What’s the recourse for that? Do the surviving relatives of the disappeared sue the government? How much does that cost?

Promare is the most visually intense anime I’ve ever seen.

Usually it’s this, but sometimes the Recaptcha doesn’t even load (looks like an IP ban). I just submit the form, and then get an error message saying I must complete a Recaptcha, but there’s no evidence in the page of any Recaptcha to fill out.

I’m on a residential ISP. I’ve checked every IP address reputation system I can find, and see no problems (except from “Clean Talk”, but they’re so small that I doubt Google uses them).

Also, I hate knowing that I’m doing unpaid labor to help train an AI that will make the world a worse place.

I can’t make an account, because I can’t complete a Recaptcha. Google Recaptcha is used on every ubuntu.com signin page. (This means I also can’t submit bug reports.)

Actually, I just saw that the image could zoom in if I opened it in a new window.

Regarding your connectors: If you want to have the different parts of the keyboard connect by USB-C, then you would need to add a USB-C hub inside each part that could have downstream devices.

If you are willing to have each part be a different USB device, that would simplify the design a lot. Then, they could all connect to a USB hub.

If you want to minimize cable clutter, you might consider interconnecting the components with something like QWIIC, which is pretty small. It would also require doing custom firmware.

Electrical engineer here. I can only answer a few of the questions:

This will be a “USB Device” (as opposed to USB Host or USB OTG) so the correct USB connector to use is B receptacle, mini-B receptacle (obsolete), micro-B receptacle (obsolete), or C receptacle. You can pick any one of those. The obsolete ones still work fine, it’s just hard to find cables for them. Mini-B is actually very durable. Alternately, you could have a captive cable with a USB A male plug on the end.

KiCad has pretty good facilities for making your own component layouts. Many components you simply can’t find existing files for. Unfortunately, this is part of the life of circuit design. It should only take an hour or so per component.

Adding diodes can enable N-key rollover. If you don’t need that feature, you could skip it. If you’re going to the trouble of making your own keyboard, diodes are a comparatively small cost, so you should do it. The Chouchou keyboard uses a separate pin for every single key, so it doesn’t need diodes.

Yes, you can hide the parts in a case. But you could also just make the back of the circuit board really long, and there should be enough space for it. Picking out connectors and cables and stuff is always a pain, so try to avoid having multiple boxes if you can. The electronics should be pretty small anyway.

I have self hosted my email since 2006. I gave up on self hosting outgoing mail in 2021, but I still keep the server up for incoming mail, and still set up throwaway accounts on there.

The hard part of hosting email is getting Google and Microsoft to accept outgoing mail. Tons of businesses that do not have visibly outlook .com or gmail .com addresses are still hosted by those servers.

I had SPF, DKIM, and a static datacenter IP address with no reputation problems. I still couldn’t get through to Microsoft, not even in people’s junk mail directory, until they manually whitelisted my address. Microsoft didn’t allow them to whitelist a whole domain. Google was a little easier, but they added new demands monthly.

In 2025, I can’t get reliable delivery to gmail .com addresses even sending from a hotmail .com address in the outlook .com web interface.

Is this sarcasm?

I ran Steam on Wayland just fine for several years.

I got GOG Galaxy working in Steam, through Proton, as an “Add a non-Steam Game”. I’ll have to try Heroic Launcher.

I. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

II. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

III. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

IV. The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.

V. Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.

VI. People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

VII. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

“The Ten Commandments” are actually Jewish. Christians who read would know that Christianity is supposed to be based on two commandments, which according to their god are more important than the ten commandments.

There are some user interface experts who say that there is no such thing as a user error, only usability errors.

While no system is completely idiot-proof (especially for an idiot this clever), they still could have done a better job. It’s good that they highlight in red the non-conforming field, but the error message says “Please enter a valid date”, leading the user to conclude incorrectly that the date itself was a problem, not the “Month” field.

They also could have used the international standard format, YYYY-MM-DD.

If you’re holding hands tight enough that you can feel it at all, you’re already exerting more than 2 milliNewtons of force.

Not sure how much you’re paying for your VPN, but a virtual private server can be had for about $5 per month. You’ll get a real IPv4 address just for you, so you won’t have to use non-standard port numbers. (You can also use the VPS as a self-hosted VPN or proxy.)

$5 per month doesn’t get you much processing power, but it gets you plenty of bandwidth. You could self-host your server on your home computer, and reverse-proxy through your NAT using the VPS.

Rude? No it’s not. I know of only 2 people who consider it rude, and they’re both assholes.

I consider it rude to present generative AI output as if it were a legitimate human creation. I consider it rude to train AI on works whose authors didn’t give that permission, and then sell that output or use it in any commercial way.

Spontaneous kidney transplant.

As a STEM graduate, I would much rather hold hands with an econ graduate than a business graduate. Economists can do real good for the world, while MBAs seem to be mostly harmful.

Even if you can buy it, you can’t file a warranty return if you are outside Fairphone’s small support area.

Fairphone has guaranteed 0 years of support in my country.