solrize 4h ago • 80%
I dunno. The story of George Washington and the cherry tree is surely factually false, but it is ok as a parable. The higher truth evoked is that people should be honest. The irony is in dishonestly presenting the story as fact, of course.
solrize 5h ago • 100%
So where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday? And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you through? They're all resting down in Cornwall - Writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition of the Boy Scout Manual.
solrize 5h ago • 88%
People I know who have used this drug love it. As long as it's not mandatory, making it available to everyone who can benefit from it sounds great.
https://mathbabe.org/2024/02/04/why-people-hate-wegovy/
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-does-ozempic-cure-all-diseases
solrize 6h ago • 75%
I haven't read the article or study yet. But I wonder if the observation is one of "probably approximately correct learning" (PAC learning) in action. There's a book of that title by Les Valiant proposing that all biological learning works that way.
theconversation.com
Many voters are willing to accept misinformation from political leaders – even when they know it’s factually inaccurate. According to [our research](https://doi.org/10.1086/730763), voters often recognize when their parties’ claims are not based on objective evidence. Yet they still respond positively, if they believe these inaccurate statements evoke a deeper, more important “truth.”
solrize 1d ago • 100%
Most used: k9 mail, Firefox, Voyager. Favorite: termux is awesome but I don't use it much.
Added: Trail Sense is another great app that I don't use all that much at the moment.
solrize 1d ago • 100%
Yes I do remember now about the Sacklers going unprosecuted. But I thought a lot was made in Asian labs and simply narco-trafficked. I wonder what the numbers were like.
This guy was one of the trafficking tycoons:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/06/asia/tse-chi-lop-sunblock-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
Edit: fixed some phone keyboard slips.
solrize 1d ago • 50%
Gotta ask how many of those overdose pills were actually prescribed, rather than illicit from the start.
solrize 1d ago • 100%
Https://lichess.org/training lets me pretend I'm improving my mind by playing.
solrize 2d ago • 100%
I use fossify gallery and it's nice in some ways but annoying in others. I don't feel like trying to switch but it could do some things differently.
solrize 2d ago • 100%
I never got the hang of roller skating when I tried it before, but maybe I should work on it again.
solrize 2d ago • 100%
If porn was just created on demand instead of filling millions of hdd's, would anyone notice or care? Finally a use for generative AI.
solrize 2d ago • 50%
Idk. I remember hearing that Rush Limbaugh took 100s of oxycontin per day. Tolerance builds.
solrize 2d ago • 83%
One MILLLLLION dollars.
solrize 2d ago • 66%
I think addicts use higher doses since they are used to it.
solrize 2d ago • 100%
I didn't read or see it, but shortly before one of the Harry Potter books (maybe the 5th) was officially released, someone "leaked a pirated copy" online. Lots of people downloaded it and liked it and weren't suspicious about it. It advanced the plot in a convincing way, and so on. But it was completely fake, written from scratch by a fan of the series. Ha.
solrize 2d ago • 80%
Lichess.org was good enough for Gramps and it's good enough for me.
solrize 2d ago • 100%
Spoiler: they dislike both candidates but collectively lean Trump.
solrize 3d ago • 100%
Lots of proprietary apps are really about backend services. E.g. Uber sends you someone driving a car. Reimplementing the client app isn't of much help with that.
I don't Uber but I do still sometimes use Google maps. Organic Maps suffices only some of the time.
solrize 3d ago • 66%
I remember a copypasta about this show but I don't think I've seen the show itself. That must indicate something.
solrize 3d ago • 100%
I don't know how that math really works though. Lots of homeless also have serious physical and mental health problems, addictions, and other issues. Housing is a first step but after that a lot more costs remain. Are those included in the $42K? And remember, California is more expensive than many other states, especially in the cities with lots of homelessness.
Is it ok? Is there something else you recommend instead? I tried nextcloud talk and it was pretty bad. Jitsi was ok but self hosting it looked complicated. FOSS only, of course.
blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Blog post by crypto professor Matthew Green, discussing what Telegram does (I wasn't familiar with it) and criticizing its cryptography. He says Telegram by default is not end-to-end encrypted. It does have an end-to-end "secret chat" feature, but it's a nuisance to activate and only works for two-person chats (not groups) where both people are online when the chat starts. It still isn't clear to me why Telegram's founder was arrested. Green expresses some concern over that but doesn't give any details that weren't in the headlines.
electronupdate.blogspot.com
This is a good blog post, with die photos of the new RP2350 chip and a brief description of what they show. There is a link to a 12 minute youtube video that is also very good, that discusses the die shots in more detail and also goes over the rest of the Pico 2 circuit board, including die shots of the QSPI flash chip and the voltage regulator chip.
