Syonyk

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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm not surprised. Our modern air is... poor, and that's before you get into fire season and such out west. I've started being far more aggressive with air filtration in the house and my office. Get an air quality monitor t
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Find out what they drink for "Team alcohol evenings." Whiskey team? Ok, probably somewhat stressful but doable. Wine team? Plush and cushy, with a line of people who want to be on that team out the door. Vodka team? Oh hell n
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> ...and the fact that their cradle-to-grave cycle is a "local landfill". If only. :( Open air pits in third world countries where the equipment is burned to recover the trace valuable elements from the ash is, sadly, a lot
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by Syonyk 4y ago
"It has to be done" isn't helped by "throwing money at schemes that don't do what they claim to do on the tin." Especially when, by people doing that, they feel that they've "solved the problem"
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by Syonyk 4y ago
"States rights for my pet causes, not for thine!" is one of the remarkably consistent principles one finds in US politics. Annoyingly. We'd be a lot better off if things were put back to the states.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
On top of that, even the "warm" color temperature LEDs put out a pretty good spike of blue light. I'm working on some analysis of this, and even the "warm glow" sort... yeah, there's a ton of blue. Right in t
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> and it was mainly smartphones that enabled that, because they let you take the internet outdoors. I'm not sure it was "taking the internet outdoors" that made the difference - we could do that before, I certainly did w
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Have you gotten it cleaned out and lit up? The gas mantle lanterns are just so harsh compared to the silent, warm light off the cold blast sort.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm sure the mantle lanterns are far brighter, especially the pressurized kerosene types. I don't have one to compare either (yet). But it's something I've considered. I'm more likely to pick up one of the Aladdin
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Good. If you're attempting to build a slightly counter-cultural, offline tightly knit social group, adding a cigar seems reasonable enough to me. And around an active firepit, the additional smoke isn't a big thing. Practically,
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Do you think there's any realistic alternative to Twitter as the world's "town square"? The concept of a "global town square" is entirely at odds with everything we know about how humans work, and I don&
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by Syonyk 4y ago
(Author of the post here) Part 1 is a bit more general detail on my lanterns: https://www.sevarg.net/2022/10/09/keropunk-part-1-kerosene-l... And the part getting published this weekend, if all goes well late
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Even if you could get that to work someone would take a cellphone to the secret meeting and share a geotagged selfie, people just can't help themselves. Hello secret police! The book Deep Green Resistance goes into various organ
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Also be sure that nobody carries cellphones into in-person meetings, otherwise location correlation will associate them. Correct. Which is why it's good to start cultivating the habits now of "not always having your phon
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Doing things in person, with offline techniques. If your location (which implies who you're with) and at least the metadata of your communications (who you communicate with, when, how frequently, how long of messages, etc) are sensitiv
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yes. Consumer technology, the internet, cell phones, etc, have all been tried and found wanting in a wide variety of ways. Unfortunately, because they're sort of "the default" for people, and there are a range of social med
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Why can't we build distributed networks? We can... but I'll argue, very hard, that we shouldn't. Because it's the wrong technology to solve the problem, being based on the very things that are well targeted, un
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> ...and this contributes to why they're a dying brand. I can't argue with you about the bikes, I've no interest in one either. But [citation needed] on "dying brand." They're still the number one seller
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by Syonyk 4y ago
There is no way that it should cost you $500 to add two additional LED headlights off the forks. Any random motorcycle parts store should have stuff that works fine, just wire it into your headlight circuit - there's usually a spare
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I can't stand those. Even riding a motorcycle, they're a confusing and hard to make sense of rear light layout. Put a central light on the bike, preferably LED, and ideally that strobes a few times when you hit the brakes. It m
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by Syonyk 4y ago
... ask anyone with serious motorcycle miles and they'll tell you about the same thing. When I was riding motorcycles as a daily driver, I modified my headlights to keep the low beams on when the high beams were on, simply for visibili
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by Syonyk 4y ago
It's possible, but I believe the design is such that sys-net is untrusted, so an exploit there is no more risk than any other use of an unencrypted connection on the network. But it sure looks like it was a wise idea to spend the resou
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'd put this in the category of what increasingly seems like a growing wave of, for lack of a better term, the "F** Digital" movement. I don't think it's purely digital, there's a lot of disgust with what we&
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> But objectively, digital sensors can have their color profiles / output remapped to most film "looks", even adding grain, and of course you're not spending $ on film with every shot and waiting days to get the film
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I don't believe they're the same thing. I can connect to the 4G data networks with the Banana, but not make calls, and I'm not sure as to the details of why - going deep into cell network reverse engineering wasn't my g
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Not sure. It was a Flip IV I ran from about Aug 2021 to Aug 2022, on KaiOS 2.something.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> But the crypto sector doesn't want exchange regulation, so they don't have the "circuit breakers" that, say, the CBOE does. The description of crypto markets as "speedrunning the history of why we have the fi
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Both, far as I could tell. I believe the device has 512MB RAM and a quad core 1.1GHz A7 - so not exactly rocking the hardware. But the browser engine didn't have things like some basic Javascript support, near as I could tell - Discou
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Can generally confirm. Not from a "tracking" perspective, but from a "General usability in the modern world" perspective. I spent a year with a KaiOS Flip IV (about a $70 AT&T phone), and finally gave up and went b
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Anyone want a Bananaphone? I tried to use it for a while, but AT&T shut down their 3G calling network and it doesn't have the radio for VoLTE, and AT&T isn't doing 4G calling - they jumped straight from 3G to VoLTE. It a

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