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I also think archive.today is superior to web.archive.org as it breaks less when archiving sources. It's a shame Wikipedia blacklisted it now as an archive source.


They also don't arbitrarily nuke entire domains (with legal content) from the archive like archive.org does.


They just arbitrarily nuke entire countries and arbitrarily edit the content that the archives contain.


[citation needed]


I noticed this on AliExpress years ago with cheaper Bluetooth earphones. Actually, all Chinese e-commerce sites activate audio for some reason.


Anytime I go on the website, my fan start going crazy. But it is a good website with the most accurate forecasts, I feel.

Another annoyance is that tree planting initiative, I was able to plant like 10 trees, now they made it very difficult to be able to do 1 in a year. Microsoft, you cheapskates, you're destroying the environment, the least y’all could do is plant more trees in vulnerable areas.


OpenRSS, your website is broken. I get:

> Too many requests are being made from this network, which brings down the performance of feeds for other users. Please try back later.

With regards to the topic, I've noticed this when using FreeTube during certain periods of the day.


Sounds like justification for a false flag operation by the US government. How would they transport these massive things and launch them on a different continent? That, or the US is trying to justify that this illegal war is on their doorstep and need to expand their terror.


The drones Iran are using are actually relatively small, you can fit 5 of them into a medium sized truck and they can launch in-situ, which is how they've been using them in ground operations. Doesn't seem that much of a stretch to put a bunch of them into shipping containers.


Ukraine did something similar and wiped out a lot of Russian aircraft.

Buncha drones in shipping containers that popped open once deep in-country


"Reichstag fire" attempts are definitively a legitimate concern. But as Ukraine has demonstrated, all you need to get a drone army deep into a country attacking you is a regular shipping container.


By what metric is it in "steady decline"? As as South African, it's amusing to see how my country is generalised.


Wealth inequality has increased in South Africa, similar to other countries. But their vagueness makes the statement impossible to test.



Load shedding hasn't been a problem for a while now. With proper maintenance of the coal stations and investments in solar, we haven't had it in Winter either. But you're right, it's always lurking. With increased renewable energy, and less reliance on coal, hopefully it stays in the past.

https://african.business/2025/10/energy-resources/has-south-...


ISO 3166-2 code for South Africa. It's from Dutch: Zuid-Afrika. It's used quite often to refer to South Africa; RSA or SA is also used.


"SA" is ambiguous. People do use to to refer to "South Australia" (the state) or also "Saudi Arabia" ISO 3166-2 country code.

ZA is not ambiguous, it has that going for it.


True, but I meant in South Africa, SA is the most used. Less so with RSA or ZAR. ZA is somewhat used but SA (I would say) dominates in conversation and in written text.


Are they going to rehire the employees they fired for being against this and Microsoft's support of the genocide now? It's more than just mass surveillance, and their leaders need to be held accountable.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/microsoft-azure-israel-top-cu...


That's really commendable, but I wonder how to do it on a large scale. Uruguay's installed capacity is 4.6 GW. On a larger scale, batteries can't be the answer as their energy density is quite poor.


WhatsApp's call quality is second to none. Also the fact that it's ubiquitous, and its sync just works, makes it difficult to move to anything else. Everyone's on it in South Africa. I think we can only hope for regulation to keep it safe and force interoperability with other chat apps.


>I think we can only hope for regulation to keep it safe and force interoperability with other chat apps.

Never going to happen unless legally forced to. Which is not happening any time soon in the USA.

>WhatsApp's call quality is second to none. Never had a problem with Signal - in fact I've had situations where it's been a better option than anything else available to me.


This simply must happen. I don't think there is another sustainable solution to the network-effect problem.


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