https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk

The F-117 is primarily an attack aircraft,[1] so its "F" designation is inconsistent with the Department of Defense system. This inconsistency has been repeatedly employed by the USAF with several of its attack aircraft since the late 1950s, including the Republic F-105 Thunderchief and General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark. A televised documentary quoted project manager Alan Brown as saying that Robert J. Dixon, a four-star USAF general who was the head of Tactical Air Command, felt that the top-notch USAF fighter pilots required to fly the new aircraft were more easily attracted to an aircraft with an "F" designation for fighter, as opposed to a bomber ("B") or attack ("A") designation.[45][46]

B/F-21 Raider?

Every month I see an increase in the price.

Prices on memory are not going to come down prior to 2028.

If I remember correctly from prior reading, Poland was picking up the K2s with the idea of a South Korea-Poland partnership with the long-term intent of moving into the tank manufacturing business.

searches

https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/04/29/poland-signs-agreement-to-produce-south-korean-k2-tanks-domestically/

“Our collaboration with Bumar-Łabędy is the foundation of the K2PL program, enabling the transfer of advanced technologies and the development of modern production capabilities in Poland,” said Yong-bae Lee, president and CEO of Hyundai Rotem.

“Through this partnership, we are not only delivering state-of-the-art tanks but also building long-term industrial competencies…[and] strengthening Poland’s defence capabilities while developing a lasting Polish-Korean industrial partnership,” he added.

I'd imagine that modifying them to add more cooling capacity might fall under that manufacturing umbrella.

I think that there's a lot more potential in AI than there is in VR, which was his last expensive pet project.

Yeah, I've seen a number of articles talking about how if a company isn't doing well and needs to do layoffs that it's a better narrative for investors that savings were found via AI. Then it's not a "company is doing poorly" story, but a "company is forward-thinking" one.

Like, there are real layoffs that have happened and are induced by AI, but I'd also be pretty confident in saying that it's not all of the ones where leadership is citing AI.

It may not be you.

There's some polymer substance that was used to create "rubberized" coatings on a lot of consumer electronics some years back that degrades to a sticky mess over time on its own. I had a Grundig G6 shortwave radio that did it badly, as well as some other devices.

I don't believe that you can "undegrade" it, but if it's the same stuff, you can manage to remove it, just leave unrubberized plastic.

I used isopropyl alcohol and a lot of elbow grease, which eventually works.

This blog mentions it:

https://swling.com/blog/2021/01/getting-the-grundig-g6-out-of-a-sticky-situation/

They recommend "Purple Power".

Tip for non-USonians: what’s sold as “Purple Power” (and “Simple Green”, and several other frequently-recommended cleaners for this sort of thing) are not necessarily the same products around the world. For example, in the US “Purple Power” is an ethylene glycol based cleaner/degreaser; here in Aus, if you ask for “Purple Power” you’ll get a sodium hydroxide based degreaser.

One will clean the gunk off your radio; the other will clean the gunk and most of the labelling off…

These guys have some recommendations of their own:

https://www.ifixit.com/News/93833/ask-ifixit-how-do-i-fix-sticky-plastics

If you read the article text, he's telling people at a rally that he asked Google's CEO to do it and they said no.

Now, I'd take anything Trump says about deals and interactions with anyone else with a large grain of salt, as he's pretty flagrantly lied in the past, but even if taken at face value, he's saying that his request didn't go through.

Kagi is European. Not in the EU: they're based in Serbia. But they are European.

The US address that's associated with them is just their founder's home address.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/additional-options/dns-over-tor/

As explained in the blog post ↗︎, the preferred method is DNS over HTTPS (DoH), which encrypts the entire DNS query within an HTTPS connection.

Going to require blocking Tor in France at the network level if the French authorities want to block someone from using something like DNS-over-HTTP via Tor.

![email protected]?

Though it's currently down...

Typically, minors aren't punished as harshly as adults. It says he was 15 at the time, which I imagine was a factor.

Apparently the Big Apple is way ahead of you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickshaws_in_the_United_States

In New York, human powered transport is available as an environmentally friendly means of transit. Local residents in New York City, however, view pedicabs primarily as tourist vehicles due to their high fares and their drivers' aggressive sales pitches to pedestrians. At a rate of $5 plus $1 per block per person, a 20-block (one mile) pedicab ride for two people will cost $50.[1][2] In a taxicab, the same ride would cost under $10.[3] According to Peter Meitzler of New York's Manhattan Rickshaw Company, a passenger has an entirely different urban experience when one rides in a rickshaw. He says that he uses the word "rickshaw" in his company name because it is internationally known.[4]

If you want to know what happens if she and Marine Le Pen in France get the power,

So:

• In the US, Trump's last year is 2028. Mind, Vance has generally been considered to be the most-likely Republican nominee and is isolationist, but I don't know how well he'd do, given Trump's now-very-high unpopularity and his association with the Trump administration. Rubio, who I've seen listed as being the second-most-likely Republican nominee, is a lot more conventional, and I'd assume that any Democratic president would likely also be. 2028 elections are still a long way out, so hard to make many calls yet.

