today only a rumour of a bug is enough to find and replicate it quickly.

anything that narrows the searchspace

eh. this is just them trying to have a thing to point to down the line. hey we wanted to stop it, but everyone one else didn't so we had to do it. We had no other choice:tm:

I just do very laconic questions about advanced topics, this seems to prompt it a bit more towards reducing fluff in the answers. But that + the activated pro could be an improvement

Too many things :tm: From Campaign Management CMS for an organization I'm part of. To various reverse engineering one offs.

Today I caused thermal runaway on a BLE thermal (sic!) printer. That melted half of its components together before I noticed. The fun fact is you can do that witouth authorizing, as long as printer is turned on "poof".

Now I'm trying to figure out a BT protocol if DJI Power station, so I can read and track its metrics.

I wrote an improved driver'ish for cheap 5G modem recently. I've been on the last 5% stretch for few months lol.

And I started reverse engineering my LandRover OBD/CAN stuff, so I have some data to publish for other hakers.

China is ruled by an autocrat who only listens to his yes men. This is a very suboptimal solution, to say the least. Every year this will become worse and worse as the autocrat gets more and more addicted to his own copium.

This is how it always happened in the past everywhere in the world, this is what is already happening there.

Sounds weirdly out of date.

In Poland in early 90ies your story could sound likely. Since then most places using central heating will bill you for "calories" consumed.

Since then a lot of investment went into insulation and replacing windows. I barely know anyone who doesn't have "new" windows, even in less affluent household, window replacement and insulation is a highly prioritized expense.

Actually it has caused some problems with too much humidity in the buildings.

I would assume baltic states are mostly similar since you folks are not swimming in free energy afaik too. So your case sounds like a bit weird outlier.

Actually not only that. It affected contact tracing, and people exposed to infected patients were not informed to self isolate. Possibly leading to extra spreading of the virus.

On my recent vacations to Athens I visited National Archeological Museum where the Antikythera is displayed. I highly recomend seeing this device and its recreations live there.

Especially seeing the recontructioned devices gave me completely new perspective about ancient Greece.

But where do we boil water for "herba-ta"? In "Czajnik" (keetle), where root "czaj" most definately comes from "cha".

Lithuanians call tea as "arbata", and it's boiled in "arbatinis". It also has nothing to do with "herbs". AFAIK, there is no reference to the word tea or cha anywhere in terms of tea.

Clearly, arbata comes from the same herbal tea origin, just the h got dropped somewhere along the way, herb -> arba, tea -> ta

This would appear to be confirmed based on regional dialects from this area.

In the Samogitian dialect of Lithuanian it's spelled "erbata", however the first "a" in modern Lithuanian isn't stressed, so it's very similar. Also in Kashubian (spoken in parts of northern Poland, often considered a dialect of Pomeranian) it is the same as modern Lithuanian.

On the other hand in Sambian Prussian it is "tejs", which is similar to "teja" in modern Lativan. It's interesting how two different forms emerged in the same geographic area.

Sorry, but it has everything to do with herbs. As well as Belarusian harbata, and Polish herbata it comes from "herba thea" as mziel wrote.

And the close neighbors of Romania we say "ceainic" to kettle which does come from the root word "ceai".

In Southern Romania we tend to use "ibric" more, which comes directly from Turkish.

In Transylvania, ibric is just the small pot used to brew Turkish coffee, while a tea kettle is ceainic. The terms don’t overlap.

I recently heard from a Turk that ibrik in Turkish today refers only to the small bucket used for washing oneself in Middle Eastern toilets. For the pot used to brew coffee, they say cezve.

In Poland we also have a word 'imbryk' for a teapot but it is rarely used nowadays.

Miriam Shaded is not a notable speaker at conferences or universities. However, she is known for spreading hate, and anti-muslim propaganda.

She apparently re-posted threats she got on FaceBook from unidentified Muslim signed as 'Osama J'. Then Facebook took that down because it was reported as not appropriate content. Then the whole thing was spun through Polish right-wing internet to provoke outrage in its readers by showing that even half-Syrian is silenced when she tries to show how bad the Muslim (immigrants) really are.

She never followed through with raising criminal charges against the person supposedly making threats, he also wasn't identified other than the initials "Osama J".

The whole thing looked like a fabricated ploy to provoke outrage in the right wing internet.

Polish internet is sadly rife with anti-muslim propaganda, that's been spun to position the society against the EU and broadly speaking western values. You can see that for yourself if you use Google Translate and go to the frontpage of Polish version of Digg/Reddit called Wykop.pl