saul_goodman

We describe "consuming" information and media just like food. I would settle for all media and advertisements having a required Nutrition Facts label:

Serving size: 1200 words / 60 seconds

Total commercial advertisement content: 600 words

Total US Government sponsored content: 300 words

Total foreign government sponsored content: 100 words

Total NGO sponsored content: 200 words

% of daily content of society shaping propaganda: 30%

% of daily content of subliminal content: 15%

% of daily content of emotional manipulation: %40

% of daily content of Gen5 warfare: 20%

I thought we already a place like that called Twitter...

Sadly the system is incentivized to kill off "harmless pirates", especially if they are doing something interesting. It's always going to be in the best interest of commercial broadcast operators to lodge complaints against pirates competing in their band. If you are in the business of selling advertisements on any band of radio (AM/FM/TV/etc), you don't want listeners possibly soaking up air time from anyone else when it costs you money to run your station. So the deck is always stacked against pirates in common broadcast bands. On the other hand, the shortwave broadcast band has much less locality so it's easier to do interesting things on those bands. But of course there's only a fraction of people who actually listen to shortwave broadcast bands, at least in the US.

I think people completely miss the point that this further enables a caste system in the US. You have an entire class of people who have almost no rights who live and work in this country. Any politician that makes it easier for illegal immigrants to survive in this country is NOT doing it out of the goodness of their heart. It's a calculated move to further abuse a class of people who can be completely abused without recourse.

Does no one stop to wonder why the government is actively hindering border states from enforcing their international borders after 20+ years of a war on terrorism? Why are these people coming to the US in such high numbers now full-well knowing they will be abused here? Look up the School of the Americas and who their list of graduates include.

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/School_of_the_Americas

"Apple has excellent IPv6 support on their devices, fully supporting automatic configuration of 464XLAT on devices with NAT64, and overall an excellent attitude to forcing IPv6 support from developers"

Other operating systems are bit of hit or miss"

My iPhone works, what's wrong with the rest of you for not doing this??!!

But in all seriousness, I think this will be a security nightmare for quite a while if there is some forced conversion to ipv6. I realize IPv6 wasn't created yesterday, but I assume it's got plenty of security holes waiting to be discovered until I see otherwise. The only way you are going to see it be used by end-users is if the various *nix distros roll out IPv4-less images. Same for Windows/etc. Otherwise you are begging for a security nightmare of epic proportions with software that is accidentally using the wrong stack by default, firewalls not filtering anything as expected, etc.

And who thinks it's a good idea to make all the things globally accessible? It's an internet of shit out there already, this would make it even worse.

In my head I've always read that as rando-mart. I have a mental image of a small high-density city street shop with anything you could possibly want to buy including small ascii art images of my ssh keys.

Yea, oddly this has not yet bubbled to the surface of this story. Your government at work!

"Always has been"

Very good talk. However I would only disagree with her on the idea that funding will dry up for particle physicists and that the model of funding helps to drive the useless cycle if bad ideas in physics (and any government funded science).

1) Obtaining grants to continue study in any field of science is greatly improved if you are iterating on an established idea that is already understood. Getting a grant on a completely novel idea outside of the mainstream field of thoughts is going to be much harder. Along with this is the reality that government grants are managed by a revolving door of industry and university insiders which is both a terrible and great thing. On one hand you don't want lobotomized bureaunaughts making uninformed decisions on which researchers to support. On the other hand your knowledgable staff on granting agencies are going to be the ~top of a given field and as such will weed out non-mainstream ideas for funding as "they already know" that a new line of thought to be foley.

2) While governments freely waste taxpayers money, they still do it strategically. After Hiroshima the world understood how important it is to keep a close eye on the physics community. Every country with a viable nuclear program must continue to engage in this game of useless increments in particle physics. Making progress is not what is important, what is truly important is that a country has its own base of physics knowledge and active development so that should another physics breakthrough happen elsewhere then they have a chance of recreating it on their own within a short enough window for it to make a difference. If you didn't already have physicists engaged in their craft then you would be 5-10 years behind the curve of any post-nuclear-physics breakthrough. The same game is played in many other fields of science...

