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Maybe. Could be just needing to offset tax cuts. The present administration and Congress has has cut taxes on the wealthy. Either they find new sources of revenue to fill the hole, or they run up deficit.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/04/what-we-know-about-the-us-h-1b-visa-program/

The number of H-1B applications approved in recent years has climbed. Nearly 400,000 were approved in fiscal year 2024, most of which were applications to renew employment. Rejection rates of H-1B applications spiked during Trump’s first term but fell under former President Joe Biden.

Computer-related jobs have been the most common occupation for H-1B workers for more than a decade. Since fiscal 2012, about 60% or more of H-1B workers approved each year have held a computer-related job. In 2023, the share was 65%, and these workers reported a median annual salary of $123,600.

India is the top country of birth for H-1B workers. Roughly three-quarters (73%) of H-1B workers whose applications were approved in fiscal 2023 were born in India.

This would amount to a tax, mostly on the tech industry employing skilled workers out of India, of about $40B/year.

Pew has a list of top employers. Amazon would take the single largest share, at over $1B/year.

On the other hand, Trump also eliminated the de minimis tariff exemption, which was a move that I would guess is probably very advantageous to Amazon (it let foreign e-retailers sell to American consumers while rarely paying tariffs, since they sold product imported in small quantities, whereas domestic e-retailers selling product tended to import in larger quantity and paid tariff).

kagis

https://communicationsdaily.com/article/2025/05/20/cbo-no-de-minimis-would-mean-52-b-in-revenue-first-full-year-2505200047?BC=bc_674b2b83cff7b

If de minimis ends for all imports in July 2027, as proposed in the tax bill currently being considered in the House of Representatives, the U.S. Treasury would collect an additional $5.2 billion in the first full fiscal year after the change, mostly in tariffs, but including $231 million in customs user fees.

So if you figure that Trump effectively levied a tax that principally hit Amazon's foreign competitors like Shein and Temu with that move, I expect that that partially offsets how hard this hits Amazon.

That being said, a lot of other tech firms are gonna get hurt, and aren't e-retailers. I doubt that this is a good move in terms of US tech strength.

This doesn't meet your "human enemies" requirement, but if you're looking for realistic firearm mechanics, you might want to look at Receiver 2. It does have procedurally-generated layouts, as per your roguelike point, and most of the game is firearm mastery.

Oh, another one. A stainless steel knife. Stainless steel apparently didn't exist until the early 1800s.

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

"The knife that does not rust."

It sounds like we didn't have aluminum until the early 1800s, either (and it was very expensive for a while, until we got processing with electricity), so very lightweight metal objects would be pretty remarkable.

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

I'm not sure exactly what you mean.

If you're asking what household item doesn't actually change, but would be considered extraordinary by someone in a medieval setting, and function and be useful in that environment, I'd say matches.

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

It sounds like China had a primitive chemical match well before Europe, but that it wasn't until the early 1800s that Europe had the match in common production, so I'd guess that a European fantasy setting likely wouldn't have matches.

Assuming that you're just using their website, I'd guess a problem on their end.

That being said, could be something you've done that's tripped it.

You could try reloading the webpage, see if that magically makes the issue go away.

Could disable all browser extensions, and try that.

Could try a simpler character and see if it shows up with even that. Don't upload an image or use variables in descriptions or whatever it supports.

I'm not familiar with that website, but I understand that there are various formats in which characters may be exported. If it has the ability to do so and you're trying to import a pre-created character card, could be something wrong with that character card.

Could report it to them if they have a route to take reported issues.

EDIT: They appear to have a support community on the Threadiverse, which you can find at !perchance@lemmy.world.

I'd also bet against the CMOS battery, if the pre-reboot logs were off by 10 days.

The CMOS battery is used to maintain the clock when the PC is powered off. But he has a discrepancy between current time and pre-reboot logs. He shouldn't see that if the clock only got messed up during the power loss.

I'd think that the time was off by 10 days prior to power loss.

I don't know why it'd be off by 10 days. I don't know uptime of the system, but that seems like an implausible amount of drift for a PC RTC, from what I see online as lilely RTC drift.

It might be that somehow, the system was set up to use some other time source, and that was off.

It looks like chrony is using the Debian NTP pool at boot, though, and I donpt know why it'd change.

Can DHCP serve an NTP server, maybe?

kagis

This says that it can, and at least when the comment was written, 12 years ago, Linux used it.

https://superuser.com/questions/656695/which-clients-accept-dhcp-option-42-to-configure-their-ntp-servers

The ISC DHCP client (which is used in almost any Linux distribution) and its variants accept the NTP field. There isn't another well known/universal client that accepts this value.

If I have to guess about why OSX nor Windows supports this option, I would say is due the various flaws that the base DHCP protocol has, like no Authentification Method, since mal intentioned DHCP servers could change your systems clocks, etc. Also, there aren't lots of DHCP clients out there (I only know Windows and ISC-based clients), so that leave little (or no) options where to pick.

Maybe OS X allows you to install another DHCP client, Windows isn't so easy, but you could be sure that Linux does.

My Debian trixie system has the ISC DHCP client installed in 2025, so might still be a factor. Maybe a consumer broadband router on your network was configured to tell the Proxmox box to use it as a NTP server or something? I mean, bit of a long shot, but nothing else that would change the NTP time source immediately comes to mind, unless you changed NTP config and didn't restart chrony, and the power loss did it.

I don't think that the grid frequency is used for PC timekeeping. You have internal timekeeping circuits. AC power stops at the PSU, and I don't think that there's any cable over which a time protocol flows from the PSU to the motherboard.

