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How to prepare a tech emergency kit before the next blackout hits

28 December 2025 at 15:00
Long outages catch people off guard, but a few smart tools make it easier to stay charged, informed, and reachable while you wait for the power to return.

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Maintaining a tech emergency kit is crucial

You know how it goes — power outages are becoming more frequent and lasting longer. These days, our smartphones are our lifeline, not those old landlines on the wall.

When you think of an emergency kit, you probably picture food, water, and first aid supplies. But let's not forget about those little tech gadgets that keep us connected when the power's out.


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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Changing the Color of the Ocean

By: BeauHD
5 November 2026 at 22:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area in the Pacific Ocean where debris naturally accumulates, is full of tiny bits of plastic -- so full, in fact, that it seems to be changing the color of the ocean. [...] To better understand how microplastics may have influenced the ocean's color, [Daniel Koestner, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bergen in Norway] and his colleagues looked at 20 years of satellite data from the spot in the ocean with perhaps the most of plastic -- the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a zone between Hawaii and California where trash trapped by ocean currents accumulates. Between 2002 and 2022, the researchers found, waters near the garbage patch have gotten brighter in both blue and green wavelengths compared with surrounding areas. The results, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment on Thursday, don't yet prove that microplastics have directly brightened the ocean, the researchers emphasize, though their findings are backed up by lab experiments with microplastics. But without taking direct ocean samples, it's hard to know for sure what's causing the ocean's color to change. "We're still one step away from proving definitively that microplastics are causing the shift in color that that we're seeing," adds study co-author Shea Cheatham, a Ph.D. student also at the University of Bergen. "We just have to get in there [to the garbage patch] to verify." The hope is that detecting these color shifts could help identify other areas around the world where microplastics have accumulated.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Sephora sold me $700–$1,000 worth of products for $200 and is now demanding I return everything. Is this legal? PLEASE HELP 😭 what do I dooo?!

Edit: I will have a friend (roomate) go back with me in the morning because I just don’t wanna be involved in anything legally since I’m not from here. And a lot of things already happened to me this week so it’s really overwhelming. So I’m really scared to get in trouble and just really anxious right now and in a panic I think I would feel better if I actually went and paid for the things because I have the money to.
(Everything is translated for me because my English isn’t good mother language is French so sorry if some of my replies in the section that aren’t don’t make since)

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An old man called the police on me because i threw away a paper after he left.

5 November 2026 at 19:51
An old man called the police on me because i threw away a paper after he left.

I do vehicle emissions and registration renewals.

Old man came to do an emissions test, which we happily did. He handed us his renewal reminder postcard, even though he did not want his renewal done.

Once the emission test is done, he left without retrieving his renewal postcard, and procedure is to shred it and throw it away because it has personal information on it. this is not a paper you NEED whatsoever to renew your registration in my state.

Old man came back, demanded the paper back, and i told him i threw it away because he never retrieved it, and i explained to him that it was procedure to throw it away. Old man proceeded to SCREAM at me in front of an office full of customers, i told him to GTFO, and he called the police on me.

They sent FOUR officers down and the old man was trespassed.

Kinda my final straw at this job that i hate

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Securing local dev environments

With the recent high-stakes security exploits, I think as DevOps engineers it's our responsibility to make the local dev environment secure for devs.

What do you think?

What are you actively doing about it (like adopting devcontainers)

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The Blue Wave

5 November 2026 at 18:43
The Blue Wave

Before anybody misconstrues my jabs, I'd like to really stress that I am neither a staunch holier-than-thou, warmongering, corrupt, performative Democrat, nor am I a misogynist, xenophobic, soulless, warmongering, corrupt, scum-sucking Republican. It sure is fun to see the most evil people in the world stammer and scuttle about, harrumphing about how they could have lost the American people's support, though.

At the end of the day, real change starts at home. If anything, I hope that the results of this election energize people to get involved in their communities, connect with your neighbors, find ways to give back and support our those that need help. Because if anything can be gleaned from the track record of Democrats in the last 15 years, it'll be a lot of shifting to the right in the name of "working across the aisle", satisfying their corporate megadonors, and claiming their hands are tied. Maybe if we put some actual pressure on these public servants (let's remember, politicians are supposed to be working for us, after all) we could see some real positive change.

I won't be holding my breath.

If you want to see more of my comics, check out my website!

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