Preflight_Tomato @ Preflight_Tomato @lemm.ee

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I’m always wondering is how I became an independent thinker. I have a hard time understanding how so many people are so gullible

You may not think this way, but I'll comment just in case: Don't fall into the trap of thinking you are too smart to fall for a lie. The smartest people in the world have blind spots, and only the blind think they have none.

Note that established, accepted scientific theories often fall into the “fact” category.

For example the Theory of Gravity.

Bitcoin is the most secure banking method.

Though blockchain tech produces new problems that ultimately make it useless outside of a store of value.

Yes, these devices exist. But, IR is significantly, even several orders of magnitude, less powerful from the sun than visible and UV light. The only applications derive from receiving power from human sources that are bright enough, some examples are here in the other comments.

Even then, I have doubts that human IR emitters produce enough power for anything but the most highly efficiently engineered device, outside of a microwave.

To add to this, here's what I would do personally:

For disinfecting devices, it's a process:

1. Isolate the device, remove network cards if possible.
2. Try to find out what kind of malware it is? Is it isolated to the OS? If it's infecting device firmware I'd just replace the whole device, otherwise move to next step.
3. Copy essential data onto a removeable drive (USB)
4. Wipe the drive and re-install the OS fresh.
5. Full content malware scan of all files on the USB.
6. Copy files back onto fresh OS.

Some additional things to do:

1. Change relevant credentials.
2. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) wherever offered.
3. If you're in the US and believe that financial info was compromised (SSN, bank passwords, etc.), freeze your credit and file 1 year fraud alerts with all major consumer reporting companies (Equifax, Transunion, Experian, etc.). This is free and quick as required by law.

Watched the documentary with a friend; we were trying to guess his age. We agreed on "decent looking for 55". He's 47 lol.

+1 on wildcard addresses. Any 10 min mail site is also great for anything unimportant.

Check out Technology Connections on YouTube. Specifically this playlist on heat pumps.

The only thing more efficient would be mechanized Solar shades and passive techniques.

My wild speculation:

Viral snares/traps? Semi-permeable membrane + RNA; the virus gets in and binds to the RNA inside, then the viral package is "spent" on fake RNA that can't replicate. The MVP shell could keep regular cellular machinery away from the trap RNA. There are thousands of these vaults within the cell, as to create a bunch of "pits" that a virus could fall into, thus effectively slowing viral spread, even a little?

edit: from a link in the article:

vault protein somehow helps epithelial cells internalize P. aeruginosa, which in turn speeds the clearance of an infection. Compared to normal mice, for example, MVP-less mice were 3 times as likely to die when their lungs were infected with the bacterium

This was mentioned as a hypothesis that was determined to be fruitless. Was this ever explored further? Different viruses, organ systems, etc.? Since it's in a lot of different organisms, maybe some common virus that affects many different species is affected by this.

This is very interesting.

Depends how fast you do it.

Same sentiment here. I always try to care a bit more than the other person so that, assuming most people use proportional caring implicitly, the mutual care can increase steadily.

It's important in the sense that if it's "just gang shit" then people think it's less random, and so they have some agency to avoid it, which makes it less scary. They're also not in social groups even close to gangs, so it's not something that would ever happen to them.

IIRC it doesn't do anything prevent tooth decay, it just doesn't cause it, unlike sugar and many other sugar substitutes.

7-8% is the standard value used after taking inflation into account. It's really 10%, but inflation eats 3% yearly, on average. Using the metric this way also conveniently means that the value you calculate for the end of compounding (in 35 years) is interpretable in todays dollars.

So 7% interest on 50$ monthly for 35 years means total principal of 21k$ and total of 83k$ (todays value).

See https://www.investor.gov/financial-tools-calculators/calculators/compound-interest-calculator

Firefox WAS Netscape. Netscape was open sourced, rewritten, and released as Firebird (in reference to a phoenix’s rise from Netscape’s ashes). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Application_Suite

Yay! Been waiting patiently.

I just had to book a flight.

Frontier forces you to download an app now to check in (there is a well hidden option to do it on web, but the page never loads on laptop nor mobile in multiple browsers).

I tried to rent a parking spot, and 2/4 places would not load quotes at all (again web and mobile and multiple browsers). I probably would've used one of the two that didn't load if their sites had worked. Their loss I guess.

I’d just like it to not feel like each interaction I have with technology, and I guess by extension the world, is becoming increasingly adversarial. The tech itself seems to keep getting better though.

I think the best course of action is to find an cut the antenna or it's trace on the board (and verify). Sounds a lot easier than it is though.

edit: or also pull the modem fuse, if it has one

Also, horse is bigger/more visible to cars, and maybe could be in the street. So you may not have to wait on traffic crossings as much depending on the area.

I still choose e-bike because poo, but what a looney idea, I love it.

Amazing to see Hot Wheels change from gas to hybrid to EV over the years.