Hi everyone👋🏻.
Thought my first post should be a photo as a get to know me. So here’s one of my favourite photos taken this last Christmas with my best friend nostr:npub1jcjxjg92200kdp8guw8sysg8gr0ez29hahrfdy49h30hgnkpa4kqfvmtwx which most of you already know 🥰
Very new to this, so hopefully I get the hang of it soon 🤞🏻
#plebchain 
Pleasure to meet you, ma'am!
Truth.
And the most complex and expensive checksum hashing algorithms are used when the data might be exposed to deliberate manipulation by hostile actors. SHA-256 and above are pretty secure against any current threat.
There are still many valid use cases for older and cheaper hashing algorithms, even CRC32, if only hardware errors are the concern.
Viable plan. I've been doing just that since 2020.
But even on my "harmonised" phone, I don't install anything I don't need.
This!
Mass surveillance is big business, a rickety jenja tower of cheap hardware, buggy software, midwit automation and human insecurities.
Mess with their workflows even a little, and you will turn into a puff of missing values scattered across their database.
Unless you're Snowden. That guy will have his own specialised team stalking him even after he dies.
Your question is actually valid - cold water dissolves a lot of air, and heating drives it out.
But most of the gas in those bubbles is going to be water vapour.
Best and least censored of the corporate messaging apps. "People buy and sell drugs on it" level of uncensored.
But Telegram haven't been banned like LavaBit was, so they ARE complying with government demands at least sometimes.
I use it for family and semi-clueless normie friends.
Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge
Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38989690 )
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nuclear-battery-betavolt-atomic-china-b2476979.html
There is no such thing as waste! Only people wasting a potential resource.
(Usually because someone in government decided to strike a pose, using other peoples money and no skin in the game).
This is a great use for radionuclides usually wasted.
My Prusa i3 polymer printer kit arrived!
So many parts to assemble. Took a break after two hours. Man, this is not IKEA! Feels like I should qualify for some trade ticket when I finish it :-p Maybe I'm 20% done so far...
#diy #making
Really? I run some RPi 3s on intermittent solar. They take a while to fsck each boot, but I haven't had any hardware SD card failures.
Raspbian used to set dirty bit and refuse to fsck on boot, so I switched to Debian. Their arm64 support is pretty comprehensive.
In a car, I'd avoid powering a RPi with a LiPo. There are some that handle heat well, but even my Samsung 18650s will go into auto-discharge mode.
Which rechargables take heat and cold well? NiCad? Lead-acid does. LiFePO4?
Think of the opportunities for "wage restraint"! Big donors will save big $$$ if they can pay all their staff Ghanian wages but charge their customers US prices!
A bipartisan dream...
I've not done it, myself. Let us know how it goes!
#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=736x1382&blurhash=%5DRFP4%2C%7Ept7bIxtM%7BM%7CWBf6of9GM%7BWBM%7BRjWBM%7BM%7BoffkRka%23oft7j%5Bxu%25MxuWBWBM%7BM%7Bf6t6fQt6ofj%40ofofM%7BM%7Ct6t6ay&x=5bae0dab7dc2cba056fa0f5a12871377cfc67951d2849b58dcdbf1b246f04b09Those values don't have to be in conflict, you know.
Politicians and bureaucrats are poor regulators because they have no skin in the game, and also their incentives are all wrong.
Common Law of Torts was the original way the English legal system regulated bad behaviour. Judgement by peers, not appointed judges.
#buyitforlife is another one
...but the AI will be "triggered" and refuse to translate anything involving violence, injustice or inequality.
A black market will spring up in illegal "rogue" AIs (this may already be happening).
How does that even happen? And why doesn’t grass grow like a motherfucker in that particular spot? 😂
Wow, intense!
Volcanic area adjacent to a subduction zone, so I'd guess its CO2 that was dissolved in ancient seawater, or bound into ancient limestone that is decomposing in contact with magma.
#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=768x1020&blurhash=_cIEtlM%7CV%40of9GRkNG%7EpxuD%25WBoJM%7Bxtxus%3AM%7BRjofaxj%5BIVWBt6WBj%5BofayD%25WBxuf6j%5BofayIVWBxtofjtofWCV%5Bf6oeoeoLjtafj%5BfQaef6oej%5BayWBj%40ayWBoeofay&x=77dc2f4abe1c31cdba18dd2d99ee92b607884d1de3bfbb5b227617d5abcb09c4He sounds like a responsible kid, let us know how it goes!
