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@cdarwin @indivisibleteam @renewedresistance @50501 Why should a speaker give a correct name? There is no law that requires people to speak under some sort of "legal" name.

Fats Waller, said it best "Don't give your right name" - at 2:35 in the clip below...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKe6yH3ZwGo

@otters_raft Here's a link to the original article:

We considered buying an F-150 Lightning in lieu of a Tesla Powerwall or other home battery system. The Ford was, at that time, less expensive and had much greater storage capacity.

Given the utility attacks on NEMS (that's when the utility pays you for the power your systems generate and send to the grid) rates so that it one gets nearly nothing from the utilities, I would arrange my use so that I consume or store all that I generate rather than sending it to the grid for a paltry payback.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/09/charging-the-grid-with-your-ev-first-us-residential-pilot-is-now-underway/

@atomicpoet @movies Not all bad movies are that bad.

I like Russ Meyer movies - they are so very dumb with essentially one purpose - hyperbolic breasts.

And then there is Meyer's (and Ebert's) grand creation: "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens" It is really good in its badness.

@alyaza I was surprised not to see among the tracks much from the mid 1970s' such as Larry Fast/Synergy.

@dangillmor While I lean in favor of what you suggest, I fear that "interoperability" will be difficult. This is because, as we discovered over the years with IETF defined protocols, that many groups implement only the minimal core of a protocol or standard, and often do so in ways that are not particularly robust in their response to interactions with slightly different implementations or when network conditions become something less than the perfect, noiseless conditions found on developer networks.

And one need look no further than the awful state of e-mail interoperability today.

My business is building tools to allow implementers the means to test their implementations in less-than-optimal conditions. It is surprising how often even long-deployed code wobbles or fails.