This is a technical but quite informative article, nominally about which elliptic curves have good security properties, but also discusses the intentions behind using EC instead of older systems like RSA (basically, EC is safer against some known classes of attacks). Posting partly because EC vs RSA came up here a few days ago.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18617290 > The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finally published the world’s first three official post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, tools designed to protect key systems against future quantum computers powerful enough to crack any code generated by a modern computer.
Basically more everything. 2x Cortex M33 cores with floating point, 520KB ram, more PIOs, bunch of secure boot stuff (I have mixed feelings about this), and can boot to a mode with risc-v cores instead of the M33s.
I get spammed by them all the time but have so far resisted and stayed with my crappy, slow, and expensive ADSL provider out of principle. But the ADSL provider just raised prices on me AGAIN and it's ridiculous. What do I do? Is Google Fiber as invasive as other Google stuff? What if I just use it to tunnel a VPN to a non-Google endpoint? This is sure annoying. It occurs to me that Comcrap might be available here as an alternative, but that must be as evil as Google. At least the ADSL company is reasonable about privacy, as such companies go. Thanks for any thoughts.
It's a pain that search results on lemmy show by default ordered by some useless relevance ranking. I can't think of a single time I didn't want newest first. I couldn't find a preference to request that. It would be great if there was one. The suggestion on c/support on lemmy.world was to make this kind of request on github, but it seems anti-FOSS to me to require a Microsoft account for a fediverse request, so I'm posting here and hoping for the best. Thanks for any consideration!
Example (spam post containing an amazon affiliate link, post hopefully deleted by now but I assume mods/admins can see it): https://lemmy.world/post/15846936 Also there are tons of links people post legitimately but have tracking parameters, gclid=this, fbclid=that, etc. Those can be cleaned up too. By editing out these parameters automatically when the link is posted, people's privacy can be protected and the incentive to post affiliate spam can be decreased. It could be a server config parameter and/or put into the posting UI: "your post contains [link] with flagged parameters, choose between a) post cleaned up version (shown), or b) post link without changes (may go into moderation queue depending on community settings)."
Voyager 2.3.1 on Android. I visit a community and select "hide read posts" and those posts disappear a they should. But there is no apparent way to undo this. The pulldown still has "hide read posts" instead of "unhide" them.
Sofirn confirmed by email that it is discontinued. No idea about other LT1 series models. A shame. I like the Mini and kind of wanted another one. Oh well.
www.aalto.fi
New study shows that the default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off
Any idea why? I've been using it for months. I probably had to grant permission when I first installed it, but haven't had to again since then, until just now. Also, some of the time, when F-droid updates an app, the update just goes through. But other times I get a dialogue asking "do you want to update this app?". It seems random. Any idea? Phone is a Moto G5 Stylus 2023 and it recently got a security update from Motorola, but I think I've done some F-droid updates since then. However, this may be related. The other possibility is that something might have happened to F-droid's code signing credentials, e.g. someone messed with them? That thought is basically why I'm asking here.
He passed on March 20. One of the greatest "hard" science fiction writers, author of *True Names*, *A Fire Upon The Deep*, and other cyberspace classics. Link is to his death notice in the old school fanzine File 770. Moment of silence please. RIP.
And, any idea how to use them? 3 pins is perplexing.
G Stylus 2023 - went from $119 to $199, no longer attractive since 5G stylus is still $249 5G Power went from $179(?) to $299, lolwut? The 5G Stylus is a higher model and still $249 G Play 2023 is still $99 and a good deal but quite limited with 32GB flash and Mediatek CPU G Play 2024 introduced at $149, a nice incremental upgrade to the 2023 model, has 64GB flash, but get this, they have dropped the SD slot. The last bit is disturbing since no other 2024 models are yet announced. I wonder if they will drop the SD slot in all of them. Not good. I got a 5G Stylus a couple months ago and still like it a lot. I had been thinking of getting one of the lower models for my brother since he doesn't care about 5G. The 2023 non-5G Stylus looked great at $119 but lame at $199. The 2023 and 2024 G Plays are both still of interest. https://www.motorola.com/us/smartphones-moto-g-family