I'm really bad at sticking to things. Every time I try to do something slow and good for me, I do it for a month or two tops and I just revert back into the habits that are bad for me....
I need to force myself into better habits. Like, I have pretty terrible control over eating junk, but I can completely control this at the grocery store. It's halfway guilting myself, and half treating all items in isles as prechewed baby food that consists of over processed chemistry experiments. I try to only buy stuff that looks like it grows, and never purchase things that have complex chemical names or flavoring of any kind. It is not that I'm wearing a tin foil hat here. The bias aligns with healthy foods and the precognitive bias lessens my susceptibility to marketing. I take it to the extreme though. Like carbonated beverages are using the opposing sensations of sweetness and an acidic gas to create a new type of sensation novel to evolutionary adaptations. So, to get away from that addiction I started calling it what it is, acidic gas infused poop colored corn oil. Artificial sweeteners are basically zero calories because they don't burn in a standardized flame test. So I think of them as fire extinguisher media. Childish, I know. It gets worse. I'm a grow ass adult paying a game of the floor is lava in a in a grocery store. Just don't tell anyone.
I tried doing all kinds of exercise junk for ages and it never stuck. Until I started riding a bicycle almost everywhere. It is probably a bit safer now (in the USA) than when I started because there are so many e-bikes going roadie speeds without the experience required to earn those speeds. Other than the hazards e-bikes create for other cyclists, they are paying a lot more of the blood tax that ultimately makes it safer for all cyclists. I'm partially disabled after 2 cars crashed into me in 2014, so weigh the risks. However in 2009 I was 350lbs, and by 2013 I was 190lbs. I got into racing and hardcore riding during that timeframe, but it all started by just being cheap and riding to work to save a few dollars. It may make your commute a bit longer, and it takes adapting but there are a ton of benefits and the quality of life improvement over car life is enormous. Driving on public roads is an unbelievably negative mental drag on life that you need to stop in order to really assess. The hard thing to overcome is preconceptions about road bikes and the clothing. Everyone has their hangups they overcome. The equipment is primarily functional not aesthetic. Wearing a proper road kit is nothing like regular clothes for many reasons, but for commuting the key is to cool down in the last couple of miles because the clothing is extremely efficient at evaporation. So long as you give yourself the time at the destination, you can be completely sweat free and presentable after a quick change of clothes. This makes your day better at work and lets you completely disconnect and unwind by the time you get home. It is the most positive lifestyle change I ever made. Exercise doesn't need to be a chore you motivate yourself to do, it can be made into a part of basic life in general. I eventually collected the gear and commuted in all weather, except lightning and pounding rain. It really isn't bad riding in the rain most of the time. It is like having an air conditioner really. If you're riding hard, you can be just as wet either way. The only difference is watching out for painted pavement in any kind of turn to avoid going down.
They need to hit the final nail on the head. All smart phones sold in Europe must have fully documented and open source hardware including the entire chipset, all peripherals, and the modem, with all registers and interfaces documented, the full API, and all programing documentation along with a public toolchain that can reproduce the software as shipped with the device and updated with any changes made to future iterations as soon as the updated software is made available.
This law would make these devices lifetime devices, if you choose; as in your lifetime. It would murder the disposable hardware culture, and it should happen now. Moore's law is dead. The race is over.
Governments already have requirements like this for military and government hardware. All it takes is altering a few lines to existing requirements. Ultimately, you should expect more from both the manufacturer and the government. This is about ownership. You either buy what you pay for or you rent it. Anyone selling you anything should have no further ownership of any kind, digital rights included. Anything less is theft. This blind spot is leading to digital feudalism and it is criminal. Don't allow anyone to steal from you. This is a fundamental human right.
They want to sell to every large market and will do what they are required to do in order to access this market. All of these companies have the ability to completely reverse engineer any competing hardware. There are no secrets. Proprietary is not about protecting business or IP. It only exists to exploit the end user. All of these tools and documentation already exist. In the past they were public. The only reason they are not public now is because corporations realized the can get away with it. Capitalism ruins everything you allow it to touch. The only way to stop it is by force. Corporations are the worthless sludge of humanity. You are what matters, not them. They have no rights.
Tell me the details like what makes yours perfect, why, and your cultural influence if any. I mean, rice is totally different with Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Persian food just to name a few. It is not just the spices or sauces I'm mostly interested in. These matter too. I am really interested in the grain variety...
What is your cultural fancy rice? Like when you want to make something flavorful, different, special, or you are just mixing up some leftovers what do you do in these situations?
I bookmarked the link. I'll have to try it. It is very different from anything I've done before, and that is the reason I made this post. Thanks for sharing.
The thing that keeps bugging me is that the entire Russian GDP in 2020 was just a bit less than just the state of Texas. Like there is all this talk about Russia as if it matters. It has the economy of Texas. The world's largest country and Texas. Like how intimidating can they be. California or New York could bankrupt them. We could even pair up random states like AZ/FL for the geriatric victory. Ultimately Russia is a penniless adolescent of an economy. I imagine the US military hardware is extremely over priced and under performs, but the money is here to out spend and out produce Russia a hundred fold.