American exceptionalism is dead. Persia was once known for their strong pursuit of knowledge and science, it's why the majority of the visible stars in the sky have Arabic names even to this day. Then the region transitioned heavily into religion. That's not an indictment of religion, just that we are watching our own downfall by valuing political beliefs above the actual requirements of any given job. It's probably too late to correct at this point as there will always be people willing to do what is asked of them, to proselytize the desired belief system to the next generation. Our union will just fracture as so many before have been fractured.

Hehe. One time I was in a ride share from Berlin to Essen.

"Where are you from" I respond with something mid-western. "How far from New York or LA is that?" "I can drive a day in any direction and still be in the middle of nowhere".

It was cute to see the confused looks on everyones faces. I get it though, you drive a couple hours in any direction in Europe and you are likely to be in another country or a body of water.

So, who's ready for another hackerspace group to own a submarine... https://www.netflix.com/title/80239100

You have to remember that all of the classified details about US hydrogen bomb designs we have were leaked from leaked from Russia after the Soviet Union broke apart. And yet only two countries have managed to become nuclear states since then (Pakistan and North Korea).

It's the engineering that makes nuclear weapons hard to do, not the knowledge.

If you garden then you may want to know your actual amount of rainfall to gauge how much watering you need to do. You'd be surprised how much rainfall can actually vary over a small area compared to a regional average.

And for people in rural areas that are not near other weather sensors, or areas that may not have regular internet connectivity or frequent outages (and coastal areas subject to storms and high winds). And of course weather nerds and sensor nerds, because those MQTT databases won't fill themselves.

When narratives collide. I hope someone does the math on how much this will degrade solar panels.

So when will the Flipper plugin be released?

"I've heard of it, therefore everyone has heard of it"

This reads to me like someone who has been raised to believe identity politics matters above all else. But to be more generous, sure, there are limits to the degree of arsehole people will tolerate as they follow the mission. However then let's look at Stallman. What really does seem to matter is still the mission.

I can't believe this many people really care wtf is going to happen to Twitter. I hope Musk takes the hardware running it and makes it into an AGI who's sole job is to pass the butter.

Here here. On one hand, she makes an attempt to "Sam Harris" the issue of conspiracy by recognizing that a persons circumstances lead them to their beliefs. It's obvious some segment of "the establishment" was lying to us over certain parts of covid. The problem is that people can't tell why they are lying and then fill in that part of the narrative in their head with conspiracy. With a 0.5% death rate, why the mind job to all of society over this thing? Is there something else you guys know about covid that we don't about yet? Is long covid the reason? But anyone who at least thinks a little bit can see the stench and coverup about the origins of sars-cov2 and gets derailed right there. Then we have massive censoring of social media about any discussion of covid which again forces people into their conspiracy narratives. The establishment is its own worst enemy.

Another issue is that the establishment tries to put vaccines in a separate box from the rest of modern human inventions and its a total disaster. Sure, vaccines are well tested, but look at what happened with the advent of PCB's, Agent Orange, Asbestos, Benzine, etc. The last 100 years has trained everyone to expect modern chemistry to be a disaster. You can't separate that knowledge from vaccines and say "this time it's different". Of course, none of those other chemicals were tested in the context of being injected into the human body, but that's just details at this point for most people. Combined with reducing a testing regiment that should run over a decade to 1 year and you no longer get to stand on your high-ground and say "your vaccine fears are misplaced". No, the onus is on the system to be 100% transparent and honest. But we didn't get any of that, in fact the stench of rot continues to linger: https://denvergazette.com/news/judge-scraps-75-year-fda-time...

