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ancientworldnow··on Obscura: A VPN that can't track your activity
It seems they're a Bitcoin core developer, I'm sure they're aware of the issues and asterisks.
ancientworldnow··on SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up with 1M
The article doesn't say that it's been fixed, merely there's a new attempt to lessen the issue that is being tested with the latest batch (which were still easily visible by eye via earth bound observers).
ancientworldnow··on SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up with 1M
Most of that population can't afford Starlink prices.
ancientworldnow··on Study: U.S. dietary recommendations for protein intake are too low
It's an error that has been continuously repeated in locker rooms after Americans misunderstood what a kg is.
ancientworldnow··on Apple's iPhone 15 and 15 Pro: Imaging tech examined
Absolutely not, it's an ergonomics question and a need for non computationally mangled imaging like apple engineers think looks good.
ancientworldnow··on Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (2014)
Software absolutely already has page flattening capability. Labor is not as trivial as you make it sound.
ancientworldnow··on Graphics card generation is over and it was mostly trash
Crypto hasn't been a factor on GPU pricing for nearing two years now.
ancientworldnow··on FFmpeg Patches for a 20% speedup of Apple ProRes decoding
I've delivered to Apple with ffmpeg flavor prores files (as well as Netflix). Both pass QC just fine.
ancientworldnow··on Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024
Gamers like to ignore inflation and increasing fab costs and pretend cards should cost the same forever with double performance gains every 1.5 years.
ancientworldnow··on The Pentagon’s UFO Shop, the Hitchhiker Effect, and Models of Contagion [pdf]
Publicly no one with first hand experience has testified, but the Inspector General Office for the Intelligence Community independently interviewed (allegedly) over 40 witnesses with first hand knowledge, corroborating some of Grusch's claims (we have no idea the extent or what specifically). They brought their independent findings to the gang of eight (including schumer and rubio) who immediately introduced legislation to accelerate "disclosure" of the phenomenon (namely the UAP disclosure act within the DoD 2024 appropriations bill). Take from that what you will.
ancientworldnow··on A look into the finances of SpaceX
You mean the guy that spacex has a created a dedicated handler team for to keep him from interfering with their work?
ancientworldnow··on Pentagon is investigating compromise in Air Force communications: Report
Decoding HAVE QUICK doesn't help you when the transmissions are still encrypted though.
ancientworldnow··on Tesla sued for false advertising after allegedly exaggerating EV ranges
They're clearly referring to Celsius as it's Montreal in July.
ancientworldnow··on Public US hearing on UFOs [video]
There is classified physical documentation that the IGIC is in possession of and has spent nearly four years verifying and found to be credible and corroborated by dozens of first hand witnesses over the course of their investigation.

Unfortunately all of that is still classified but congresspeople who have been briefed have been sufficiently motivated to introduce legislation to investigate further (as Chuck Schumer has recently done in the Senate).

ancientworldnow··on Middle class homebuyers taking $7k mortgages planning to later refinance down
It would improve liquidity but most people selling their homes also need to buy a new one.
ancientworldnow··on Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption
You can encrypt the Google drive backup actually. It's just a toggle switch on the backup menu setting to enable it.
ancientworldnow··on Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN
VPN works fine on it in the US.
ancientworldnow··on Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers
I would recommend Come and See to complete the trilogy of the devastation of war.
ancientworldnow··on The A-10 is retiring and the Air Force has no close air support replacement
F-35 ($78M) costs less than a new f-15 ($80M) currently. It's oy marginally more than a modern f-16 ($65M) with hugely more capability.
ancientworldnow··on The quest for a simple smartwatch
Yes, that's the only form.
ancientworldnow··on Pixel fucked: Inside Hollywood's VFX crisis
VFX is hugely outsourced so you need to unionize globally (especially India, Eastern Europe, etc) for it to work.
ancientworldnow··on Pixel fucked: Inside Hollywood's VFX crisis
In the film industry everyone knows they're being taken advantage of, it's very explicitly discussed at the lowest ranks of production. It's just that it's the only entrance to the field if you aren't wealthy or heavily connected. You have to suffer until you build your network and credits enough to pull yourself up. There's little to no delusion, just embracing the suck.
ancientworldnow··on US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs
Senator Gillibrand (D) has been working on this with as much interest and conviction as Rubio for several years now.
ancientworldnow··on US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs
Well people have been leaking claims for decades (since roswell) so perhaps they haven't kept it secret but it didn't matter because no one believed it anyway.
ancientworldnow··on US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs
These inquiries predate covid (UAPTF started in 2017).
ancientworldnow··on Meta's plan to offer free commercial AI models puts pressure on Google, OpenAI
As opposed to simply being locked into openai api's as the only option?
ancientworldnow··on New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes
If they don't want that to happen they can simply pay deferred compensation like non competes work in every other nation instead of holding them hostage through medical debt service.
ancientworldnow··on Eastern philosophy says there is no “self” – science agrees
Western philosophy absolutely does not consider the self stable and hasn't for ages. Further, the experiment is very similar to tests Freud conducted under hypnosis where he would instruct people to open a window and then ask them why they did it (after ending hypnosis) and they would come up with a post justification ("it was stuffy!").

Western science perhaps is catching up with thinkers like Deleuze, Foucault, Hegel, etc which they have scorned.

ancientworldnow··on I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print
~$28-50 a book for a large hard bound full color print doesn't sound unreasonable?
ancientworldnow··on US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles
Roadside Picnic, the inspiration behind Stalker, has aliens using Earth much like a family on a long drive might pull over for a scenic picnic site.
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