Partially disabled, spent all day laying down until an hour ago when I took all the bar tape off my road bike, cleaned up the gunk and terrible smell, and managed to wrap one half before taking a break. If I'm lucky, the other half will go quickly soon. Then I can rest again kit out and go ride for an hour and a half. I'll be lucky if I can get it done without my back giving up. The only place I am "normal" is on a bike setup so the thoracic damage in my back is neutral. Sitting or standing or doing much of anything sucks for me.
...officials are working to get a remotely operated vehicle that can reach a depth of 6,000 meters (about 20,000 feet) to the site as soon as possible.
The 5-person submersible, named Titan, is capable of diving 4,000 meters or 13,120 ft. “with a comfortable safety margin,” OceanGate said in its filing with the court.
Hopefully they grow as a person and change in time.
Growing up in a fundamentalist Christian extremist family, it can be hard to rewrite one's own objective moral code. It takes time and reflection to develop philosophically and emotionally independent of the socially isolated projected/pressured rigid stances that may have gone unquestioned since birth. It took me years of atheism to really take control of my own moral compass independent of any peer pressure and I'm sure I still have room to grow.
I don't mean to project myself onto your friend. I just wanted to say, with some substance: Much love! People can change!
I wonder how their algorithm would respond to using a free VPN like proton, using a California/EU based instance and filing a CCPR/GDPR. I imagine it must lean on the conservative side of assuming it is a valid legal request.
Great post. Thanks for the read. I look at open source hardware as an issue of ownership. I believe anything proprietary only exists for exploitation and is theft of ownership. I often call this issue the rise of the age of neo digital feudalism.
The idea of protecting the public commons in this blog post fits well into this. Growing up I always wondered how people devolved into serfdom in the middle ages. We are currently experiencing it first hand. In a generation or two, the entire concept of ownership will fall apart. The only difference between a serf and a citizen is ownership of one's tools and property. Proprietary is stealing the tools while government corruption is eroding ownership of any property. This is history rhyming. The future is slavery in all but name, and that future is now.
I really dislike this type of space and astronomy story because it is academic work based on an extremely incomplete dataset.
There has only been one survey satellite mission that theoretically could have observed an absolute Earth analog; the Kepler mission. It was the only survey mission that has ever attempted to point at one spot continuously. Confirming a planet around a star using the transit method requires observing three transit dips. So to observe an Earth size planet around a Type-G (Sun Type) star means the satellite must spend at least three years pointed at the same star field. If we want to observe the entire habitable zone of a Type-G star, it requires observing orbits all the way out to Mars, so it will take at least six years assuming the observation of the first dip takes place on day one of operations. Really, it needs to be at least eight years to fully check a Mars like orbit. The first part of the Kepler mission, when the telescope was working mostly as intended, only lasted four years. It was barely enough to confirm an Earth analog. Also this mission was only designed and intended as a proof of concept. The area of the sky Kepler initially observed was tiny.
It gets worse though. The launch for Kepler very very nearly failed. It only barely made it. The launch was rough. This is likely what caused the premature failure of four reaction wheels. Three reaction wheels are required to hold the telescope in position. This was the mission you'll likely recall where the engineering team managed to use solar wind pressure against the two remaining reaction wheels to continue operating. It wasn't capable of observing one spot continuously using the solar wind, but the hardware was repurposed to observe objects with a much shorter orbital period and the mission was renamed to Kepler II. This means it was not able to observe anything remotely similar to a true Earth doppelganger.
Now for the truly bad news. The original design specification for the optics and sensors on Kepler was only barely, theoretically, if you squint, hold your tongue at an angle, and do some liberal rounding, able to resolve a true Earth doppelganger. The signal to noise ratio of a tiny Earth against an enormous Type-G star is HARD to resolve. There were several reports that the hardware onboard Kepler was not even meeting its design specification; likely due to the rough launch. At the end of the first part of the mission, when the fourth reaction wheel failed, the mission was declared a complete success. This is politics allowed to mettle with real science. To call the mission a complete success is a crime, and is why claims about how Earth and the Sun fit into the overall distribution exist. If you look at the data used to claim the Kepler mission was a success you will see thousands of confirmed transits. If all of these are plotted by size and star type to reflect the average resolution capabilities of the telescope, they are nowhere near an Earth size planet around a Type-G star. Like, it is not even remotely close. To call the mission a complete success the mission had to produce data about Earth analogs. So there are a few data points that are added in this region. They are all extreme outliers from the dataset and are all just random noise picked at random to fudge the data. There are still no confirmed Earth analog exoplanets around Type-G stars, not a single one. This means it is completely disingenuous to make any kind of claims about how we fit into the distribution of star systems. We have no data.
