It was something that was consuming a lot of her time at work so I automated it. I’m using 3 cloud services and I’m well within the free tier of all of them, even with this week being peak load (it’s basically automating the sending of a bunch of emails for coordination purposes). All I had to pay for was the domain to get the emails working.

I have to say, there’s something so rewarding about small projects. I have complete control over the tech debt. I have complete control over the stack. I actually get to watch my one user use the software in person and give immediate feedback. The number of times she’s asked me for something and I’ve gotten it deployed within minutes has been so satisfying. And she’s so excited and grateful because I did 20 hours of work to save her a couple hundred and a lot of mental overhead.

https://archive.is/Tigq9

this is where i learnt microslop has a discord server to begin with

https://archive.is/v3JGT

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status (archive)

Ages ago when I was a kid, I used to use flashget, but as far as I'm aware it's become a spyware/malware riddled mess.

My primary reason for wanting to get a download manager is because I really hate it when my downloads reach a good percentage completed, only for something to happen like the internet zonking out, or perhaps windows decides NOW is a perfect time to install updates and restart my PC, causing me to have to restart my download from scratch, that in itself being a problem if the download speed from the that particular site is lousy. Currently downloading some hefty files and the download speeds are terrible.

I'd love a free download manager that won't riddle my PC with spyware, malware or obligatory third party content. Any suggestions?

Firefox has informed me that some of my downloads have failed, but when I hit retry....I THINK they resumed from where they stopped? If one is available though, I'd love a download manager, even if only temporarily.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7811520

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza exposed munitions shortfalls and the fragility of Western defense industrial bases. US-China competition has further identified industrial capacity as a sort of strategic infrastructure that determines endurance, military capabilities, and economic growth. China-light policies by Western governments signals seriousness, but it may not be enough to build the structural depth that real industrial power requires. Without that, state involvement in the economy risks becoming episodic and reactive, when it needs to be transformative instead.

China’s industrial advantage is often reduced to subsidies or low labor costs. Integration, however, has been the most important variable, as Beijing spent decades linking upstream resource extraction to midstream processing and downstream manufacturing. This reinforced the system with state finance, protected demand, and long-time horizons. Western apathy that led to these industrial ecosystems to die as China began to control the entire global market.

China’s industrial strategy also has strategic adaptability. As the US and its allies impose tariffs and “de-risking” measures, China’s industrial depth allows it to reroute supply chains and absorb shocks. Its dominance in solar panel manufacturing, where China controls over 80% of all stages of production, allows the weathering of trade disputes by shifting exports to non-Western markets. Chinse industrial power is now like the force of gravity: difficult to escape even when alternatives exist.