Look I’m sorry, i wasn’t meaning to upset you with my original comment. But I also wasn’t the only person to call out the inaccuracies.

Oh I didn’t realize you had the dates of firework and firearm inventions memorized, I figured you had been looking something up.

In any case, you can consider my comment directed at anyone else who comes along and thinks that people didn’t use gunpowder for killing people for over a millenia after it was invented, based on reading your post.

10th century starts at 900 CE, so you’re actually talking about 1100 years from 200 BCE.

However, you’re also using a very loose definition of fireworks. They (the Han dynasty) were throwing bamboo tubes into fire to make them go BANG in 200 BCE. Those weren’t even related (most likely) to the invention of gunpowder. The best theories suggest alchemist were looking for the elixir of life when they stumbled on something pretty flammable.

Gunpowder in a reasonably effective form wasn’t invented until about 800 CE (9th century) by the Tang dynasty. That was refined for the next 100 years to be more effective and around 900CE they got close to what we have today. They (the Song dynasty) used it pretty much immediately to make weapons (fire arrows).

Fuck yeah, I’ll raise a glass of spider-venom-laced-pumpkin-juice to that!

I’m so frustrated that this article, and many other sources - including news programs, are not talking about the lack of alarms in the buildings. I agree that the materials and density were terrible and created a catastrophic situation for the structures, but the lack of alarms to alert residents is absolutely ridiculous and is what made this such a huge tragedy for the people who died.

If the buildings’ alarms aren’t working, then they should be on “fire watch” with 24/7 personnel ready to alert people on every floor where the alarm isn’t working. Does that cost too much? Then fix the fucking alarms as a top priority. This is especially true when there are no automatic sprinklers, which sounds like is often the case in Hong Kong.

There are reports that people were getting calls from their friends and relatives and that’s how they learned about the fire. People were waking up to the smell of smoke without an alarm going off. WTF. That’s so far beyond acceptable, I don’t know what else to say.

I travel a lot and I always bring my own smoke and CO detector with me. This is an example of why.

When you’re above the law, does it matter?

Too late, it’s dead!

From other articles, it looks like they get paid to take away waste, but instead of taking it somewhere proper that costs money, they dump it illegally. They may have even purchased the land at auction for this purpose. Also, it seems like agencies have been involved since July and they failed to properly shut it down. Ouch.

I saw one estimate that they made £500k through this scheme and an estimate that it will cost £26m to clean up.

Apparently there is more garbage that is buried at the site, and some sections of the pile are heating up and may spontaneously combust, adding a whole new issue to this mess.

Interesting, I can’t seem to find highsignal when I search in Voyager.

Edit: Nevermind, Voyager doesn’t do feeds. I didn’t realize it was a thing.

Maybe look at Zigbee instead of Bluetooth. It’s meant for home automation stuff, but I think it might be easier to set up to perform an action on an input from a button.

Or you can look at Bluetooth remotes but I feel like you’d have to create custom software to take the input and perform an action.

That said, you can use ChatGPT or Claude to help you get started. It’s one of the things an LLM is good at. Tell it you’re a beginner and what you’re trying to do and it can help you through the steps of setting up and writing the basic app. Be warned, the LLM will eventually lose its way and stop making code that makes sense.

You mentioned you were still interested in a button.

How are your programming skills, and what’s your current setup? Are you using a PC? Is there a specific reason you want a bluetooth button instead of, say, a USB one? Or even just using a keyboard shortcut?

If you care, it’s been around since the 1970’s and was coined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM. Certainly not just a crypto-bro thing.

Interesting, they never seem to ripen for me, but maybe I’m too impatient

If and only if they’re ripe.

Sounds like an average day trying to run something on Linux.

Did you have “Back Hole Sun”?

I didn’t, but it also doesn’t mention water

Someone please edit the Wikipedia page for magnets to add the fact that water cancels them out.

iCarly was just a follower of JenniCam and AmandaCam from the late 90’s and camgirls/camboys/cammers in the early 2000’s.

Yeah this is scary, especially given the number of people who visit.

However, this may be a case where things locked down (in a futile attempt to contain the thieves), as opposed to a fire. This still isn’t great, especially if it was someone who wanted to hurt people, but it’s probably why it happened.