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YASA axial flux motor achieves unofficial world record in power


Fascinating stuff, I remember when I first heard about it and I wondered if it was real. Well, obviously it is, and I like the fact that the design is actual based on old work with modern parts and updates.

electrek.co/2025/07/17/yasas-a…

#Electric Vehicles








Figuring things out


As I mentioned on Monday, my husband passed away suddenly. This is bad enough, but he neither left a will that I'm aware of nor access to any of his computers or devices, a rather large problem as his life is mostly stored online.

So, I've been dealing with minor loose ends while things got sorted with the morgue, cancelled the cat food subscription, and the toilet paper subscription, got a computer trade in he was in the middle of wrapped up. Got instructions from Patreon on how to close his accounts, and scared up a site that helps me find out what bank accounts he had, though its accuracy is somewhat iffy.

I'm hoping to avoid having anything to do with the courts, anyone know if they need to be involved? I'm his spouse, we're legally married, and his family has accepted that, so there's no challenge to me inheriting everything, I see no reason to get the court involved unless its required. There is however one thing that might need to involve them, and that's his Apple account, the only way I can access it is with his death certificate and a court order. There may be other less pleasant ways to get access to at least his computer, but I'd kinda not do that, though it might be necessary. Does anyone know what you get in a case like this? Just what's on his iCloud, or can we unlock his devices? I'm not sure if'n he exclusively stored to his iCloud, backed up to it, or had a mixture of backed up and not backed up files on his computer.

Beyond that, I think its just sorting his belongings and deciding what to keep, if'n you're local, I may have some food to give, some of the stuff he liked not only wasn't stuff I like, but stuff I don't think the food bank'll have much interest in, especially the perishables.

#Life #today #STL #stlouis #missouri #Mo #death #help #family #Apple #advice

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I am not an authority but that doesn’t mean I don’t ache to hear about your, ah, adventure? at a time you least need it.






#Azov is where you can learn to defend your homeland from #Russia


While a nation-state prioritizes the well-being of its citizens, an #imperial state is always seeking to expand. From the days of the #Tsars through the #Soviet era and even after its collapse, Russia's neighbors have understood that any country bordering Russia could be its next target. And it's the peoples already under its control who end up carrying out this expansion.

#Ukraine has long been a victim of such ambitions from states with different names but the same capital β€” #Moscow

kyivindependent.com/azov-is-wh…

#invasions #RussiaInvadedUkraine #StandWithUkraine






Billing?


@#SpaceHost Help Checking in to see if'n this is fixed or if'n you've put together something temporary? I figure you can't run forever without payment, can you?

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  • People ask invasive questions
  • Invites misguided wishes of "get well soon"
  • Sometimes people just tell you to try harder

The second section is titled "Saying 'Today, My Body Chose Violence':", and the bullet points under this heading are:

  • Sounds way cooler
  • Might make people too wary to ask questions
  • Very literal explanation of what's happening

The text is presented in a clear, bold font, making it easy to read against the black background. The meme humorously contrasts the reactions people might have when someone says they have a chronic illness flaring up versus when they say their body chose violence.

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The image is a political cartoon featuring two iconic American symbols: Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty. Uncle Sam, dressed in his traditional blue coat, white shirt, red and white striped pants, and a tall top hat, stands to the left. He is looking at a birthday cake with lit candles and the words "July 4" written on it. He has a speech bubble that reads, "A 249th Birthday! What do we wish for?" The Statue of Liberty, depicted in her green patina, leans over the cake with a speech bubble that says, "A 250th." The background is a simple gradient of blue, emphasizing the characters and the cake. The overall tone of the image is humorous and reflective, highlighting the celebration of the United States' independence day.

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"It's wrong that on-time rent payments don't go on credit scores, yet apartments can deny people a lease based on that very credit score. Credit scores did not exist the way we know them today until 1989. Not only can we do better, we must."