They did lose some Falcons, though, and it sounds like some of that was related to reusability development, albeit at a later stage. From that WP page:

In 2013, SpaceX moved to using their mainstream Falcon 9 vehicles for VTVL testing, in addition to their existing tests with flying test vehicles. In March 2013, SpaceX announced that, beginning with the first flight of the stretch version of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle—the sixth flight overall of Falcon 9 (then anticipated for summer 2013), every first stage would be instrumented and equipped as a controlled descent test vehicle.[68] SpaceX attempted numerous over-water landings, both over the sea, resulting in soft landings into the water, and onto specialized Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ships, barges modified to be landing platforms. None were completely successful.

In all seriousness, if France winds up on their own on another European joint fighter project and there wind up being three European fighter projects (Dassault's CEO, in the past, threatened to just walk out the door and do an update of the Rafale, which seems like a bad idea for France if it's a serious threat, the FCAS with the remaining members and now maybe Sweden, and the UK, Italy, and Japan doing the GCAP), I am skeptical that Europe is going to have the kinds of funds needed to produce globally-competitive fighters. And fighters don't get developed every day, so this is talking about the state of defense for quite some time.

Not only that, but France wants a CATOBAR-capable fighter, unlike basically every other potential partner/customer in the world except maybe India, so I'd expect that they face an uphill battle on exports.

Thanks for doing the digging on it.

One other argument, aside from just lack of need and weight, for running it stripped down might also be that this may be risky --- like, they may expect to lose a few of these along the path to ironing out bugs. If you don't need to strap something to this, you'd probably rather not do so, if you're liable to destroy a few.

I dunno how many SpaceX lost in their development process, but I'm sure there were some.

I don't know what type of otter and what type of seal that is, but I'd guess that there are some kinds of otters and seals that do actually encounter each other in the wild, as there are salt water-living otters out there.

[Pope Francis] went further in the 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti, calling social media an “illusion of communication.”

There are probably a lot of criticisms one could make of this statement, but I think that a really good one is that the only reason I'm reading content from your papal encyclica is because it's in an article that was submitted to a social media system.

I'm not familiar with what they're doing here, but I'm guessing that for the purposes of just showing it taking off and then landing again or whatever, they don't need to take it to space, so probably don't need cowling to make it more aerodynamic.

EDIT: Oops. meant to respond to the comment about how pointy the end was.

The relentless pursuit of profit and growth ruins absolutely everything it touches. Capitalist rot.

The factor driving age verification has been laws passed by countries. It's not private industry forcing it, but government. That comes from people complaining to their legislators that they are unhappy that their kids can see

<random thing that they object to>

If you want a communist system, fine. But there are far too many users on here who, when faced with virtually anything they don't like, immediately post a screed complaining about ownership of private industry, when it often has absolutely nothing to do with the actual issue at hand.

EDIT: I'd also add that there are actual solutions if you object to something like this. You can pass a law against biometric-based age validation, which I can certainly understand --- that form could be prohibited. You could have some alternative form of age-based validation to be instituted to create a path of least resistance for services, like having government provide and fund a zero-knowledge service to confirm various facts to services like age. In countries which have constitutional law and a higher bar to modify it than lower law, you could pass a constitutional law against any form of age validation ("ageism has no place in our country") to prevent legislators from easily passing things like age verification laws, which I personally don't think will fly politically in most places, but it's at least one theoretical option.

I would love to load up custom ROM though... What annoys me the most is lack of RTC battery, because the time resets whenever there's a power outage.

They made an Internet-connected fridge and didn't put an NTP client on it?

Ah, thanks! Well, that's one lone ray of light.

I'm still grouchy about a sandwich place that I liked that recently changed ownership putting in kiosks that apparently do facial recognition, as once I walked up, they suggested items that I'd purchased last time. That started me looking, and I've been noticing that a lot of the ordering kiosks that places have been installing around where I am have cameras (though none have been actively making suggestions). I can only imagine that that gets hooked into the tracking and advertising system at some point too, though.

Between increasing use of facial recognition and ALPRs, it's going to be increasingly difficult to avoid targeted ads. I don't have a fix for that. I mean, it's illegal to block use of ALPRs. A lot of places also have anti-masking laws, though I suspect that in practice, they aren't enforced much, and someone could theoretically put something on their face. I don't especially want to run around wearing stuff on my face, though.

They do have a screen and Internet connectivity, but I don't think that ATMs are actually a great route (unless they force people to stop and wait to get their money, which I don't think will fly and will cut into capacity). There isn't much eyeball time on them. The reason a car or a refrigerator works is because you're likely to be around it a lot.

I will say that the rise of gas pumps at gas stations that play back advertisements is pretty obnoxious, though.

To enhance our service and offer additional content to our users, advertisements will be displayed on the Cover Screen for the Weather, Color, and Daily Board themes.

I really hope that Steam games don't head down this path over time. Internet-connected refrigerators I'm willing to avoid, but that's not the only vector for this sort of thing.

EDIT: And as has been pointed out on here before, some Internet-connected cars are starting to have updates to show ads on their UIs pushed out. Any time you've already spent the money and are kind of locked in and the manufacturer has Internet connectivity to the device and can update the thing subsequent to purchase, you're kind of in a bad position regarding leverage.

What I want to do is find out what the maximum size battery I would need in order to store all of summer's electricity for use in winter.

I mean, I think that it's probably not a good idea for this guy to try to go fully off-grid if he has access to the grid, but for the sake of discussion, if one were honestly wanting to try it and one is in the UK, I'd think that one is probably rather better off adding a wind turbine, since some of the time that the sun isn't shining, the wind is blowing.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/322789/quarterly-wind-speed-average-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/

Wind speed averages in the United Kingdom are generally highest in the first and fourth quarters of each calendar year – the winter months.

The UK is one of the worst places in the world in terms of solar potential:

https://globalsolaratlas.info/

But it's one of the best in terms of wind potential:

https://globalwindatlas.info/