This, I have plenty of smart home stuff all run locally, and every external call is something I can control and disable. Having a smart home isn’t inherently the problem; outsourcing all the computation to cloud servers run by unaccountable corporations is the problem

Krishna Janmashtami is September 6?

This article describes bottles found in children’s graves, so maybe similar? I can’t tell if they’re the same bottles, but that would be one way for evidence to point to child bottles specifically. Good question though.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bronze-age-baby-bottles-reveal-how-ancient-infants-were-fed-180973210/

The Russian abbreviation comes from the older form Aleksashka, which was shortened to Sashka, which then gets shortened to Sasha.

Sounds like an interesting read, worth adding to the list then?

Gorgeous!

Looks great. Honestly there’s an art to working with materials as they are so it’s cool you could work with the shallow alexanderite and make something great

Ignoring everything about Disney being bad, their engineering on managing audience awareness is incredible. Every little psychological hack mixed with tight control over things like sight lines and forced perspective is very technically interesting

yaml is susceptible to things like the Norway problem: https://www.bram.us/2022/01/11/yaml-the-norway-problem/

There’s also a lot of stuff that can go wrong with deserialisation that make it a tricky dependency for security purposes. I like how yaml looks and it’s obviously much better than XML, but it had those potential problems

Howdy everyone, from Madison. Scientist at UW and into technology and wordplay.