Bummer, perhaps it can be repaired? By the way, be very careful about sharing photos of keys, it is often quite easy to produce a duplicate key from a photo.

Your guinea pig taught you something today.

What about the nutrients in the waste? Why not compost it, capture the methane offgassing, and store that?

For many years now whenever I travel within EU I use my EU identity card and it's very convenient. Would indeed be great if I could use something like it outside EU as well.

Finnish authorities are not investigating. The cable appears to just have been damaged by a digger.

As an avid weekend hiker that often brings a bag with me for picking garbage that people leave in nature I am very happy about the new regulation. Nowadays most bottles come with the cap attached which otherwise would be easily missed.

Per the article, there must be replacement batteries available for at least five years after the end of the product being available on the market. I don't think it would make much sense to keep tonnes of batteries in storage for so long. Presumably battery manufacturing would therefore have to continue over time. Maybe device manufacturers will try to share battery designs across device models so they don't need so many manufacturing lines?

Would be great if it means that I could swap out my device's battery after a few years and the new battery takes advantage of the improvements over that time.

Really? How does that play with jurisdictions that have right to right to be forgotten laws? Seems like a pretty risky play for them to restore deleted posts that were explicitly deleted by its author.

Indeed, obviously she has quite the talent for markdown. Perhaps you could enroll her in some training for web development? She already types better than some developers I've met through the years...

I use Liberapay and have been pretty happy with it. Have found quite a few of the people and projects to which I would like to donate, but not all.

Treated waste water sludge is very commonly used here in Sweden albeit using anaerobic digestion rather than regular composting. High temperature composting would kill any pathogens so you can absolutely get permission to use a composting waste system in small scales. For larger scale waste treatment it is with anaerobic digestion, as mentioned.

The captured methane is typically used for fuel, e.g., in public transport.

As far as I know the sludge used for fertilizer needs to be certified under something called REVAQ. Some controversy does exist surrounding safe levels of the various harmful substances and perhaps PFAS in particular.

I have some vague recollection of this article. If I recall correctly the generated circuit consisted of two (or more) subcircuits that were not physically connected but managed to communicate using induced radio waves (which is definitely not something you would typically do with an FPGA).

I suspect that the Belgium-Netherlands border defies any mathematical description.

That's impossible, you can't read too many books. At any age.

I'm pretty sure it is not her personal responsibility to solve the climate crisis on the behalf of the rest of humanity. That would probably be best left to various subject matter experts, which I believe she has said many times.

I would have guessed that this was an authentic photo based on them showing up correctly in the mirror. Can AI image generators handle mirrors? That would be seriously impressive to me.

I congratulate you on the dullness of this post, and the new underwear.

Definitely! There are so many jobs with heavy lifts where something like this could help. Spanning all the way from construction to health care.

This seems quite reasonable to me, and if you are doing the more risky activities, then presumably you'd get some insurance to take the edge off the rescue charges.

Would that be Putin's ... purple rain?