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Besides those large installations there are still some classics like https://www.dreamwidth.org/ where one can publish a journal (aka blog).
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Regarding Minsky: the most interesting thoughts I read about theories of a mind, are his books, namely: The Society of Mind and The Emotion Machine which should be more widely known. More of Minsky's ideas on “Matter, Mind, and Mod
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>Regular net is soooo much worse without a way to scrub the ads away. Hmm, there are ways: I browse with NoScript and unlock Origin installed and see almost no ads. If a website doesn't work and I really need to visit it for some
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Apps, whether carefully crafted, or not, are more often than not just a means to exercise more control over users. At least all those newspaper or <whatever> browsers. That is, they are the almost perfect tracking device. If it's
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One more app? I'm skeptical. https://xkcd.com/927/ is about standards, but it could easily be about apps instead. My note taking takes place either classically via email with mutt in a terminal, not with these ga
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Back of the envelope calculation: there are 2^32 possible IPv4 addresses, you can easily ping about 1K addresses in parallel[1] on a standard linux machine and there are 86,400 seconds in a day. So after about 50 days you tried all possible
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> The only list where you might find it is in the newly registered domains. No registration anywhere needed, they'll find you, because you have an IP address. I've set up enough machines without any registration and some hours
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That's not too complicated. I did this with random text years ago, telling those spiders which honor robots.txt not to visit the starting URL. The dynamic URL led to "twisty little passages all different" i.e. a tarpit. And i
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> I’m motivated by the success of AI-based language models to look at the future of digital minds. When intelligent machines are constructed, we should not be surprised to find them as confused and as stubborn as men in their conviction
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Dennett has walked that path before. In “Consciousness Explained,” a 1991 best-seller, he described consciousness as something like the product of multiple, layered computer programs running on the hardware of the brain. [...] Quoted from
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Airplanes can do rolls and barrel rolls, i.e. they can fly upside down. Good luck with simple explanations ... https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/no-one-can-explain-...
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The "moral rights" in France and Germany, or the "Urheberrecht" in Germany and Austria and others in Europe prohibit even the creator to put things in the "public domain" to the full extend. There are pro and c
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I agree, but purple seems to be a similarly rare color IMO. I could offer [Chicory]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory?wprov=sfla1 ), [Myosotis]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myosotis?wprov=sfla1
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As for animals, they need to avoid predators. I'd say that blue isn't the best color to hide in most areas. So selection should favor other colors, unless the color is used as a warning, e.g. to signal a poisonous creature.
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The article mentions plants too. But I can list a number of blue plants in my vicinity (OK, sometimes a touch of purple too) or even in the garden: [Centaurea cyanus]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurea_cyanus?wprov
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While it is possible to use advanced features from newer chips, I know more than one actual system where they just use the serial number, even when rolling out more advanced Mifare based cards. So your "that's no longer the case&q
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Single tap cards are usually just used with their "hardwired" chip serial number. That is stored in a central system which invalidates the number once you used it. This makes it rather easy (even if its environmentally unfriendly
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As you wrote, Hashcash never saw widespread adoption, sadly. The big players all came up with their half-assed "alternate solutions" and what I saw was that spammers where the first to adopt DKIM etc. I still use greylisting which
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Water is the most interesting and fascinating molecule in my opinion. Isaac Asimov's essays on water's "strange" properties in his excellent book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_the_El
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You can burn certain metals (magnesium, sodium, sulfur, even iron (wool)) neither of which is "organic". So fire isn't a fundamentally organic phenomenon ...
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That's manageable with a bit of preparation: when I'm travelling, I allow access from other networks, e.g. those from phone providers. Or add a web form where I activate the IP address with a cryptographically signed "token&q
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Fully agree. Limiting the networks which can access your server will help, e.g. limit access to just your local provider or your workplace and you'll see no attempts from Brazil, China, ... unless you are located there, of course ;-)
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I've been running self-hosted servers for the last 25+ years without an incident and its less complicated than it might seem if you learn a bit about securing unix-based systems (ok, I already had 10+ years of server admin knowhow for
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> Google has been providing summaries of stuff and hijacking traffic for ages. Yes, Google hijacked images for some time. But in general there has "always" been the option to tell Google not to display summaries etc with these
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OK, this fungus breaks down polyethylene, which might even find a second use as fuel in combined heat and power stations. But a large part of microplastics found in aquatic environments is abraison from car tires. So we need more and differ
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A large part of microplastics found in aquatic environments is abraison from car tires. So which alternative do you suggest? https://www.sciencenews.org/article/car-tires-and-brake-pads... https://theconvers
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Horses where "decorated" with cloth in medieval times, cf. this image https://fotos.mediafreedom.at/theater/sonstiges/xl/31-honori...
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Your experience sounds similar to mine with YouTube, especially if I try to watch videos without logging into an account. Thus I have more than one account to use these as topical pre-filters. And when you loose your cookies, YouTube wants
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Interesting article. This reminds me of Peter Cawdrons Sci-fi (sic) book "The Anatomy of Courage" which I finished recently. It related to WW I, not II, but also to the ugly truth about war. To quote from its "Afterword"
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You can rsync over ssh from and to Android devices, if you install Termux (Linux in an app). And SolidExplorer is a good app to transfer data from/to Android. I'm a long time Mac user, but I really dislike Apple's walled gard

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