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So the U.S. government is considering banning certain parts for connected cars, (which is virtually all cars now,) from Russia and China because they don't want them to have the ability to use cars sold in the U.S. for spying purposes.
Maybe if we didn't let our car makers turn our cars into spyware on wheels this wouldn't be an issue eh? Anyone ever think of that?
How can you read this!? There's no pictures!
Little concerned wah on acrylics over a super boring book about politics.
Long story short: I had ordered a book on Amazon and I received a completely different one, when I claimed for the mistake, they refunded me instead, not even asking for the mistaken book back. I quickly researched how much it was that book worth, it was only 14mxn (less than $1usd), so I had on my hands a boring book that I was not going to read it and I couldn't sell it back, so I decided to turn it in an art piece.
It may be exhibited at the MFF Art Show.
"And a princess' kiss will lift your curse and turn you back into a prince?" the princess said, bending down.
"No," the frog sighed. "I'm a milkmaid."
The princess paused. "Er... I'll get my brother."
"Is he a princess?"
The princess bent down again. "If it's for a good cause..."
My lawn is apparently a fungus-producing *machine*!
(6 pictures attached. I rather like the last two, so view on original instance if you don't see those ones.)
Last Thursday night I got home (to the new house, having visited the old house) really late, actually so late it was Friday morning. 2:30am, to be precise. The motorcycle ride back was annoying because I had a lot of trouble keeping my visor clear enough to see where I was going. I had to stop and clean everything half way and it wasn't obvious whether it was my glasses steaming up, visor steaming up, pinlock coming away from the visor and steaming up between the two, or just damp on the outside of the visor! In the end it was probably a combo of all those.
Once I got back and took my helmet off I could see just how wet the air is - I even got this bit of video clearly showing droplets just hanging in the beam of my headlights and streaming around in the breeze!
I lost a post I was submitting to a supplier's ticketing system today. Wrote it, spent ages rewriting and trying to get it the least embarrasingly awful I could, got second opinions, and finally clicked "submit". And ended up at a login page because my session had timed out, the post having vanished.
In the end I could retype the whole thing with no problem because I'd taken a photo of it on my phone as that was the easiest way to read it to my dad downstairs to get his opinion on it!
Backup-by-photograph. Ha.
If you don't think Privacy is one of the most important things right now, watch this.
Every major car manufacturer does this. Every... single... one..
I hate this shit, it's why I've sworn off buying any car new enough to have this bullshit in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoiYa0G_SpA
A woman learned her OnStar system is tracking things like acceleration events, high-speed events, and hard break events and GM has been sharing that data wit...YouTube
DID YOU KNOW:
Fluffdragon nose horns have a variety of uses!
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MBiDL is an action adventure game set in the WonderBoy universe. It is written in 68000 assembler for Atari ST.itch.io
@Renbymon ๐๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Aah, could be. I think when I searched I may have found the Raiden from Mortal Kombat instead!
(I am so unfamiliar with that whole generation of games - before university I was an Atari-only zone, then I basically stopped playing commercial games completely when I was at university in the 90s and only gradually started again in the last ~15 years, I think about when Portal came out, and even then mostly small indie stuff.)
Like I said on Discord:
"If/when Windows can run Linux applications without needing to recompile them, including the graphical stuff, granting those applications perfectly good video and audio hardware support... you don't really need Linux anymore. The Year of the Linux Desktop is dead, it's just Windows. The exact opposite of Wine as it were, in senses including but not limited to polar, cartesian, and both axes of D&D alignment."
The great big feline snowball fight at NordicFuzzcon 2018.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vhfxnhalYCs&pp=ygUWQ2F0IHNub3diYWxsIGZpZ2h0IG5mYw%3D%3D
A cat photoshoot turns into chaos at NFC 2018 as the kitties run riot in the snow :)YouTube
@JugglingWithEggs
Mariana Mazzucato is doing good work, especially these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Mazzucato
Mazzucato, Mariana (2018). The Value of Everything: Makers and Takers in the Global Economy. London: Allen Lane-Penguin. ISBN 978-0-241-18882-8. OCLC 1049151753.
Mazzucato, Mariana (2021). Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. London: Allen Lane-Penguin. ISBN 978-0-241-41973-1. OCLC 1222804339.
@JugglingWithEggs
If anyone would like to see a completely different set of "rules" written by a different group of people, rules designed to adhere to the laws of physics and biology, preserve the environment, have a better understanding of human psychology, and whose goal is simply to give everyone the best standard of living possible with the most freedom possible, you can check out this link: www.technate.org
Included: Environmentalism, sustainability, equality, freedom, universal health care, free education.
