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by gmuslera 1y ago
The encryption is ok, but you are not talking with the right party.
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by gmuslera 1y ago
https does 2 things: encrypt the communication (self-signed certificates are good enough for this), and verify that the site you are connecting to is what it seem to be, because a certification authority trusted by your browser signed the c
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Not all problems (and systems) are alike. And probably simple approaches like Occam's Razor will work good enough with most. But the remaining 10% will need deeper digging into more data and correlations.
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Maemo/Meego. I know there is Sailfish still around, but things would had been very different today if Nokia had put all its weight on it back then.
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by gmuslera 1y ago
A bit its like asking when mankind will go burst, looking like it is destroying our environment like there is no end, but hoping that something new magically will fix everything before that point. Will an AI saving killer app, technology or
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Instead of Rick telling a conscious robot that its mission is to spread the butter, we now have robots with advanced AIs doing the laundry and the dishes. Reality follows fiction.
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by gmuslera 1y ago
I used to see as magic that the old original compression algorithms worked so well with generic text, without worrying about format, file type, structure or other things that could give hints of additional redundancy.
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by gmuslera 1y ago
It would be nice to have a personal, both in who is the central character, and who is the only one that can access it, feed of your life. That is your memory, and it is not perfect, sometimes for the better. But with today technologies, cul
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Is the biggest threat for most things, giving the right timeframe. It won't be tomorrow, nor next year, but it will be more in the scale of decades for many regions than by the end of the century.
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by gmuslera 1y ago
There is a problem of agency here. Assuming that we are talking about platform of user-generated content, should the users be punished by what they post? The kind of punishment can do the government is different from what a platform can do,
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Not even for all regions for iOS
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by gmuslera 1y ago
I’m not meaning that ocasional/limited forest fires can or not be healthy for forest. Just that the mentioned ones were all record breaking, and had a significant contribution to long lasting CO2 in the atmosphere, all of them were in
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Evolution is multidimensional, if for improving one trait you diminish another that may for our survival some compromise will be reached. Not by design, but natural selection, at the end matters that the genes manage to survive. If living m
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by gmuslera 1y ago
In 2023 there was also massive fires in Canada covering a similar area, 2021 Siberia, in 2019/2020 in Australia, 2015 in Indonesia (peat fires, less area but similar emissions)... there is a long list of extended fires with weighty emi
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Besides the reality of this or not, the order of events is misleading. If they were able to do so, then the taking of control happened long ago (and maybe not just in Gaza), and used this opportunity to send that message to them. And that w
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by gmuslera 1y ago
The elephant in the room here is US.
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by gmuslera 1y ago
If only we could show them how this kind of things may go wrong. I don't know, the case of some leader of a nation they are having trouble with, abusing of a similar access with their data. But they will probably think that is only bad
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by gmuslera 1y ago
And that without counting memes and other graphic version of some text, some even sent by mail, or image captures or whatever of long and sometime critical pieces of text (i.e. certificates). It was something not specific of mobile apps, it
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Reminds me the old ads of Macbook Air, where it was pulled out from a manila envelope.
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by gmuslera 1y ago
A key piece of human civilization shouldn’t be seen as an unidimensional tool. My subjective time is not your subjective time, so at the very least for meetings, coordination, dealing with more people, work or not, are essential. And time,
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Maybe that is the answer to the Ship of Theseus question, culture, more than raw materials, is what make it what it is. Same ideas, consciousness, soul, something that runs in our mind, or the mind of enough of others, that at least in some
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by gmuslera 1y ago
When you notice that you may be getting too deep into the wrong topic. Solving a problem is not just taking one approach, one relevant topic, one way to solve it. That depends on the problem, the situation and the system it is in, it might
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Not all sites are safe, either by design or by people running them. Having a common secret+service name as password AND having at least one of those sites leaking your plaintext password could mean that your derivation may go public and all
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by gmuslera 1y ago
The length of a minute depends on which side of the bathroom door you are on. Maybe it is not so much about learning, but about the brain having enough free cpu cycles to keep track of time. Anyway, it sounds attractive the idea of the brai
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Elaborating on it, more than just asking yourself questions. Trying to fit what you are trying to learn in the big picture of reality, system, topic, etc that you already have, and what it implies. But only copying/hearing it in the sa
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Copy/Paste like any other text won't make you magically "learn" it. Reading gives you some insight, but you having some thoughts, actions, questions or elaboration on that gets you forward. Talk with yourself on it, rela
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by gmuslera 1y ago
It is not the same approach, but xkcd's Movie Narrative Chart ( https://xkcd.com/657/ ) goes into a similar direction.
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by gmuslera 1y ago
Don't worry, in 100 years whatever remains of human civilization will be net zero.
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by gmuslera 1y ago
In some way, the meaning of publish is to make something public, give the people and agents accessing that content some freedom to get and what do with it. And that what decide to do with that freedom may benefit you (i.e. making your site
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by gmuslera 1y ago
There will be plenty of Soylent Green on the streets if we reach that amount.

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