to them. When you get it back, just restore the image.

https://www.neighborhoodarchive.com/mrn/episodes/1521/index.html

Episode 1521

In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday plans to purchase a record player for the Neighborhood school but he becomes distracted when a curious delivery is made to Corney's factory.

King Friday learns that Corney is manufacturing some "things" for Southwood and orders Handyman Negri to buy one of the parts from Corney for further inspection. Handyman Negri questions the high cost of the item but Corney says that the people of Southwood have been willing to pay that price.

Prince Tuesday returns from school where he has been learning about countries and wars. When he asks King Friday if there has ever been a war in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, his father assures him that for generations there has been nothing but peace in the Neighborhood. King Friday recalls a song which his forefathers had taught him about solving problems and sings a small portion of the song (the song is exactly the same as Many Ways to Say I Love You but the words have been changed to "many ways to solve a problem"). With war fresh on their minds, King Friday and Prince Tuesday begin to wonder if the pieces being made for Southwood are bomb parts.

Back at the house, Mister Rogers sings a line from King Friday's song before he plays a game by dropping coins onto a piece of paper with shapes drawn on it. Lastly, Mister Rogers shows a film called "Food Drop" which shows food being dropped from a military aircraft.

https://www.neighborhoodarchive.com/mrn/episodes/1522/index.html

Episode 1522

In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday and Miss Paulificate are making phone calls to ask others what the King should do about the possibility that Southwood is making bombs. When Corney is asked if his piece might be part of a bomb, he replies, "Well, of course it might be. But I doubt that it is. I mean why would anybody want to order that many bombs? I'm making a million of those parts."

Alarmed at the possibility that Southwood is making a million bombs, King Friday orders Handyman Negri to have Corney make a million of the same parts for the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and to enlist everyone in the Neighborhood to help put the bombs together. Although uncomfortable with the idea of bombs himself, Handyman Negri follows the King's orders.

Everyone assembles at the castle to put the bombs together and Henrietta Pussycat becomes upset at the idea of fighting.

https://www.neighborhoodarchive.com/mrn/episodes/1523/index.html

Episode 1523

In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine and Lady Aberlin resist King Friday's bomb-building efforts as they seek to prove that Southwood is a peaceful place. Bob Dog has been appointed as a spy for the "war" with Southwood.

In the school, the children learn about using gas masks and air-raid shelters.

At the castle, the appointed generals have been armed with the recently-constructed "bombs."

https://www.neighborhoodarchive.com/mrn/episodes/1524/index.html

Episode 1524

In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine and Lady Aberlin take Bob Dog with them to Southwood to find out what exactly is going on.

Upon their arrival, they learn that the parts Corney made have been used to build a bridge, not for building bombs.

While they are there, Keith, the Southwood carpenter, sings What Do You Do With the Mad That You Feel. King Friday is embarrassed when he learns that there are no bombs in Southwood and declares that his generals are not "generals of peace."

Mister Rogers concludes this episode with a few interesting comments about rules: "Rules are very, very important. Not just for games but for all things. Even big things like countries. Countries have to have rules to protect people, too. And someday you'll be helping to make the rules for your country. I trust that you'll make the best kind you know how."

SNAP is a subsidy to the poor and to farmers.

Insofar as it benefits farmers, it's obviously a rural benefit, and it's also advantageous to rural areas on the poor front.

https://frac.org/blog/snaps-critical-role-in-rural-communities-and-the-consequences-of-cuts

One in seven rural households relies on SNAP, compared to one in eight in metropolitan areas. 

If were a rural Republican voter and the "rural party" had just gotten a trifecta and promptly proceeded to do this

like, this is theoretically as good as it gets

I'd probably be a little grouchy.

By the popularity of type inference in variable declarations, a feature that’s included in most languages now: var in C# and Java, := in Go, auto in C++, and so on.

I don't really like type inference, because I think that it makes it more-obnoxious to read code. That being said, I will concede that if you want a lot of static type information

and compilers can do things with more information

it does make for more concise code.

EDIT: Hmm. I was trying to think what would make it better. Maybe I'd be more okay with it if all compilers for languages that did this had a trivial way to just run the type inference step and output code with inferred types present.

At least one user has to search for it first ("!epaper@piefed.social") for a given home instance to go talk to the remote host and learn about the community.

Someone has apparently done that, since it's visible now:

https://lemmy.world/c/epaper@piefed.social

And once at least one user on a home instance subscribes to the remote community, the home instance will get posts and comments for the community, and those will become visible in "All".

I'm increasingly trying to use my (GNU/Linux) laptop where I can, and just tether the phone to it when I need mobile data connectivity.

It's not a complete drop-in solution. You can't just use a laptop with one hand while waiting in a line (well, there used to be palmtops, but those seem to be a mostly-dead class of PCs today). It consumes more power. Desktop OS software doesn't really natively have a concept of "being on WiFi versus being on mobile data", which is nice to have in phone software.

But where you can sit down and use one...man, it eliminates a ton of my irritations with phones. The locked-down stuff in most phone OSes. Those fiddly, limited onscreen keyboards. The tradeoffs that the systems make to try to minimize power use and simplify memory management from an end user standpoint (because a lot of users don't get the concept of closing programs) like the one you mention go away. Hardware is more capable and expandable, and the manufacturers have way more physical space to work with, so you don't have manufacturers throwing out things like physical headphones jacks to try to get a bit more space. The limited cooling on phones goes away. Better in terms of repairability

I just replaced a laptop battery. If my phone's battery died, I'd throw out the phone. Using multiple programs at once, as you were doing, is much better; phone OSes just aren't really optimal for that.

I'm honestly impressed with what smartphone vendors have done within the constraints of what they have to work with, especially in how much better touchscreens have gotten over the decades

they used to be far, far worse. But they still just face a ton of limitations imposed by the form factor.

Is it possible to “fsync” downloads with Firefox (really Librewolf, but still) so that it goes directly into storage instead of RAM?

Fsync will write data that your userspace program has already handed off to the OS. This probably won't be your problem; your OS's kernel should already write out that data if it's under memory pressure. Assuming that this is Linux, you can twiddle Linux's kernel settings to make it write out more frequently. The sync command will also write out existing data that hasn't been written to disk by the kernel, and you could do something like $ while true; do sleep 1; sync; done.

But you probably have an issue inside the application, not in handling data that needs to be fsynced.

I'd also add that I'd be a little surprised if this happens with Firefox's native downloading. Maybe someone could have some sort of custom download Javascript something-or-other that stages stuff in memory on a website, though I don't think that even a poorly-written Javascript should be able to produce a tab crashing.

Do you know if I’m able to authenticate logins with wget? As in, I’m actually downloading from a cloud service and I’m worried that it’ll give me a 401 Unauthorized.

Once upon a time, Netscape Navigator stored cookies in a "cookies.txt" file. While Firefox doesn't do so these days, Firefox has a "cookies.txt" addon that will let you export the cookies from your browser session in said format. You can use these if you require some sort of authentication that needs to be done interactively from the browser: $ wget --load-cookies cookies.txt <URL to download>.

wget also natively supports authentication with a password, but it's possible that whatever service you're using requires interactive authentication in a browser, and for those, this is a workaround.

There are so many surfaces in this world that suffer from wasted potential, are not yet displaying advertisements.

The filthy plebs should focus on the more important things in life, say I.