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  • They have good cause to believe you’re a Signal user, so they get a judge to authorize a subpoena based on your phone number, and Signal complies - and, yes, all they’re doing is confirming to the FBI that you have an account with them.

    Literally all they need to do is have their own phone with Signal installed, and then create an address book listing with the Suspects phone number on it.
    Next time Signal syncs, it will pop up “Suspect is on Signal!”.
    Subpoena-ing the Signal Foundation is not required.

    But it proves nothing, and if you are in a jurisdiction where the police can demand your phone or you are stupid enough to hand it over when they can’t, that’s not on Signal.







  • The OTHER thing that could cause stuttering is if it needs to be transcoding and that transcode is happening slower than realtime (unlikely to be happening here).

    You’d look in the logs for a transcode log for this sort of thing:

    frame=  408 fps= 82 q=37.0 size=N/A time=00:00:15.51 bitrate=N/A speed= 3.1x  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c875.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c876.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c877.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c878.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c879.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8710.mp4' for writing  
    frame=  796 fps=145 q=30.0 size=N/A time=00:00:31.65 bitrate=N/A speed=5.75x  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8711.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8712.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8713.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8714.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8715.mp4' for writing  
    frame= 1189 fps=198 q=20.0 size=N/A time=00:00:48.04 bitrate=N/A speed=8.01x
    

    if the speed drops below 1.0x, you’ll stutter.


  • I can’t think of a standalone gui app that does this (and a simple google search didn’t find one).
    If you have a gui desktop (gnome,kde,xfce,lxqt,enlightenment,budgie…) it will have a built in function in it’s settings to do this, or leverage one of the parent ones (ie budgie is based on gnome, lxqt on kde).
    If your custom environment is pared down to the point where you don’t have an equivalent to gnome-system-tools and don’t want to install it, you might have to just use date at the command line.






  • MountaineertoAustraliaTIL: Deer are popping off down here
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    Regulatory Capture.
    The government didn’t want to be in charge of this, so they’ve offloaded the responsibility (and the power) to a private organisation, in this case the Game Management Authority.
    The GMA aren’t all bad, they are also a primary driver behind the protection of native waterways (that just coincidentally happen to be duck shooting spots).
    As a shooter, I have complex opinions about groups like the GMA and SSAA that theoretically exist for my benefit.


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    Deer are a point of division in the hunting community.
    I don’t know the rules for all the states, but I can highlight the different approaches different places have with just 2 examples.

    In Victoria, they only want to hunt deer “sustainably”, so they have recognised “Deer Habitats”.
    It’s also illegal to hunt them at night with a spotlight (the easiest method, they’ll literally stand still and look at the light) or use a thermal scope (which of course helps silhouette a naturally camouflaged animal), even during the day.

    In South Australia, we have shoot on sight laws - as in you’re legally obliged to attempt to humanely kill feral deer when possible.

    Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?



  • The coalition has multiple aims here.

    1. This is a political differentiator - they become the “Nuclear” party.
    2. Nuclear technologies create a wonderful wedge to split any green support along the “reduce carbon” and “anti radioactive” line.
    3. In a best case, if they started tomorrow, there would be AT LEAST a decade (more like 15 years) before the first Nuclear electricity got onto the grid, and in the meantime their fossil fuel backers get to BURN-BABY-BURN.

    And that’s before we get into all the other little thing, that are really just colouring around the edges, ie spending taxpayer money to build a new monopoly which the government can later privatise to their sponsors.

    One of the things that I haven’t seen any of the recent articles highlighting is how no investment body is willing to back the construction of nuclear power in Australia, so the government will have to 100% bankroll it with our taxes.
    Meanwhile, private equity are lining up to invest in wind, solar, batteries etc - just angling for subsidies because “why not?”.
    This ALONE should be indicative of most likely outcomes.



  • I think you’re right, hydrogen is ludicrous, and bang for buck, some other tech will win out for time shifting the power, probably pumped hydro.

    edit to add: Hydrogen is ludicrous in the primary context of a battery. There’s other potential uses such as making steel, making ammonia/fertilizer etc that could change the equation again. Hell, you might even find it desirable to make it HERE and transport it THERE as a battery, but again, the maths are currently wrong.


  • It’s definitely not worth using full price electricity to split hydrogen out of water, if your intention is to turn that hydrogen back into electricity through some method (fuel cell, internal combustion engine, steam turbine, whatever).

    But if the electricity was otherwise going to be discarded (as is currently the case practically daily in SA), that cost/benefit gets crazy.

    Wikipedia has 3 links indicating around 70% efficiency on the electrolysis.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production#Electrolysis_of_water_–_green,_pink_or_yellow

    Let’s flip that around and pretend it’s only 30% efficient, because we need to turn it back into electricity afterwards, and rather than quibble about exact efficiencies/losses, I’d rather exaggerate the loss for a theoretical worst case.

    That’s still X amount of electricity saved for later use, that would have otherwise have just been switched off.
    And that’s especially useful when your primary source is not available (ie, solar in the middle of the night).