When Kepler's first mission failed, we should have launched a fleet of similar improved hardware. We could have found other Earths already. It is the only planetary system configuration known to host life. We have JWST, which is far too valuable to waste doing static star field surveys. It could tell us so much about these true Earth analogs, but we will never know where these planets reside. Because of corrupt political pressure, there is no impetus to do the actual science with a proper star survey. The scientists can't talk about this issue because it is career suicide to call out the people that fund your work. So the official "job done" take leads to the lie becoming the reality and claims are made about our solar system's uniqueness when the data just doesn't exist. Fixing this blunder could lead to the most interesting breakthroughs in the entire existence of humanity. We have the technology, but lack the motivation to make this happen.
I'm not a hypothetical after a broken neck/back 2/26/14.
Learned hobby electronics/KiCAD/etching PCBs, 3D CAD design, 3D printing, reading sci-fi, learning programming and going through computer science lectures, and adopting Linux is how I've spent most of the last 9 years.
Learning CAM, kernel hacking, and getting more into amateur radio are on my bucket list.
It's because of Moore's law. Unless Intel responds to AMD's openSIL initiative to open the bootloader initialization API, it doesn't matter what they do. The ability to finally run an entirely secure x86 computer hasn't existed in 15 years since the i-core/ryzen series. OpenSIL means Intel doesn't even exist any more IMO.
There are several vulnerabilities in bootloaders that have not been fixed. Namely, there is an entire tiny operating system that is used to initialize the processor before the main bootloader begins. Then the bootloader creates a bunch of handles to control the hardware, and hands them over to the operating system kernel. The i-core/ryzen processors include the second generation of this tiny underlying operating system that runs before everything else. This tiny operating system was originally marketed as a way to remotely monitor and troubleshoot data center servers, but this is a very weak and flawed marketing strategy. The way this system runs before everything else, it has root/admin privileges and access that supersede everything that comes after it. A bad actor accessing this system is absolutely game over for all hardware including the bootloader itself. Well this tiny operating system is tied to the microcode for the processor generation.
If you know anything about old computers that had a bunch of boards and chips inside the case, modern computers still have all of these chips and systems, but they are all integrated into just a few chips. These systems are still complicated and have a certain way they must be powered up and initialized so that each system begins in a specific state along a long chain. The "microcode" in a modern computer is really just a bunch of "software" that controls the order that the hardware is brought online. In the i-core/ryzen generation of hardware the microcode is proprietary and copyright protected. This is a way to get around many x86 patents expiring. It has long been speculated that the tiny operating system is also a back door for governments as it can completely own any system regardless of encryption or any other security measures.
There is a way to mostly disable this tiny operating system but there is no way to monitor or confirm its activity at run time. OpenSIL is like having access to the control room of this tiny operating system for the first time. It means it is now possible to completely secure and verify the state of a system. There is no security in obscurity. OpenSIL is the removal of a major failed attempt at security through obscurity.
Ultimately, at the most fundamental level, openSIL means full ownership over your hardware. I can buy AMD, but can only rent Intel. Intel keeps ownership of this tiny little corner of the hardware and they have done a terrible job of managing what they own. When faced with that buying choice the outcome should be obvious, assuming you are able to run the software that can take advantage of this. It will take at least a few months, but there should soon be a completely open source version of Coreboot that will use openSIL. Hope this helps.
How do you keep consistency?
I'm really bad at sticking to things. Every time I try to do something slow and good for me, I do it for a month or two tops and I just revert back into the habits that are bad for me....
EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027 (www.pcmag.com)
How do you cook perfect rice?
Tell me the details like what makes yours perfect, why, and your cultural influence if any. I mean, rice is totally different with Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Persian food just to name a few. It is not just the spices or sauces I'm mostly interested in. These matter too. I am really interested in the grain variety...
Enlargement’s back on the political agenda (www.politico.eu)
[NCA] What is the number one rule in cycling? (www.askideas.com)
(No Correct Answers) Must start post with prompt: "The number one rule in cycling is"
What's on your Mind? What are you working on? What are you looking forward to?
Just another chat thread. I love hearing your responses.
AP News: A search is underway for missing submarine that takes people to see Titanic (apnews.com)
My best friend is transphobic
I just found out my best friend of over a decade is transphobic. I don't really have more to say. I'm just devastated and feeling really alone.
How to Delete Your Reddit Account and All Data Under GDPR/CCPA (thomashunter.name)
Article: We need more of Richard Stallman, not less (ploum.net)
I want to start a discussion of MIT vs GPL and see what you all think
We Live in the Rarest Type of Planetary System (www.scientificamerican.com)
Now you can play Doom over teletext (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
How would you spend your time if you didn’t have to sell it to subsist?
If you’re already living your dream life, please share as well! How do you most want to spend your time?
Intel's ditching the 'i' in 'Core i5/i7/i9' and will stop calling out chip generations (www.pcgamer.com)