Rfk Jr will use it for drug approvals too! Uh oh.

I will never tire of pasting this:

https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

10-15 meters might be good enough to conduct the attack from a neighboring office or apartment, while actual eavesdropping is not so easy.

So glad I use wired earbuds and refused to buy a phone that didn’t support them.

No need for vaccines with 5g chips when the wearable will have one right on your wrist.

strip out the HDCP

Interesting, I had figured that was possible in principle but hadn’t kept up with what was actually around.

But still, the HDCP stream is decompressed video, so if you want to save it, you’ll have to either put it through yet another layer or lossy compression, or burn a ridiculous amount of disk space compared to the compressed stream that Youtube sent to your computer.

We’ll see how things go. Google in the past has made occasional modest gestures to get in the way of downloading, but they haven’t made serious effort to prevent it. Who knows whether that will last.

can’t stop us from HDMI capturing

Look up HDCP.

I didn’t understand the original post. It seemed like someone whining about a switch to AGPL. But that switch certainly sounds like a good thing to me. I didn’t know the old license was Apache but it still seems like a good switch. Redis (with a misstep in between) did something similar.

I never heard of ircv3 before. TIL. But, some parts of it don’t seem irc-like, and sacrifice the aspects that have made me stay on irc all this time. Hmm. I’ll look at it more later.

https://ircv3.net/

Some very cheap phones with minutes included, here:

https://www.qvc.com/electronics/phones/tracfone/_/N-mlt0Z1z1393y/c.html

OTOH they can probably be traced back to you since you have to order them with your presumably real name. You can buy phones and prepaid cards anonymously in phone stores but it will cost more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_currency

discusses pros and cons of money intentionally designed to expire.

I’m not used to shitposting being called “content creation” but whatever.

Worth mentioning, this book was written in 1954. Full text is online, find by web search.

Book was published in 1954. I hadn’t heard of it previously. Based on the video blurb, the longwinded but interesting article “Meditations on Moloch” by Scott Alexander might also be of interest. The video is 12 minutes long, I guess not too bad, but I’m still not up for watching it. Here’s a longer version of the blurb, I guess:

https://www.philosopheasy.com/p/jacques-elluls-the-technological

I’ve never used Discord – is it similar to Mumble? I tried Jami but found it too unreliable to recommend. What about Nextcloud Chat? I do use that though it is kind of clumsy.

https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/ argues the opposite (“if anyone builds it, everyone dies”). It’s not out yet though.

If you mean those find-me gizmos, they are bluetooth, not NFC.

Too janky, too much JS crap on the website, appears to be closed source, no obvious self hosting option, meh. No I couldn’t imagine using or recommending it. Sorry.

Cool, yeah, the digits themselves are at most 0.5 byte each ;). I don’t know enough about the higher level algorithm to say exactly how the rest of the storage is being used. There is a book called “Pi and the AGM” about pi computation and similar algorithms that is supposed to be really good, but it looks over my head mathematically.

Yes, that’s the idea, it’s just that the “spoiler” likely only revealed something that was already known (that specific digit), or at any rate, something that could be computed on a much smaller computer and in less time. Mostly though, that’s a bit of mathematically interesting info.

I don’t feel like watching a video but maybe there will be a more informative article sometime. I wonder if they used some existing software like Y-cruncher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-cruncher