Nursie

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by Nursie 2y ago
It never really was that at the beginning. It was a good, locally-controlled system which would build itself a wifi mesh (back when that was unheard of) be configured to pick up things like samba/cifs shares and play your library, with
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by Nursie 2y ago
> believed that cargo they were forced to create for their oppressors I'm not sure that was in the article was it? These were exotic goods brought from overseas. I'm not trying to say there was no oppression, but the examples i
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by Nursie 2y ago
> It really doesn't > goes on to describe significant cognitive load You know, it’s fine as well, when there’s a point to it . In this case we have a fairly well written article giving some interesting context around cargo cults
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by Nursie 2y ago
It costs significant cognitive load, to change one’s use of language, to remember that to express the same thought one must now say b instead of a. Couple it with a social taboo - people who still say ‘a’ are bad people! Literally the worst
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by Nursie 2y ago
Eh, I think “People with disabilities” has now taken over, the idea being to emphasise that they are people. It feels… inconsequential.
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by Nursie 2y ago
That was an interesting read, thankyou, and has clarified some of my thoughts in that area. It amazed me a few years ago now to observe The Guardian in the UK running an article ruminating on whether the term BAME (an acronym for "Blac
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by Nursie 2y ago
> if it makes people feel more comfortable Who is being made to feel more comfortable? I think what's missing here is any evidence of harm or even minor discomfort. It's not OK to demand I take on the cognitive load of changing
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by Nursie 2y ago
I mean, it sounds like their intent isn't great! I don't want to condemn your thoughts/feelings on this as I'm clearly not familiar with the specific situation, but I think what people are getting at is that imagining
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by Nursie 2y ago
Have you encountered anyone on the receiving end who is actually a) aware of this and b) bothered by it? Because that would seem an important thing to ascertain.
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by Nursie 2y ago
Pretty sure S1 of AiB was out around a year earlier than SG, in 2020. They both seem to go back a ways though - AiB is based on Manga that was serialised starting in 2010 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Borderl
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by Nursie 2y ago
And very shortly before the first season of Squid Game there was Alice In Borderland, which I enjoyed more. A quick search shows me S3 is happening this year which makes my mind boggle because I though S2 wrapped that whole thing up nicely
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by Nursie 2y ago
> Athletes serve as aspirational figures that drive interest towards sports that keep people healthy. No, they don't. The olympics in particular have been shown not to have any sort of lasting effect on host countries or the world i
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by Nursie 2y ago
It’s very easy to fall into the trap of doubting and disbelieving absolutely everything, because you think you can see through it to the ‘real’ agenda. But it’s not a sign of intelligence so much as a sign of someone who has lost their abil
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by Nursie 2y ago
OK so I've now tried this with a new USB-C iphone. Yeah it's painful to use! You can set up a mouse, and use a physical keyboard for input, but it doesn't attempt to do any more than mirror the screen onto the external device
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by Nursie 2y ago
Oh interesting, I suppose I have had it wirelessly project to the tv before... I might give it a go when I upgrade to a USB-C model.
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by Nursie 2y ago
Motorola did a sort of add-on thing with their Moto Z some years back. It had swappable back-plates. They launched an extended battery, a speaker, a camera with larger optics and mechanical zoom, a projector attachment... some sort of amazo
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by Nursie 2y ago
I had a Huawei P20 Pro that did much the same back in 2018. I never really used it for much, a bit of light browsing and really just as a gimmick, buit yeah, there was a desktop of sorts and you could use all the apps, and the touchpad&#x2F
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by Nursie 2y ago
It's what my mum's learned to use, so it still has a place in my life. The credit is useful when she's not on skype and I can use a few cents (if that) to dial her landline from the other side of the world and say "Hey,
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by Nursie 2y ago
So the ICP Brazil thing is interesting. It's not a certificate intended for use on the web in general. It's an open finance certificate designed for use within that ecosystem within Brazil, and it was issued to a google subsidiary
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by Nursie 2y ago
I have departed British shores as of a few years back now, but I understand that a lot of the varieties really only exist in various national collections these days rather than having much commercial growth. There are significant growers of
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by Nursie 2y ago
Britain grows over two thousand varieties of apple, some going back several hundred years. The issue is the supermarkets only carry a few types. It would seem a shame to import a commercial variant from the US.
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by Nursie 2y ago
I think, though am prepared to be wrong, that you'll probably find yourself in the minority there. It's not just about nudity and extortion, but someone having access to watch you, whenever they feel like, in your safe space. That
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by Nursie 2y ago
I don't think it is backwards, personally. The threat of public humiliation, and the capability for someone to spy on what you do in your own home, is worse with the camera. > chats and email, browsing history, etc are all much more
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by Nursie 2y ago
It's very limited, it's certainly not going to be passed around like naked pictures could be.
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by Nursie 2y ago
Yeah the first day I read about RATers... jesus. The camera LED seemed to be a major thing for them, because if they could bypass it then the chance their RAT would be discovered was much lower. Really nasty world they've made for them
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by Nursie 2y ago
Depends what your threat model is? Nobody but Abby and Ben care if Ben is caught admitting he cheated on Abby. But naked images of Abby can head off into the ether and be propagated more or less forever, turn up on hate sites, be detrimenta
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by Nursie 2y ago
I'm not sure there are tons of stories about people creating their own ISPs in Australia are there? I know of companies that set up competing wireless infrastructure, and even one suburb around here that is served by a private network
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by Nursie 2y ago
It could, if there was decent signal here. At least in part that's been delayed because of someone in the area raising a band of nutters and giving the council hell about 5G killing her grandchildren. Sigh. Might happen before too much
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by Nursie 2y ago
And not that remote. Internet provision not all that far out of major Australian cities can be abysmal. I'm only 30 minutes drive from the centre of Perth and my options are currently 5G (operating at about 4Mbit), Wireless Broadband (
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by Nursie 2y ago
I haven't yet read the whole article, but I immediately find it fascinating - I grew up in the UK and these images are familiar, they were in country pubs and occasionally people's houses. It never occurred to me to ask why! I gue

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