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

Raised by wolves

Hessian wolf-children[19]: 15–7 [20] (1304, 1341 and 1344) lived with the Eurasian wolf in the forests of Hesse:

• The first boy (1304) was taken by wolves at age 3 and found when 7 or 8 by Benedictine monks, the wolves having cared for him by "surrounding him in cold weather, and fed him the best meat from the hunt." He was later sent to the court of Prince Henry, and became accustomed to human society but said he preferred the wolves.[21]

Frankly, Alabama, I think that you need to up your child-rearing game to at least wolf-level.

Starmer, being Starmer, attempted to regain control of the narrative by calling an emergency press conference, during which he solemnly declared, "We cannot allow Britain's moral fibre to unravel at the hands of lonely men and women with unlimited data." As per usual, he delivered this statement from a sun lounger in Puerto Rico, completely topless and drinking milk from a coconut.

I feel like if you're the Prime Minister of the UK, you've got an obligation to do the British Virgin Islands or at least Jamaica if you're doing the Caribbean, not Puerto Rico.

For an example of the privacy implications, we just had a story up on this community (or another, not sure) about the Tea identity leak:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/tea-safety-dating-app-hack.html

On Friday, Tea said that hackers had breached a data storage system, exposing about 72,000 images, including selfies and photo identifications of its users.

Data from the hack, including photos of women and of identification cards containing personal details, appeared to circulate online on Friday.

That was yesterday. I seriously doubt that this is going to be the last time something like this happens.

I said it the other day when the UK mandate just went into force and Reddit started having people in the UK required to take pictures of their IDs to get access to NSFW subreddits: if you get people used to having websites demand photos of identity documents, I strongly suspect you are gonna have some serious fraud

and privacy

issues down the line when less-than-salubrious websites start getting people to take and hand over identity document photos.

You don't, but it's considerably quieter to use a liquid cooler on current high-end CPUs because of the amount of heat they dissipate. My current CPU has a considerably higher TDP than my last desktop's. I finally broke down and put an AIO cooler on the new one, and all the fans on the radiator can run at a much lower speed than my last CPU because the radiator is a lot larger than one hanging directly off the CPU, can dump heat to the air a lot more readily.

The GPU on that system, which doesn't use liquid cooling, has to have multiple slots and a supporting rail to support the weight because it has a huge heatsink hanging on a PCI slot that was never intended to support that kind of load, and the fans are far more spun up when it heats up.

The amount of power involved these days is getting pretty high. My early PCs could manage with entirely passive cooling, just a heatsink. Today, the above CPU dumps 250W and the above GPU 400W. I have a small space heater in the same room that, on low, runs at 400W.

Frankly, if I had a convenient mounting point in the case for the radiator, with the benefit of hindsight, I'd seriously have considered sticking an AIO liquid-cooled GPU in there

there are a few manufacturers that do those. The GPU is a lot louder than the CPU when both are spun up.

I will kind of agree on the RGB LEDs, though. It's getting obnoxiously difficult to find desktop hardware that doesn't have those. My last build, I was having difficulty finding DIMMs that didn't have RGB LEDs; not normally a component that I think of anyone wanting to make visible.

I'm kind of wondering whether we'll get to the point where one just has a standard attachment point for liquid and just hooks the hardware's attachment into a larger system that circulates fluid. Datacenters would become quiet places.

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I don't think that it's as common today, and it's definitely not common in the open-source-oriented software world that I tend to inhabit, but I do remember seeing the phrase "proprietary technology" used in a positive sense on various products in the past. Maybe 1990s or so. The idea is, I suppose, that if the technology is proprietary, this is the only product where you can get it, and the implication is that it's better.

rambling about

https://themysterytraveler.com/why-no-window-screens-in-europe/

I suspect, from past conversations, that some of it is that when you design a house to be used without screens, then retrofitting screens isn't optimal. Like, say you have a window of X area. The screen blocks, say, 30% of light that would go through. If you then put a screen on the window, then you have only 70% of the light that you normally would. That may well be darker than you want. If you design a house with the intention of screen use and want light from windows, you're going to make the windows 130% the area you normally would.

That creates some inertia.

"If a 4,000-pound SUV runs a red light, they get a ticket and you pay it online. You're done with it in a matter of minutes. But if a 60-pound bicycle runs a red light, then they can get a criminal summons, which means you have to take a day off of work, go to court, probably you should hire a lawyer. And if you are an immigrant, then that can put you at risk of deportation," Berlanga said.

I'm in California, not in New York City, but I have to say that while I have seen cars run red lights, it is exceedingly rare, whereas I see bicyclists doing it all the time. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if New York City has a similar situation. Whether-or-not the current situation is a good one, I do think that there's a lack of deterrence as things stand.

EDIT: And while that's the most egregious issue, I also see:

• People riding their bikes on the street at night without a light, which they are required to have here. This one boggles me, because I've almost been hit on a number of occasions while bicycling with a light at night, and now use both a regular headlight and a flashing headlight and a flashing taillight to increase visibility. People who bicycle in black clothes with no lights at night are crazy, even issues of illegality aside, and I see those every night.

• Not nearly as common, but bicyclists cycling the wrong way down roads. Automobiles don't do this.

Oh, thanks. I'd been settling for the ergo mech community at [email protected] because the non-ergo mechanical keyboard community was on lemmy.ml.

and keep me awake

• The artist, Richard Klos, appears to be Dutch. One convention that I understand to be common in the US and uncommon in Europe is the use of screens on windows. The US used to have some serious tropical disease problems that didn't exist in Europe, and window screens became a norm in the US to deal with that.

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

  By the 1950s, malaria was largely eradicated in the United States due to the widespread use of window screens.[3] Today many houses in Australia, the United States and Canada have screens on operable windows.[4]

  While mosquito-borne malaria isn't a problem in Europe today, screens will still work to keep mosquitoes-as-an-annoyance out.

• That's probably sufficient, but if you want a second line of defense or don't want window screens, in some places, like Africa, that still have tropical disease issues, use of mosquito netting over beds is used.

https://www.amazon.com/Sublaga-Mosquito-Hanging-Installation-Decorative/dp/B0BZV3T8TG