Forgetting the differences between TX and RX, a loop antenna is a transformer and works on a different principle from what most muggles think of as an antenna. The "radio" part of a wave is one half E-field, the other half of the wave is the H-field or the magnetic component of the wave. What you think of as frequency is the EMF field resonating between the E and H fields. An E-field antenna is what most people think of as a "normal antenna" and it resonates with the E-field.

However you can just as easily resonate and capture the H-field or magnetic component of an EMF signal. A loop antenna is half of a transformer and it freely resonates with EMF that it comes in contact with. The tuning capacitor if your AM radio tunes the loop to resonate with the H-field. Loop antennas have different characteristics from E-field antennas, one of which is the ability to be much more compact for mediumwave and shortwave signals. This is why loop-bar antennas are used for AM radios and not much else in everyday life.

http://www.emagtech.com/wiki/index.php/File:EM_wave.png

There we go, thanks. The most useful comment buried at the bottom.

I'm not in disagreement of the ethical issues pointed out by the top 20 top comments here. But I think it demonstrates how many people here are from the ivory tower of IT rather than the gutter like the rest of us enlisted IT folk. If industry could be trusted to self-regulate I'd be all uppity about supporting them, but they can't and I'm not.

Sadly its cases like these that reinforce basic life concepts. Does developing Android apps really hold enough value for someone to wrap their entire livelihoods around? I realize people can make big money doing this, but is this really something worthwhile spending your life doing? Maby from an ecosystem standpoint it's no different than developing on some other environment. But the Google pool is simply too small to put years of your life into something that can be canceled at the drop of a hat by an uncaring robotic overlord. Or maby I'm making too big of a deal out of it, maby this was just a side-project that only received 10 hours a week of their time. It still sucks as it was a fun passion project. The same question rises up though. If you are making money with a project, try to not to give too much value away to the landlord. If one landlord can with a single robotic keystroke wipe you out rethink what you are doing from the ground up.

It's not dissimilar from others in the FAANG ecosystem. Someone that's all in on Apple: uses Apple Pay, @mac.com email, etc. They change the credit card they have tied to Apple pay, some mistake happens, and then a month later they lose access to their email and other majorly important services they rely on. Very inconvenient, if it happens when you are traveling abroad you could be screwed pretty bad. People are learning slowly: never keep all your technology eggs in one landlords basket. Some day, some how, you will make a mistake. Whether it's your fault or not, or you expressed an unpopular opinion, your project/livelihood/life/etc. will get deactivated with no remorse.

Very interesting, and the Bankers Almanac was something I'd never heard of before. We're all used to PayPal/Stripe/etc. working instantaneously because it's already inside the US system. While SWIFT seems decrepit, it explains how much trust is involved in banking; more-so for international banking. If there was not a person in the middle of international transactions banks would face a lot more potential fraud. If your bank went out of business because they participated in some dodgy international transactions you would be rightfully pissed off at losing all your money.

The Bankers Almanac also helps explain how "legit fraud" takes place, ie: how money can move around sanctions. It seems clear that by cutting Russia off from SWIFT probably stifles unrelated 3rd parties from moving around other road-blocks. Could also be something helping to clear the path to CBDC's: by removing major exit points to "Freedom Dollars"/cash.

I suppose everyone has a different threshold. Personally I'm reminded of this meme:

"Sure I can paint a horse, I've heard them described many times" http://cdn.cavemancircus.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2019...

The fact someone can write so many words about introversion and never actually explain what it is just helps perpetuate misunderstandings. It takes energy for an introvert to be around other people, extroverts gain energy around others. There are omniverts as well of course. All behaviors are derived from there. See how hard that was to write?

It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with whether someone "has a need for human connection", that is completely unrelated to introversion. But now we have pieces like this try to make the case that introverts have no need for human connection, and then helpfully investigates if this is a condition that needs treatment. Totally harmless.

I somewhat agree with your sentiment: the outcome is sort of the same but for different reasons.