Excluded: Discrimination, profit motive, private enterprise, exploitation, politics, money.
Mad cow disease, also known as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is when cows ingest contaminated meal, which can be sometimes made up of other cows. It was considered a disaster for the cattle industry in the 1990s.
Anyway, I bring it up because this is basically how LLM slop is starting to work now. All the nutritional grass has been eaten and now whatโs left is the contaminated meal made from other LLMs. The LLMs eat the meal, and soon we will have, like Mad LLM disease or something
The traditional [from the 18th century] British meaning of conservative/tory, is a defender of the right and privileges of the aristocracy.
Good grief. Starlink v2 satellites are generating 32 times more radio emission than previous generations! This is totally blinding to radio telescopes and will stop us doing science in this part of the spectrum.
BBC News coverage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4dnr8zemgo
Journal article: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa51856-24/aa51856-24.html
#astronomy #starlink #losingthesky
Radio waves from the satellites are "blinding" radio telescopes and hurting research, say scientists.Georgina Rannard (BBC News)
Yknow what saddens me
Flappy bird is back bc some crypto asshole done a legal shenanigan to get it declared an abondened IP, to use it for a crypto garbage mobile app under that IP, against the wishes and without paying the original creator
So, when it's for scamming people, we can actually declare stuff as abandon ware, but not when someone just wants to bury a beloved series or franchise, like the English dub of sailor moon, which you can only pirate now
This is why you can't steal from a corporation, it's called reclamation
Have you ever had a healthcare worker get angry with you for protecting yourself? Have you detected a critical error and had them argue or tell you youโre wrong?
I had a terrifying experience this week where one of my homecare nurses tried to administer insulin. Iโm NOT a diabetic. Iโm on nursing services for blood pressure checks and IV saline because Iโm dangerously hypotensive.
I told them โI think you have the wrong patient Iโm not on insulinโ and they became very upset. They tried to force it on me and told me my file would be noted as โnoncomplianceโ and I might lose the homecare services.
I held my ground and asked them to double check the file as they clearly had me mixed up with another patient.
They finally did - albeit through sighs and eyerolls. They didnโt apologize - they just left and said the next nurse could deal with my issues.
This js terrifying. Many people on homecare are elderly and/or not mentally competent and canโt always check and double check what theyโre being given. What if I had been extra woozy or had passed out before they arrived? What happens if you administer insulin to someone on alot of meds and not diabetic?
More importantly - WHY are we not trusted to know our own bodies? Women, disabled people, marginalized individualsโฆ itโs almost always the same experience. Weโre told weโre wrong and threatened with loss of care, non compliance, psych holds or worse.
Is the fact that I demand they wear a respirator before entering playing a role? Could it be that theyโre overworked and frequently sick because of unmitigated COVID spread?
We need masks and clean air in healthcare NOW. We canโt keep infecting and reinfecting healthcare workers and expecting that there wonโt be consequences.
We absolutely shouldnโt be infecting high risk patients who are relying on them for life saving care.
If youโre a HCW who stopped masking - please start again. For your health and the health of your patients.
If a patient tells you a certain medication or procedure will be harmful - listen to them. We know our bodies & deserve to be respected.
I may write an essay about this experience when Iโm less exhausted and angry. In the meantime you can read one of my other examples of medical gaslighting & misogyny โฆ one which very nearly cost me my life:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/my-most-dangerous-er-experience-and
#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare
A story of medical gaslighting, negligence and neglect that very nearly cost me my life - and how my accidental advocate (untrained and unprepared) saved me.Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
At my last doctor's visit the HCW tried to make me unmask for an EKG!! "Your mask restricts airflow so the machine might now work."
Miss, airflow has NOTHING to do with this.
Before that, my psychiatrist tried to imply I was paranoid/irrationally anxious for still masking. "Are you afraid of covid?"
Hello!
30 trillion cells in my body are human, whatever that means, and 38 trillion are various bacteria! There are a bunch of viruses too which are currently impacting my functionality!
I am 68 trillion microorganisms in a trench coat which results in a sort of self-propelling, self-replicating digestion tube, but I am paid to act as if I am a clean, rational, thinking machine!
This is very stressful for all 68 trillion of us, so sometimes we complain about it on the internet.
![Comic by instachaaz:
How I should be doing it.
[shows candle burning at one end]
What the doctor advised against.
[shows candle burning at both ends]
Current situation.
[shows candle burning at both ends, the middle, and well the whole thing is on fire]](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/581713 "Comic by instachaaz:
How I should be doing it.
[shows candle burning at one end]
What the doctor advised against.
[shows candle burning at both ends]
Current situation.
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Spying on us is literally a multibillion dollar industry here.