(And de-google that Pixel as far as you can, it won't stop the NSA from building a profile on him if they want to, but it should disrupt sports gambling firms and the like from building targeting profiles on him)
Technology has come a long way in the last few millennia! (It's all in the incentives!)
Mobile ALOHA: Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation
Mobile Aloha only cost $32k to build and is entirely open-source, showing that we are closer than we thought to ubiquitous household robots.
All of the parts can be found and purchased right now.
Source: https://mobile-aloha.github.io https://v.nostr.build/PXVn.mp4
Impressive! But the "up to 90% success rate" scares me. I know how much extra housework a "helpful" three year old human creates!
I imagine its a net negative on menial tasks even before maintainence and downtime. But still amazing, and apparently FOSS.
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I wanted to break my reply into a top level post, since it would be kind of long for a comment.
To clearly state my point, it is not impossible to prompt some sort of change to happen collectively, but at a grassroots level, the price of social change is too high for most individuals to consider paying it.
The Texas Secession Movements are a perfect example. These movements have happened in Texas since they joined the union, and have gotten nowhere. They grow to the level of collectivity pretty quickly, the desire is there, they can raise funds, they can convince politicians, they can sway public opinion. But the way the cards are stacked against any sort of change, they need a lot more money, in order to run a sustained campaign, as well as the necessary lawsuits, over a long period of time, even to win some small victories.
Working class people cannot raise these funds, or sustain this amount of spending, over the length of time that is necessary. And so these movements will only succeed if they can get corporate and/or government backing, which is not easy when you want to make life more difficult for government and corporations.
I referenced the Whiskey Rebellion because it highlighted this fact early on in US history. The people that rose up where small farmers on the frontier who were being unjustly taxed to the same extent as large manufacturers. Their grievances were dismissed and ignored, and when they finally fell back to violent means of protest, the federal government responded with overwhelming force.
The tragedy of the US is that though it was formed through violent protest and revolution, since that time when any group tries to do something similar, they are silenced.
And the repercussions are often not terribly visible to those outside the local community. Try to fight city hall, and all the sudden you start getting pulled over all the time whenever you drive somewhere. Your property gets reassessed at a higher value and your taxes go up. Your utilities become unreliable. Emergency services don't respond to your calls.
I said disappear, but I didn't mean killed. That does happen, but most of the time it's easier to shut people up by making their life hell. They disappear because they learned it's better to shut up.
Marvin Heemeyer and his killdozer are another good example. The frustration of trying to work with government bureaucracy makes most people just quite trying. In Marvin's case he decided to go out with a bang, but for the vast majority, they don't have enough capital and determination to keep fighting in the face of constant setback and frustration. And who can blame them.
I've stuck with mostly well-known cases for example, but I know about so many from the local communities I've lived in that are not recorded anywhere. The crushing weight of inability to do anything meaningful to even change something on a local level is insidious and it breaks your soul. The wide-spread drug use in this country makes complete sense. The only thing left is getting high and forgetting about this hell for a while.
While I understand the drug use, it's not for me. Subversion is the only realm of protest that makes sense to me. Build small things locally that make government redundant, with the understanding that if it becomes too well-known you will get punished. As long as you're willing to play dumb and pay the fine, you might make it out with just that. Worst case is jail, but that can be a method of protest. Live on the state's dime, and realize you're just living in a slightly smaller prison than you inhabited previously.
All very true. Especially outside the USA.
But all that misgovernment depends entirely on the State's ability to efficiently extort productive citizens; extort enough to finance misrule and political patrimonialism, but not so much thatcitizens victims shut down, rebel or flee.
#bitcoin (and #monero) are capable of becoming significant challenges to that system, if circular, deniable economies can be bootstrapped (and protected).
“[Decriminalizing sex workers but not their customers] also represents a paternalistic philosophical premise: that sex workers are all victims and their consent to sexual activity is—like a minor's—irrelevant. And this premise is used to justify all sorts of bad programs and policies, including drastically ramping up penalties for people who pay for sex.”
#SexWork #prostitution #NordicModel #ElizabethNolanBrown
https://reason.com/2024/01/03/maines-bad-prostitution-law-could-be-coming-soon-to-your-state/
This is truth.
I also like to point out that one in three Western adults who has had sex for payment is a gay man.
Do they plan to enforce their morality laws against the LGBTI+ community? Why not?