I was recently mistaken for a bot again, so here's a picture of my fiancée and me at the beach. Notice my human skin, something that most bots thankfully lack.
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Most bots *so far*. 😬
Which color was your first computer? 💻 🎨
@Em0nM4stodon It was a home built system back in 1978 which lived in a cardboard box.
Google has become an enemy of the open web, and it's increasingly locking down Android to dominate (with Apple) mobile computing. https://keepandroidopen.org/ A once-principled company gets more and more control-freakish, for money and power.
Nothing Google does now is surprising, just predictable.
@dangillmor Capitalism is pure evil. And the biggest propaganda success ever was to convince a huge chunk of the global population that the modern Western type of democracy with political parties and elections ever few years was the only path to freedom, and that you cannot have democracy without capitalism.
Now before anybody accuses me of being a "commie", I think that the type of socialism run by one-party states is absolutely horrible. We need something entirely different. We need some kind of global revolution that cannot be taken over by a revolutionary elite who afterwards install themselves as dictators, even if they rule "for all the humans on the planet". We need the kind of revolution that creates cooperative networks of equals without hierarchies.
That being said, I think that we can't stop Google from doing horrible things. It's a capitalist company, nobody should ever trust any of those. Besides, smartphones, tablets, all kinds of mobile computing devices, have never been "open", except for those made by a few fringe producers; they have been cryptographically locked down since the beginning, unlike personal computers. But then again, a quarter of a century ago a consortium of digital industry leaders decided to kill personal computing, and they have come quite a long way by now; it all began with "trusted computing" and the TPM chip, which by now sits inside almost every personal computer. With "secure boot", a few vendors can decide which operating systems a machine can and cannot run. And now other parts of the computer industry are killing personal computers by buying up all the hardware for their AI data centres. Having a computer completely under the control of its user, allowing it to run any software whatsoever, that's something which the people in power have always seen as an error that needed to be patched. Putting the TPM chip into PCs was a manoeuvre to shift the PC into the same direction as gaming consoles and mobile phones. Google allowing Android users to install software outside of Google's control was always just about having a competitive edge against Apple, who never allowed iOS users to do that. Now that Android is pretty much an established platform that isn't going away, they can do away with that and close up their system just like Apple's.
Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540090
#HackerNews #electronicSkin #prosthetics #temperature #pressure #innovation #technology
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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Born in the Wrong Generation" Pin. Ah, to be born 500 million years ago. Filter feeding with my trilobite friends. Feeling the sun on my exoskeleton. Doing all the other things trilobites did. That's the life.
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Johanna, CanCon variety
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They're the new vehicle for "caring is for suckers." It's 2000s irony culture all over again, but with more money behind it.
Russland gewinnt Sachsen-Anhalt.
@markus_netzpolitik Und die CDU hat sich halbiert...
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117207856734787448
"In most cases...the problems are posed not because we desperately want the solution to these problems in and of themselves, but because we have seen from past experience that human-directed efforts to solve these problems tend to spur further development of the field..."
The friend I went with isn't a big hiker generally speaking. She loves spending time outdoors so will join me on hikes sometimes, it's just not necessarily her main thing. But the really nice thing is that she actually found she specifically enjoys doing more challenging hikes, with more elevation gains than she's used to, and is now excited to go on more mountains!! I'm tasked with finding some options that are within our limited skill levels, but still really push us, for our next adventure. And we're both determined to get fitter. Looking in the Laurentians this time.
I told her she absolutely has to get better footwear first though, I was so nervous she was going to hurt herself in just running shoes. 😭
Thinking about my next cross stitch project…
It took a while, but I made https://respectfulplatforms.org javascript free 🤘
It now has a fresh coat of self hosted paint too, 0 CDNs used!
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@dansup Unfortunately LLMs seem to use this design for basically every vibe coded website. I'm so sick of it.
The Bulwark (among other sites) is, increasingly a bunch of podcasts. I don't have time to listen to them. I would read transcripts. Yes, I know that chatting with cronies and guests is easier than, you know, reporting and writing. Just not for me....
@dangillmor The problem with transcripts -- and I mean all them -- radio ones like I do, podcasts, courts, etc., is that you easily lose emphasis, sarcasm, and more. This not just an annoyance, it can be a real problem.
Finished Capitalist Realism Is There No Alternative? 📚
Wish I’d read this when it came out but tbh I don’t think I would have got it at the time. Can see why it was popular, but also why it was dismissed. Don’t usually read “cultural criticism” but was a fun lens to explore political philosophy https://micro.blog/books/9781803414300
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Radiant green.
@afewbugs @tangledbankforaging.co.uk
Some sort of M$ list formatting thing?
@rooftopjaxx @tangledbankforaging.co.uk I'm not sure but I've had a quick look through and I think that's got them all now. Thanks again
@nuwagaba2 Varies a lot depending on travel and time of year: they are mostly absent Nov-Feb due to hibernation, in their active season I maybe average a visit a month in recent years, though fewer this year as I've been travelling more. If I spend an hour or two there, I tend to see something like 1-5 hamsters, though on a good day it can be double that, my best visit this year we saw twelve.
@JubalBarca
That's not bad, thanks for sharing because you gave an opportunity to people like me to be able to see it. These are the organisms I really can't bear seeing them get extinct. Are they only found in your country?
