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  • 'They told me he was dead': Children born near army base learn truth about UK soldier dads

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  • Fascinating. On the one hand it’s great these kids in Kenya are getting answers. On the other, it feels kinda creepy that the lawyers can just take the results of a DNA test and compare it to Ancestry.com’s database of 30 million DNA samples and find either the father or a family member of the father.

  • Survivor’s lawsuit against Florida sheriff moves forward

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  • The sheriff’s attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that Taylor had waited too long to sue. They argued that Florida’s statute limits Taylor’s civil rights claims to seven years, and she filed her suit nine years after she was falsely arrested.

    However, Taylor’s lawyers presented a legal argument that—to their knowledge—hasn’t been used in this district court. The seven-year time limit functions as a “statute of repose,” preventing federal courts from applying it. Therefore, the court should consider the clock paused during the years she was a minor living with a guardian whose interests were working against hers. The team argued that under that interpretation, her deadline shifted to four years after she turned 18. Taylor filed within that window, the day before her 22nd birthday.

    District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a Trump appointee, agreed. She ruled that most of Taylor’s claims could go forward, including allegations that sheriff’s detectives had maliciously prosecuted her and violated her right to bodily safety.

    [Attorney Brenda] Harkavy said this provides an extended timeline for other survivors to file suits if they were abused as children and continued to live under the care of someone whose interests were averse to theirs.

    This case sounds horrific, but if it opens up more opportunities for child victims to sue their abusers after becoming adults that will be a major victory.

  • Microsoft Raises Prices for All Surface PCs, Making Them More Expensive Than Equivalent Macs

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  • Ultimate let you change languages, but cost more than Pro

  • What's the best piece of advice you were ever given?

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  • The exact wording isn’t coming to me, but there are a lot of decisions in life where one option is basically as good as another. Making your choice successful depends less on the decision itself and more on how much effort you put into it.

  • Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub

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  • Twisters (the recent sequel starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos) has a new team trying to set up 3 phased array radars 120° from each other to catch an unprecedented surround view of a tornado. It was better than I expected.

  • -Artemis crew: I think I can hold it.

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  • “At the next natural satellite make a free-return”

  • Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub

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  • The fact that Aeris-10 offers a true phased array system and ±45° elevation/azimuth adjustments are seemingly its differentiating factors. Prices for electronics are exceedingly floaty in these ship-shinking days, but a brief estimate pins the bill of materials at $5,000 for the 10N and $7,200 for the 10E.

    So for $21,600 I could attempt the goal of the main characters in Twisters.

  • Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI compute in sign of a totally normal and healthy economy

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  • Yeah the rest of the examples besides the shoe company don’t seem like a big stretch

  • Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI compute in sign of a totally normal and healthy economy

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  • Allbirds isn't the only company pivoting to compute in an effort to feed the hungry goblin called AI. Boom Supersonic is a startup trying to build the world's fastest airliner but has begun selling gas turbines to AI companies to power data centers. Many Bitcoin mining centers have pivoted to AI and it's worth remembering that NVIDIA's GPUs were once used primarily for PC gaming.

  • My greatgreatgrandmother, born 1839

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  • So she’s holding her granddaughter, if I’m running the generations correctly?

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  • I got one of those when I was in college and it was perfect for that. A little underpowered but great for writing, notes, etc.

  • Jucika: telephone

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  • Maybe it ate his coin

  • Some Weird Things Are Happening And The Grid May Never Be The Same

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  • I was assuming the walls would be removed, or not really be a shipping container but a steel frame that fit the dimensions and has the right connectors.

  • Some Weird Things Are Happening And The Grid May Never Be The Same

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  • Not having read the article, I wonder if building an elevated array of photovoltaic panels over the batteries would make sense by shading them from the sun, giving more passive help with heat? A simple roof would be cheaper but solar panels would mean the site is also producing electricity, not just storing it.

  • How do you keep an idiot in suspense?

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  • This not fooling me might be the first positive thing I can say about Liquid Glass

  • Progress

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  • For some reason they posted this on their social media account

  • Do you still listen to the radio?

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  • That can be especially effective on some of the genre-specific stations. I almost feel like I’m learning something when Richard Blade is on First Wave and he can really put together a set. Billy Idol is almost funny with how quickly he announces songs but if he has a guest it’s usually a fascinating conversation.

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  • Designers would tell you the quality is typically better on a professionally designed and commercially sold/licensed font, although there have been some excellent FOSS fonts in recent years, usually because of someone paying professionals to put the same effort into the font but then releasing it under a Free or Open license. The drawback of commercial fonts is mainly cost, especially for some popular fonts. The cost can vary depending on your intended use, such as one price for print material, a different price for web use or app use, and online uses might even be licensed for how many visitors a site has. Like, a license might only cover 100,000 visitors per month.

    And as others have mentioned, Google Fonts as a service is “free” but as with many Google offerings comes at the cost of additional Google tracking. They’re mainly using Free/Open fonts so they don’t have to pay licensing fees, not really out of support for free software. They have a lot of offerings that are mediocre ripoffs of commercial fonts.

    Butterick’s Practical Typography has a few recommendations on Free/Open fonts. The whole “book” is something I recommend reading to anyone who has even a passing interest in making their written work look more professional.

  • Meta today began removing ads from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media

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  • A couple months ago a story came out of a court case that they would happily keep running ads that were identified as scams; they would just increase the advertising costs for the accounts running those ads. The more reports, the higher the price until they reach a limit to ban them. Basically if their users are getting scammed, they want a bigger cut.