• In the UK, while Reform topped polling for a while, Labour has finally managed to pull a little ahead, and the Conservatives look to me likely to do so as well. So my guess is that the likelihood of Prime Minister Farage is on the downswing.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election

  

• In France, RN (run by Le Pen) presently holds a large polling lead. LFI (run by Mélenchon) just crept ahead of ENS (run by Macron). Elections are only about six months out.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2027_French_presidential_election

  

• In Germany, AfD is polling on top. The next federal election may not happen until as late as 2029, however, so it could be quite some time away.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_German_federal_election

  

  My understanding is that the German political system can theoretically hold a party with a plurality but not majority of votes out of executive power if everyone else chooses to do so; this is known as the cordon sanitaire. In the past, this had by convention applied to far-right parties. However, I don't know whether this will continue to hold.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire_(politics)

  A strict political non-cooperation is only exercised against right-wing parties, such as the Republicans, and even the Republicans have exercised a cordon against the neo-Nazi The Homeland. Since 2013, the established major parties have refused to form state-level coalitions with the new right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD). Brandmauer (firewall) is the term most often used in Germany to refer to this non-cooperation policy against the AfD.[24]

  In February 2025, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany put forward a non-binding motion, taking AfD votes into account, in the Bundestag to push through a on the detention of undocumented foreigners at borders. This was the first time since 1945 that the cordon sanitaire had been broken in Germany. This event provoked large-scale demonstrations across Germany, with between 160,000 and 250,000 people in Berlin on February 2, and over 220,000 demonstrators in several of the country's major cities the day before.[25][26]

Well, fortunately, it's the Fediverse, so you can make a second account on one of the many alternate instances out there and keep on trucking until they come back up.

End of an era.

Unless "to some degree" is doing an extreme amount of heavy lifting here, I don't expect so.

In general, it's a lot easier to build complex systems when error doesn't propagate through the system, and that happens with analog systems.

With a digital system, a given component has precisely-defined behavior. 1+1=2. And if you manufacture many instances of that component, they all can have the same, precisely-defined behavior.

With an analog system, there are tiny errors that accumulate. 1+1=2.0001, say. Then that tiny error gets passed on to the next component, and maybe the error there magnifies this error.

That doesn't matter much for some simple systems, but it becomes really problematic for complex ones.

Most complex systems we make are made out of simpler parts. Being able to cut that error out of the picture when specifying the behavior of a component or reasoning about it in the context of a larger system is helpful.

And in general, we want to be able to build complex systems.

Digital systems do force quantitization, and that is a limitation on precision. There will probably always be limited use of the occasional analog component, like, oh, a lens, say. Situations where you don't have a chain of many analog components.

But I don't think that we will return to a point where people made simple devices with few components, because the ability to make complex systems is very powerful. And complexity and analog systems don't play well together.

The theft is the latest in a string of heists involving Pokémon cards, which have exponentially increased in value in recent years.

I am wondering whether Pokémon cards have anti-counterfeiting measures, as counterfeiting seems like a much less risky route.

Blonde

While I do kind of suspect that the next Press Secretary is going to be a blonde with long hair...

Grisham has dark hair, and she was Press Secretary for part of Trump's first term, Sanders has brown hair, and there was Sean Spicer back at the very beginning.

• Sean Spicer: Trump 1, January 20, 2017 – July 21, 2017

• Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Trump 1, July 21, 2017 – July 1, 2019

• Stephanie Grisham: Trump 1, July 1, 2019 – April 7, 2020

• Kayleigh McEnany: Trump 1, April 7, 2020 – January 20, 2021

• Karoline Leavitt: Trump 2, January 20, 2025 – August 27, 2026

• Katie Zacharia, Trump 2, October 12, 2026 – October 16, 2026

I can't really argue against it, as landmines have been quite effective in Ukraine.

But I do hope that Europe gives serious consideration to long-term demining considerations. In some cases, self-neutralizing mines might be acceptable. Or maybe it's viable to make mines that are resistant to combat demining but not (cost-effective) non-combat demining.

Every mine that gets placed is, long term, going to have to go away. It may be a very long term, but it'll still be a day that will come.