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Set up a wireless microphone by him at the front of the room. Hook the receiver up to headphones with active noise cancellation

those do a really good job of filtering out fan noise.

https://www.amazon.com/Phenyx-Pro-Wireless-Microphone-Transmitter/dp/B0CRRH28H7

https://www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComfort-45-Bluetooth-Canceling-Headphones/dp/B098FKXT8L

https://www.amazon.com/Extension-Auxiliary-Headphones-Tablets-Players/dp/B07XF8XG45

I've always felt that humanity can overcome, or at least mitigate, any hurdles opposing it via use of money and technology.

My backlog of Steam games that I haven't played through is kind of overwhelming.

Some highly-replayable games, like roguelikes, make it worse, because they soak up time that isn't going towards finishing the finishable ones.

Variants on that problem have been around for quite some time.

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

On some older IBM PC–compatible computers, the turbo button selects one of two run states: the default "turbo" speed or a reduced speed closer to the Intel 8086 CPU. It was relatively common on computers using the Intel 80286,[1] 80386 and 80486 processors,[2] from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. The name is inspired by turbocharger, a device which increases an engine's power and efficiency. When pressed, the "turbo" button is intended to let a computer run at the highest speed for which it had been designed.[3]

With the introduction of CPUs which ran faster than the original 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 used in the IBM Personal Computer, programs which relied on the CPU's frequency for timing were executing faster than intended. Games in particular were often rendered unplayable, due to the reduced time allowed to react to the faster game events. To restore compatibility, the "turbo" button was added.[4] Disengaging turbo mode slows the system down to a state compatible with original 8086/8088 chips.

Fuckwit thinks paying more for goods means good trade practices.

Consumers forced to pay 15% more for dumbasses self imposed taxes.

It lets him impose a regressive tax, one that disproportionately affects the poor, without encountering a lot of political resistance.

If he'd said "we're going to impose a national sales tax", it would have been extremely unpopular.

https://www.tsunami.gov/ says that they expect it to be 1-3 meters at Hawaii:

PHEB/1-3 meters/ - 1-3 meters Hawaii Issued at: 7/29/2025, 6:50:40 PM

The first tsunami wave is forecast to reach Hawaii just after 7:15 p.m. local time. Destructive tsunami waves are expected, according to Oahu Emergency Management.

Hawaii local time is UTC-10; Hawaii apparently does not use Daylight Savings Time.

So for people elsewhere interested in watching the live coverage that will, I expect, show up:

https://everytimezone.com/?t=68896080%2C13b

That's 10:15 PM, Pacific Daylight Savings time here in California.

Will be early morning in Europe.

Probably possible to have something like a Selenium or whatever the kids use to automate Web browsers these days Python script that automatically builds a credible viewing history that looks like an adult's.

I used putty for tunnels on windows machines.

Fair enough, and come to think of it, I think I have too. Just was pointing out that not all SSH implementations have tunnelling functionality.

But if they ban VPN it will be harder for them to prove the SSH is being used for the purpose evading their stupid law.

Yeah, that's true.

Say this goes into force. So what happens when some random EU user downloads a software package from a non-EU-based source that doesn't comply and uses it to talk to servers outside the EU?

I mean, I can even give an off-the-cuff example for today. Get an XMPP client like Pidgin. Install the OTR plugin. XMPP clients let you choose any server you want, and XMPP servers federate. You now have (deniable) end-to-end encrypted messaging.

XMPP servers outside the EU are not going to care about EU mandates. Is the EU going to set up a "Great Firewall of Europe", try to build a list of XMPP servers, and block access to them? What happens when people access XMPP servers via something like Tor? Is the EU going to try to identify Tor traffic and block it too?

Spanish ads for womans deodorant.

Google's data-mining software knew pretty well who 1D10 was. It had simply concluded, based on its extensive database spanning vast numbers of users around the world, that he would look magnificent in a flamenco dress.

I've certainly happily used SSH tunnels

on Linux it's great in that it's readily available wherever you already have OpenSSH installed

but one downside of OpenSSH as a general-purpose tool for tunneling is that it is intrinsically TCP and thus forces packet ordering across multiple tunneled connections, which may not be necessary for whatever you're doing and can have performance impact. Part of the reason mosh exists is to deal with that (not for the SSH-as-a-tunneling-protocol case, but rather for the "SSH-as-a-remote-shell" case).

Wireguard is UDP, and OpenVPN can use either TCP or UDP, depending upon how it's configured.

If we were going to move the world to a single "tunneling" protocol, SSH wouldn't be my first choice, even though it's awfully handy as a quick-and-dirty way to tunnel data.

"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.”

When I was a kid, Reddit and general public Internet access weren't things, but I sure managed to get my hands on pornography. I'm pretty confident that even entirely killing Internet access isn't going to stop kids who want to get ahold of porn from getting ahold of it.