kalkulat @ kalkulat @lemmy.world

Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.

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Blaming another business? Hmmm. Sounds like Boeing's attempted solution.

While they're written for a YA audience, (doesn't include me) I read and enjoyed both Little Brother, Homeland, and Makers. Cory's head is almost always in the right place for me (including at readings.)

AND they might have had miniature cameras in them for the past 20 years.

(The laws against this stuff are almost non-existing. Option left for those of us creeped out by constant surveillance: don't leave home, unplug that webcam. Demand privacy or lose it.)

There's a large org (@ hope.net) that has a non-profit convention every few years. It maintains a e-mail list to let its > 1000 previous attendees know about the upcoming convention and related info. In the past decades everything was fine.

This year (con in July) Gmail has been spam-binning ALL of those reminder e-mails aimed at attendees who use Gmail. Quite clearly it's not the users making that choice. The org is left with no other way to contact those attendees.

Dear Alex, Welcome to Waking Life !!

Singapore has too many rich Chinese already.

Yeah... well (we have to admit) the 'hole' quantum part was very long and VERY nerdy for a whole lot of people. (Their loss.)

FLAC is good, but not necessary for background listening. At 192k the average song is ~ 5Mb. 100k x 5 = 0.5 TB.

With a long, varied list of select internet radio stations, you can choose what genre (or special weekly show) you want to listen to at the moment. Picked by people, not algorithms. Keep a playlist of the stations you like best, startup your player (like VLC) with the list, and pick the one you're in the mood for.

Or you could just collect mp3s locally for choosier days, dump a bunch of them into VLC, listen to them in album or random order. In either case, at no cost.

There's a lot to like about Atril (native to MATE).

If we try the rolling power-outage trick, we'd better make damned sure we get it right the first time. Because they've been well-trained to mimick us.

If you haven't seen 'The Forbin Project' yet, there may still be time. I read somewhere that the author did two sequels, but I never actually got a chance to see either. Ever. Anywhere. I'm pretty sure I wasn't in Maui those two days.

assuming the profit of AI is sufficiently taxed for the wealth to redistribute

AH - hah-hah-hah-hah !!!!!!!

Oh well, at least some of us will still be good for cleaning up messes and other physical things. And remember, like they used to say, hard work never killed anybody.

Ya know ... I'll just give that a close hard look. Thanks!

Wow, that's of Veritasium's best stories - a LOT of work went into that. (And he was ignored because he didn't have a PhD!) Very enjoyable ... thanks!

After leaving Macs (and Logic) (Apple software great, Apple iMac shit) switched to LInux over 10 years ago. Haven't made music since (hardware in boxes). Fully learned that Linux music ain't got that swing.

I recently heard that newer PipeWire has improved things a quite a lot. Haven't tried it yet ... not sure I remember how to play any instruments any more.

Looks like I'll need to switch to one of those browsers that only take and show characters I can type on a keyboard. Like F and U.

I'd say that a vacant home - any place (lots of them) where the homeless are dying in the streets of hypothermia - is owned by a garbage human.

IMO owning an unoccupied house thats off-market, or prohibitively-priced is probably a gambling chip.

IF there are ANY families in the same county that are homeless, it should begin being taxed as a gambling-chip. Sell-it very soon or it may used for a free shelter for however it remains unoccupied by the owner.

An apartment-building owner WHO LIVES IN the building year-around might be in accord. (My own GG-ma ran a boarding-home for income after her husband died.)