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You Could Be The Only EdisonFuture Driver On The Planet If You Can Figure Out How To Solve Its Riddles


It finally made the news. I was looking at this, and I think my biggest question is does it have a VIN? Lack of a title is a big deal, but generally if'n you have a VIN and a bill of sale, you can get a title for it. Getting it running, maybe easy, maybe hard, depends on how complete it is.

jalopnik.com/1912328/edisonfut…

#Electric Vehicles





Popular Yogurt Recalled Due to Contamination With Plastic Pieces


simplyrecipes.com/yocrunch-yog…

#recall #Food



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I think it's not just the border. People keep claiming the US government disappears anti-gravity researchers so they can work on crashed alien technology. I pretty much think it's all a smokescreen and they're just silencing anyone who invents tech that threatens the oil/coal industry.

If we'd have hit the ground running in 1880 and actually used our minds to automate the economy, we'd be living in Star Trek right now. You can call that a commie idea, but I think it sounds like heaven.

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@JD Roy Nah, I'm pretty open to the idea, I've little doubt that capitalists have been holding us back in the name of profit and resistance to change, borders are for people, so many other things are to stomp out ideas.




The Onion
The Onion
#Satire



Could use some help and support


I'm kinda having a problem over here, my husband @Vik-Thor / Lirleni Hankeshe just passed away a few hours ago. Unfortunately in our life he was the chaos and I was the order, and he left me no arrangements, estate info, etc.

Yeah, I know, sounds like I'm moving fast, but as I said, I was the order, the solver of problems, the planner, plotter and schemer, as such, the only way I can really handle this is to fix what I can fix, try to make some order here, and keep moving.

I'm working on figuring things out, if'n anyone can point me to some good resources for how to handle this, I could use them. If'n your local and want to help me, I could use some help obviously as I'm dealing with a hoarder who didn't share much information with me unless I thought to ask. Oh, and I have a memory like a sieve, so that only makes the situation worse.

For those wondering if'n I need any financial help or anything like that, I'm fine, I was in charge of that, so I've got enough for I think 3-4 months with zero income, and obviously at some point I'll get back to working.

I have contacted @Bitwarden 's support to see if'n its possible to get access to his vault, as that'll allow me to sort out his private life.

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Honda's super low-cost electric motorcycle revealed in new patent


Interesting, basically an electric version of an existing product, I wonder if'n it could be a foreshadowing of their future plans at the lower end of the market, I mean imagine an electric Grom or one of the other bikes in that group, that could get really interesting.

electrek.co/2025/07/14/hondas-…

#electricvehcles #motorcycle

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Google confirms it's 'combining' Chrome OS and Android into a single platform


Interesting, I wonder what the final product will look like, and whether anyone will try to copy it or de-Google it. IIRC both ChromeOS and Android are based on modified Linux kernels with different focuses, so it'll be interesting to see how that works together.

androidauthority.com/google-co…





ATLANTA (AP) β€” A week after an immigration judge granted him bond, a Spanish-language journalist who was arrested while covering a protest last month remains in federal custody.
Police just outside Atlanta arrested Mario Guevara while he was covering a protest on June 14, and he was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement several days later. He was being held at an immigration detention center in Folkston β€” in southeast Georgia, near the Florida border β€” when an immigration judge last week granted him bond.
But when his family tried to pay the $7,500 bond last week, ICE didn’t accept it and he has since been shuffled between three other jails, his lawyer Giovanni Diaz said.
AP News - Spanish-language journalist remains in ICE custody despite being granted bond




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General reminder:
The domain name putty.org is NOT run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath… and it always has been.
You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.
Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.




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Which is why all the highest-quality goods are produced in....Venezuela, I guess? And Cuba, of course. And let's not forget North Korea.
in reply to 🌴 Seph πŸ’­ πŸ‘Ύ

The "money machine," that is, the Federal Reserve, is a counterfeiter, a creation of the government, not of pure capitalism, whose money is gold.

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