Howard Chu @ Symas

@hyc
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CTO Symas Corp., Chief Architect OpenLDAP Project, Musician
Websitehttps://www.symas.com/lmdb/
LocationDonegal / Los Angeles
GitHubhttps://github.com/hyc
I wonder how much one needs to inhale to come up with the idea of installing Microsoft Outlook on a space craft.
‘Like relying on a drug dealer:’ the world’s dependence on oil and gas has exposed a dangerous vulnerability https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/02/climate/strait-hormuz-chokepoint-clean-energy-oil-gas
‘Like relying on a drug dealer:’ The world’s dependence on oil and gas has exposed a dangerous vulnerability

The Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has shown how easy it is to for one country to turn geography into a ferocious weapon with devastating global impacts. But if the global energy system were powered primarily by clean energy would a similar war trigger the same levels of disruption?

CNN

Again and again.

Yet another russian drone attack on Kharkiv — one person killed, seven injured, three of them in critical condition.

“These flights prove that electric aviation can support the essential services communities depend on every day.”

Loganair, Royal Mail, and BETA Technologies (NYSE: BETA), a U.S.-based electric aerospace company, have successfully completed the U.K.'s first electric flight demonstration program across Scotland's regional air network. Over 10 days, BETA's ALIA CTOL (conventional takeoff and landing) electric aircraft completed 23 flights across the UK, including 18…

https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/03/these-flights-prove-that-electric-aviation-can-support-the-essential-services-communities-depend-on-every-day/

“These flights prove that electric aviation can support the essential services communities depend on every day.”

Loganair, Royal Mail, and BETA Technologies (NYSE: BETA), a U.S.-based electric aerospace company, have successfully completed the U.K.’s first electric flight demonstration program across Sc…

The Orkney News

further, all updates shold present a changelog first and allow picking what the user wants and blacklisting others.

too hard? fuck you devs. too bad, you brought it to this

From a call with a range of a few city blocks to a seamless Digital Single Market.📱

While on this day in 1973, M. Cooper made history by initiating the first cell call, Europe’s GSM standard marked the global revolution that digitised mobile tech.

Since 2017, the EU’s ‘Roam Like at Home’ has transformed international connectivity:

🔸€0 extra for data, calls, texts
🔸Seamless 5G
🔸No unexpected charges on boats
🔸As of 2026, includes Ukraine and Moldova

Free for you. Fair for operators.

The ICC prosecutor has faced more punishment for holding war criminals accountable than Netanyahu has for committing genocide.

Imagine explaining this to future generations.

"Secondly, a revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. A rural revolution is a revolution by which the peasantry overthrows the power of the feudal landlord class."

6/6

#Mao

@Gina haha yes! I remember the same in Athens, cats all over the place.

#uspol This sounds like a good deal. I hope USA takes it up.

"KYIV (The Borowitz Report)—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered on Tuesday to temp as US president while Donald J. Trump undergoes a full psychiatric evaluation.
“For the past few years, I’ve dealt with one catastrophe after another in Ukraine,” Zelenskyy told reporters. “This has uniquely prepared me for the current conditions on the ground in the United States.”
He called Trump’s wildly contradictory statements about the war in Iran “nothing more or less than a cry for help.”
Asked whether Trump was “playing with a full deck,” Zelenskyy said, “He has no cards.”
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