The question of mass surveillance shouldn't be about the fact you're being watched - if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right? The question of mass surveillance should be what the watchers are going to do with the information they've gathered from you. Sale? Blackmail? Law enforcement? But wait, who makes the laws? Surely no laws would be designed to hurt, marginalize, or outright oppress, right?
I enjoy that explaining why the pigeonhole principle has that name needs two levels of indirection.
It's because it references a physical proof where you put sheets of paper in an array of small boxes that office desks used to have, which were called pigeonholes.
The boxes were called pigeonholes because they look a bit like the nesting boxes of pigeon coops.
Will future generations have more layers? "paper was an old kind of information storage", "offices were a separate place for work", ...
My concern is growing over repeated and regular observations of technical illiteracy in generation Z and younger.
Schools aren't teaching what a file system is. Or how to think about organizing information. It's like the concept of a library was omitted from their entire awareness. Why go to a place with books when a Google search away gives the answer?
Without the tools to organize thought into reference-able ways, and how to search existing information and recognizing whether it is important, how will they invent? How will they solve critical problems?
Adobe has opened a survey to get responses in regards to adding Generative Machine Learning (AI) to Substance Painter.
Artists, avatar makers, you know what to do. Give 'em hell.
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TIL: the Trackpoint patent for that little nub pointer device on Thinkpads (and some other enterprise laptops), actually expired at the end of 2017, and people can now freely implement it without consequences https://patents.google.com/patent/US6115030
A capacitive sensor input device which includes a movable stud having a top portion for manipulation by a user and a conductive bottom portion is connected to a planar surface, such as a circuit board by means of an elastomeric, adhesive connector.
“This is a huge win in the fight for a livable climate,” said Tessa Khan, a climate lawyer and executive director at Uplift, one of the groups challenging Rosebank. “Government can no longer keep repeating that the emissions from burning oil reserves don’t count.”
Vandaag bij de @internet_nl platformbijeenkomst veel interessante presentaties en sprekers over uiteenlopende onderwerpen.
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Happy belated (15 June) 37th birthday to the GIF image file format. Maybe someday we'll know for certain how your name is pronounced. (But I doubt it.)
It's kinda amazing we're still using you (or at least using you to misname files in more recent formats).
But not, like, glasses with cameras and speakers in the frames. I mean glasses that can change focus and prescription on demand so that I don't have to juggle multiple pairs of glasses because I'm apparently old.
@Kem writes stories @Les Orchard Oh yes, it would be so nice not to have to be stuck with something that corrected whatever my eyes happened to be doing the day I went to the optician. I feel sure my prescription changes depending on some very variable things like tiredness and hydration levels.
Tech companies, please stop making things smaller and thinner, it's not 1998. We want longer battery life and our things to be repairable, instead of replaceable. If you can't think of any actual innovations, stop wasting resources!
@Kierkegaanks I personnaly can't figure out what kind of smartphone people are using just by looking at them. The 150 and 2000$ ones look identical from even the smallest distance.
Hey I didn't even knew there were 2000$ smartphones, I thought the high end ones were at an already too steep for my liking 1300$
@tstrike78 That reinds me of the Nimoy/Spock story.
Leonard Nimoy got tired of being seen as Spock everywhere all the time. He wanted to be known as the skilled director he was. His first autobiography was titled "I'm Not Spock."
Years later, when flip phones were new, he was walking down the street when his phone rang. He picked it up, and in an easy, reflexive movement, flipped it open and put the fingers of his other hand where the knob on the Star Trek communicator would be. It was a motion he had made hundreds of times while in character. At that moment, he realized just how deep an impression that character had made in his life.
His second autobiography was titled "I Am Spock."
I heard this story in an interview with Nimoy years ago, back in the flip phone era.
The problem I see with a lot of Just Stop Oil's stunts, is that they don't get anyone talking about actually stopping burning stuff and cutting back on fossil fuel extraction and use. Instead all of the discussion is about whatever stunt it was, which isn't really the point. People just knowing Just Stop Oil's name and key colour, and then associating them with being mildly disruptive muppets really isn't cutting it. Time for new tactics, I think.
@silvermoon82 @vapaad wondered about this as well, it’s just an oddball approach / vibe to everything they do. They give off seriously creepy brainwashed vibes. I thought it was just me being resistant / stubborn but their antics do the opposite of inspire me and I’ve known people who’ve devoted their entire existence to things like ELF and ALF so I’m no stranger to activists. It’s all a little weird and distracting.
Every time I look into their funding I find it's very much not open, quite hard to pinpoint. A lot of single large donations. I wouldn't be shocked at all if we found out big oil was funding them all along.
LB: This is the establishment version of the button that says "No right now" when a software company is trying to push a new feature onto you without your consent.
Until the EU and the wider body politik around the world give us a "no" button; we will have to remain vigilant.
The EU Council and its participants have decided to withdraw the vote on the contentious Chat Control plan proposed by Belgium, the current EU President.
I absolutely *loved* IF back in the 1980s, although I didn't get to play Infocom's stuff until the 1990s. If I had been any good at either writing or playing IF I'd probably still be a part of the IF community - I hung out with them on Usenet for much of the 1990s but never managed to contribute much. While I loved the idea of IF, games with actual deep stories or puzzles were usually beyond me and I couldn't get far, while the easy ones were too trivial. Maybe what I really wanted was just stories written in the second person. I dunno. 🤷♂️
I'm not going to be drawn into a discussion of who "the kids" are voting for. All I care about is that they're doing their research on who the candidates are, what they stand for, and making an informed decision based on that.
@avon_deer They're going to need a lot more than a million people to do that, and statistically speaking, younger people tend to vote left... Based on that, could be they're looking at an even bigger wipeout than the exit polls predict.
I hope people don't get complacent. Everyone who's registered to vote needs to do so.
@avon_deer It'll be wild if the Tory project to create a single party state results in a single party state, but not their party. They're going to come out of this with about as many seats as Lib Dem and the Greens, so we'll have all these small parties, and then Labour.
@tryst @avon_deer Unfortunately I'm well aware of what that will lead to, because it's already happened here inside the council... and it's the same sleaze and corruption the Tories have made infamous. Then when one of the few non-Labour Councillors reports it in, the Labour ones vote together to veto the inquiry.
@Phil M0OFX @Avon DeRussate Personally, I hope when it's time to vote the stats will say the tories are *so* irrelevant I'll be able to vote green without worry.
"Security are saying that we can't use phone lines." (the implication being that we're deliberately holding back progress on the design for an arbitrary security requirement)
No... Openreach are saying that you can't have new phone lines. They are switching the network off soon. It's being replaced with VoIP. There will be no more phone lines available. The POTS is dead. It is no more. It has shuffled off its mortal coil and gone to join the choir invisible. It is pushing up daisies. Dead. Deceased.
"Security are saying that we can't have phone lines."
no one will see you there!
edit; see! look at all the comments!