> "but most central banks are good enough at keeping the rate of loss relatively constant"

The past two years clearly demonstrated central banks deliberately set the rate of annual inflation to a desired level in a much more directed way than anyone realized. At least for business as usual economies. Once you see inflation as a tax it starts to make more sense. But the end result is a "mostly" responsible entity in control of the inflation rate, so the sentiment is same: traditional fiat currencies will be more stable for a while to come, maby forever (when compared to crypto).

> "I'm not convinced that decentralized ledger-based crypto is going to win out in the long term"

Blockchain was designed to surpass the problems the pre-Bitcoin E-gold service hit: the government can always smite you by raiding your office and taking the servers. That's the sole problem Blockchain solves, nothing more. In that sense it's already proven itself as a successful technology. Otherwise, if you're a government-sanctioned entity there's no need to fool with Blockchain when rolling a CBDC: your main physical risks are terrorists and natural disasters, not smiting by a police raid.

> "especially if central banks make good on releasing digital currency"

It's coming, but it's not what people want it to be. The Fed is saying "we're not trying to kill off cash" while putting out open calls to investigate all the things they need to do in order to kill off cash. Another issue here that I don't see being talked about is that the very nature of stable-coins exposes these assets to the inflation rate that the asset is pegged to. This means it's getting taxed, and so it makes sense for the Fed to want to get into the crypto world from that standpoint.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-... https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/ifdp/files/ifdp1334.p...

The major danger with CBDC is that this is going to be used along with social credit scores. We just saw Canada lock bank accounts of anyone who donated to the trucker protest. These people are f#$%ed. Now imagine if they were locked out of using cash as well - even that emergency stash under the couch cushion would be useless to buy food. It's a nightmare situation and it's coming sooner than later. But again, governments and central banks don't need this level of power, governments have proven they will seize bank accounts of those they disagree with. But cash still allows people to move around these barriers. Once CBDC's roll out it's a very bleak outlook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpNnTuK5JJU https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/12/30/mexico-plans-to-i...

Lovely, a hit piece on anyone who's likely to have thrived during the past 2 years. Just another article that talks extensively about introversion and never actually explains what it means, other than to equate it with shyness which is mostly wrong. And just for good measure, it's suggested that introversion might be added to the DSM! Despite composing nearly half of any given population, you're a freak and you should feel bad for it, shun the non-believer. How dare you do well while the extroverts were left deeply affected from lockdowns.

Is it though? IBM hates GPFS and has been trying to kill it off since its initial release, but every time it tries the government (by NSF/tertiary proxy) stuffs more money its mouth. It lives despite being hated by the parent. Both GPFS and Lustre have their warts.

The UCEPROTECTL blacklists self-clear after a while and it's not nearly as bad other "real" blacklists. Considering all the other hassles one must engage in for self-hosted mail, this one is not high on my list of worries. My host occasionally pops up on these for a few days and usually clears without incident. But yes it's frustrating that my mailhost can be guilty by association despite being in good standing otherwise.

And of course the side-benefit for Gmail to enforce more anti-spam provisions is that it increases the reliability of the data they can mine from your mail, and my mail too since so many people still use Gmail.

Let someone else do all your thinking for you and you'll lose the ability to think for yourself. Let someone else do all your banking transactions for you and you'll lose the ability to do your own too.

CBDC's are directly aimed at controlling how people are allowed to spend their money. I'm sure most people will be fine with that as there will be a lot of grooming beforehand to normalize what we're allowed to spend our money on in the name of checks current state of emergency - climate change. "We're sorry, it was decided there's too much housing in the region you want to build that house, we're denying all of your purchases related to housing in this geographic area".

I know it sounds over the top, it will certainly be denied until CBDC's are here and in use, only then will it start happening. But only in a few cases, and "we're ok with how monetary control is being decided in the cases that made the news so far, it's being blown out of proportion".

https://headlineusa.com/bank-of-international-settlements-ch...