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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess a smart phone would be a luxury item in NK. So one could chose not to use one instead of being tracked?

  In Germany the government and police use the word Quellentelekommunikationsüberwachung (source telecommunication surveillance) when they express their desire to have a Trojan on someone’s phone - to protect the children of course.

  So the phenomenon is not unknown outside of NK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searchable db/Knowledge Management Software⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. Another rabbit hole to dive into. Thanks… I guess. :)

  The lua query language looks promising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not so fast! The judgment isn’t final yet. Plus some trials are still pending. Also the CEO seems to be too sick for trial.

  To be fair. There are trials. It could be worse. Imagine people could be deported and sent to prison for alleged crimes. Or so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Light receptors maybe, but eyes…

  source

  … and light-sensing organs called ocelli, which can sense the presence and absence of light. Additionally, some jellyfish have sensory structures called rhopalia, which contain receptors to detect light, chemicals and movement.

  Oh wait! This is unexpected…

  … One group of jellyfish, the cubozoan jellyfish, have complex eyes… with lenses, corneas and retinas in their rhopalia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocket shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  jellyfish eyedrops?

  Why would they need eye drops? They are submerged in salty water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My First Homelab⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have fun. :)

  Side note: Never look at LXC/incus or home assistant or esp32 to attach. Rabbit holes everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3073: Tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait. Avatar 2 exists?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I really need a firewall for my server?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In your case: no need for a fw if you can trust your local network.

  Generally: services can have bugs - reverse proxy it. Not everybody needs to access the service - limit access with a firewall. Limit brute-force/ word-list attempts - MFA / fail2ban.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK. That makes sense. It is more expensive (time, money) to reinvent a present technology, so it takes less effort to base further development on the currently available design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spaceweatherarchive.com⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The demise of just one Gen1 Starlink satellite produces about 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of aluminum oxide, a compound that eats away at the ozone layer. A new study finds these oxides have increased 8-fold between 2016 and 2022, and the recent surge is increasing the pollution even more.

  More details would be nice. Does it really have a measurable effect on the ozone layer?

  On the bright side, each reentry produces a beautiful fireball–and the odds are increasing that you’ll see one.

  Huh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The field of language, the meaning of words in different contexts… Communication in general, they wrote books over books about it…

  Yes. Murky. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  factory example

  Thanks. I think I get it now. Besides physical constraints (availability of resources, natural laws and the knowledge of them), society’s inherent values and rules (like work safety, minimum wage, worth attributed to a group of people/ the environment / animals) affect the way things are done.

  If work force is cheap and abundantly available and the workers’ health or wellbeing isn’t considered as too relevant the resulting solution to achieve something is very different from one with different preconditions.

  computers … because they’re so general purpose, more cultural values get embedded. Like in the example above, there are decisions that aren’t determined by the goals of what you’re trying to accomplish, but because computers are so much more open ended than physical robots, there are more decisions like that, and you have even more leeway in how they’re decided.

  The moral/ social/ economic decisions which are made are affected by the opportunities which a technology has to offer? OK, yes.
  The versatility of computer technology makes it a tech which can be used in many harmful ways. The potential for harm is bigger than let’s say with the invention of the wheel or the plow but not as big as with nuclear fission.

  Responsibility for the usage of a technology and finding common rules for its usage and enforcing them… hmm.

  Technology and what we do with it can’t be viewed as independent aspects?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When the discussion is about whether technology + an unregulated human society is likely to end badly, then there is not much to discuss.

  There are real life test series. In the 80s many countries put rules into place which forced the industry to filter/ treat their emissions. Technology gooood.

  Some countries restrict their people’s access to personal fire arms more than others. Statistics show that shootings are more likely, when everybody has a gun. Technology baaad.

  In my opinion it is mostly about the common rules a society agrees on. Technology amplifies both ways and needs to be moderated when it is misused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of this spoon invention story. I have doubts.:) I’m almost certain that eyes have been carved out by means of spoon. War, civil unrest and suppression of weaker minorities show that we have it in us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the way you argument but I’m not able to grasp what you try to say entirely. English isn’t my native language, this may play into it.

  Technology is constrained by the rules of the physical world, but that is an underconstraint.

  I. e this sentence.:) Would you rephrase it and give an additional example?

  I kind of get the mass transit vs. cars example. Although I think both options have their advantages and disadvantages. It becomes very apparent to me when… Lets say, when you give everyone a car and send them all together into rush hour and transform our cities into something well suited for cars but not so much for people. But that doesn’t make the wheel or the engine evil in itself.

  Also: The society and and it’s values affects technology which in turn affects the environment the society lives in. Yes, I get that when I think i.e. about the industrialisation in the 19th century.

  I struggle with the idea that a tool (like a computer) is bad because is too general purpose. Society hence the people and their values define how the tool is used. Would you elaborate on that? I’d like to understand the idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree. Technology in itself is not helpful nor harmful. It’s a tool like a hammer or a knife or a pen and a block of paper.

  I agree if one says that technology makes it easier to do harm.:) People and their motives and actions are the same as always, since the stone age and ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price Per Square Inch for TVs by size⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could also move the TV closer to the sofa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any displayport source can (per standard) deliver HDMI, you just need a dp->hdmi adapter or cable.

  The other way around is harder to achieve but works, too (needs an active adapter to convert the signal).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sampling bias⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they retrieved the survey from the bin, after tossing it into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Block? No.

  Ask public law institutions to not use it. Maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushrooms⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I want him to teach me about mushrooms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have 8 seconds.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aaah. I understand. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have 8 seconds.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The weak equivalence principle, also known as the universality of free fall or the Galilean equivalence principle can be stated in many ways.

  And

  “… in a uniform gravitational field all objects, regardless of their composition, fall with precisely the same acceleration.” “The weak equivalence principle implicitly assumes that the falling objects are bound by non-gravitational forces.”[11]

  I’m just beginning to understand. I’m not there yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have 8 seconds.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand. What’s a uniform gravitational field and why does it feel like standing in an accelerating elevator?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a rebel, pick up trash.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Turtle can open neither of them, because it’s missing those precious opposable thumbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a learning exercise⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Efficiency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half as Hot⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The indoor temperature is always at room temperature and vice versa. It’s not constant though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know. In ancient times, they had radios with tuners - and scales for visual feedback. In the game, they use it as a plot device for the communication with other… planes of reality?