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https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/24/23320148/california-gas-car-ban-2035-ev-climate-change

The rule would phase in over time, with 35 percent of new passenger vehicles sold by 2026 and 68 percent by 2030. California says that over 16 percent of new car sales were “zero-emission vehicles” in 2022 — up from 12.41 percent last year and 7.78 percent in 2020.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/v3c9nv/oc_web_browsers_over_the_last_28_years/

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2022/01/18/22-of-italians-have-stopped-using-social-media-in-last-year_6efd3f1d-179e-4432-bfee-0bf7b945b35e.html

The three main reasons for abandoning social media are getting tired of the content (35%), the excessive presence of fake news (25%) and concerns over one's privacy (21%), the survey said.

Down 1.4% from last year.

What hobbies do you all like to do?  What got you interested?

I'll go first...

Linux

I got into using Linux as a desktop computer way back in 98 with Mandrake 5.2.  I thought it was so cool that there were people putting together an open source operating system, that it was available for free and that one could get as under the hood as one wants.  After some time I got into Debain and the Debain derivatives.  I came out with my own, and for a while it was rated in the top 10 in popularity.  These days I'm just a user again, but maybe someday when I have a bit less responsibility I'd like to get more involved again.

Inexpensive SBCs

I just love single board computers.  I love their efficiency, their small size, how they make the most of their space, how they run on less energy than the cooling fan of a regular computer, and I really love their silence.  This stemmed from my work with Linux, I started to tinker with fanless Mini-ITX computers.  It is a fantastic scene in 2021.  The Raspberry Pi as really brought affordable and relatively powerful ARM based SBCs into the commodity space and has fostered a community to the point where there is now strong demand for computers in this space.  I'm pretty sure SBCs will continue to be an interesting place to tinker.  As for now I am content with my current setup.

Exercise

I started weight training at 13.  Did it more or less consistently until my mid twenties.  I kinda slacked after having a couple of kids, but started back up again after I decided to do something about the extra weight I was carrying around.  Covid has kept me out of a gym for going on two years now, but I have a pretty good home routine; it's a combination of calisthenics and dumbbell exercises.  I'm also going for quick evening walks after dinner and am doing some skateboarding with the kids when possible.

Flashlights

I know this one may seem a little silly, but flashlight have changed a lot in the last 10 years.  The high performance ones have microcontrollers and some of them run on open source software that is hackable.  There are floody lights the that could fit in your palm that could light up an entire football field.  There are lights that could easily reach 1000m that could fit in your pocket.  The technology is rapidly evolving.  Unfortunately, you're not going to find any of these lights at your local Walmart.

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There are other things I am into, but I don't currently dedicate much time to at the moment.  I like to learn about the history of technology.  I'm also pretty into physical anthropology.  Performance cars are an old obsession of mine that's hard to kill.

Pretty interesting.  A breed of wild dogs that roam the South with DNA roots going back to Asia and are likely the descendants of dogs who crossed the land bridge with early Native Americans.

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

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/06/08/global-sting-fbi-run-messaging-app-tricks-organized-crime/7601886002/

ANOM, the FBI's encrypted device company, was used by more than 300 criminal organizations in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe that unknowingly communicated about narcotics shipments and exchanged incriminating pictures, including ones showing cocaine hidden in food shipments, according to the Justice Department.

Eight hundred have been arrested from around the world. Several tons of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine have been seized, as well as different currencies totaling $48 million, officials said.

The investigation, dubbed Operation Trojan Shield, began after the FBI dismantled a Canadian encryption device company in 2018 and forced criminals to find other ways to communicate. The FBI and the Australian Police Force created ANOM, which officials said was similar to the blind carbon copy email function. Every text message, photo, and audio sent through the platform – more than 27 million in all – was collected and stored in a server and reviewed by the FBI.**

**So, that's a whole hell of a lot of collateral damage for privacy advocates who just had their nightmare come true.  Imagine using an app because you think it is secure only to find out that it automatically CC'd some FBI database to be sifted through in hopes of finding a crime.


A pcmag.com article for further reading
 

Could you all do me a favor and log a th3Core outage times and duration in this thread?  Tech support keeps promising that they are on top of it, but we keep getting failures.  I'm not always online so I've missed some of them.  Thanks.