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For audio recordings, there is usually a trace of electric hum in the background that has enough randomness to yield info on when (and sometimes where) the recording took place.

It’s not as much of a privacy violation as a privacy vulnerability, but it’s still relevant.

I’ve worked with phosphine in an industrial setting; anyone who asked about telling me about it out of the blue would be extremely sus.

I’d probably go outside and put lots of distance between me and them.

“Believe in the heart of the cards spinners”

The mitochondrion is the power house of the cell.

Did you know that at the beginning of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the majority of its power plants were targeted and destroyed by US airstrikes?

What if Larry spent all his days daydreaming about numerical analysis and the crisis of replicability of scoentific articles, but all he could say was “meow”?

The people naming it just wanted us to check out that dope ass bear.

Fed to resume an approach of numbery simpling

Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Distinction is inventing a fruit salad that a variety of tomato can fit into.

Neither of these teams is at bat.

Yes, but the wording sounds more like “I’m eager to put my time to productive use”.

Those are 2 different questions with 2 different answers.

First one, maybe 25%.

Second one, maybe 2%.

I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative

So what made you install Lemmy

If you interact with a website through an app, you are ceding both functionality and power. Angry Birds is an app, Signal is an app, Reddit and Lemmy are websites with URLs and you are duplicating the function of a browser if you use anything else.

I’d heard of Lemmy (and Raddle) since the late 2010s, and put them in the “things I’d like to pivot to at some point” category. The main subreddit that I posted on (a transgressive mix of edgy, caring, partisan, and weird) was quarantined and then finally banned in 2020. As a result I quit using reddit altogether, but after a few months I poked around and realized people from that sub had started a forked instance of Lemmy as a refuge.

The one thing that’s lackluster is the search function. Everything else is superior.

The lint filter that they recommend cleaning after each use, or a different filter?

Good question.

If the one party is founded and sustained by people who are sworn enemies of said corporate interests, there ensues an existential power struggle between the party and the corporations (foreign, domestic, or most often both), that typically ends up reaching beyond the borders of the country in question.

If the one party quickly becomes captured by foreign interests, chances are the party was founded with that intention.

Apply this lens to the last 107-119 years of history, and most of it will become much clearer.

So who watches the watchers? In a way we all do. But instead of this being a mere idealistic aphorism, there are mechanisms in place to ensure it. We enculturate people to value equality and not valorize themselves above others, we minimize the potential benefits of corruption and keep the punishments consistent, we ensure that the watcher is not a lifelong position, we ensure that watchers do not become a separate class, we subject the watchers to oversight and approval of those who are watched, and we set up the processes so that they only function when people are working together.

This is so much more extensive than the asymmetric and byzantine setup that passes for “checks and balances” in liberal democracies. Is it still possible for things to go awry as a few bad actors try to bend the framework to favor themselves? Yes, absolutely. And that is a challenge to the people setting up the framework, to keep the wrong people out initially and to make it strong enough that it can keep its integrity once the founders are gone.

This is only a few paragraphs in; on a larger screen you don’t even have to scroll.

This industrial revolution was precipitated by the discovery of the steam engine, various spinning machines, the mechanical loom, and a whole series of other mechanical devices.

What is so objectionable about that, or so hard about copying it?

Being required to read something for less than 60 seconds isn’t a violation of your rights- in fact, this is less than 1% of the time a EULA or ToS takes. It also takes less time and bandwidth than many of the AI-training Captchas nowadays.

If you have a problem with reading 30 seconds of something you have a feeling you might disagree with, the real problem is you not being willing to peek outside your bubble.

I’m not sure that fitting Earthlike habitats in giant spaceships would make sense without limitless exponential growth. Wouldn’t it be more feasible to put something on the surface of a planet?

No matter how advanced our technology gets, we are not going to get around the basic constraints on energy.

you really can’t make this sort of assumption

That was the original point about gendered language but you seem to have flipped it on its head.

As soon as I realized that it was similar to the Costa Rican flag but with 1 inversion, and switching the vowels of the latter out yielded “Cis”, I had to make the pun.

If it’s an ambiguous name you might have to check. Fortunately, Edie is an unambiguously female name, and the clear majority of binary trans people pick clearly gender-coded names.

What did you think it was… the flag of Cista Roca?

I am tickled by this and fully support your TIL process.