Found the perfect ending for my block on binary and hex codes: The plates carried by the space probes Pioneer and Voyager!
They use a fundamental measurement of hydrogen amounting to 0.7 nanoseconds and binary code to try to communicate with aliens. Here's an example:
If you jot down the binary number around the disc, it's 100110000110010000000000000000000. In decimal numbers, that's 5'113'380'864.
If you multiply that with the fundamental measurement of hydrogen (0.7 nanoseconds), you get ~3.6 seconds, which is how long one rotation of the disc should take to hear the sounds properly.
Besides this, it was apparently also upon Carl Sagan's initiative, to turn Voyager 1 around and shoot that picture where earth is just a "pale blue dot".... His take is very moving 🥹
Why so few gun deaths in Switzerland compared to the US - when we also have many privately-owned guns? Johnny Harris did a video on it. And he nailed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnBDK-QNZkM
Hey wait wait, hehe, logically "nobody interesting but crypto fans" says nothing about how interesting crypto fans are! Have mercy! 🙈
This is how Twitter seems to be breaking up for me:
- Bluesky is where my journo friends & academics go
- Mastodon is where my IT tech guys go (have gone a while ago)
- And Nostr is the most exciting tech of them all, I think, but, sadly, nobody interesting is there but crypto fans... 🤷
difficult onboarding only to see shitty content
Yes true, but in the journo bubble here in Switzerland it sure seems that if they leave Twitter, they go to Bluesky, not Nostr.
Why are people not flocking to Nostr? Is it that the signup procedure is too techy? Content too shitty? 🤔 It seems journos in Switzerland are more drawn to Bluesky.
There's a group of men who, upon hearing I studied international politics & wars, feel instantly compelled to tell me how the world works according to their gut... 🤷
If, like me, you're confident with programming but you don't know much about elegant software architecture, there's a great book we use at university called "Software Design by example" by Greg Wilson. I've not had so much fun coding in a long time 😊
Also: You can access it for free! 🤯 third-bit.com/sdxpy/
What do you guys think of this combo? Any nays? All ayes? 😅
"If former President Trump were convicted in a court of law, would you still support him as your party's choice? Please raise your hand if you would."
Fuck me, they outright say it: Yes I'd support a felon for President who got caught trying to overturn an election. 🤯
A productive way of analysing "bad" behaviour I found is asking: What would it take me to act this way? It makes you realise that a great deal of "bad" behaviour can be explained by how things are organised and the incentives that arise.
Say clickbait: The vast majority of sites do it for the money they earn for ads on their websites & because they don't have to fear any consequences for doing so. No idea how to fix that, but it gets you closer to identifying a practical remedy.
Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, is best known for his psychological approach that emphasizes meaning in one's life as the primary driving force for human beings (as opposed to power or pleasure or sex). Frankl's work, including his seminal book "Man's Search for Meaning", underlines the idea that purpose and personal responsibility can help individuals overcome suffering and achieve fulfillment.
Attention, that's an old one. Refer to the ifl article I posted somewhere👆or 👇
Good news article by a physics PhD for those interested: https://www.iflscience.com/first-room-temperature-ambient-pressure-superconductor-achieved-claim-scientists-70001
You can't cross the alps from Germany to Switzerland, there aren't any. #justsaying
The trainride was AMAZING!, leg space, reclining chairs, even an onboard bar, man you should have seen it!
Then we hit a wall at 120km/h...
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First post on YakiHonne about how I'd attack Nostr if I were a dictator. A lovely writing experience, though upon posting, the webapp entered a spiral of death never ended. I fear it didn't land on many relays...
Hehe, dude, they cite Switzerland & Lichtenstein? I'm Swiss, Lichtenstein is our neighbor 😅 And our state intervenes HEAVILY to regulate everything from prices to obligating you to get insurance. I know only one private hospital, all others are public.
And why do we do that? Because otherwise profit margins would explode & people would be ripped off.
I will be following nostr:npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va’s example and will take a long break from twitter. Just sent my last tweet for a while.
Going all in on #Nostr!
Going all in on #Plebchain!
Honestly, I am just getting sick and tired of the same old twitter drama. 
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Funny I've done the same a few days back. Just log out. I realized I haven't learnt anything valuable on there for months!
Also: Do you guys sometimes watch people scroll through Twitter, Insta, Tiktok and think to yourself: "Wow, that's clearly not healthy..."